''Bloodsoul'' is the third studio album by the German

death metal Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...

band Fleshcrawl. It was the last Fleshcrawl album to feature vocalist Alex Pretzer. In addition, it was the first of their albums to be recorded at

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studio. This album is typical of Fleshcrawl's mid-to-late-1990s sound, characterized by rapid speed passages, high-speed rolling

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patterning, and well layered melodic guitar

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ing. The general sound can be thought of as highly similar to that of other 1990s-era melodic death metal bands such as

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and

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, with slight hints of

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-like

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sounds, especially in the vocals.

Track listing

# "Bloodsoul" – 5:59 # "In the Dead of Night" – 4:19 # "Embalmed Beauty Sleep" ( Demlich cover) – 4:49 # "Contribution Suicide" – 5:08 # "Age of Chaos" – 4:37 # "Recycling the Corpses" – 3:46 # "Nocturnal Funeral" – 2:41 # "Tomb of Memories" – 3:43

Personnel

* Alex Pretzer – vocals * Mike Hanus – guitar, bass * Stefan Hanus – guitar * Bastian Herzog – drums

Additional musician

Peter Tägtgren Alf Peter Tägtgren (born 3 June 1970) is a Swedish musician 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 in which he is the only m ...

– guest vocals on "Bloodsoul"

Production

* Produced by Fleshcrawl & Peter Tägtgren * Recorded and mixed at

studio, Grangärde-Pärlby, Sweden, 27 December 1995 – 6 January 1996 * Engineered by Peter Tägtgren. Mixed by Fleshcrawl & Peter Tägtgren * Mastered at Cuttingroom,

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, Sweden * All music and lyrics by Fleshcrawl, except "Embalmed Beauty Sleep," originally performed by Demlich * Guest vocals by Peter Tägtgren in "Bloodsoul" * Graphic work by Stefan Hanus with Orca Graphics & Alex Pretzer

References

External links

Fleshcrawl's official homepage
{{Authority control 1996 albums Fleshcrawl albums Albums produced by Peter Tägtgren