BLOOD CHILD  (DK)     -    pitch-dark powerpunk and poetic ecstasy 
 

Danish band Blood Child's sound consists of equal parts raw beauty and brutal intensity, and will leave you blissfully heart torn and lost for breath!
Debut EP "Shower Me" , released on NESM in September 2019, addresses the issues of living within a society which constantly expects and demands you to 'fit in' and conform to a very narrow definition of 'success'. A reality with no room for making all the necessary identity-defining and human mistakes, and with persistent expectations about carrying yourself in a certain way.
 

"For us, however, music and lyrics has always been more about the pure sound of the words, and not so much about their exact meaning. It's about the instantaneous, the intuitive and the imperfections of things that occur instantaneously in the moment that is important to us. Words before language. Existence before purpose." 

6-piece Blood Child take their inspiration from a combination of the late 70s New York / London punk scene and the alternative rock scene that was the 90s. Yet at the same time the band is constantly adding a highly captivating and contemporary hard-to-pinpoint personal component, taking their gloomy ecstatic powerpunk guitar rock to entirely new heights!   
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Blood Child is put together by brothers Emil Bertelsen, Mads Bertelsen & Mathias Bertelsen – plus Lasse Krüger , Marikka Højen Jørgensen and Hjalte Ross!
Their 12" debut EP "Shower Me" was released on Copenhagen label NESM in September 2019.

Over the past few years Blood Child have played at numerous venues and festivals, fx. the highly acclaimed SPOT festival, UHØRT festival, Sorte Firkant festival and Way Up North festival, all of them on Danish ground, plus at Sørveiv Festival in Norway, Plan B / NGBG festival in Sweden and at Reeperbahn Festival in Germany!

Blood Child were booked to play Roskilde Festival 2020, however a certain Covid-19 pandemic came in the way of those plans... Instead, 2020 was used creating and recording new material, planned to be released sometime late 2021 or early 2022..

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"Denmark’s Blood Child were another ace with an intense – held down by hard, inventive drumming – melange with elements of Daydream Nation Sonic Youth and the psychedelic side of Wire. Again, the raw ingredients were clear but the approach was a crisp as a just-picked apple."
— The Arts Desk (Reeperbahn Festival concert review)
 

"Undeniably influenced by the UK post-punk scene through to the halcyon shoegaze years, as well as its more recent equivalent back home, Blood Child sound like the kind of people who’d tear down your house for the sake of it, then dispose of each remnant single-handedly [...] Blood Child’s Shower Me EP showcases various angles of its creators’ psyche, but above all, highlights the sound of young Denmark as a blossoming hive of exemplary artistic craft right now. Long may that continue!"
— Dom Gourlay, FMS magazine

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