My name is Sam and my first contribution to this lovely collaboratively wonderful online publication will be the most legitimately, undeniably perfect mosh-metal record ever to be recorded:
Blood Has Been Shed - Spirals.
Before Howard Jones became the easily recognizable crooner (now recently estranged) of heavy-metal titans, Killswitch Engage (whose debut and pre-HJ-era album, "Alive or Just Breathing", will get an entirely separate post from me in the near future), he was the lead singer of Blood Has Been Shed, one of the founding fathers of the subgenre mosh-metal/metalcore or what have you. Before the days of hundreds of fake Poison the Wells, Acacia Strain clones and diet-On Broken Wingses, this masterpiece of metalcore ruled my first iPod (the one with the screen that looked like a 1980s gameboy).
Think: anything good about early Acacia Strain mixed with Meshuggah - obZen. The production of the recording is one of my favorites. Guitar tone is literally perfect, as far as a Peavey 5150 tone gets, drums not triggered to death, bass booming but not drowning out the rest of the music, Jones' pre-Killswitch vocals, in my opinion, more raw and primal, like, someone disemboweling him while another assailant captures it through a soundboard.
If you enjoy heavy, moshable music, have never given this battering ram of a record a listen and can withstand an audial onslaught for a little over a half an hour, do yourself a favor and accept my downloadable gift below.
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