A Tribute to the Past # 5 Bloody Cross

Lyrics Copyright 1990 Bloody Cross

Aqui estou eu, de volta ao passado. Rest In Peace hunter Hahahah. A vítima dessa vez, é o desconhecido Bloody Cross, uma banda alemã de thrash metal, que merecia ter ido mais longe, e ninguém quis contar por que isso não aconteceu.    Eu duvido que revistas como a HM ou mesmo a White Throne, não daria capa a essa banda...

Mudando de... Fuçando pela a net [laser de quem é (ainda) metalhead] caçando coisas antigas, que normalmente são o meu foco, encontrei o Bloody Cross. Nunca escutei nada sobre o BC desde então. Graças a Deus, os velhos fãs do velho metal cristão não morreram, e eles têm internet (rsrsrsr). Não precisa ser  experiente em caça-raridade no mundo virtual pra encontrar esse material, porém não achei maiores informações sobre esses thrashers.

Eu compilei  alguns links das info encontradas. Mas a resenha do Scott Waters é a parte mais interessante, assim como o comentário  do Doug V. Pelt que digitei da versão impressa da HM.

Com base nas ‘virtual -especulations’, o Bloody Cross começou nos 80, e gravou uma demo chamada Thrashing For the King (89) e depois (90), gravou o full-length Coming Again.

Também consta nos ‘autos’ (rsrsrsrs), que tocaram com o Believer (supporting) na "Sanity..." Tour in Germany.

O baterista passou um tempo com seus conterrâneos do Sacrificium.

A parte boa dessa história é que, o desconhecido, torna a coluna o ATTTP ainda mais interessante... Em seu papel e objetivo.

Scott Waters says.

Always on the lookout for obscure, classic thrash metal releases, I happened upon a copy of "Coming Again" from a generous trader from Europe. Bloody Cross are a German thrash band from the golden years of thrash. On this, their one and only release, they play a loose style of thrash with punk delivery to both the music and the vocals. They remind me a bit of bands like Martyr, Torn Flesh, early Razor and fellow German metalheads Living Death. As might be expected from a low budget, independent release, the recording quality is rough. However, most thrash fans aren't overly concerned with stellar production. The raw recording only adds to the punk-like, independent quality of the music.

*http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/bloodycross.htm

... I don't know what else to say, except that 'those who like thrash will dig this disc. [Doug V. Pelt ] #HM issue #29 

I had seen them several time back in the old days, they supported BELIEVER on their "Sanity..." Tour in Germany, really good live band.
* http://heartofmetal.niceboard.com/t10770-bloody-cross


* http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/Bloody+Cross


mpomusic: There once was a band called Bloody Cross that was started in 1987 and released an album called Coming Again in 1990. Now I've heard that Sacrificium was once started by a former member of that band. I'm not sure if this is true but since you are here I can ask the question that's been on my mind for a while: Is it true and what is exactly the history of Sacrificium?

Oliver: The drummer of Bloody Cross did not start Sacrificium! We met Markus Hauth at a concert as we where searching for a new drummer for our band Hardway. After a while he played with us we decided to play some heavier music and changed our name into Corpus Christi. Markus quit playing with Bloody Cross and shortly after that we renamed Corpus Christi into Sacrificium (after the Randy Rose Album). We also changed our music style again to go even heavier. After we wrote a few new songs we recorded a demo tape. But please don't ask for it, we don't have any of them left and it sucks pretty hard. Then Sebastian Wagner (vocals, bass) quit and was replaced by Roman Wagner (vocals, keyboards) and Manuel Iwansky (bass). We also got Claudio Enzler (guitar) into Sacrificium. Markus Hauth quit Sacrificium 'cause he moved to the USA for one year and so Mario Henning got into Sacrificium. This line-up recorded our Demo CD 1996 which got pretty good reviews from Christian and non-Christian magazines. In summer 1998 Manuel Iwansky (bass) left Sacrificium. We played a couple of shows without a bassplayer and also recorded our demo tape Mortal Fear in late 1998. A few weeks after the recording we found Manuel Kerkow for the Bassplayer part. Mortal Fear got very high in to rankings of many magazines around the world, by the way. The latest news is that Roman Wagner left Sacrificium for personal reasons. That was in December 2000. A statement from him and some additional information will be published on our website soon. Claudio now takes over all the main vocal parts. On live shows I (Oliver, guitar) or Manuel will do a couple of vocal parts too. Currently we are recording 12 songs to see how they work out or if we need to change parts or melodies. We also work a lot on the vocals parts 'cause singing and playing guitar at the same time is not that easy.

*http://www.artfortheears.nl/NL/r/i/sacrificium.htm

*http://firestreamvault.com/main/index.php?go=showitem&item_id=980&cat_id=345

*http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Bloody_Cross-nom_album-Coming_Again-l-en.html

*http://www.classicthrash.com/review_b.html