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Cult of Blood

by Judgehydrogen

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Your Cult of Blood is Mighty… Your Cult of Blood is Mighty… Your Cult of Blood is Mighty… Death it is our name Murder it our name Upon our altar We will doom all dreams Our obsessions are ghoulish Our obsessions monsterous Blood of your children It is ours to spill Pride will fill your heart As they die for nothing Through time we march Onto the end we bring through Our death dream Now our hands are red Now the seas are red Rebirth it is for fools Reborn in the grave Blood from our sacred cult gives us life Blood from our sacred cult gives us faith
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Walk down this road through the dark to the ending Gloom fills your heart fills your heart fills your dreams Moan as your bones crack and bend as you stumble Flesh grips you tight in great fear of their hunger Trees bent and weeping burnt and bleeding to your memories Reach out to you black and coarse dead old friends Now hear their steps hide from them stop your breathing Watch as they tear flesh and veins off each other In this rite they praise their lord Their guts are bloated with death and bone This night they walk to your light Their kingdom has come and now you writhe More lyrics in song
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Prostrate 01:50
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Bliss… I spurn you I am right Fall down now Show us your malice Malice for life and all that breaths Your perfection is death Open your wrists for me Bleed… bleed sanctify yourself Secretly I need you Secretly I bleed for you Painfully I live for you Painfully I mourn for you More lyrics in song
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See the star in the sky It will lead us to our doom Nights are black Night is our fate Now the stars will lie to us What have we done for you? Massacres! Your enemies have been vanquished We thought you had sought love Tyranny! Can we live with ourselves? Murderers! More Lyrics in Song
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Our crypt it is so silent We shall move no stones Everything was for nothing For our cult has failed Because we don’t understand sacrifice It’s for nothing It’s for no one More lyrics in song
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Your mouth is agape envy hatred it does not matter to you on shards of glass you are balanced precariously without hopes of vitality or consummation more lyrics in song
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They will tie us down They will cut us down Tear our limbs apart And relish our bloody flesh O sweet torture I revel in your light! It something we live with and I don’t know why Can you feel their reptilian hands around your throat? And around your heart? more lyrics in song
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You are stretched You are helpless Your hands are nailed Your feet are nailed My hunger aflame Your head is in my hands and I gaze into your eyes and I wonder if your eyes have seen-seen what my eyes have seen more lyrics in song
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Judgehydrogen's second album in which he submerges in heavier sounds and occult imagery. “Cult of Blood” is ferocious and deep. Judgehydrogen’s sound has evolved. His sound has expanded from the dirge dominated “Atheistic God” into powerful doom anthems. Still present and prevalent are oppressive dark ambient and atmospheric gothic elements. The power of his musick is visceral and conceptual. We bleed for nothing. Our wrists are open and our sacrifice in vain. “Cult of Blood” is his gift to you. Bleed with him

"Hair raising atmospheres gurgling with virulent doom struck metal. This macabre one man project, bred in Madison, WI, produces primal disturbances in the creep-a-dellic frequency spectrum while profanely exercising a deep vocal pleasure. Seriously dark."
-Maximum Ink Nov. 2008



"Cult of Blood" review in Inwë metal magazine
Line up: Judgehydrogen - song and instruments
Judgehydrogen is a one man band originating in Wisconsin (the USA) that formed in 2006. His first album is called “Atheistic God.” In 2008 he released “Cult of Blood”- this is the one I will speak to you about. First thing: The artwork. This is already a good point for him. I adore this type of pocket: Simple, dark and in total harmony with the music. The interior of this digipak is also extremely well designed with a photograph of our artist worked into the composition. And now let us talk about the music.

After my first listen, I wondered how to carry out this chronicle. I choose not to detail each song separately-not because I am lazy-but quite simply because that is impossible! If one disassociates from each other, I think it would loose intensity and one would not perceive the totality of the vision expressed by this man. But this “Cult of Blood” is in which style? That is a good question! It has a lot of doom. The tempo is slow, throbbing but chaotic at the same time, moving in many directions, but with this feeling of perpetual control on us.

The dark ambient element plays an important role with unique soundscapes that one would find in Blood Axis or Jewels Of the Princess, which reinforce the atmosphere of doom already extremely well carried out. Then, there are moments when one confronts total darkness-and that is when the madness seizes the music and the feeling of control one had disappears. The synth which lasts the entire album is throbbing, and has a unique sound which helps create this fabulous setting of this music. It foreshadows a fine tragedy which will soon arrive and gives a force to the music one seldom finds in groups of pure doom.

The voice, or should I rather say voices, are all fabulous stylistically. Sometimes spell-binding, sometimes extreme, and you cannot stop listening. The female vocals are sometimes clear which adds a little softness and hope in this chaotic universe. At some moments it is darker and non-yelling and other times it makes me think of Aldrahn. Judgehydrogen is undoubtedly one of the best current singers to my taste!

In conclusion, Judgehydrogen and his “Cult of Blood” manage to create a new style of music which penetrates the depths of the heart and soul with no return.

Note de satanic blood : 8.5/10



Schwarze-News review of Cult of Blood
Category: Music

A review of “Cult of Blood” in Schwarze-News by Johannes
8.5 out of 10

Original link in German:
www.schwarze-news.de/2009/01/27/judgehydrogen-cult-of-blood-review-und-kritik/

auf English:
There is a lot of sombre ambient music. But the truly distressing pearls of this genre are hidden wasting away in theabyss of the human mind. And thus Judgehydrogen (Wisconsin USA) hammer and saw - with some guitar support, sometimes minimalistic and Ambient/Gothic.

You can hear the sirens beckon you in the first track "Cult ofBlood." It is a chilling mixture of monotonous keyboard/synths,vocals and whispers, interrupted by yelling and occasional screaming voices.

Now the storm intensifies and pummels the listener with "The Road (This Night they Walk)." The furious voice and guitar work together quite well. This bizarre song in particular creates an unbelievable atmosphere and climax.

After the short intermission "Prostrate," "Our Pursuit of
Bliss" follows with a similar style as "The Road." It is
an even stranger track, but more ferocious and distressing. It is an apathetic sound mix which wears down the mind.

After these ferocious tracks follows the atmospheric and minimalistic chorale "Our Shining Plague." At times it seems shapeless certainnuances give it form and lead you through the song. The vocals precipitate very quietly and strongly. The song - just like the whole cd from time to time - reminds a little of Nick Cave's first album "From Her to Eternity."

In "Silent Crypt" the tempo increases a little, but the Nick Cave likeatmosphere remains in this "close season."

"Precipice" might begin quietly but the whisper combined with light acoustic guitar crawls slowly into your mind. It is a really consistent but unconventional work. To embed an acoustic guitar in the background was just the right decision.

"Around Your Throat" and "Cruel by Just" completes the
atmosphere by tempo increase and the application of an E guitar.

"Of Lepers and Prophets" is the archetypal 15 minutes long end piece. It holds a wide spectrum of sounds and moods until it runs out slowly with epic organ tones and vocal samples and carefully leads us intoinsanity.

To Summerize: Judgehydrogen creates incredibly thick atmospheres full of weird antipathy and occasional beauty. Always unconventional and wilfull this album remains loyal to his vision and won't be liked by anybody. You should take the time to listen and let the music work on you.
8.5 out of 10-Johannes

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released October 20, 2008

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Judgehydrogen Madison, Wisconsin

Judgehydrogen is a visual artist and musician. The focus of his works are
apocalyptic myths. He is best known for his song "A Body of Water" which appears
in the new Ethan Hawke film 'Sinister' directed by Scott Derrickson.

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