Biography
The Devil's Blood originated in Eindhoven, Netherlands, when guitarist Selim Lemouchi launched the project in 2006. Their sound drew directly from foundational 1970s heavy metal acts such as Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, and Leaf Hound, alongside the more shadowy expressions of 1960s psychedelia and folk represented by Coven, Comus, Black Widow, and the 13th Floor Elevators. These reference points shaped both the band's recorded output and their stage presentations, which routinely incorporated occult rituals performed amid liberal applications of stage blood. Prior to any live appearances, Lemouchi and vocalist F. the Mouth of Satan produced a series of demos that yielded the 2008 single "Graveyard Shuffle" and the Come, Reap EP. That EP generated immediate underground attention within hard rock and metal circles, securing the group U.S. support dates with Pentagram at the outset of 2009. The resulting visibility prompted an American recording agreement with Profound Lore Records, which issued the band's first full-length album, The Time of No Time Evermore, in September 2009. Follow-up release The Thousandfold Epicentre appeared on Metal Blade in 2011. At the beginning of 2013 the members declared the Devil's Blood dissolved, issuing their concluding album, III: Tabula Rasa or Death and the Seven Pillars, before year's end.
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