First Blood
It was the late winter of the year 2002 in the legendary San Francisco Bay Area California USA. With one goal in mind, First Blood set out to create straight-forward, crushing-metallic hardcore with a pissed-off, in-your-face message. "We just wanted to play music that was right to the point so kids could sing-along, let out their aggressions, and kill each other on the dancefloor," states frontman Carl Schwartz about the band's early, no-frills attitude. "We never thought we would be playing shows outside of California, let alone San Francisco." That would soon change.