Red Decibel Records

Bloodstar

Swiss noisemakers Bloodstar deliver a knockout punch of industrial dissonance and guitar thrash. Consisting of Rolf Brunner (vocals/guitar), Roger Baumer (bass), Micha Pansi (guitar), and Roland Brandli (organ), Bloodstar were cult stars in the early '90s, combining techno rhythms and electronic experimentation with a heavy metal racket. Comparisons to similar acts such as Nine Inch Nails and Ministry are inevitable, but the group should be seen as peers and not imitators since they developed their styles at roughly the same time -- the late '80s. Nevertheless, the band remained underground, unable to take their uncompromising sound to the mainstream. In 1989, the group released the single "Externinator 666 Does Not Answer." The band's debut album, Anytime, Anywhere, appeared in 1992 on the Red Decibel label. The record featured a cover of "Ghost Rider" from Suicide, one of the group's major influences. Baumer split from the group in 2000; calling himself Roger Rotor, he embarked on a solo career.

- bio by Michael Sutton at AllMusic

Bloodstar - A heavy Swiss trio — two men and one woman, two of them wearing lab-scientist spectacles, all three doubling on synths, assisted by a crony named Nasty Animal banging on metal — escape the dead world to grind their grieving gunk into black holes of hyperspace, where nobody can hear you groan. Though they later covered Suicide’s “Ghost Rider” and sampled whales, their debut was a pillar of doom beauty.

-from SPIN magazine “8 Essential Doom Metal Bands” by Chuck Eddy -2019