Artist: GOD FORBID
Album: EARTHSBLOOD LTD. EDIT. (2CD)

Year: 2009
Media type: CD

Alternative Press (pp.136-137) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he guitar solos are more melodic and intricate, choruses catchier and more anthemic, rhythms more punishing, and the lead and background vocals alike are multidimensional and captivating."

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.53) - "The genuine progression on the likes of lead single 'War of Attrition' and the nine-minute title-track should guarantee well-pleased audiences, old and new alike."

Q (Magazine) (p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir magpie-like approach to metal's subgenres is more reinvention than retread."



Four years after the release of the band's last conceptual effort, IV: CONSTITUTION OF TREASON, the New Jersey quintet God Forbid roars back with EARTHSBLOOD. Possibly their most refined work to date, God Forbid's fifth studio release incoporates ample doses of bordering-on-progressive experimentation and melody, but they still remain grounded with deep grooves and rebellious vocal runs. EARTHSBLOOD was produced by Eric Rachel (Atreyu, The Black Dahlia Murder, Sinai Beach) and mixed by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Amon Amarth, Daylight Dies), and the vocal tracks were produced by Fear Factory guitarist Christian Olde-Wolbers.

TRACKLIST CD1:

1 The Discovery
2 Rain, The
3 Empire Of The Gun
4 War Of Attrition
5 The New Clear
6 Shallow
7 Walk Alone
8 Bat The Angels
9 Earthsblood
10 Gaia (The Vultures)

TRACKLIST CD2:

1 Forced Fed (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
2 Chains Of Humanity (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
3 Divide My Destiny (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
4 Go Your Own Way (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
5 Anti Hero (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
6 Better Days (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
7 Lonely Dead, The (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
8 Reject The Sickness (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
9 Gone Forever (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
10 Broken Promise (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
11 To The Fallen Hero (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)
12 End Of The World, The (live at the Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, February 2007)

LINE-UP:

Dallas Coyle (vocals, guitar)
Doc Coyle (guitar, background vocals)
John Outcalt (bass guitar)
Corey Pierce (drums)