After a 7+ year hiatus, Bloodstrike is back with an EP called Weapons of Steel, which you can download for just $1 at https://bloodstrike.bandcamp.com/album/weapons-of-steel. 2025 is the 10th anniversary of In Death We Rot and we’ve gotten our act together and put out some new music! Below is a video of our cover of Slayer’s classic “Mandatory Suicide.” The EP also includes two new original songs, the title track “Weapons of Steel” and “Scum.”

The EP was recorded by long-time members Holly Wedel on vocals, Jeff Alexis on guitars, and, of course, me on drums. It also features Patrick Russell on bass, Rob Seeley on guest vocals, plus Nadine Lisica and D on backing or gang vocals. Drums were recorded at my home studio in New Mexico in 2023 with guitar, bass, and vocals recorded by Jeff Alexis in Colorado between 2023 and 2025. Mixing and mastering also by Jeff Alexis. I used roughly the same recording setup on this EP as for the album Execution of Violence in 2017, including possibly some of the same drumheads (oops! should have changed those years ago) and, fittingly, EX-5A Extreme Design Vater sticks.