In Name and Blood [ENHANCED]

Murder City Devils

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Sub Pop
• ASIN: B00004TLZ4
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #110,243 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
In Name and Blood is the third and strongest release yet from the Seattle-based six-piece. While it's not much of a stylistic deviation from previous releases, producer John Agnello gives the whole shebang a bottom-heavier sound. Atop this, front man Spencer Moody does what he does best: holler, holler, and holler some more. Keyboardist Leslie Hardy, a newer addition to the group, adds many Farfisa stabs and squiggles in classic garage-rock style. As the rest of the band holds down the fort, the hits keep on coming. The leadoff track, "Press Gang," sounds monstrous and powerful and, like some of the other anthems on In Name and Blood (especially the cutting "I Drink the Wine"), there's almost a whiff of the lukewarm beer that was probably spilled on the lyric sheets during the album's recording sessions. The grisly, crime-scene theme of the packaging complements the MCD's excellently executed rock. --Jason Josephes

Product Description
On this their third full-length record, The Murder City Devils demonstrate the notion or Rock and Roll as a life or death proposition: tales of love lost (or destroyed), the doomed romanticism of the road (and an innate inability to deny its call), and suffering the slings and arrows of fate (outrageous or otherwise...). "With head, heart and hands - in name and blood." The enhanced CD, contains live video for "Bunkhouse"!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swagger Walk Trash Rock, October 18, 2001

By	"adirgeforthedead" (Eden Prairie, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This album is one of the greatest in my collection, and I listen to it all the time. It never gets old, and in fact, I like it more all the time. The songs are pure rock and roll, make you want to dance. This band is amazing, pure and simple.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Devils Score again, January 15, 2002

By	"one69" (San Luis Obispo, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

Bright red guitar riffs, monster music organ, killer rhythm section and howling vocals make this another fabulous offering from Seattle's own Murder City Devils. It's too bad they broke up in October of 2001, bands like this don't come around too often.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Punk as it was meant to be. Short,fast and furious., August 1, 2001

By	Matt (Damnation) - See all my reviews

What more can you say when you preface a review with that title. Murder City Devils are pure old-school punk at its best, which is to say, three minute or less in-your-face, snotty, drunken, chaos fueled anthems.

"In Name and Blood" is the latest release from the Seattle based six piece and the quality hasn't faltered a bit on any of them. The ever present rebel-rock attitude is still strong with them and in that respect is reminiscent of 50's rock and roll on a certain level while Leslie Hardy's work on Farfisa adds kind of a New Wave feel. All of this is wrapped up in Spencer's frantic rantings at the helm.

The instrumentation is tight (as well as punk can be) on all three CD's by the Devils so one would be hard pressed to choose a favorite. My advice: don't try, just get them all.