So it has been a while since I’ve been impressed by a hardcore-punk band. Blood Youth are from Harrington England and has been around since 2011 but have been releasing music since 2015. In 2015 they released their first EP ‘Inside My Head’. Big step forward towards 2019, is where they bring out ‘Starve’. It is their big breakthrough. Blood Youth is a band with no original members which is not very common. With their first headline tour in the beginning of 2019, Blood Youth have been making a name for themselves.

 

So ‘Starve’ has a couple of more songs more than its predecessor ‘Beyond Repair’. Blood Youth draws a lot of inspiration from different genres however the key genre that is always present during the album and live shows is hardcore. Hardcore being influenced by thrash metal a la Sepultura, nu-metal like KoRn/Static-X and post-hardcore era Architects. Mix all of those together and you will have a small idea of what you can expect of Blood Youth ‘Starve’.

 

The thirteen-track ‘Starve’ is full of melodic anger. It isn’t constant melodic however you will notice that there is a significant amount of melodic hardcore around the 11th song ‘Nothing Left’.

 

Usually, I can’t get used to the big change of clean vocals and distorted vocals, however with Blood Youth it is different. They combined it so will that it just fits the music perfectly. Not overly long bits of clean vocals but short bits here and there make the clean vocals a pleasant surprise.

 

To me, ‘Starve’ sounded like Sepultura and While She Sleeps had really angry sex and had a very angry baby with a beautiful clean voice. That is the weird but the most logical explanation I could give. The reason why is that I find a lot of thrash metal in the guitar riffs that really remind me of the ‘Roots’ era of Sepultura. Combine that with While She Sleeps drumming and especially the clean vocals, you will have a song like ‘Nothing Left’.