Dutch occult facemelters The Devil’s Blood completely took their fans by surprise last month by announcing that they would be splitting up. Last week via the band’s official website, details about a serious of Devil’s Blood projects that were in the works. It looks like The Devil’s Blood will carry through with these releases which I think is so bad ass. The Devil’s Blood leader/songwriter/guitarist Selim Lemouchi had this to say regarding these releases:
“It has been a while since the announcement of our disbanding was made and we feel now is the right time to convey our plans for the legacy that THE DEVIL’S BLOOD will leave.
“Our music and artwork will remain available through both our own website and that of Ván Records as well as any other medium that will prove suitable.
“At the time of the group’s disbanding, there were several projects ongoing, each in different evolutionary stages. These were the following:
“1. ‘III: Tabula Rasa Or Death And The Seven Pillars’ A new, full-length album with seven new songs, for which only demos were made. Originally intended for a winter 2013 release. Artwork by Manuel Tinnemans.
“2. ’66:2′ An acoustic EP with one new piece of music and two covers. Studio recordings unfinished. Originally intended for a release at Roadburn 2013. Artwork [to be announced].
“3. A live DVD. Not yet edited or mixed. Originally intended for a release somewhere 2013/2014.
“4. Several live recordings. Not yet edited or mixed. Originally intended for use as live records, B sides and compilation material.
“It is our desire to make all of this material available as it is right now. These recordings will be mixed and mastered by Pieter G. Kloos at the Void Studios in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Nothing will be altered, re-recorded or added to the music.
“We are currently working towards realizing this goal and a release date for items 1 and 2 looks to be 30th of April. This is still tentative. For the other items, no immediate plans have been made but they will be released when the time is deemed right.
As a big Devil’s Blood fan, I think it’s awesome that the band will be giving the fans some closure with these awesome releases. Too many times do I feel a band just up and disappears leaving their fans hanging (uh um Christian Mistress) so to have these releases made available to us is going to really cool and meaningful to us as fans.
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