Swedish death metal super-group (I hate that title) Bloodbath has made a statement that due to Mikael Akerfeldt and Matin Axenrot being occupied with Opeth, there will be no appearances with Bloodbath at this summer’s European metal festivals.
“Unfortunately, we’ve to announce that BLOODBATH must pass this summer’s festival season. Mike [Mikael Åkerfeldt] and Axe [Martin 'Axe' Axenrot] have both confirmed they’re too occupied with OPETH and cannot commit to any live shows with BLOODBATH until 2010, the earliest. Recruiting live replacements for Mike and Axe has been considered, but is right now not going to be possible for technical …read more

If you dig Bloodbath’s Unblessing The Purity Ep, then chances are you’re going to love The Fathomless Mastery. With the same line-up as Unblessing The Purity, Bloodbath has described The Fathomless Mastery as “Nothing But Hateful Brutality“. Sounds good to me. Unblessing The Purity was an awesome Ep and just what I needed after getting in to Opeth recently.
The Fathomless Mastery will be out October 28th in the U.S. and  October 6th in Europe on Peaceville Records. You can check out a couple of songs on the new mini-site or their myspace. The track listing is below.

A week or two ago I bought a Metal Edge Magazine and most of it was garbage as usual. However it came with a cd sampler that had Bloodbath’s Weak Aside on it along with 2 other songs that are pretty good and 5 more that suck royally. The cd sparked an interest in Bloodbath which also sparked my interest Opeth. I bought Watershed the other day and I was kind of surprised at how much acoustic music was on it. I still wanted more of the heavy Opeth type stuff so instead I bought Bloodbath’s Unblessing The Purity …read more

So if you don’t know who Bloodbath is then this is what I can tell you. Bloodbath is Swedish death metal. A bad ass band made up from members of Katatonia and Opeth, particularly Michael Akerfeldt on vocals. Recently just releasing a live CD/DVD called The Wacken Carnage, they also released a 4 song EP through Peaceville Records called Unblessing The Purity. Later this year there will be a full length studio album called The Fathomless Mastery.
One of the songs from the Ep called Weak Aside can be heard below through the Songza player. I first heard it on …read more