Blood from the Soul

History

Blood from the Soul was originally a joint project between Shane Embury and Sick of It All's Lou Koller. Their first album, To Spite the Gland That Breeds, came out in 1993 on Earache Records, with Embury handling every instrument. After that release, the group went quiet. Embury tried to revive it in 2005 with Sigh's Mirai Kawashima, but that version never came together.

The project was brought back in 2020. When Koller was unavailable, Embury recruited Converge singer Jacob Bannon. By then, Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren was already on board, and Nasum's Jesper Liveröd had signed on as bassist. The second album, DSM-5, arrived that same year through Bannon's Deathwish Inc. imprint.

Bannon had a major hand in shaping it, writing the lyrics, designing the visuals, and turning the record into a sci-fi concept album. Two singles, "Debris of Dreams" and "Calcified Youth," were released, and a music video was made for the latter track.

Musical style

Blood from the Soul's style has been described as industrial metal. The debut album, To Spite the Gland That Breeds, has been characterized as a blend of grindcore, punk, and industrial metal, and likened to the works of Godflesh and Fear Factory. The record featured heavy use of a drum machine, similar to Godflesh's body of work. The follow-up, DSM-5, showed an increasing influence of metallic hardcore, projecting a fusion of hardcore, grindcore, melodic metal, and industrial.