Metallic Taste Of Blood

Metallic Taste of Blood are a band of restless experimentalists who explore the outer margins of instrumental rock, avant-garde jazz, dub, and experimental electronic music. Led by guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:7uXzqanGH5YKBVLs3cXHk5">Eraldo Bernocchi</a> (Sigillum S, Owls) and bassist <a href="spotify:artist:7mAtJ5TYkeV9pBxnavOv0T">Colin Edwin</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:5NXHXK6hOCotCF8lvGM1I0">Porcupine Tree</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4rhTjd0iMk0rwZ4GKQXrzo">Ex-Wise Heads</a>), two musicians who linked up with roughly 50 years of combined recorded experience, Metallic Taste of Blood debuted in 2012 with a self-titled album. The lineup was filled out with drummer <a href="spotify:artist:6tUOWZQac2sOT5Yb77pOxc">Balázs Pándi</a>, a <a href="spotify:artist:5UezsklPScipW64XJm7qql">Merzbow</a> associate who'd previously played with <a href="spotify:artist:7uXzqanGH5YKBVLs3cXHk5">Bernocchi</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7mAtJ5TYkeV9pBxnavOv0T">Edwin</a> as <a href="spotify:artist:5B1imACeYDNnISqPu4Xz7J">Obake</a>, and keyboardist <a href="spotify:artist:7wm1h5i4ackDo9yhGUGuqv">Jamie Saft</a>, whose past included work with <a href="spotify:artist:3gkJ7lXtLpE4KauFHpk2vK">John Zorn</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1eE9oB7Z69NzfALiUJYKUm">Wadada Leo Smith</a>, among many others. For second album Doctoring the Dead, a more menacing set issued three years later, <a href="spotify:artist:7uXzqanGH5YKBVLs3cXHk5">Bernocchi</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7mAtJ5TYkeV9pBxnavOv0T">Edwin</a> were joined by another pair of underground veterans: drummer Ted Parsons (<a href="spotify:artist:79S80ZWgVhIPMCHuvl6SkA">Swans</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6SER9tY2pDIDVWVf5Ql97B">Prong</a>) and keyboardist <a href="spotify:artist:5PWcEwbMugHHSnQGwOXP7O">Roy Powell</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:5zRqZwaUIqRr51IeH6WWG8">InterStatic</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0YytlzVQTqkPFo1jY6RA1S">Naked Truth</a>). Both Metallic Taste of Blood albums were released on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RareNoise%22">RareNoise</a>, a label operated by <a href="spotify:artist:7uXzqanGH5YKBVLs3cXHk5">Bernocchi</a> and Giacomo Bruzzo. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi