Bloodbound - Stormborn [2014]

Bloodbound - Stormborn (2014)









Bloodbound is a Swedish power metal band formed in 2004. They released their first album, Nosferatu, in 2005 and their second, Book of the Dead, in May 2007. The brainchild of former Street Talk members Fredrik Bergh and Tomas Olsson, the band has also included Michael Bormann (Jaded Heart), Urban breed (Tad Morose) and Pelle Åkerlind (Morgana Lefay). Their debut album Nosferatu featured former Tad Morose singer Urban breed on vocals. Released on 16 December 2005 (in Japan; European release date 24 February 2006), Nosferatu features artwork by Mark Wilkinson (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Marillion) and received an early rave review from the Swedish rock magazine Power Play. Based solely on the strength of their debut album, the band opened for Evergrey and headlined day one of the Gothenburg Metal Festival.









After Urban breed announced his departure from Bloodbound in fall 2006, former Tad Morose singer Kristian Andrèn briefly joined the band for some live dates. In March 2007, they announced their new singer, German Michael Bormann, who laid down vocals on the band's second album Book of the Dead. Bormann, however, played no live shows with Bloodbound: for their first performance after releasing Book of the Dead (9 June 2007 at Sweden Rock Festival), Urban breed handled the vocal duties. Urban also performed with the band at subsequent shows, including Bollnäs Festivalen, 21 July 2007. Bloodbound played two sets, both backed up by a symphony orchestra. For the second set they backed Paul Di'Anno of Iron Maiden fame. In October 2007, they announced that original singer Urban breed had officially re-joined and would sing during the band's tour in support of HammerFall. On 13 April 2010, breed announced on his forum that Bloodbound had decided to continue with another singer, ending his second tenure with the band.


Despite the band's apparent black metal image (the band members have worn make-up in the "corpse paint" style in the promotional photos on their albums and Web site, and during some live shows), Bloodbound's music does not fit into the black metal category. Instead, it is more similar in style to power metal bands such as Helloween and Iron Maiden, although the lyrics sometimes approach darker subjects.


In 2009 the band signed a worldwide deal with the label Blistering Records for their third album release, titled Tabula Rasa. The album was set for release on 26 April 2009.








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Whooa, this is what I call heavy 'to the bone' metal stuff! And even though I'm not a big fan of this band, this record grabbed me at once and left me hungry for more! For sure, Bloodbound knows how to deliver a traditional metal album! "Stormborn" is the band's sixth, already, official release and to be honest, their best to date!


The thunderous metal hymns here is one after another, the stormy guitar riffs and hellish solos the same and the metal screams ghosts every moment of "Stormborn".


"Satanic Panic", the opener, grabs you immediately with its powerful arrangements, the in-your-face and aggressive performances and its 'evil' chorus line!! "Nightmares From The Grave" is movin' to the same metal paths, as the opener, but with a more 'epic' vibe and it's among my personal favorites from the new record! Raise the dead....with the fast and furious metal anthem "We Raise The Dead" that takes no prisoners while in "Made Of Steel" we have a track that the Finnish LORDI would be jealous about!!!


Great up-tempo with lots of 'balls' metal record that the sure thing is that will please every single metalhead out there! One of the best metal albums of 2014!






Discography:
Nosferatu 2005
Book of the Dead 2007
Tabula Rasa 2009
Unholy Cross 2011
In the Name of Metal 2012
Stormborn 2014



Line-Up:
Patrik Johansson - Lead Vocals
Tomas Olsson - Lead and rhythm guitars
Fredrik Bergh - Keyboards and backing vocals
Henrik Olsson - Rhythm guitars
Pelle Åkerlind - Drums and percussion
Anders Broman - Bass



Info:
Artist: Bloodbound
Album: Stormborn
Genre: Power Metal
SubGenre: Heavy Melodic Metal
Country Of Origin: Sweden
Year: 2014
Audio codec: Mp3
Riptype: Tracks
Bitrate: 320Kbs
Size: 108.96 MB
Included - Front



Tracklist:
01. Bloodtale
02. Satanic Panic
03. Iron Throne
04. Nightmares From The Grave
05. Stormborn
06. We Raise The Dead
07. Made Of Steel
08. Blood Of My Blood
09. When The Kingdom Will Fall
10. Seven Hells
11. When All Lights Fail












Genre: Heavy
Subgenre: Power Metal
Bitrate: 320 k
Size: 108.96 MB
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