Excess Blood - Porcelain Doll 7" Review

As the light fades from your eyes, the world as you once knew it begins to seem like a distant memory. All the love you won, unfulfilled promises, and unmet achievements mean absolutely nothing anymore. Memory comes to you in quick sudden flashes, random and violent. It is at this moment that you start to realize you are passing from one realm to the next. The walls close in and a manic desperation fires through all four of your limbs like lightning strikes. It's about now that you start to realize you aren't passing into the storied empire of ivory and gold that was fed to you as a child. This place you start to behold feels cold and paralyzing. Similar are the unnerving emotions Excessive Blood extracts from within your psyche with this record. These four songs on the band's new 7" Porcelain Doll emit intense and twisted reverberations of panic, loss, and regret. 

Excess Blood are a band from Portland, Oregon and this is their debut 7", put into the world by Unlawful Assembly records. The songs arrive fully gelled and molded into a stabbing type weapon to pierce your soul. This record has no doubt in the direction in which it wants go in. Try to imagine abrasive dark bands like Bauhaus or Birthday Party mixed with early TSOL. This is what best describes the taste in my mouth that I'm left with after listening to this record and that I'm in no hurry to wash out. This isn't some pouty goth band, sulking in the corner, crying out for attention. Excess Blood gets bold, angry and in your face. They come from the darkness, and wish you welcome you into their fold. A darkness that many of us want to deny its existence, but that we're all too familiar with. Excess Blood are as much a punk band as they are a darkwave or goth band. These songs were born in the unlit woodlands of the pacific northwest. Those ancient woods no doubt harbor many sinister secrets, and this band was one of their most guarded, until now.

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