Blood

01. Blood - Impulse To Destroy, 1989 CD Album      Morbid Records - MR 014 CD      Reissue from 1994 02. Blood - Christbait, 1992 CD Album      1MF Recordz, 1MF Recordz, 1MF Recordz - 377.0029.2.41, CD 377.0029.2.41, 377.0029.2. 03. Blood - Ο Άγιος Πέθανε, 1993 CD Album      1MF Recordz - 1MF34-2 04. Blood - Mental Conflicts, 1994 CD Album      Morbid Records - MR 016 CD 05. Blood - Depraved Goddess, 1996 CD Album      Not On Label - none 06. Blood - Gas - Flames - Bones, 1999 CD Album      Ars Metalli - ARS CD 011 07. Blood - Dysangelium, 2003 CD Album      CD-Maximum - CDM 0503-1376 08. Blood - Inferno, 2018 CD Album Deluxe Edition      FDA Records, FDA Records - FDA136DIGI, FDA136CD My first encounter with Blood was with their second CD and the immediate reaction was "Oh cool, a new album by The Blood" - but back home, I was hearing some nasty, primitive death metallic grindcore of the early Napalm Death | Defecation sort, not the awesome punk rock I had expected. No, it was definitely not THE Blood, only Blood, and they made noise from Germany, not the UK. Now it is a lot of retro fun to listen to that stuff again in 2020: the rawness of it all with the simplistic punk riffs and the barbarian rhythms are full of meat and the cauterization has started - but for actual, intense aural gratification, the last album is the most serious entry here. It sounds like they needed a 15 years pause to upgrade from fun-but-second rate blastification (of the wicked) to a complete war machine with Inferno, one hell of a release. I can't find any pre-Inferno Blood album that I would rank nearly as high as early Terrorizer or Carcass, but Inferno  definitely deserves its gold death medal. Blood til grind til death! Remove brackets and unzip: [from grind til zer] !ZER Blood ZER!