{"product_id":"blood-in-blood-out-deluxe","title":"Blood In, Blood Out [Deluxe]","description":"The veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal legends' tenth studio album is also their first long-layer to feature the singing\/screaming talents of Steve \"Zetro\" Souza since 2004's Tempo of the Damned -- Rob Dukes, who handled vocal duties on the band's four prior outings, split with the group in the summer of 2014. Band and ex\/current\/deceased lead singer acrimony aside, the 11- track Blood In, Blood Out mostly crushes it, offering up a pulverizing set of textbook thrash-induced mayhem that somehow manages to sound both classic and vital. The band tosses a red herring into the pit with the electro-stomp intro to opener \"Black 13,\" but it doesn't take long for guitarists Gary Holt and Lee Altus to unleash a barrage of staccato riffage that, like a perfectly calculated headshot, effectively drenches the listener in assorted bits of viscera. Elsewhere, Metallica's Kirk Hammet returns to the fold for a guest spot on the particularly crunchy \"Salt the Wound,\" the relentless \"Collateral Damage\" arrives via a malevolently dissonant descending run that eventually morphs into the scaly backbone of the song, and the insidious title track, with its pit-antagonizing shout-out to late vocalist Paul Baloff (\"We wrote the book so you better know the plot\/new breed, old creed, let's see what you brought\"), all succeed via their obvious disdain for whether or not anybody actually gives a sh*t. For all its excess (some tracks definitely overstay their welcome), Blood In, Blood Out, much like Cannibal Corpse's 2014 offering Skeletal Domain, sounds remarkably dialed-in for a band so long in the tooth, and while it doesn't break any new ground for the stalwart rockers, it certainly does little to tarnish their reputation as thrash royalty. ~ James Christopher Monger","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50935804723487,"sku":"727361330002","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/3a9a84a194b5e620524662410494ab44.jpg?v=1777811692","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/blood-in-blood-out-deluxe","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}