Review by: David Giles
It feels like Most Precious Blood have been around forever and that I’ve never taken notice. To paraphrase a friend: they’ve always struck me as a completely mediocre metallic dirge, and I’ve stayed clear. I had heard from a few new friends that this record was solid and thought I’d try it out for a change of pace. Well, in short it’s not solid. This record is a caricature of mediocre late-Hatebreed/Madball vaguely chun ‘hardcore’ that’s easy on both the hard and the core. Maybe add in a little of that Bleeding Through Trustkill sound to boot. I’m not going to front; there were a few times on this record they broke out the archetypal hardcore parts (2 step etc.) and I was set to mosh but I’m sure that’s a relic of being an overenthusiastic mosh kid than anything positive about this record. It’s been a while since I said something was total shit and I feel a bit guilty about not being more aggressive in slating this but, genuinely, it’d be a waste of time to think up something witty to say about a record like this, and by the sound of things it’d go right over the heads of both band and fans alike. Don’t try new (old) things in 2011. Everything bad you would assume about this LP is correct. Radio rock. Avoid.