Halloween / Seas of Blood cd Release Show w/ The Project Seven, Big Coffin Hunters I’ll be quite frank: the recording and release of “Seas of Blood” was a fucking miserable affair. Things went wrong in pretty much every stage if the process. Worst of all, Cruella was diagnosed with breast cancer right as we were finishing [ More ]
Good Goth, Blood Alone CD’s a reason to rejoice by Aimsel L. Ponti The witching hour is Saturday night as my favorite Goth band, By Blood Alone, headlines at Geno’s in celebration of their new album, “Seas of Blood.” Last week at the Music Foundation event, I finally met the dude I’ve been e-mailing with for at least [ More ]
Making it’s first step into digital distribution, Seas of Blood is now available on Digistation, an iTunes-like digital music store hosted by Discmakers. Individual songs can be purchased for 99 cents, and the entire album plus artwork in pdf format goes for $9.99. Click here to go directly to Digistation’s Seas of Blood page. [ More ]
Another fine review of Seas of Blood has been published, this one being by Aimsel Ponti in the Go section of today’s Portland Press Herald: I know I harp a lot on the whole ?? Goth’ angle, but let’s be clear: By Blood Alone’s sound goes way beyond that. There’s a melodic intelligence ever-present, and [ More ]
Audio available at http://www.bybloodalone.com/audio/WCLZinterview10-24-2007.mp3 [ More ]
By Blood Alone were recently the in-studio guests on Greetings From Area Code 207, WCLZ-FM’s local music show with host Charlie Gaylord. Charlie spun some cuts from the new Seas of Blood cd and chatted with the band about our upcoming cd release show on Saturday, and our plans for the future. The show will [ More ]
This coming Saturday (Oct 27th) is the official Seas of Blood CD release party/Halloween show at Geno’s. By Blood Alone vocalist Cruella, who is still in the midst of chemotherapy, will be back behind the microphone for our entire set. big coffin hunters and The Project Seven are on the bill, with the latter making [ More ]
Our new disc is the subject of a very well written review by music scribe Sam Pfeifle. By Blood Alone almost always gets positive reviews, but not every journalist really gets us. Sam, however, really did: While ?? progressive’ as a genre-describer can often just mean nerdy guys into mathematical music and lots of black, [ More ]
By Blood Alone’s new full length CD Seas of Blood is (finally) now available at Bullmoose Music in Portland and Scarborough ME, with other Bullmoose locations to follow as soon as we can get stock to them. As the CD trickles through the distribution chain, it will also be available from Relapse Mail Order, cd [ More ]
SAILING THE SEAS OF BLOOD: By Blood Alone’s debut full-length is downright Ptolemaic By Sam Pfeifle Two straight weeks reviewing discs with nautical themes in their packaging and not a sea shanty to be found. These are strange days, indeed. Last week, Anna’s Ghost just seemed to like old-looking stuff, and the schooner (or some other big sailboat [ More ]
Our vocalist Melynda Cruella Amann is doing quite well, all things considered. Her surgery in August went well, and she’s in the thick of chemotherapy right now. She has biweekly doses which put her out of commision for a few days but afterwards she’s able to get up and do things and get out of [ More ]
Barring any disasters at the pressing plant, the much delayed Seas of Blood cd should be available by Oct 19th, not bad considering all that has changed since Cruella’s breast cancer diagnosis in August. Originally slated for release on Oct 2nd, we have been concentrating on arranging benefit activities for her and admittedly let some [ More ]
On Thursday Oct 4th By Blood Alone will be stopping by wcyy-fm’s Spinout program to be interviewed by host Mark Curdo. We’ll spin some cuts from the new cd Seas of Blood and most likely talk about Cruella’s illness and our upcoming halloween/cd release show. [ More ]