Bloodstains – S/T [IMPORT] – New LP
Punk band from Santa Ana, CA. Debut LP, originally self-released in 2024.
Another ripper from Drunken Sailor records, launching into it from the get-go with an instrumental opener ("The Last Rites") which really connects it with a SoCal punk rock tradition formed a million years ago...the second cut carving out their own sound, lifted up on a booming bottom, seasoned drummer Vincent Catanho pounding it out, everyone else from some unknown places but clearly knowing what they doing, breaking bones and prying open caskets, locking arms and charging forward, keeping a grip on it from go to whoa, not a weak moment. -- winch (green noise)
"the whole thing absolutely fkn rips...Vocalist Cesar Marin splits his delivery between a sneering bark and a purposeful, melodic croon… which itself sounds it’s made from sandpaper and vitriol, but there you go...you’ll rarely have been so glad to have something turned up so loud it blows holes in your speakers." Will Fitzpatrick.
A1 The Last Rites
A2 Public Hanging
A3 Nuclear Age
A4 Combat Shock
B1 When Men Were Men…
B2 Anti-Social
B3 Suburban Suicide
B4 Stray Bullets
Bass – Nick Espinoza
Drums – Vincent Catanho
Guitar – David Espinoza
Vocals – Cesar Marin
All songs written and performed by BLOODSTAINS.
Recorded by Jerry “The Animal” Adamo at Adamos Studio in Westminster CA.
Mixed and mastered by Colin Knight at Paradise Recorders in Anaheim CA
Recorded by Jerry “The Animal” Adamo at Adamos Studio in Westminster CA.
Mixed and mastered by Colin Knight at Paradise Recorders in Anaheim CA
Front cover by Pirata 1. Back cover by Keith Caves