The Bled released their first full length album “Pass The Flask” on Fiddler Records some years ago, but it went lost since that record label closed down. Now, if you discovered The Bled with their Vagrant Records “Found In The Flood”, but want to find out how they played when they were younger, Vagrant is re-releasing “Pass The Flask” with basically a second disc.

There is not only “Pass The Flask” on this disc, but eleven more songs, for a total of 21 tracks. It’s quite amazing, since re-issues today are quite boring and do not come with a lot of new material.

“Pass The Flask” is quite possibly the best stuff The Bled ever released: it has anthemic, chaotic, passionate and sweaty post-hardcore tunes, where metallic guitar riffs leave their places to melodic vocal lines, but then they all got shaken together to create songs. “I Never Met Another Gemini” is the best song ever, while tracks as “Red Wedding”, “You Know Who’s Seatbelt” and “Sound Of Sulfur” are rock and rolling tunes for the new hardcore generation

The bonus tracks features two rare albums by The Bled: the “Ambulance Romance” demos and “His FIrst Crush EP”. On this old material, The Bled shows how they used to play different stuff back in the day. More metallic chords, with post hardcore influences where the slower, sick and suffocating parts take place

Tracklist
1    Red Wedding    
2    You Know Who’s Seatbelt    
3    I Never Met Another Gemini    
4    Ruth Buzzi Better Watch Her Back    
5    Sound of Sulfur    
6    Porcelain Hearts and Hammers For Teeth    
7    Get Up You Son of a Bitch, Cause Mickey Loves Ya    
8    Spitshine Sonata    
9    We Are The Industry    
10    Nothing We Say Leaves This Room    
11    His First Crush    
12    Anvil Pinata    
13    Swatting Flies With a Wrecking Ball    
14    Glitterbomb    
15    F is for Forensics    
16    John Wayne Newton    
17    Meredith    
18    My Cyanide Catharsis (featuring Emily Long)    
19    OK, But Here’s How It Really Happened    
20    Hotel Coral Essex (original recording)    
21    Lay On My Cot (K-Note Freestyle featuring MC JayRay)

Buy “Pass The Flask” here.