Blüdstone

Not to be confused with: - BloodStone from Portland, Oregon (Heavy/Power Metal) - BloodStone from Long Island, New York (Thrash/Death Metal) - Bloodstone from Ohio ('80s funk) Formed by Augustus Bludstone , Jimm Grimm , and The Troll in 1988 under the name Bloodstone . Augustus was in both Bloodstone and his earlier band The Seventh Seal simultaneously, and the two even played together in the same Battle of the Bands at Bogarts, in Cincinnati. On June 4th, 1990 Bloodstone played their first show ever, at Sudsy Malone's, in Cincinnati. Later in the summer of 1990 they changed the names spelling to Blüdstone, and Augustus changed his stage names spelling at the same time. Blüdstone released their demo in June 1991, named after Augustus' poem "Cranial Removal Operation". The Seventh Seal, however, broke up in July and never got to release their 1990 studio tracks. One of Blüdstone remained active until 1993, when they underwent the first in a long series of genre, lineup, and name changes, becoming Gojira . Gojira would eventually use the lyrics from several Blüdstone songs but with newer faster instrumentals and structures to match the political punk/thrash direction they took in the mid-'90s. They would change genres and names several times afterwards as well, including a period in the early 2000s as Cinerator , playing crossover/horror punk with vocals, drums, multiple different basses (clean, distorted etc.) and no guitar, doing with their mix of genres what Shrüm previously did with Sludge/Death in the '90s. When The Seventh Seal reformed under the name Bloodseal in 2005, Blüdstone drummer The Troll joined them as well. Starting in 1991 the members of Blüdstone, along with several other friends and collaborators, had a self-produced Public Access TV show called "The Blüdstone Show". They produced and aired several seasons, and many clips can be seen on YouTube. The show included original sketches, interviews, new rehearsal, concert footage and music videos of Blüdstone (and other bands of friends), spoken word/poetry and various other creations of Augustus, Jim, Troll and their circle of friends/collaborators. It even included an original video (with original background music) of Augustus reading his poem "Cranial Removal Operation", which their 1991 demo would eventually be named after. In 1998 Augustus recorded a new version of this poem, with newer, different background music, and released it as the closing track of the limited edition Gojira cassette full-length album " Lest We Forget... , which was also the first time the words of the poem were published.