''Bloodred Massacre'' is the fourth studio album by the German

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band

Fleshcrawl Fleshcrawl is a German death metal band formed in Illertissen, Bavaria, in 1987. Their most recent album, ''Into the Catacombs of Flesh'', was released in 2019 under Apostasy Records. History 1987–1997 Fleshcrawl was formed by Stefan Ha ...

. It is their first release to feature vocalist Sven Gross, who performed with the band until his death in 2021. This album, although somewhat different from the previous Fleshcrawl releases, is highly archetypal of the band's general 1990s sound. It is more rhythmic than its predecessors, helping to fortify the band's stake in the

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genre, and is strongly characterized by agile and smooth, yet sometimes dramatic, patterning transitions, medium-to-high tempo cyclic

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s that sometimes resemble

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, baritonic

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, and rapid

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rolls, typical of death metal. The general themes of the album remain consistent with earlier releases and cover such concepts as violent death,

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-born

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("Hellspawn"),

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("Bloodred Massacre"),

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("The Messenger"), and eternal

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("Through the Veil of Dawn").

Track listing

# "Hellspawn" – 3:51 # "Dark Dimension" – 4:39 # "Bloodred Massacre" – 3:43 # "Awaiting the End" – 5:21 # "The Messenger" – 3:04 # "Through the Veil of Dawn" – 2:58 # "Necrophiliac" (

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cover) – 3:41 # "Beyond Belief" – 5:08 # "Slaughter at Dawn" – 1:30

Personnel

* Sven Gross – vocals * Mike Hanus – guitar, bass * Stefan Hanus – guitar * Bastian Herzog – drums

Production

* Produced by Fleshcrawl &

Peter Tägtgren Alf Peter Tägtgren (born 3 June 1970) is a Swedish musician, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band Pain i ...

* Recorded and mixed at

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studio, Grangärde-Pärlby, Sweden, 11–23 August 1997 * Engineered by Peter Tägtgren and Mikael Hedlund * Mixed by Fleshcrawl & Peter Tägtgren * Mastered by Peter in de Betou at Cuttingroom,

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, Sweden * All music and lyrics by Fleshcrawl, except "Necrophiliac", originally by

(

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) * Cover artwork by Juha Vuorma * Layout by Stefan & Mike Hanus. Graphic work by Stefan Hanus (Orca Graphics).

External links

Fleshcrawl's official homepage
{{Authority control 1997 albums Fleshcrawl albums Albums produced by Peter Tägtgren