The unholy alliance of smoldering iron and venomous blood - a matrimony of war and satanic arts from the far East, this is Baptized in Iron and Blood, the highly anticipated split between Blood Serpent (black/death, Hanoi) and Iron Bludgeon (black/death, Osaka). Emerging from the infernal abyss after two years of ominous silence, the sacrilegious force which bears the Hanoian black/death legion of Blood Serpent mantle returns from the crypt with unholy vengeance and venomous incantations, ready to bring forth some of their most ferocious rites human being has to witness. And this time, the legion’s impious ceremony is marked with an even darker omen. Rising from the dusk-shrouded alleys of Osaka, Japan, Iron Bludgeon trails with a sonic onslaught of profane bestial black metal, with accursed riffings and furious drum vortexes akin to infernal scourges. This split release of “Baptized In Iron And Blood” is the covenant forged with the hellish flames of blasphemy, where a convergence of Blood Serpent’s razor-sharp lightning riffs, colossal pounding, a touch of hollow cavernous ambience, and Iron Bludgeon’s primitive feral cacophony from the bestial depths of hell occurs. Witness the sinister alliance in which a sanguinary impetus is formed, charged to obliterate all that dares to resist.