The Blood Brothers Media Quote Sheet

If this is the sound of youth decaying, then stick a dead teenager in my ear.

-- The Village Voice, July 30, 2002

…disturbing, viciously intelligent…grisly splash of baroque hardcore that’s given Ross Robinson a silky boner.

-- Kerrang! June 29, 2002

Utterly deranged. But deeply, deeply compelling.

-- NME, July 6, 2002

… [March on Electric Children is] perhaps the most instantaneously startling and immediately engrossing rock records you’ll hear all year. Batten down the hatches for the next onslaught. Unmissible.

-- Metal Hammer, September 2002

{March on Electric Children} begs the question, “What kind of drugs are these fucking kids on?”

-- CMJ New Music Report, July 15, 2002

If you’re smart, you’ll give {March On Electric Children} a second listen and hear it as the phenomenal musical feat that it is.

-- Strength, Oct/Nov 2002

The Blood Brothers obviously huffed quite a few aerosol cans behind the local supermarket when they were kids, because only slightly brain-damaged individuals could make this kind of way-out-of-left-field music.

-- CMJ New Music Monthly, August, 2002

“{The Blood Brothers} attack like a harddcore hydra – slithering bass, spiraling drums, and fire-breathing guitars come at you from all sides. All the while, two art-school screamers sling barbs at each other.”

-- Spin, October 2002

“…a maelstrom of fractured hardcore and breakneck post-punk noise…”

-- Kerrang! October 5, 2002

“The Blood Brothers make the most unique, explosive and smart hardcore records available today.”

-- Slap Skateboard Magazine, November 2002

“The Blood Brothers are like nothing else in 2002. There’s every chance that this fidgety, abrasive, downright weird little band’ll be huge. Can’t wait.”

-- NME, Oct. 19, 2002

Hard music has a brand-new bag, and it's in full effect with the Seattle sick-tet the Blood Brothers. At the Palace, the band's staccato insanity cast into relief the throat-scalding cries and hip-gyrating Iggy-isms of singer Jordan Blilie and co-vocalist Johnny Whitney, and it was like nothing the stunned hardcore kids in attendance had ever seen. Ultimately, though, heads were bobbing in a collective light-bulb moment: Music can be brutal and sexy. Even fresher is Blilie and Whitney's scream-'n'-response pas de deux -- is this the new metalcore theater? With Ross Robinson producing the upcoming joint Burn Piano Island, Burn and the deep-pocketed Artist Direct in charge of hype, there's hope for extreme music yet.

-- L.A. Weekly, November 15-21, 2002

It’s possible that no other album in recent memory has portrayed the mechanics, politics, religion and consequences associated with humanity’s most essential functions in such lurid, surreal and provocative detail.

-- Argonaut (University of Idaho), April 5, 2002

Imagine a herd of those tiny dinosaurs from ‘Jurassic Park’ in hot pursuit and wearing Cheshire cat grins, and you have the corresponding visual to the band’s sound.

-- Columbus Dispatch, June 20, 2002

As demonstrated on ‘March On Electric Children,” the Blood Brothers are clever and agile enough to accost listeners on a variety of fronts.

-- Seattle Post Intelligencer