BLOODGOOD – Rock In A Hard Place [Legends Remastered Series]

As part of their ‘Legends Remastered‘ series, highly respected reissue label Retroactive Records has released the 2 more celebrated albums by BLOODGOOD. As requested, here we have both.
The band’s third effort “Rock In A Hard Place” is one of my favorite albums from the second half of the ’80s American Hard Rock indie scene, and now sounds better than ever.

BLOODGOOD was one of the most underrated American Hard Rock from the glorious ’80s, perhaps due their Christian origins. But they were the real deal, a high quality band in the genre.
After two pretty heavy albums, they changed the musical approach to the dominating glossy-sounding Hard Rock around 1988, and the result was this “Rock In A Hard Place”.
It’s commercial record yet defiant, melodic, with catchy songs and a bombast production; razor compressed guitars courtesy of the great David Zaffiro, shouting vocals, huge drums and even some keyboards into the mix.

Talking about the mix, there’s was a big problem with the original release of “Rock In A Hard Place”: the bass lines were almost completely missing.
It turns out the recording studio had a ton of false low-end and they wasn’t aware of when album was mixed, which is why there was such a lack of bass in “Rock In A Hard Place”. And no one seemed to catch it when it was mastered, either. Quite strange, as this sounds as a big budget production.

Fortunately, BloodGood’s “Rock In A Hard Place” is now finally reissued with its crisp sound in full glory.
There was a previous remastering job pretty well done by Frontline Records in 2012 – and of course featured here on 0dayrox – but this Retroactive Records is a completely new remastering from the master tapes and sounds million bucks.

Remember back in the day when bands could get away with nine good quality songs on an album? Nowadays this is absolutely unacceptable for any greedy record company and you’re forced to have twelve or more, and many of those are fillers.
Well, this is not the case with “Rock In A Hard Place”. Just killer-no-fillers 9 tracks plenty of ’80s US melodic hard rock magic.
Highly Recommended

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1 – Shakin’ It
2 – Never Be the Same
3 – The Presence
4 – What Have I Done
5 – Heaven on Earth
6 – Do or Die
7 – She’s Gone
8 – The World (Keeps Movin’ Around)
9 – Seven

Les Carlsen – lead vocals
David Zaffiro – guitars, backing vocals
Michael Bloodgood – bass, backing vocals
Mark Welling – drums

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