Breeding Death - Bloodbath

'Breeding Death' is the first release by Bloodbath, a Swedish supergroup of sorts consisting of Opeth's Michael Akerfeldt on vocals, Katatonia's Anders "Blakkheim" Nystrom and Jonas Renske on guitar and bass respectively, and Dan Swano, also once of Katatonia, on drums. As the gory artwork would suggest, the band exists soley to play tribute to the (largely Floridian) death metal legends of yore, and the album has a strong feel of old Cannibal Corpse about it, with more than a hint of early Deicide, Morbid Angel and Obituary in there as well. 'Breeding Death' consists of three tracks of crunchy, mid-paced old school death metal, with Akerfeldt's ...  Read the complete review

Bloodbath is another side project of Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt, formed with members of Katatonia in a seeming attempt to pay tribute to, and perhaps revive the classic Swedish death metal sound of the early nineties, before natural progression and genre divisions (for which Opeth and Katatonia were partly responsible) caused death metal to splinter in a mostly satisfying manner. These three songs sound authentically dated, but still original within the genre - as these guys are as experienced as you can get - but are blessed by a more contemporary production sound that brings out the power of the guitars, without spoiling them through clinical or ...  Read the complete review