Power through your afternoon with Blood Meridian’s “Soldiers of Christ”

Now that the day has started and you are getting things done, you are signing deals, shaking hands and kissing babies.  Let’s hope you can last the rest of the day – to assist, I bring you a refreshing blast of dark Canadiana in the form of Blood Meridian.  Not unlike the Steve Adey post below, this is another track from a couple of years ago that stuck with me.

Blood Meridian is a talented Canadian band (from Vancouver) that “describes” themselves on their MySpace page as:

in high school i killed a horse with my father’s car. that night i dreamt the horse was jumping above my head from bedpost to bedpost screaming and bucking. It had crazed blood shot eyes and the hands of a man.

The above may be more of a description of the sound as opposed to the band itself…if you get my drift.  They have great folk-country leanings, but can rock it out quite good (this of course is without ever seeing them, but I just know, ya know).  I am beginning to think some of the best southern sounding Alt-Country comes from north of the border these days…

Blood Meridian
“Soldiers of Christ” (mp3)
from “Soldiers of Christ E.P.”
(Outside Music)

More On This Album

Fast Fact: The name “Blood Meridian” comes from Cormac McCarthy’s novel of unforgiving violence in the Old West.  Quite fitting for what this country-blues-Americana troupe bring to the table.  Check out the video for “Kick Up The Dust” from the their debut album of the same name:

There you have it, hopefully you can cruise out the afternoon into evening with Blood Meridian’s “Folk Rock”.  For a few more tracks, visit their Website and be sure to swing by their MySpace page if ya have the time.

~Smansmith