Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Country: USA
Genre: Punk, post-metal, noise rock
Full length: Hello Hell
Format: Digital, limited edition 12” vinyl, limited edition CD limited edition cassette
Label: Nefarious Industries
Release date: November 15, 2024
Releasing four high-quality videos, Boston's Miracle Blood is dedicating significant effort to the promotion of "Hello Hell". The clarity of the filming and production, along with Alex Allinson's impeccable production skills, not to mention their steady, consistent performng ethic, should be enough to convince long-time listeners why their reputation is growing and why they were recently referred to as the best scream in the city.
The terms "screaming" and “cookie monster vocals” has often been used in a pejorative context; but the bottom line is this vocal style is a discipline like any other and is more than effective for Miracle Blood. Miracle Blood furthermore employs a melodic vocal technique aligning seamlessly with their songwriting. The latter technique is somewhat hard to describe, except to say it exists in a realm between singing and performing an incantation.
Since 2014, Miracle Blood has established a reputation for providing equal measures of raw energy in the studio and on the stage, enhancing traditional apocalyptic Boston hardcore with clever twists, most notably dissonant progressions incorporating technicality and melody. It’s as if they’re blending post-metal, punk, grunge, and progressive influences with ritualistic undertones and a gritty production style to accomplish something noteworthy.
A rigorous wall of sound serves as a backdrop to the unrestrained chaotic unity of sound defining these tracks. One is leftn suspense regarding the direction Miracle Blood will take next with this album. The one certainty is a spine-chilling cacophony that oscillates between melodiousness and dissonance, creating a striking apocalyptic dichotomy that begins to feel timeless.
As a trio, the band have a foundation on which to combine their resources, share energy, and dispense pummeling menace. Like the abandon of Discharge, Dead Kennedys and The Accused, the metalcore rage of Converge and Killswitch Enbage and the ultramodern experimenting of Jesus Lizard, Agent Orange, and Big Black, Miracle Blood redefines the term "thrash". The vitality of the thrash genre has consistently been need to go against the tide and leave a mark, and that energy is here with a vengeance.
These factors combined evokes exploitation horror and punksploitation films of the 1980s, or movies like "Return of the Living Dead" and "Sorority Babes of the Slimeball Bowl O Rama" which embraced both themes. These films are comparable in that they satirized Hollywood's punk stereotypes or appeared to instinctively understand the level of horror you truly desired. Both genres conveyed a degree of fear that is thoroughly articulated through their musicianship.
Unswervingly belligerent and hurtling headlong through theme after theme, the ritualistic horror of "Hello Hell" will echo in your mind long after you have listened to it. Kind of similar to your initial experience viewing "Faces of Death" or "Cannibal Holocaust". –Dave Wolff
Lineup:
Andrew Wong; Guitar, vocals
Garrett Young: Bass
Anthony Bollitier: Drums
Track list:
1. Oh My Lord!
2. Phenomenon
3. Pets and Owners
4. Lobotomizer
5. Ghosts Marching Slow
6. Hello Hell
7. Rather Be Nothing
8. I'm Not Complaining
9. First You'll Laugh…
10. Prepare For Breakfast
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