Incidentally, this is most evident on the track primarily written by Akvik, where the charging guitar attack reminiscent of both the inimitable Slayer and upstart thrash acts such as Enforced gives way to a much more Swedish-sounding, harmonic bridge, immediately signaling Nystrom and Renkse’s handiwork. Holmes, Nystrom, and bassist and original member Jonas Renkse share the credit for the the rest of the album’s tracks, and the result is a Bloodbath effort more dynamic and more current than the band has ever sounded, while still clinically balancing between innovation and strict adherence to the band’s North Star, the first wave of death metal.
Incidentally, Akvik penned the ear worm of a riff, bound to become a staple of the group’s live act, with both genre progenitors specifically in mind, further demonstrating the earnest attention Bloodbath pay to death metal’s backbone. “It’s a cross between Death and Beneath the Remains by Sepultura” explains Holmes, who co-wrote the track with Bloodbath’s newest member, guitarist Tomas Akvik. Survival of the Sickest’s first track and single “Zombie Inferno” is emblematic to that sort of genuine inspirational transparency, as it roars to life following a disharmonic intro with a riff unmistakably torn from the mid-1980s. And if you do I think people are going to see through it anyway.”
You don’t necessarily have to try to be anything that you’re not. “You can still wear your influences on your sleeve and make good music. “We aren’t reinventing the wheel, that would be ridiculous.” says Holmes. The credibility associated with the parts of Bloodbath’s sum lends credence to each and every nod to the classics they engage in, because, as fate would have it, they were there as it happened. A veritable knight in shining armor for the genre, but one appropriately weathered and generously caked in gore. It’s a wonderfully inadvertent admission by Holmes to the exact nature of Bloodbath’s allure Bloodbath sounds, looks, acts and is even composed of musicians considered classic. Of special note for Holmes, and likely the same for any other enthusiast of death metal’s aesthetics, was the bright blue tone of the title font and Bloodbath logo on the cover by industry legend Wes Benscoter (Autopsy, Mortician, Sinister): “You never would’ve guessed it, but it’s tipping the hat to the days gone by.”
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