ARTIST: Bloodsimple TITLE: A Cruel World LABEL: Bullygoat Records/Warner GENRE: Metal BITRATE: 238kbps avg PLAYTIME: 0h 44min total RELEASE DATE: 29 Mar 2005 RIP DATE: 27 Feb 2005 Track List ---------- 01. Straight Hate 4:45 02. Path To Prevail 3:16 03. What If I Lost It 3:24 04. Blood In Blood Out 2:19 05. Sell Me Out 3:38 06. The Leaving Song 4:32 07. Running From Nothing 4:12 08. Cruel World 3:55 09. Flatlined 4:14 10. Falling Backwards 3:50 11. Plunder 6:45 Release Notes: "Half of this album is brutal, and the other half... You don't even know where it's coming from, yet it's all a part of the same album," says bassist Kyle Sanders, whose previous credits include the industrial-metal trailblazers Skrew, as well as a more recent tenure with Medication. "The dynamics of this band are just unreal--It never feels like it's too fast or too slow, but there's still a range that goes from one extreme to the other, without ever compromising either." It was that bold disregard for genre constraints--and their incendiary live show--that attracted Mudvayne frontman Chad Gray to bloodsimple, making them the first release on his Bullygoat Records imprint of Warner Bros. Records. "bloodsimple opened for Mudvayne in Philadelphia, and it didn't take long for me to understand that they have the songs, energy, ability and live performance needed to captivate an audience." "This is the band I've always wanted to be in," echoes drummer Chris Hamilton, a former member of Downset and Medication who's also recorded for such scalding acts as Crisis and My Ruin. "bloodsimple is a collective, and everybody brings something really strong to the table, there’s no weak link in this band. Most of us have done this before as a profession, and we wanted this one to be the real one for the long haul." Enjoy.