By Anita Stewart, Managing Editor
New Singles and Videos: ACT 1 “All Blood, No Treasure” / Single: “Roads”
Release Date: August 27, 2021
Ingeniously marketed, this is going to be a full studio album in a total of four “acts.” The three singles and videos released so far conclude the first act with three more upcoming and the songs will be released one at a time. The band decided to release their music in installments, like television episodes: single-by-single. Each single release builds tension and suspense and is an interconnected work of art with a woven theme throughout the recordings. The song “Roads” concludes Act I of “All Blood, No Treasure,” following “A Million Arms” and “What’s It Say? (About You).”
The rock duo The Bloody Nerve are Stacey Blood and Laurie Ann Layne from Nashville but they certainly don’t fit the genres of most of the music makers in that town. The videos are compelling with the alternative-rock and grunge tunes and dystopian themes. A perfect example is the latest song and video “Roads.” The video leaves us guessing and even though the song is loud and up-tempo it has really dark elements and almost “dirgy” visuals. The band has planned to market limited edition CD’s for each of the acts with a full length CD and vinyl editions to come later.
The band says: “A lot of the album was written over a few years but some of it very recently with “Roads” being right before the ‘pandemic’. ‘‘Clean up, you’re contagious,” right? Coming from November of 2019, that’s been a pretty spooky lyric lying around. I mean that seriously! The song is about the culture wars of the 21st Century, but who knew an actual contagion would be flashing shades of that in our world just a few months later? Yeah, pretty spooky.”
Rock at Night says about the single/video “Roads:” “With a backdrop of our present culture really collapsing, bug infestation, skyscrapers, the environment, the megaphone being used to relay messages to the masses, urban light and air pollution, wind turbines, the lady in white praying, the word “contagious;” all imagery of what we are seeing today with eminent reality and a need for the spiritual. This is punk-rock, alternative music to it’s core and at it’s finest broadcasting the social messages everyone needs to hear. I want to hear what this band has to say through their artistry. Can’t wait for more acts!”
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