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The Gauntlet: Bloody Sunday |
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Bloody Sunday Album Review
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Tracklist
1. There's Nothing Relatice About Family
2. Best of Me
3. Dead Silent
4. Old Friends and Dead Ends
5. Total Immersion
6. False Ideas of Perfection
7. I for I
8. Sugar on Your Lips Murder in Your Heart
9. Fact or Fiction
10. Abject Paradise
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Packing an extraordinary punch with grizzly bear cuts like 'There's Nothing Relative About Family' and 'Dead Silent', Bloody Sunday strive towards creating vigorous music that is uplifting and geared toward effecting positive change. Quite admirable.
Riffing borrrows heavily from Slayer and Metallica while retaining a quantity of hardcore flavor. Of course there are the predictable jug-jug breaks and high register octave grabbing acrobatics during the breaks but from breaks to breakdowns, Bloody Sunday come up with the right combination of steely guitars and pounding beats in order to give it a good go with 'To Sentence The Dead.'
Christian hardcore is becoming wildly popular, with bands like Bloody Sunday taking cues from bands such as As I Lay Dying and Winter Solstice. Easily being the most extreme expression of that particular religion, but resonating deeply with those kids who enjoy the persuasive nature of hardcore music, which Bloody Sunday have no problem deftly producing.
The separation of such art forms amongst lines of faith or lack thereof is becoming increasingly popular, with fans taking sides in the fight. If it is enticing to deliver religious messages through this type of music it is because no matter what the subject matter, the music is equally as engaging from a level which purely provides merit for sheer sonic fortitude.
To be truthful, without the lyric sheet, it's not always palpable what the band's message is to be exact, but seething cuts like 'Total Immersion' and 'Sugar On Your Lips, Murder In Your Heart' come across as vicious aural representations in their own right, the message serving to boost the band's overall appeal to those who are focused on that sort of thing, while still remaining to provide some genuinely thrashing entertainment in the same instance.
To be fair, thematic substance here reflects deviance from principally threaded content at times but despite the apocalyptic looking casing of this weighty ten track offering, Bloody Sunday are the good guys, whether you know it or not. It's a certainty that Bloody Sunday are pretty damned pissed off and they're supposed to be the good guys.
Review by: Erin Fox
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