OLD BLOOD

Covina acid doom septet OLD BLOOD (yes, that’s seven members - five musicians and two dancers - The Rigamortettes) released two songs on Bandcamp earlier this year. I was blown away. Old Blood are old school doom, with seventies-style prog and extensive use of organ. Everything I love was embodied in these songs, which are both surreal and beautiful.

That’s Feathers you’re hearing on vocals. She is as passionate a singer there is. The tempo is laid down by Octopus on bass, the mood is enhanced by Stone’s gifted organ playing (actually some of the best organ I’ve heard this side of 1974). Gunner’s guitar leads are robustly psychedelic, right out of the early seventies. I can tell you the elements of that era are firmly entrenched here. All this wouldn’t work without the soulful blues style drumming of Diesel, who keeps the tempo right on.

The lyrics of these two songs are stunning, leaving me wondering about their meaning (which, of course, only adds to the occultic experience):

All I am and all I’ll ever be
is here living in this world.
I used to think that I’m a mirrored reflection
all that I thought and heard.

I was told that I have control,
well let’s see how deep this rabbit hole goes.
I see the oil poured on the rope
dripping and slipping inside of my throat.
I was told that I have no control,
well let’s see how deep this rabbit hole goes.
I see the blood poured on the rope
growing and flowing inside of my soul.

Endless cycles like dogs chasing tails,
I get lost in my mind.
Viciously biting for what’s up ahead,
and trying to make sense of time.

I was told that I have control,
well let’s see how deep this rabbit hole goes.
I see the oil poured on the rope
dripping and slipping inside of my throat.
I was told that I have no control,
well let’s see how deep this rabbit hole goes.
I see the blood poured on the rope
growing and flowing inside of my soul.

The latest news out of LA is that the crew has just laid vocal and keyboard tracks and are well on their way towards concluding their first full-length record. Word on the street is that its a real trip. - Doomed and Stoned "Old Blood"

*translated*
When you hear songs like this, you know that there is hope for the future. Old Blood is a Los Angeles band that offers a pleasant and catchy hybrid of fuzzy bluesy doom / stoner. Very good for the soul. Looking at the video, you can sense that they would be fun to see live too. Can only hope that they come with a full length album in 2016, for this land straight into my comfort zone. You will find two songs for free (name your price ) download on Bandcamp . Otherwise, I think you should support the band on Facebook . - Ace of Spades

[TRANSLATED]

Old Blood found new blood into an old genre. It is Doom, with clear recaps, but done in a nice way with a touch of innovation. Ever since I first heard the Los Angeles band Old Blood at the end of last year , so expectations have been soaring. The two songs they had released since led to the sonic saving water ran to the well with me. This shot straight into the swing leg, so to speak. So, now, when his debut finally fallen down, it's like little Christmas Eve for a doom / psych / blues-elf like me. For what comes is nothing but sheer magic. Slowly, evocative and enchanting, caressing the band forward. Traditional doom at the bottom, clad in a rocking spellbinding jazzy psychedelic blues with Feathers caressing voice that conjures up textual content. Exciting and varied enough to be a record that will last. Musically it's a really neat building. Basically, drums add the chilled lifeblood. The next floor consists of Doom riffs lying like a heavy rug along with the rumbling bass. Upstairs is the floating melodious and powerful vocals upplandat with nice guitar solo loop. It is very much good so already there, but beyond that we have in the attic that according to me giving an extra nerve to the music, namely the organ. The lies and gives sometimes a little mildly uncomfortable crawling sensation. Especially like how it slowly creeps into your consciousness in the run-up to the song " Flesh ." The two songs that came before, " Glowplug " and " Flesh " is also on the album in a slightly remixed form and I can not really decide for the version they like best. Single / demo versions have a bit more unpolished raw touch than the final result on disc. But the final version has been in more polished form their own charm and fits well in the airy and psychedelic soundscape very good. As it is more details. Which makes me glad I have both versions.









For that, we have the band's little half-mystical appearance. With anonymous names like Diesel, Gunner, Octopus, Stone and Feather . There Feathers stage persona that sometimes pops up with dödkskallemålat face could be Papa Emeritus stylish little sister.
Here, every band booker out there, you get a crazy tip. What a great show, it could be that the book Old Blood opening for Ghost . Perhaps with an encore the duet between Feathers and Papa that matters worse. Taste it. I'm coming. When playing live and you have also the support of The Rigomortettes that gives an extra dimension to the performance of "Cutter and Hoops".

The album, with its 6 songs in 37.68 minutes too short. Which is the only caveat I have at all. Now it is no problem with starting from scratch, because every song is a gem in itself. But, I want more. So much more. But despite this, it's a record that I think everyone should have. The rating is thus extremely strong quad aces and just realize that it gets crowded with candidates for seasonal best list. It is also a vinyl release planned further ahead so if nothing else, it might be perfect to julklapps list. What a debut for the Old Blood: Summary: Rating 4/5 Favorite Song: Everyone Label: DHU Records Release: 27th August 2016 - Ace of Spades

IN BRIEF:

Having learned of Old Blood’s existence and savored my first sip of their heady acid doom only on the eve of this, their debut release, I must say I am thoroughly intoxicated; downright legless in their psych-rock sway. The multi-faceted sound presented by the band on this desert jewel of a record is one which I will be indulging in for many years to come.

IN DEPTH:

California’s Old Blood, weirdos (by their own admission) who like to cut loose, describe themselves also as an acid doom circus.

Ladies and gentlemen: the circus has come to town and it is six tracks long and many light years wide. Except this is better than a circus. No animals are chained here, for one. In fact, nothing is chained here on Old Blood’s eponymous debut. This album speaks freely of an effortless freedom, both musically and lyrically, that one can not help but want to pack his or her bags and escape the mundane for moonlit desert highways; the howls of coyotes punctuating the space between bars, motels, their flickering neon signs and questionable but highly interesting clientele.

But that makes all this sound a little dirty, does it not? I mean, it is dirty – but in a good way. This is dirt you do not want to wash of. This is the glorification of dirt; of the taboos that are the hallmarks of truly living free. Dirty music with crystal clean production and instrumentation as sharp as the dress sense of Old Blood’s members.

Feather, Diesel, Gunner, Octopus and Stone, accompanied by their sidekicks The Rigomortettes, Cutter and Hoops respectively, are a band I feel I have seen live on stage thousands of times, well aware that they have not yet visited Scotland and I have not visited the US in several years. Perhaps it is because the music is so alive; the rhythm and beats lively and the layers of riff, harmony and flourishes numerous so oozing with life and creative juices that I feel it all so up close and personal.

The album opens with the tremendous Wolves, a song encapsulating much of what I have said already. A quick, sharp kiss of the drums and the groove comes billowing in like a sandstorm followed by a warm solo flirting with smokey bass sounds, groovy drums and keys that one would not be surprised to find on a release by The Doors. Indeed, “I could drink all day, I could if I would” must have the cosmic force that is Jim Morrison nodding in happy agreement from the starry, poetic beyond.

Do not let that rather loose comparison fool you though. Although the retro vibes flow here like Jack Daniels flows on the aforementioned front man’s birthday, if Old Blood are reiterating anything of music from days gone by it is barely audible. Their sound is so pulsating, raw and naturally glowing that it could have been born yesterday. It would be easy, come the second track Glowplug, to hear “let’s see where the rabbit hole goes” and think of Jefferson Airplane and Grace Slick’s dulcet tones – but I’m going to go ahead and say it: Feathers is better than Slick. That’s right. I said it (and she neither asked nor paid me to say it).

Dropping such frivolity in comparison (for all things are subjective, and no person is better than the other) we are carried along to the next track Silk Road Rash and are smitten by several more surprises this self-titled LP has to offer. From 04:20 to the 05:10 mark the track drops away to present the listener with an almost reggae vibe before spinning back beautifully for the closing minute of swirling guitars and orbital ambience.

Taking Refuge With Strangers opens with a lovely bass line and complimentary drums, slow and slightly distorted as Hammond-esque keys swell to the fore and the groove kicks in (we’re caught in the sway) and the riff takes us. Feathers beseeches us to show her devotion and (I can only speak for myself) I am thoroughly devoted to her and her fellow performers at this point. The band are showing us their world and it is difficult -nae, entirely undesirable- not to allow the pull of that world’s gravity to reel one in completely, even if it means burning up in the multi-layer atmosphere.

Intoxicated, we stumble head over heels into Flesh, a track which the band released prior to the album in order to wet thirsty lips. Within the context of the albums other five tracks, though, we are no longer parched. We have had a belly full and we are overflowing; desert springs spilling onto dry sand. We do not want this to end. This track contains an absolutely gorgeous solo from guitarist Gunner slipping in around the 03:05 mark and as it drops away again, revealing more clearly around 03:50 the rhythmic craft of Diesel and Octopus, combined with the keyboard skill of Stone, we are floating like bonfire sparks on a summer night’s air.

We arrive at the threshold of closing track Some Songs Sound The Same and I am sure, like me, many listeners will say to themselves at this point “sure – but not those performed by Old Blood.” The track begins with a few bars of almost acoustic notes and then comes the riff. Much of the track adheres to a pace befitting of the subject matter until 03:50 arrives and the pace quickens, the handling of the narrative juxtaposes, and the other side of the coin flip presents itself in full rock and roll glory.

And fade – but not because the band have burned out at this point. There is something deep in my gut telling me in no uncertain terms and with candor that Old Blood have the potential, the natural energy, to release classic album upon classic album over the years to come. They deal with both the rawness of human emotion and the playfulness of the human spirit and being in touch with these so perfectly and so astutely as they are, the well will not run dry. With this album they have not only struck a vein, they have blown open a whole chasm and have reveled an entire, shimmering lake below.

The water is inviting.

THE VERDICT?

This blood may have run through old veins but it has been transfused to a new vibrant body that will surely roam for many years to come. Old Blood’s debut LP will set you free. - Disciple of the Void

[TRANSLATED]

Old Blood found new blood into an old genre. It is Doom, with clear recaps, but done in a nice way with a touch of innovation. Ever since I first heard the Los Angeles band Old Blood at the end of last year , so expectations have been soaring. The two songs they had released since led to the sonic saving water ran to the well with me. This shot straight into the swing leg, so to speak. So, now, when his debut finally fallen down, it's like little Christmas Eve for a doom / psych / blues-elf like me. For what comes is nothing but sheer magic. Slowly, evocative and enchanting, caressing the band forward. Traditional doom at the bottom, clad in a rocking spellbinding jazzy psychedelic blues with Feathers caressing voice that conjures up textual content. Exciting and varied enough to be a record that will last. Musically it's a really neat building. Basically, drums add the chilled lifeblood. The next floor consists of Doom riffs lying like a heavy rug along with the rumbling bass. Upstairs is the floating melodious and powerful vocals upplandat with nice guitar solo loop. It is very much good so already there, but beyond that we have in the attic that according to me giving an extra nerve to the music, namely the organ. The lies and gives sometimes a little mildly uncomfortable crawling sensation. Especially like how it slowly creeps into your consciousness in the run-up to the song " Flesh ." The two songs that came before, " Glowplug " and " Flesh " is also on the album in a slightly remixed form and I can not really decide for the version they like best. Single / demo versions have a bit more unpolished raw touch than the final result on disc. But the final version has been in more polished form their own charm and fits well in the airy and psychedelic soundscape very good. As it is more details. Which makes me glad I have both versions.

For that, we have the band's little half-mystical appearance. With anonymous names like Diesel, Gunner, Octopus, Stone and Feather . There Feathers stage persona that sometimes pops up with dödkskallemålat face could be Papa Emeritus stylish little sister.
Here, every band booker out there, you get a crazy tip. What a great show, it could be that the book Old Blood opening for Ghost . Perhaps with an encore the duet between Feathers and Papa that matters worse. Taste it. I'm coming. When playing live and you have also the support of The Rigomortettes that gives an extra dimension to the performance of "Cutter and Hoops".

The album, with its 6 songs in 37.68 minutes too short. Which is the only caveat I have at all. Now it is no problem with starting from scratch, because every song is a gem in itself. But, I want more. So much more. But despite this, it's a record that I think everyone should have. The rating is thus extremely strong quad aces and just realize that it gets crowded with candidates for seasonal best list. It is also a vinyl release planned further ahead so if nothing else, it might be perfect to julklapps list. What a debut for the Old Blood: Summary: Rating 4/5 Favorite Song: Everyone - Spader Ess

Old Blood’s music has been called a number of things recently. As the band blend Doom, Psych, Stoner with a creepy Psychedelic Acid effect. Their S/T debut album is one I’ve been looking forward to for the past few months. Now it’s finally here. Fans of Black Sabbath, Pentagram and Uncle Acid will find much to enjoy here. The band’s main strength has to be their lead vocalist – Feathers. As she can sure hold a note to give Old Blood such a soulful groove.

Opening track – Wolves – is a creepy occult based number with twinges of murky blues rock that firmly remains in the Psychedelic Doom world. The lyrics have quite a playful vibe as they match the sultry tones coming from Feathers. If you’re here for the riffs then Old Blood have that area covered. As the music contains a heavy amount of different styles with an acid-style Fuzz based quality.

Second track – Glowplug runs for an epic eight minutes as the band start to broaden their musical horizons. Classic Doom based noises are mixed with a more modern day Occult based sound. The band takes their time in creating a psychedelic Uncle Acid style atmosphere. Though they still create their own sound. Feathers vocals are a mixture of hollow earthly blues sounds and the heavier occult doom vibes when the band play a heavier kind of Doom/Stoner Metal..

The rest of the album follows the same path as the opening two tracks though Old Blood don’t rest on their laurels. As they change the tone and atmosphere of the album a few times on the remaining four tracks. Tracks such as Silk Road Rash, Flash and Some Songs Sound The Same show that the band showing a fine eye for detail especially with the lyrics. I can hear nods to classic novels spliced throughout the album. That could be just me looking far too much into things though the lyrics have a classic feel to them.

The music itself has such a wide appeal that fans of Classic Rock, Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, Psych Rock and Blues Rock will find themselves drawn to this album. It’s a dark, creepy and hugely enjoyable affair for an album that is killer and no filler. Old Blood have delivered a stunning debut album that will soon become a firm favourite within the Doom/Stoner Metal community.

Do yourself a favour and buy a copy of this album on whatever format you can lay your hands on. Old Blood’s debut album is an essential album to own. - Outlaws of the Sun

[TRANSLATED]

Stoner Rock is a genre that I learned to love over time, becoming today one of my favorite parts of the Rock, is the retro covers, by sound or by the various nuances that style has.

During my research for this vast web world I discovered this band called Old Blood, who had just released his debut self titled and has become one of the best things I've heard in my life. The band promotes a stoner rock and acid laden with melancholy, with tempos and dragged feeling.

Starting the disc have the "Wolves" band with a guitar folded soil embraced by other instruments composing an intro a Blues footprint to the surginmento sweet and full voice Soul Feathers vocalist (for me the big difference and a great surprise) .

Launched first as a demo, here comes "glowplug," my favorite band, with face Desert Rock has a chorus overflowing feeling, echoing the voice of Feathers. Here we see more evidence already in the intro, the fuzz guitar characteristic timbre, which permeates the entire album.

"Silk Road Rash" is a Hard Rock 70s agitated and more radio, having some rhythm variations that highlight their Doom Rock features.

Remembering quite The Doors, both the guitar tone as the vintage keyboards here are much more present, "Taking Refuge With Strangers" is heavy and dense. Not nearly as melancholy, but the touch of psychedelia it is quite interesting.

"Flesh" has a gloomy and decadent atmosphere that a good ballad Blues have to have. I highlight here, marking the drums and bass that dictate the tone of the music.

"Some Song Sound The Same" closes the disc joining all the band characteristics of a single song. Begins with a purely Blues riff with a strong presence. The music follows cadenced by the time the band gives up on his progress and break the melancholy mood with a Rock Retro soon returning to initial progress and decelerating in a loop to its end.

A masterpiece that marks the excellent debut of the band. Clearly the highlight is the Feathers vocal performance with its clean and melodic voice filled with emotion at the same time it is full of presence, contrasting brilliantly to dirty guitar tone, highlighted weight of the bass and drums and the keyboard raids which unfortunately seemed to me a little restrained.

10/10 - Roadie Metal, A Voz do Rock

[TRANSLATED]

Note: 10

Roping his first album, that band of stoner rock brings in your sound strong influences of occult rock, blues and a little bit of Category: Psychedelia of bands like The Doors.

The big surprise on this album, for me was the presence of a female vocal voice soft and melodious. I found it very interesting that contrast between vocal clean and melancholy that brings a whole sensitivity to each track and the timbre dirty and dense of the instruments of each musician.

The six tracks show that the feeling of the band stands out the technique of each parcel (proof of this is the keyboard, what do you make a little shy but in the right measure), featuring compositions which unite very well all your influential genres.

We have the sounding guitar riffs fuzz building that mark their presence in tracks like " wolves ", " Glowplug " and " Silk Road rash ".

The Bass, in addition to being ear may also be sense. I like when a bass player is not ace of base notes and composes festival terms that take the listener's attention. In Doom "taking refuge with strangers" we've got the bass distorted in the intro by creating a climate dark and dense.

The last track is not my favorite, but it has a strong presence and highlights well each band member. Brought me a vague memory of jams of Deep Purple live. - Metal Na Lata

[TRANSLATED]
One of the best and most exciting releases of the year so far is the debut of the American band Old Blood. Describing their sound as “Acid Doom” album self titled brings a captivating, engaging and gloomy atmosphere, very well developed. The sound brings a retro aura of heavy and dark music of the 70s, very well organized and impeccable quality. The traveling and stoned instrumental is well embedded, it brings a series of striking riffs, sharp and powerful bass lines, plus the impressive vocals of Feathers. An album to be listened to without moderation and will likely become an ongoing addiction, Old Blood is a big surprise in 2016. - Doombringer

[TRANSLATED]

Not long ago I hitched both a new sound stoner and my eyes blur when meeting as the debut album of Old Blood. This band is part of the small group of great discoveries that shed occasionally the underground world of rock and sewers.

The mouth which is the Old Blood drinks group many rivers. From Black Sabbath, Deep Purple swimming water flavored with stoner rock from Baja California. Many groups die on the shore with the feeling as passionate about this musical game, you are as ever that this kind of groups fill stadiums as did The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and other spirits of good taste. 'Old blood' was recorded and mixed by Frankie Siragusa. Mastered at Mikes Wells Mastering.

We get a disc, the first self - titled, which resonates glory. It is a wonder in every sense s. We started with "Wolves". Home very remake of the '70s with sinstetizador line and guitar as a cover letter. Feathers voice as a narrator in a story steeped in doom recreated for the umpteenth time the phrase "sex, drugs and rock and roll" but the rhythm of blues appears.

We put second but let's 200 km / h. What the genius is this !? It is followed by "Glowpug" with another entry to the guitar riff again marking a drop of stoner doom to the introduction finishing line with a keyboard and the blurring of distorted guitar made ​​pure magic again appears Feathers giving the perfect contrast to the dark melody. perfect balance, perfect song. it is in these songs where you thank the divinity of recorded discs as natural as possible without both filter computer. It sounds like a fucking cannon.

"Silk road rash" a different book. We go from hell to earthly eternity. From the first moment the song and going at a high pace and is playing with contact between the battery and the synthesizer during the impasses of the song. With a catchy chorus and very Deep Purple. The issue has a more dynamic and fresh rhythm that the record together and personally, putting myself in the role as producer I'm not, had gotten elements that had given the subject nuances of funk style and even even on the part almost reggae, which another would smell if possible. But ultimately, another issue remarkably high for the gallery.

Let 's already half the disk (s short but honors) and we hit us with "Taking refuge with strangers." Americans offer us a very spiritual song where would compare with a song by The Doors with Robby Krieger's guitar in the dark mode. In this case, the guitarist of Old Blood, Gunner, a teacher and a final with that low touched by Octopus that fills the entire room to mark somber piece pleasure.

Are two songs and one is "Flesh". Home almost post-metal veering towards melancholy and a melody which seems to remind previous passages of the disc but is that at this point the group has created its own atmosphere in which you take plunged almost 30 minutes without realizing you you have soaked many roots of rock and metal music without just clean out your ears. Perhaps it is in this song where most in need more harshly Feathers voice but putting ourselves to think of cold, so clean nuance of voice gives body to the whole. It's as if the band were a human body where muscles are guitar, voice brain, eyes and skin keyboard bass along with the battery.

We ended up with hot air from California whose title is definitive. "Some songs sound the same". It may be that finishing the album, some people seems to have been to nearly 40 minutes but it is not monotone. Throughout the album they have been heard nuances completely different from each other figures. Variety ears and cold water.

Seems to start out a psychedelic phenomenon in some groups like Blues Pills, Kadavar, Graveyard or Scorpion Cbild. At this point, recall those times but dragging genres such as metal or the same stoner make those wonderful '70s sound current and more powerful if possible. In this first album, Old Blood Californians have wonderful and will undoubtedly be key in this whole resurgence of movement that are slowly gaining the darkest corners of the current scene. Long live musical roots! - TNT Radio Rock

3. OLD BLOOD – OLD BLOOD / NEW!

Released August 27, 2016 / Acid Doom, Stoner, Hard Rock / Los Angeles, CA

It’s heeeerre octopus and company have created a legend ! ACID DOOM ! Perfection achieved? How can you be sooooo heavy, yet so smooooth? Organ driven old blood doom, I mean old school, or do I? Old Blood Doom!!!!!! A new genre is born! ~Papa Paul (Doomed & Stoned) - Doom Charts

Old Blood
Sounds Like: Amy Winehouse jamming with Kyuss at a desert LSD party

For Fans of: Black Sabbath, Blood Ceremony, Windhand

Why You Should Pay Attention: This Southern California-based doom-psych quintet has been garnering major raves from the metal blogosphere thanks to their newly released self-titled debut. The primal punch and serpentine swirl of the band's guitar-bass-organ-drum attack mesh beautifully with the commanding clean vocals of vocalist Feathers, whose jazz- and blues-influenced stylings soar above the crunch. And this is all before you attend their theatrical live show that includes smoke machines, psychedelic projections and a pair of corpse-painted dancers – the Rigormortettes – who perform ribbon and hula-hoop routines before ritually "killing" Feathers at the end of it.

They Say: "People have said our live shows are like being on a drug trip without any drugs actually being involved," laughs bassist and co-founder Octopus. "Audiences don't know what to expect, but they love it; we often leave them with their mouths hanging open. But it's been kind of interesting trying to book the band, because we're so different.

"We wanted to have that sense of a fourth wall, that sense of theater and mystery. There's no mystery with so many doom and stoner bands; it's like, 'That dude looks like the guy who works on your car!' Which is cool, and we respect that; but at the same time, we feel like some of the genre has become derivative, and we wanted to stake out some new territory. We absolutely are part of the stoner/doom world – but when you're stoned, sometimes you see things differently!"

Hear for Yourself: A fuzzed-out journey to the center of the psyche, "Glowplug" – from the band's self-titled debut – impressively showcases Old Blood's power and dexterity. Dan Epstein - ROLLING STONE