It’s In My Blood
more blood and gore today. Well, just blood
Bl’ast - It’s In My Blood.mp3
Bl’ast were a group of Santa Cruz skaters that absorbed all of the lessons that Black Flag could teach and then took it to the next level. Using Flag’s Damaged as a starting point, the band layered varying rhythm shifts, unique guitar sounds, and powerful drumming that resulted in satisfying hardcore.
Anyhow, this is the album closer from the 1987 album of the same name. I pulled this out a couple of weeks ago and while I don’t love it like I used to, I can still appreciate how good the band sounded, especially in comparison to other stuff from the same time period. And while the Black Flag influence is appreciable on some of the bands earlierwork, I never considered them derivative. And what the hell, after Damaged Black Flag produced a lot of dreck. I find this more refreshing than anything recorded by Flag after 1981, but I’m opinionated like that.
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[…] On the earlier Black Flag someone asked that I resurrect my Bl’ast! post from a couple years back over. I’m game. Bl’ast were one of my late 80’s favorites - I would bust out It’s In My Blood for anyone that would listen. Forming in Santa Cruz in the early ’80’s as M.A.D. (check their track on the Not So Quiet on the Western Front compilation below) before adding guitarist Mike Neider and becoming Bl’ast in 1984. I originally wrote: a group of Santa Cruz skaters that absorbed all of the lessons that Black Flag could teach and then took it to the next level. Using Flag’s Damaged as a starting point, the band layered varying rhythm shifts, unique guitar sounds, and powerful drumming that resulted in satisfying hardcore… while the Black Flag influence is appreciable on some of the bands earlierwork, I never considered them derivative. And what the hell, after Damaged Black Flag produced a lot of dreck. […]