We Sing of Only Blood or Love

Infobox Album |
Name = We Sing of Only Blood or Love
Type = Album
Artist = Dax Riggs


Released = August 21, 2007
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Blues-rock
Length = 38:00
Label = Fat Possum
Producer = Matt Sweeney, Dax Riggs
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:09fqxzwgld6e link]
Last album = -
This album = "We Sing of Only Blood or Love"
(2006)
Next album = -

"We Sing of Only Blood or Love" (erroneously titled "We Sing Only of Blood or Love" on the vinyl format) is the debut solo album released by American singer and songwriter Dax Riggs. It was slated to be the next Deadboy and the Elephantmen album before that band's dissolution. Riggs decided to release it under his own name, on August 21, 2007. Matt Sweeney provided a combination of guitar, bass, piano and backing vocals for all of the tracks, as well as producing the record.

"We Sing of Only Blood or Love" is dominate by dark neo-blues-rock songwriting structures, and also contains heavy metal, folk music, gothic rock, protopunk, and some experimental material. The album is a continuation of Riggs' musical evolution since fronting the Louisiana sludge metal band Acid Bath in the 1990s. Riggs uses a trained, rich vocal style most frequently sung in a blues-influenced baritone rasp. Riggs was 32-years-old at the time of the album's recording. His lyrics contain various stylistic elements of metaphor and imagery, and touch upon personal and poetic subjects such as death, love, Satan, nocturnal hallucinations, mortality, phantoms, and morbidity.

Tracklisting

#Demon Tied to a Chair in My Brain
#Didn't Know Yet What I'd Know When I Was Bleedin'
#Night is the Notion
#Radiation Blues
#The Terrors of Nightlife
#A Spinning Song
#Truth in the Dark
#Ouroboros
#Living is Suicide
#Forgot I Was Alive
#Ghost Movement
#Dog-Headed Whore
#Wall of Death
#Scarlett of Heaven nor Hell
#Dethbryte
#Dream or Be Dead (Vinyl only)

Credits

The album features, along with Dax Riggs, members of the last incarnation of deadboy and the Elephantmen: Alex Bergeron (bass), Adam Clement (drums), and Sean Keating (keyboards).

It was produced by Matt Sweeney, who also contributed guitar to some tracks.

The final track, Dethbryte, was remixed by Andrew W.K.

All songs are by Dax Riggs except Wall of Death, originally by Richard Thompson.