Most Precious Blood Bio

After almost eight years, Indecision self-destructed last summer in El Paso,Texas. They were in the middle of their ninth month of straight touring. Rachel and Justin (guitarists of Indecision) rented a car and took the long drive back home by themselves. Justin said, "Rachel and I did a lot of reflecting and talking on that trip. We decided we didn't want to give up on hardcore especially since it seemed like everyone else around us was giving up. At the time, everyone seemed so infatuated with "moving on" but to us, moving on meant selling out everything you once believed in"



Three days later, they were back in Brooklyn and a few weeks later they formed Most Precious Blood. The band was now back with Tom Sheehan (original Indecision singer), a polarizing and controversial move, not unlike his departure. Truth be told, word spread fast about Most Precious Blood and people were excited that the original Indecision line up was back. The wounds of Indecision's break up were quickly forgotten by the birth of MPB.



By August, MPB recorded their six song demo. The sound was stripped down and less metal than what Indecision had become, it was more like the earlier Indecision that many missed. "I think the sound was all about the time and how we were feeling about hardcore and it just came through in the music. It wasn't anything more than that", Justin says of the new MPB songs "now in hardcore everyone is so caught up on solos and being metal and being hectic and scary and its all contrived. We wanted to strip down the sound to what we knew as hardcore, the stuff we grew up on. We wanted to bring back the catchiness and the simplicity, the intensity through being direct and to the point. We wanted Black Flag not Iron Maiden. We were sick of the hectic metal that was suffocating the scene. No one was writing songs anymore they were just up on stage masturbating with their instruments and showing off how great they could solo and how big their Maiden record collection was. We knew hardcore as the early 90's stuff, Unbroken, Undertow, Outspoken.... all those bands...so thats what we did". But the new lyrics and music didn't come off bitter or jaded, but inspiring and stimulating. It made all of us late twenty-somethings proud to still be involved in hardcore without the stereotypically traditionalist bravado and the spirit of '88 kitsch.



Most Precious Blood picks up where Indecision left off. They take a few pages from Sick Of It All, Cro-Mags and Agnostic Front and a few pages from Econochrist, Unbroken and Undertow and some of the West coast stuff. I think Indecision was unique because they managed to stay heavy and intense while lyrically they remained untouchably emotional and personal. Most Precious Blood does just the same, if not more. Because it seems so stripped down there is no filler and no room for lyrics that aren't explained and contained within a single sentence. Its almost as if they are.....wow...a band really means it and feels it for all the genuine reasons that brought us here in the first place! For the passion and not the fucking fashion, for the fun and not the shallow fame.



Most Precious Blood is Justin Brannan (guitar), Rachel (bass), Tom Sheehan (vocals), Sean McAnn. The new MPB record could well have been the fifth Indecision album, the sound is stripped down and raw but their is a lot more melody than the earlier stuff. Pat Flynn, original drummer for Indecision, played drums on this album but has since been replaced by Sean McAnn (ex-Cattlepress).