MELYNDA AMANN HAS BATTLED — AND WON By Amy Martin (2008-06-25) After a fight and victory over breast cancer, Melynda Amann, frontwoman of By Blood Alone, is back on stage for a summer full of gigs. I interviewed Melynda last September, when she was beginning her battle. I wanted to find out how her first post-cancer gig [ More ]
An interivew with Cruella is featured in this week’s issue of The Maine Switch, a local weekly. Interview Amy Martin wrote I interviewed Melynda last September, when she was beginning her battle. I wanted to find out how her first post-cancer gig went, what the new material is like and what’s in store for the [ More ]
w/ The Project Seven, Big Coffin Hunters, Thrown from the Womb The Project Seven asked us to perform with 3 other bands as well as themselves. Over the course of a few weeks, those three other bands all dropped off the bill (one of whom dropped off that evening), and were replaced by Big Coffin Hunters [ More ]
w/ Eternal Embrace, Mornalir, Forever’s Fallen Grace Runtt states time and time again (and the rest of us completely agree) that we do not fit in with the scene we normally play in. The fact is there is no other progressive/gothic rock band in Maine, and we usually stick out like a sore thumb on a [ More ]
Today the Americans BY BLOOD ALONE grace us with their still current release. According to the promo info it is Gothic/Progressive/Metal. Well, I take note of it but actually this CD tastes like a good beer. No weird stuff or doomy music. No, just solid handmade Hardrock/Metal with a slight shot orotundity and progressive elements [ More ]
Saturday May 31st is a day that will ring out in the history of Maine music. Portland based gothic metal band By Blood Alone took to the stage for the first time in over 6 months, and what a performance it was! As many know, the singer of the group, Cruella, had to undergo a rigorous [ More ]
Score: 3/5. By Blood Alone’s debut ‘Seas of blood’ has been one of the more interesting CDs I’ve picked up this year. The band is female fronted (by Cruella – with no last name given), but they’re musically a bit hard to describe; while they’re mostly embedded in gothic metal, sometimes the guitar work is [ More ]
By Blood Alone has been working with an incredibly talented local photographer named Rene Braun, and the end result, our new promotional photos, are now online and available for download here. We can’t say enough nice things about Rene’s work: visit his site, www.widereach.net, and check it out for yourselves. [ More ]
A gothic progressive metal band from Portland Maine live up to their reputation with their album “Seas of Blood”. A very solid sounding band with big potential on this scene, the singer Cruella uses her stylistic, beautiful lyrics and voice to parade through stand out tracks such as “Serpentarius” and Deny yourself”. Solitary piano scores and [ More ]