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Metal Monday vol. 15:
Today is Monday so here’s Bloodcum’s - Death By A Clothes Hanger lp w/ a reasonable buy-it-now price. Bloodcum were infamous for a couple of things, for one, they’re kind of the Roger Clinton of crossover-thrash. Why? Because their guitar player was named John Araya, a fact which their quasi-sketchy label, the infamous Wild Rags, had no scruples about playing up (if you’re lost here TOM Araya is the singer and co-founder of the world famous Slayer). In addition it’s rumored, but not confirmed that they insisted Bloodcum’s singer go by the name Joey Hanneman to play up the “Slayer’s Younger Brothers” angle (corresponding to Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman).

The story is that the members were also Slayer’s roadies, and would come to hang out at practice, after which they would pick up the band’s instruments and goof off. Over time they became relatively competent, recruited a couple more members, cut a demo, and then issued this album, which as you can see by the title (not to mention the band name) is about as tasteful as taking your date to Wendy’s. In terms of music most of the songs owe heavy debts to The Accused, Cryptic Slaughter, Suicidal, & D.R.I., really the only thing in common with Slayer is solos which were clearly lifted from the King/Hanneman school (or more acurratly: King/Hanneman/King/Hanneman/King/Hanneman/King) of “play a bunch of random notes as fast as you can for about 6 seconds”. Lyrically things are definitely on the Accused/Suicidal end of things. There’s a song about how much it sucks to get married, some gory murder glorifications (Son Of Sam, Live To Kill, Sike-O-Path –predating Mental), the rediculous (and kind of hillarious) title track, and my personal favorite title Belligerent Youth. This definitely didn’t win any awards for originality in the day, but if you just want some competent ripping cross-over, look no further.

By the way, this isn’t an mp3 blog, but if you want to check out a good one, and/or want to hear Bloodcum, hit up: http://truepunkmetal.blogspot.com/. It’s got tons of killer downloads and some cool “personal” stories by someone who was actually around to see most of the bands that I only get to talk about.