Artist: Blood Feast
Genre(s):
Metal: Thrash
Discography:
Chopping Block Blues
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Face Fate E.P.
Year: 1988
Tracks: 4
Kill For Pleasure
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
One of unnumbered speed metal bands to emerge from the thrash-friendly province of New Jersey during the eighties, Bayonne's Blood Feast were formed as Blood Lust in 1985, and actually submitted a few songs from their "Suicidal Mission" demonstration to New Renaissance Records' Thrash Metal Attack and Hurrying Metal Hell, Vol. 3 compilations earlier ever-changing their identify. The same label and then offered them a sign up, and both the full-length Kill for Pleasure and the Face Fate EP -- featuring vocalizer Gary Markovitch, guitarists Mike Basden and Adam Tranquilli, bassist Lou Starita, and drummer Kevin Kuzma -- emerged in 1987. Press releases of the time often compared Blood Feast to Slayer, simply their rougher style of thrashing, bordering on end metal, more closely resembled German bands like Kreator and Destruction, or Los Angeles' Dark Angel, and their legendary live performances (which invariably culminated in a fulgent cover of Celtic Frost's "Into the Crypt of Rays") presently attracted a considerable resistance metal following. The going away of Tranquilli decreased them to a foursome, and, undermentioned some unexpected delays, 1990 in conclusion saw the release of their critically lauded soph album, Chopping Block Blues, through Restless Records. But interest in the circle had waned rather a bit and much momentum had been disoriented, so they soon distinct to break up up. Nearly 10 years later, Blood Feast reformed for a one-off functioning at the 1999 March Metal Meltdown Festival in nearby Asbury Park, New Jersey, and 2002 saw the dismission of a assemblage of demos and live versions entitled Remnants: The Last Remains.
Maria Muldaur
