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

United States

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 singer and songwriter Dax Riggs

Dax Riggs

Dax David Riggs , is an American musician from Houma, Louisiana, most well known for formerly fronting the sludge band Acid Bath in the 1990s. Dax has been a part of many projects since then, including Agents of Oblivion and Deadboy & the Elephantmen. In 2007 he began releasing material under his...

. 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

Matt Sweeney

Matt Sweeney is a guitarist, vocalist, and producer who has worked with various musicians and groups.-Biography:Sweeney's high school band Skunk released two albums on Twin/Tone records...

 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 dominated by dark neo-blues-rock

Blues-rock

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 songwriting structures, and also contains heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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, folk music

Folk music

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, gothic rock

Gothic rock

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, protopunk

Protopunk

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, and some experimental material. The album is a continuation of Riggs' musical evolution since fronting the Louisiana

Louisiana

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 sludge metal

Sludge metal

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 band Acid Bath

Acid Bath

Acid Bath was a seminal American sludge metal band from Houma, Louisiana that was active from 1991 to 1997. Acid Bath combined doom metal roots with influences from black metal, death metal, gothic rock, blues, folk, and country...

 in the 1990s. Riggs uses a trained, rich vocal style most frequently sung in a blues

Blues

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-influenced baritone

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 rasp

Rasp

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. 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

1. Demon Tied to a Chair in My Brain
2. Didn't Know Yet What I'd Know When I Was Bleedin'
3. Night is the Notion
4. Radiation Blues
5. The Terrors of Nightlife
6. A Spinning Song
7. Truth in the Dark
8. Ouroboros
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9. Living is Suicide
10. Forgot I Was Alive
11. Ghost Movement
12. Dog-Headed Whore
13. The Wall of Death
14. Scarlett of Heaven nor Hell
15. Dethbryte
16. 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

Matt Sweeney

Matt Sweeney is a guitarist, vocalist, and producer who has worked with various musicians and groups.-Biography:Sweeney's high school band Skunk released two albums on Twin/Tone records...

, who also contributed guitar to some tracks.

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

Andrew W.K.

Andrew W.K. is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker. He is the host of the television series Destroy Build Destroy.-Early life & career:Andrew Wilkes-Krier was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan...

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