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DBY Make It Bleed Review

September 1, 2024
The cover of a game called the renfields

*Originally written in 2004*


Release the Bats! The only band that splatters has recently signed with JMB Records and has managed to create one of the best Horror releases of the year. The DBY boys have been very busy as of late. Aside from exhuming this album, they’ve made cameos in Iggy Pop’s latest video “Little Know It All”, and they’ve been touring as the backing band for Wednesday 13 on his recent solo tour. Finally, these Floridian morticians are getting the attention they so truly deserve.


With the help of their Producer, Paul Blaccard, formerly of “Corpsegrinder”, DBY has cursed the world with this release. “Planet Graveyard” opens the album and from very beginning you are sucked up in a hurricane of ferocious guitar riffs and drumming. Vocalist, John Janos, has become quite the singer, he really shines here. The lyrics are also intriguing, seeing as how we are living in an earthly Graveyard. Next up we have “Cadaverized” a song about never-ending necrophilia love. Again, Janos vocals are graceful, another stand out moment for him. This track also has a strong new wave influence and feel. “Bad Day at Salem” is a remixed tune from the band’s previous effort, “Tarnished Tapes of Transylvania”. I prefer this version due to Janos vocals, it’s a much better outing this time. DBY also pay homage to the Ramones with a nice cover of “I Wanna Live”. Scratch The World” is another remix from “Tarnished Tapes”. Again, I prefer this version next to the original. The tempo of this song is a bit slower, and the production is much better. “Bats In Your Belfrey” is another ’80′s Pop influenced number; I can hear traces of Duran Duran. The best track off the album is entitled “Cobwebs”. It’s the bands love song and comes across much like a favorite childhood nursery rhyme laced with cyanide.


With the release of “Make It Bleed”, Death Becomes You has taken the genre of New Wave and twisted it into what they call Grave Wave. Do yourselves a favor; go buy this cd and become one of the UNdead fans of DBY. The radio stations will soon spread the Grave Wave, and you will have no choice but to join us as the world becomes a “Planet Graveyard”.



The video below is titled incorrectly, it's actually the band's track "Cobwebs". Have a click and enjoy!

 

~Black Angel

 

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