Chadwick is a San Francisco-based purveyor of psychedelic,
sonically dissonant, Goth-steeped death rock. Blood
Soaked World is loaded with 13 tracks spanning a breathtaking
70 minutes or so. Though I’m a little new
and overwhelmed (dare I say “afraid”) of
the genre, I was surprised to find myself taking to
the guitar-driven bedlam in very little time.
Blood Soaked World, of course, isn’t
for the faint of heart. With song titles like “Bloodline,” “Vampyres
in Roseland,” “She’s Not a Slave,” and “Blood
Soaked World,” the highly charged and amplified
cacophony and brooding lyrics are dangerously apropos
for an ever darkening vision of the world in wartime,
the world in which we live. Fittingly, perhaps,
the closer is a faithful rendition of the Black Sabbath
classic, “Paranoid.”
Favorite Track: Track 3, “Vampyres in Roseland”
