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.
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