How can we not love a band called Bl��dHag, is made up of four bookworms obsessed with science fiction literature, and which plays two-minute blasts of
brutal, sludgy deathcore that they call "Edu-core", with lyrics about their favorite authors? These guys are awesome. Yeah, it's a gimmick, but it's one that
totally works for a band this smart, fun, and crushing! Hailing from Seattle, Bl��dHag has been around for awhile, touring libraries where they'd hurl books
at the audience and spread their fervent love of all things literary, and proclaim its motto: �the faster you go deaf, the more time you have to read.�
Hell Bent For Letters is their second album, and their first for Alternative Tentacles; you get sixteen songs titled after an assortment of authors,
paying tribute to Douglas Adams, Poe, Anne McCaffrey, Madeleine L�Engle, Franz Kafka and Phillip Jose Farmer, among others. The songs are brief, gutteral
eruptions, moving from sludgy, thundering deathcore a la Darkside NYC, Napalm Death, and classic Bay Area thrash moves, to the choral black metal of �Edgar
Allen Poe,� and the melodic death of �Philip Jose Farmer.� There are some weird electronic effects and ridiculous sing-along chants that appear as well, and
Jeremy Enigk (of Sunny Day Real Estate) contributes keyboards? Then there is the album artwork, which is pure genius. The cover art is an original
illustration of a rampaging librarian warrior queen who has slayed a group of men with overdue notices, holding a goblin head and posing triumphantly. A
fantastically quirky, educational, crushing dose of Edu-core!