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I Heard They Suck​.​.​.​Blood

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TheFolkAlchemist
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TheFolkAlchemist I love this band so much, hearing their excellence sends my male testiculae into a menses-spraying fury of ultra-metal hostility!! FANTASTIC!
Horror of Dracula has the double dick-puncher combo of the much-missed Trevor Strnad on guest vocals, plus a Type O Negative-sounding riff that made me miss the also-passed Peter Steele. Nostalgia on this album surpasses just the 80's in these ways. BUY THIS ALBUM and have a good time! Favorite track: Horror of Dracula (Feat. Trevor Strnad).
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gerald09 VHS will pry open their coffins and invite you inside! This is some of the absolute best heavy metal of any genre (or all of them) that I’ve ever heard. I CANT GET ENOUGH. Favorite track: Undead Casanova.
flightoficarus (Metal Trenches)
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flightoficarus (Metal Trenches) Perfectly captures the camp and blood of both 90's horror and death metal in one perfectly marketed package.
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- MetalTrenches.com Favorite track: Horror of Dracula (Feat. Trevor Strnad).
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Heb13:8 VHS indulgence in 80s horror worship warms my heart! Too bad I didn’t get to submit my video parts due to having covid!!!
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about

Put on your leather jacket and sharpen your wooden stakes, because Canadian death ‘n’ roll blood-spillers VHS are back with a new LP of gory horror-inspired heaviness.

Formed in 2015, the trio has spent 6 years writing songs paying homage to cult flicks and the golden era of video tapes. Now VHS plunge their fangs into vampire films with a collection of nocturnal anthems called "I Heard They Suck...Blood." With songs based on vamp classics like The Lost Boys and Near Dark, the album will thrill death metal and horror fanatics alike. They even welcome their fiendish friends Trevor Strnad (Black Dahlia Murder) and Dave Ingram (Benediction) into the coven for guest vocal appearances. Black metal has monopolized vampire concept albums for far too long. These Canadian degenerate death punks are ready to seize the night.

“There's something romantic about black metal albums about vampires,” says vocalist/guitarist Mike Hochins. “Our album is more like the vampire who drinks the blood of a drunk metalhead and just wants to listen to riffs and headbang all night. We wanted to show off a grittier and less whimsical vampire-themed album. It's dark, cheesy and definitely a different take on vampires. Don't expect us to wear poofy shirts and wear top hats any time soon.”

While VHS mainly drinks their lifeforce from the rotten arteries of death metal, Hochins isn’t shy about their splatter of influences. "I Heard They Suck...Blood" is a feeding frenzy of riffs. Part Exhumed and Carcass, part KISS and AC/DC. Pungent Stench with a dash of skate punk. VHS leave genre conventions to the flicks they watch, not their own music.

“Are we a death metal band? A grindcore band? A thrash band? I don't even know the answer to that,” Hochins admits. “We just write whatever we want and have been all over the place stylistically. We have been compared to a more punk-sounding Impetigo. And we certainly took a lot of influence from some of the early days of Razorback Records with bands like Frightmare, Blood Freak and Ghoul.”

"I Heard They Suck...Blood" will spread its bat wings on December 3rd. Wise Blood Records will release the album digitally and on CD/Cassette formats. To paraphrase Bram Stoker’s Dracula, “The children of the night, what sick music they make.”

credits

released December 3, 2021

VHS is:
Mike Hochins:guitar/vocals
Curtis Mill: bass
Andy Middaugh: drums

Mixed/Mastered by Mike Hochins
Cover Art by Creepy Jason
Vampire logo by Matt Slime
Guest vocals by Trevor Strnad on "Fake Blood and Push Up Bras" and "Horror of Dracula"
Guest Vocals by Dave Ingram on "Immortality Comes With A Price"
Saxophone solo by Elric Pfeifer on "Frog Brothers"

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VHS Thunder Bay, Ontario

If you took old school death metal, punk simplicity, and a dose of 80's hair metal and thrash, threw it in a blender the resulting black goo would be the sound of VHS. It'll stick to your teeth and probably rot your insides but if you are an old school metal fan you'll love every second of it.

We are coming for you and we will not stop until the screaming stops. You have been warned!
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