Bloodrock 2 - BLOODROCK***

Lucky In The Morning/Cheater/Sable & Pearl/Fallin'/Children's Heritage/Dier Not A Lover/DOA/Fancy Space Odyssey

A quick follow up album from the Texan hard rock group Bloodrock. It achieved their highest chart placing helped by the doom laden minor hit single DOA. (US:21)

“Nowhere near as good as their debut, this is significantly friendlier and less heavy. It's still pretty riffy, mind you, but the riffs seem interchangeable. And DOA has doomy chords and lyrics but literally nothing else. There's also occasional smatterings of boogie rock, which just makes things worse.”

“The second Bloodrock album scored the surprising AM radio hit DOA despite it's brooding heavy rock sound with death lyrics about a plane crash. Here you get the long unedited version with all the sound effects and chilling dark atmosphere throughout.”

“A decent follow-up to #1. Not quite as strong with the guitar and a bit more keyboards then on their previous album. All in all some real toe-tappers on this LP.” “Bloodrock's songs are dark themed and beautifully lyrical, they should have been huge. It's really too bad. Bloodrock 2 is easily their masterpiece and had their greatest song in the dark progressive rock epic DOA.”

“Bloodrock 2 is the album that brought them out of obscurity and included their only major hit, DOA. Most fans will agree that it wasn’t a fair representation of what they aspired to be, and certainly not of what they eventually became. What Bloodrock 2 offers is a view of a work in progress.”

“You remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard DOA the first time. Sure, it's a bit on the dark side, but it's so powerful you can smell it. Sadly, it's the lone song this great band is remembered for.”

“Because this band had a jazz influence, the term metal doesn't quite apply to them. But they were a good, solid, pump the amps up type of band that lovers of metal would like.”

“Inspired by a fatal plane crash, the nightmarish DOA ambulance ride stands as Bloodrock's crowning achievement, although the song was banned by numerous radio stations from coast-to-coast.”