Bloodbath for those of you living under a rock is a Swedish death metal group in the truest sense of the word. With members including musicians from Opeth, Katatonia and Witchery not to mention the one time involvement of Euro scene stalwarts Dan Swano and Peter Tagtren, expectations have always been a bit unfairly high for Bloodbath. At the end of the day, it’s a bunch of musicians coming together to play brutal old school death metal and that’s pretty much what they did through the course of two albums and an EP.

2008 has already seen the band release an EP Unblessing the Purity and now comes the band’s first live recording from their first ever live show recorded from their 2005 appearance at Wacken. The sound is perfect for a live album, not too polished yet clear enough for the discerning listener. Mikael Åkerfeldt is a terrific frontman and his growling is right up there with the best in the business. The guitars of Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström and Per Eriksson are spot on through the show and sound terrific right through the album.