Sunday: Bloodshot Dawn - Smoke and Mirrors

     I've written about British melodic death metal band Bloodshot Dawn and their upcoming album Demons before, but now that the band has released a video for a track from Demons I can point you in the direction of the very latest in well done, heavy-ass melodeath.

     "Smoke and Mirrors" checks all the right boxes and covers all the right bases for this kind of music: lots of good, meaty riffs; tight drumming; evil-sounding leads; good growls at both the lower and higher ends of the scream spectrum; and all of it done fast and with pummeling relentlessness.

     If this sounds like something you'd jam, or if you're at all into this little corner of the metal world (melodeath with some modern thrash), I highly doubt you'll be disappointed with Bloodshot Dawn, Demons, and "Smoke and Mirrors". Click the link above, and then consider how great these guys are going to be in a couple of albums if Demons is just their sophomore effort.

Saturday: Bloodshot Dawn - Beckoning Oblivion

     You like melodeathy modern thrash, right? Of course you do! You'd be crazy not to. And since you're not crazy (right?) the Brits in Bloodshot Dawn have got you covered.

     The band's crowdfunded sophomore album Demons is due out in the fall, but in the meantime you can stream their self-titled debut on Bandcamp and discover the fleet-fingered riffing of tracks like album-opener "Beckoning Oblivion". I'm only just becoming familiar with this band, but I can definitely see myself getting into them. Really into them. Listen to "Beckoning Oblivion" and see what I mean.