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1. Nerves in Rush 2. Death Ascends - The Hunt (Part I) 3. You Can't Hide Forever 4. Right on Time for Murder - The Hunt (Part II) 5. Conscious in No Materia 6. A Different Plane 7. Invisible to Us 8. The One Who Hides a Face Inside 9. ...and Don't Ever Listen to What It Says 10. Revelation of the Puzzle 11. Human Prophecy 12. Where the Suffering Leads 13. The Remains of Galactic Expulsions 14. With Panic in the Heart 15. Out from the Dark 16. Still Coming at You 17. Out from a Deeper Dark 18. Spinning Back the Clocks 19. Soaring over Dead Rooms 20. The Enemy Is the Earth 21. Recall 22. All Exits Blocked 23. The Memory Is Weak 24. Struck at Random / Outermost Fear 25. Sparks of Childhood Coming Back 26. Old People's Voodoo Seance 27. Mary-Lee Goes Crazy 28. Something Has Arrived 29. Possession of the Voodoo Party 30. Not of Flesh, Not of Blood 31. Intact with a Human Psyche 32. Keeping Fait 33. Someone Knows What Scares You00:30 34. A Bad Case of Nerves00:50 35. The Inverted Dream / No Sleep in Peace00:16 36. Information00:17 37. Setting the Course00:52 38. Ghost Inhabitants00:50  instrumental 39. Fleeing from Town01:02 40. Overlooked Parts00:50  instrumental 41. A New Spark - Victory Theme (Part I) 42. Hope - Victory Theme (Part II) 43. Family Portraits - Victory Theme (Part III) 44. Smokes Start to Churn 45. Hesitant Behaviour 46. A Hurricane of Rotten Air 47. Mastering the Clock 48. They Come, You Go 49. Haarad el Chamon 50. The Egyptian Resort 51. The Pyramid 52. Frenzy Moods and Other Oddities 53. Still Part of the Design - The Hunt (Part III) 54. Definite Departure 55. Returning to Haarad el Chamon 56. Life Eater 57. The Pulze 58. The Defiled Feeds 59. The River in Space 60. A Soulflight Back to Life 61. Instant Rebirth - Alternate Ending

Anders Nyström in 2025

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Despite being established as Death Metal stalwarts, and already perhaps even close to attaining legendary status, the road for Bloodbath has often been seemingly a little bit bumpy. Admittedly a band that wasn’t always the main priority for its various members, over their time Bloodbath has had to lurk in the shadows waiting for busy schedules of to align. With alumni from the likes of Katatonia and Opeth, and more recently Paradise Lost, it has meant live shows are a rarity and album release schedules somewhat inconsistent. However, with Katatonia now on hiatus, it feels like Bloodbath can become a more prominent concern, which certainly seems evident with the fact that The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn (Peaceville) is quite possibly their most vibrant and strongest effort to date. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDDTGAsybMY Bloodbath was always intended as an outlet for the members’ (completed by Old Nick, “Axe”nrot, Joakim, Lord Seth and Blakkheim) love for old school Death Metal as opposed to reinventing the wheel, and so TAOSID isn’t necessarily an obvious evolution on any particular formula, nor does it bring forth radical ideas. The main noticeable strength here, though, in comparison to their previous albums is a raised sense of cohesiveness in the lineup, a greater sense of freedom and less pressure than before. This being Old Nick’s (Nick Holmes) second album with the band he, in particular, feels more settled and adopts a greater prominence this time around, fuelled as much by a sense of theatre as he is pure bile and viciousness. Speaking of viciousness, TAOSID’s focus on real world issues and the seemingly inevitable march to humanity’s self-induced demise gives the album a more increased and believable sense of rage and despair, which in turn is delivered by some of the band’s in your face song writing. From the intense opening of ‘Fleischmann’ and the fast paced ‘Morbid Antichrist’ to the dirtier and brooding ‘Levitator’, the atmosphere of imminent chaos and anguish at the world state seems to have lit a fire in their bellies like never before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgsTsfvyLFo Death Metal in 2018 is in arguably its rudest health for many years with an underground bedrock absolutely thriving in creativity and new ideas as well as building upon foundations already set by legends, but as Bloodbath have shown here, its wizened veterans still possess plenty of venom in their bite. The Arrow of Satan… is Bloodbath sounding more vital and important than they have ever sounded, all the while achieving that balance between aggressive underground spirit and pure fun. Perhaps, unsurprisingly, a genre highlight for the year. 8.0/10 CHRIS TIPPELL Read the full article