Review: 05.04.2008
BY BLOOD ALONE
Seas of Blood
Listening to the Hard Progressive Rock and pleasant sound of By Blood Alone, the main musical elements are very obvious in often power and symphonic climates with frequent use of the sensitive electric guitarplay, cool bass and power drums, followed by symphonic keyboards and lots of attention for the edgy vocal parts. The first impression is that, their musical influences indicate Melodic Progressive Metal, but listem carefully their music, we can hear some major influences around styles such as Progressive Rock, Hard Rock and Art Rock. In fact, the band plays a kind of Prog Music founded especially in Europe during the years 70, something truly original created and played by some German bands as "Octopus", "Epitaph", "Birth Control", "Frumpy", of course, they included touchs of some modern melodic prog metal elements in the style of the "Nightwish", "The Gathering" and "Within Temptation". "Seas Of Blood" is full of various orchestral elements, which each band member contributing their musical talents and spending every last bit of energy to make sure their music become sensitive, powerful and full of emotions. If you are looking for something a little bit different, "Seas Of Blood" is a good opportunity to discover "By Blood Alone", especially if you like the original Hard Progressive Rock. "Seas Of Blood" was released in 2007 by "Jericho Hill Records". Including eight tracks, produced & mixed by Steve La Cerra at The Woodshop in Brooklyn NY. Art Direction by John Graveside and Cruella, Layout by John Graveside. Cover painting “A Mediterranean Brigantine Drifting Onto a Rocky Coast in a Storm” by Willem van de Velde, the Younger (1633–1707) used by permission of the National Marritime Museum in the UK. There are no favourite songs, I think all the tracks deserves a special attention, you must listen "Serpentarius", "Wants Me Dead", "Nidhogg", "Lovely Lies", "Seas of Blood" and "Deny Yourself", of course an amazing music for global ears. By Blood Alone band consist of five musicians: Cruella - Vocals, Jenny Williamson - Keyboards, Jack Doran - Bass, John Graveside - Guitar and Runtt - Drums. I would definately recomend this album to all types of Progressive Rock fans. Brilliant and indispensable work, highly recommendable...
- Carlos Vas-