Blood Lightning Post New Single “Blankets”; Playing Grub, Sweat & Beers Six This Weekend
New in the sense of new-to-you and new-to-me, the second single from Boston four-piece Blood Lightning, who boast in their ranks members of Worshipper, Gozu, Sam Black Church and We’re All Gonna Die, is called “Blankets.” Clocking in at shortly under four minutes long, it fuses metallic aggression and heavy rock melody and groove, the vocals of Jim Healey layered at the forefront and pushing alongside the central riff of Douglas Sherman while Bob Maloney locks in bass and J.R. Roach manages the stomp of the drums, building tension in the verse, opening it up in the chorus, classic in its construction and borderline nasty in the execution.
Last year, Blood Lightning put up “The Dying Starts” (posted here), and “Blankets” arrives just as the band are about to take part in the sixth edition of the Grub, Sweat & Beers fest at O’Brien’s in Allston, MA. It’s a fitting tie-in, since Sherman and Healey — along with Aaron Gray of Grayskull Booking — put together the fest in the first place. It is an annual gathering of friends and tunes with a lineup drawn from New England’s evergreen underground, and if Blood Lightning have it in them to hit stage this Saturday with half the vitality Benny Grotto at Mad Oak captured in this studio version of “Blankets,” then there’s nothing to worry about. Apart, obviously, from liver damage.
Info on the track (the player’s at the bottom of this post) as well as the lineup and ticket links for Grub, Sweat & Beers Six follow here:
New Blood Lightning Track – Blankets
New Track!! See us this weekend at Grub Sweat & Beers Six: Day 2
“Blankets was a Doug riff that we all got together and hashed out in the rehearsal space. This was the second tune we wrote after The Dying Starts and I feel like it’s a pretty good representation of us,” says Jim Healey.
Recorded and mixed by Benny Grotto at Mad Oak Studios in Allston, MA.
August 2021
http://www.madoakstudios.com
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music
http://www.westwestsidemusic.com
GRUB SWEAT & BEERS LINEUP
O’Brien’s, Allston, MA
Day 1 Fri, Jul 15- 8pm doors
Ectovoid
Night Hag
Chained To The Bottom of The Ocean
Wretched Inferno
Day 2 Sat, Jul 16, 2022 1PM
Birnam Wood
Blackwolfgoat
Blood Lightning
Blue Manic
Cartridge
Death Strider
Evil 80
Gog
Greylock
Mollusk
Paul Jarvis
Sexless Marriage
Waelmist
Wire Lines
Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grub-sweat-beers-six-day-1-tickets-365904890377
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grub-sweat-beers-6-day-2-tickets-365923435847
BLOOD LIGHTNING are:
Jim Healey – Vocals
Doug Sherman – Guitars
Bob Maloney – Bass
J.R. Roach – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/bloodlightning
https://bloodlightning.bandcamp.com/
