The Blue Gods Youth An Ode to Blight cassette
I’ve got to admit my confusion with this release and will do my best to make sense of what I’ve got here in front of me. Musically, the BLUE GODS YOUTH play heavy, anthemic, mid-tempo melodic hardcore with pirate punk “yo-ho-ho” kind of parts, all with a singer doing his best TRAGEDY impression—like, if TRAGEDY decided that after Vengeance, they wanted to have more traditionally catchy parts in their songs but still wanted to keep their heavy-sounding recording style. Artwork: An Ode to Blight has very minimalist art, just simple text surrounding a heart wearing a crown and angel wings, and crosses on the back panel and on the tape. Sure, one of the crosses is broken, but with song names like “The Trespasser,” “A Lifeless Prayer,” ”The Chains,” and “Faith and Fury,” I am left thinking that either this is a Christian band, or that the band is attempting to be very strongly tongue-in-cheek against Christianity, taking the piss out of many aspects. Unfortunately, with no liner notes, no lyrics, and every aspect of the band’s online persona having been wiped clean, I have absolutely no way of knowing which one of those things the band was attempting. Can’t give you any other information other than it seems like they’re from Manitoba, Canada.