The music of No Spill Blood is intense. Pounding swells of noise, swift tempo changes, distorted jagged vocals, a pulsating bass that would knock all the Pantera posters off your walls, all while simultaneously filling your brain with swirling sci-fi synths. The tracks on their new album, Heavy Electricity, vary from plodding rhythm sections that build up momentum and layers of ethereal sounds before violently cascading into astral pandemonium (“Now II” and “White Out”), to songs that put the probe up your ass faster than the craftiest of extraterrestrials (“El Duurto”), to tracks where the synths are doing all the flexing, sending your brain onto a space mission into the most phantasmagorical and psychedelic of galaxies (“Heavy Electricity” and “Endless Drift”).

It is hard to categorize this band, which is generally a good thing, and this makes No Spill Blood’s sound accessible to a variety of audiences, ranging from metal to noise-rock, space rock, post hardcore, etc. I recommend Heavy Electricity to anyone that is in the mood for something heavy that isn’t your run of the mill.

Dublin, Ireland’s three-headed beast of all things fuzz and synth, No Spill Blood, has finally arrived with their debut full-length record via Sargent House. Metal Injection is happy to be the first to share it with you all. The trio consists of members of the math rock bands Elk (Bassist/vocalist Matt Hedigan) and Adebisi Shank (drummer Lar Kaye) as your rhythm section and in place of guitars the band is lead by the keyboard/synth styling of Magic Pockets’ Ruadham O’Meara.

The result isn’t what one might expect from each member’s respective band. Instead, No Spill Blood is part Torche, part Pinkish Black, part Death From Above 1979, and all awesome. They’re heavy, groovy, catchy and hypnotic.

The album officially drops March 10th, but you can hear the entire thing here in all its glory!

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Ireland’s No Spill Blood have been creating hostilely heavy music with an industrial synth edge since 2012, but they are just now coming around to their first full-length record. In our opinion, it’s about damn time. Aptly titled Heavy Electricity, the album will be coming out March 10th on Sargent House and we’re thrilled to be debuting the first video to come from this album for the track “El Duurto”.

In the clip, tight shots of the band member’s faces and instruments that swiftly move from one to the next gives the track an extra sense of urgency that might not be noticed without the visual. The video’s black and white coloring only intensifies this as well. Head below to check out the clip’s fierce post-rock vibes, not unlike Killing Joke or METZ.  — Kelly Kettering

Dublin trio No Spill Blood takes their name from the same H.G. Wells passage as Devo, and their press release even describes their shared love of “smarmy synths.” That’s about where the similarities end between the two. In their most recent release from their upcoming LPHeavy Electricity, the metal vets (featuring members of Elk and Adebisi Shank) kick the doors down with “Harsh Route.” John Carpenter-like buzzsaw synths grind over the thick guitars, an appropriate backdrop for bassist/singer Matt Hedigan’s guttural howl. The real climax comes in four and a half minutes in, where the lads do a startlingly good Metallica impersonation and tear the melody to shreds.

Stream it below, and keep an eye out for Heavy Electricity on March 10 via Sargent House.

Fact: the world needs more Killing Joke, and the world needs more bands to realize that the world needs more Killing Joke. No Spill Blood takes Six Finger Satellite and the spazzy noise of Arab of Radar and puts it through that sick, unrelenting Jaz Coleman sieve, resulting in the new burner of a track “El Duurto” streaming here for the first time.  Shit is nuts, but make sure to turn it down before you hit play; sounds this caustic, muscular, and acidic probably should be eased into.  Or just turn it on high and fry the shit out of your brain. Either way you’re gonna thank me. 

Heavy Electricity will be available March 10th, 2015 via Sargent House. Get your ear doctor appointments ready.

No Spill Blood Album art is by Samantha Muljat - You can also check out a fantastic live video of this song and more great photos by SCAN from the recording sessions in Dublin with the Deaf Brothers over on TheFarmFamily.com

…”We’re here for two bands affiliated with Sargent House, the first of which is Dublin’s No Spill Blood. At least, it’s two-thirds of No Spill Blood, because drummer Lar Kaye is absent, replaced  by Ror Conaty of Veroa and Wizards of Firetop Mountain fame. Such is No Spill Blood’s emphasis on rhythm, you may think a change of drummer is cause for concern, but Conaty is solid and dynamic, a blur of curly hair with a penchant for wild-eyed grimaces.

No Spill Blood have antecedents – their mechanical synth/bass/drums attack brings to mind Kling Klang, Zombie Zombie and fellow Dubliners Legion of Two – but their sound is singular and, just as Deafheaven nearly stole the show with Russian Circles two years ago, No Spill Blood aren’t far off doing the same thing here. Ruadhan O’Meara’s synth work is beautifully conceived, painting the songs with retrofuturistic colour and a sinister, dystopian mood, while Matt Hedigan is clearly having fun with his bass pedals, wringing all manner of weird noises out of his instrument. With this band, though, rhythm is king and as Conaty and Hedigan get busy with their robotic, heavy grooves, the cumulative effect over the course of a set is hypnotic and, ultimately, cathartic. It’s a thoroughly convincing performance from a band on top of their game.”

See Full Show Review here at THUMPED

No Spill Blood perform “Stang Gang” and “Junior”  live on April 16, 2013 at BATOFAR - Paris. Thanks to Skeudo Theque for posting them.

SEE ALL NO SPILL BLOOD TOUR DATES HERE

Just out of the studio and finished tracking their upcoming debut album, No Spill Blood will be testing out their new set with a handful of shows in France in April. The eagerly awaited follow up to their their debut EP “Street Meat" will be coming out on Sargent House.

NO SPILL BLOOD - FRANCE APRIL 2014
9th - Rennes @ Le Sympatic
11th - La Roche sur Yon @ Ti West Coast
12th - Pau @ A Tant Rêver Du Roi Festival

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No Spill Blood are in a studio in Wicklow, Ireland right now  laying down filthy, dirty tracks.  New album Coming out on Sargent House in late 2014.

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They are also playing some shows SEE ALL NSB dates HERE

And below check out a brand new live video of NSB demoing a new track that will be putting on the album …