Review Summary: A fairly strong collection of songs for the Obituary fan boys out there.
Its fair to say that Peter Hasselbrack, the man entirely responsible for the band Bloodsoaked has probably spend the last few years trying to ignore everything that has been happening within death metal and its burgeoning technical death metal scene. This is a man very much set on creating a vintage sound that is reminiscent of many bands earlier material such as Death's Scream Bloody Gore and Autopsy's Severed Survival and harkens back to a day when a band would be rewarded for simply singing straight forward kill-everything songs. There are a few things that instantly reveal this band not to fall into the Technical Death category:
1. No overly long three part song starting with a track called something like Part I: The Effervescent Prophecy Obscurist which has a clean jazz solo section that fits about as well as Peter Hasselbrack at a Blotted Science gig.
2. Many of the songs include sections not played at 240 BPM by a triggered robot drummer.
3. None of the songs feature self-indulgent guitar sweeping intervals at random moments, in fact, only ONE of the songs has a solo.
4. The lyrics never pertain to be about more than being very mean to your other fellow human beings
5. The production is fairly chunky sounding, as it does not have to accommodate five band members all trying to do something interesting and impressive at the same time.
Despite the lack of guitar wankery Peter is no instrumental slouch, the guitar and drum work being nothing to sneer at with rapid tremolo picked guitar riffs and a strong variety of different drum parts all played well. Peter is obviously also the vocalist for the band and he handles this well with appropriate growled lyrics that also have a decent clarity to them and as long as your ears are tuned to this sort of music.
The album starts off strongly with opener Lies being definitely one of the stronger songs on the album sounding a great deal like Behemoth due to its precise bass drum intro and the verse guitar having a strong black metal feel to it. Lyrically it seems to great surprise to mostly just be about lies as the chorus yells the word at you a lot. No God, the song chosen to have a video accompany it (the video being Peter with blood on his head in a barn and walking around a field reading a book to himself) is also the one song with the solo in it so thank god that it's pretty decent with impressive runs up and down the fretboard and silly whammy barred notes ringing out at the end of every phrase.
One of the main advantages that this does have against some recent death metal bands is a pleasing variety of different speeds with some of the songs playing out at the expected all out thrash tempo but many of them also having the grinding guitars over a more sane slower speed with the albums title track being a good example of this. However, although the album definitely has an advantage in relation to the speed at which it plays out it is very much apparent that Hasselbrack knows exactly what he wants his music to sound like and is very much unwilling to move from what he likes. The guitar work is almost entirely made up of either tremolo picked parts or parts with a more gallop-like feel to them, generally limited to the lower strings of the guitar. The lyrics, while not pretentious or annoying are not going to leave you much to think about either unless you are new to metal and the idea of an anti-religious message in a song excites you to your easily shocked core.
Overall though if you are tired of these new fangled bands coming in a messing up all that great, much simpler death metal that you used to love that was content to be short and to the point then this is tailor made for you but truth be told if that is what you are looking for then you probably already have a pretty big collection of music from the bands that have already made music exactly like this back in the day arguably to a higher standard.
And if your are into your older death metal there is no way you won't enjoy this. 
