Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red

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Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red
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Studio album by No Mercy
Released 1987
Genre Thrash metal
Length41:44
Label Suicidal
Producer Mike Muir

Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red is the only studio album by American thrash metal band No Mercy, released in 1987 by Suicidal Records.

Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. The lyrics often deal with social issues and criticism of The Establishment, using direct and denunciatory language, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk.

No Mercy (metal band) thrash metal band from California, United States

No Mercy are a thrash metal band from Venice, California, the brainchild of guitar player Mike Clark, who later played in Suicidal Tendencies.

Contents

In 1989 "Master of No Mercy", "Controlled by Hatred", "My Own Way of Life", and "Waking the Dead" were re-recorded by Suicidal Tendencies for their Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu album, after Mike Clark had joined their band. "We're Evil", "Crazy But Proud", "I'm Your Nightmare", and "Widespread Bloodshed - Love Runs Red" were later re-recorded by Suicidal Tendencies for their No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family album.

<i>Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu</i> 1989 studio album / Compilation album by Suicidal Tendencies

Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu is the fourth album by American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, released on October 17, 1989 by Epic Records.

Mike Clark (guitarist) American musician

Mike Clark is an American heavy metal and punk rock guitarist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist with Suicidal Tendencies, a band he played with from 1987 to 2012, and was the only member besides Mike Muir to return to the band when it reunited. He originally played in the thrash metal band No Mercy of which Muir was also the vocalist. During Suicidal Tendencies' hiatus he was a member of the thrash band Creeper.

<i>No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family</i> 2010 compilation album by Suicidal Tendencies

No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family is a compilation album by American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, released in 2010. It is considered the follow-up to 1993's Still Cyco After All These Years; like that album, it features some re-recordings of their early songs. Aside from the re-recordings of songs from their 1987 Join the Army album, it also features re-recordings of No Mercy songs, and the previously released "Come Alive". Its cover art was created by designer Alan Pirie.

Track listing

  1. "We're Evil"
  2. "Crazy But Proud"
  3. "Master of No Mercy"
  4. "Day of the Damned"
  5. "Controlled by Hatred"
  6. "I'm Your Nightmare"
  7. "Widespread Bloodshed - Love Runs Red"
  8. "My Own Way of Life"
  9. "Waking the Dead"

Personnel

Mike Muir American musician

Michael Allen "Mike" Muir is the lead vocalist of the Venice, California crossover thrash bands Suicidal Tendencies, Los Cycos and the funk metal band Infectious Grooves. He has also released several solo albums under his nickname Cyco Miko. Muir's trademark is wearing bandanas, jerseys with the number 13, and hats with block style letters that read "suicidal."

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The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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References

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