BAPTIZED IN BLOOD ARE BRINGING DIRTY BACK

The more I hear of Baptized in Blood, the more I really, really like ’em. I’ve now heard two songs from their self-titled Roadrunner debut, released October 19th — “Last Line Lady,” released as a free download a few weeks back, and “Dirty’s Back,” which I heard for the first time in the above video — and I gotta say, both songs are total slam dunks.

Baptized in Blood are clearly influenced by their ’80s thrash heroes but they aren’t content to simply bite their riffs like the hoards of re-thrash bands roaming the planet… they take that influence and actually infuse it with something all their own, the way a band like Revocation does. Baptized in Blood actually remind me a whole lot of Revocation if the latter let their cock rock influence hang out just a bit more (and those guys love them some cock rock… don’t let their death metal tough-guy bravado fool you!); where Revocation get scene points for ridiculous chops, wonky songs and a healthy heap of death metal influence, Baptized in Blood go straight for the jugular with catchy songs and overt references to ’80s bands other than Megadeth and Metallica. And they’re still surprisingly heavy. I’ma hafta get myself a copy of their album pronto.

-VN