"RIOT IN PARADISE" WAS THE DEBUT CD FROM CONCORD, CALIFORNIA'S BLOODSHOT AND DILATED. IT WAS RECORDED AND MIXED BY VOETSEK GUITARIST JEF LEPPARD (RIP) IN JANUARY 2011 AT LENNON STUDIOS IN SAN FRANCISCO, AND RELEASED ON PYRATE PUNX RECORDS THE SAME YEAR. THE OPENING TRACK "A.D.H.D" WAS FEATURED ON THE 2011 CD COMPILATION PLASTIC FACT EATERS VOLUME II. THE LINE UP ON THIS RECORDING WAS ROOSTER ON LEAD VOCALS, CRUSTE SEAN ON LEAD GUITAR, KAMIKAZE MAT ON SECOND GUITAR, ALINA CHAOTIC ON BASS, AND DYIN' BRIAN ON DRUMS. DISCS MAY STILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE ON THEIR BANDCAMP PAGE. NINE TRACKS OF SOLID D.I.Y. EAST BAY HARDCORE CRUST PUNK SPRINKLED WITH THRASH AND D-BEAT FOR GOOD MEASURE.
AFTER BLOOD STAINED REALITY RELEASED THE "CHEAPER THAN THERAPY" CD IN 2012, THE BAND UNDERWENT SOME LINE-UP CHANGES. AT SOME POINT, BSR'S ORIGINAL GUITARIST, ZANE (MACHINE'S AGENDA/MOTHER RUSSIA/NUCLEAR TOMORROW/RABID DECEPTION) REJOINED ON SECOND GUITAR. CHAZ LEFT AND WAS REPLACED BY CAMERON OLSON, A MONSTER OF A DRUMMER WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY PLAYED FOR DOOMLIT SKY, AND WOULD LATER GO ON TO DRUM FOR THE POWERHOUSE SAN DIEGO SUPERGROUP PIGLIFE (FEATURING MEMBERS OF TITAN ARUM AND CATTLE DECAPITATION). BLOOD STAINED REALITY CONTINUED PLAYING FOR A SHORT TIME BEFORE SPLITTING UP.
(THIS TIMELINE MAY BE INCORRECT, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT "CHEAPER THAN THERAPY" WAS RECORDED AROUND 2010, AND LATER RELEASED IN 2012, FOLLOWED SHORTLY BY THE END OF THAT LINE UP.)
LATER IN 2012, ORIGINAL DRUMMER CARLOS AND GUITARIST IAN BEGAN PLAYING AND WRITING NEW MATERIAL TOGETHER. SOON THEY CALLED MARC TO COME PLAY BASS. EVENTUALLY ERIK WAS CONTACTED TO COME WRITE AND PERFORM VOCALS FOR THE NEW MATERIAL, AND THE TRADITIONAL BLOOD STAINED REALITY LINE-UP WAS REUNITED.
MEANWHILE, IN THE EAST BAY AREA, BLOODSHOT AND DILATED ALREADY HAD THEIR CD "RIOT IN PARADISE" UNDER THEIR BELTS AND WERE WORKING ON NEW MATERIAL AS WELL. PROSPECTS OF A SPLIT RELEASE BETWEEN THE BANDS HAD BEEN DISCUSSED IN THE PAST, SO IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THE TIME FOR THE SPLIT HAD COME. THE SPLIT 7 INCH "PUKE ON YER BALLS / WHO PUKED ON MY BALLS?" WAS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT FINANCED IN PART BY EACH BAND, ALONG WITH BACKING FROM PLASTIC FACT RECORDS AND DEATH PUNX DISTRO IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, AND SUBURBAN WHITE TRASH RECORDS IN FORT COLLINS, COLORADO. 500 COPIES WERE RELEASED ON RANDOMLY MIXED "PUKE-ISH" COLORED VINYL, WITH GREEN INK ON YELLOW PAPER CENTER LABELS, FOR AN EXTRA-NAUSEATING AESTHETIC. (THERE ARE STILL COPIES OF THIS EP AVAILABLE, $3 PLUS SHIPPING -APPROXOMATELY $6 SHIPPED IN THE U.S., INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING NEEDS TO BE CALCULATED DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION. PAYPAL ONLY. TO ORDER, EMAIL PLASTICFACTRECORDS-AT-GMAIL.COM AND INCLUDE YOUR SHIPPING ADDRESS, OR GO THROUGH SUBURBAN WHITE TRAHS ONLINE HERE.)FOR POSTERITY'S SAKE, HERE IS A DECENT REVIEW OF THE EP BYPROFANE EXISTENCE.
(NOTE: DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES, SAMPLES FROM THE FILM "OUTBREAK" FEATURED AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH BLOODSHOT AND DIALTED TRACK WERE REMOVED FOR THE VINYL RELEASE, IN ORDER TO AVOID LICENSING ISSUES WITH THE PRESS PLANT, BUT THEY ARE INCLUDED IN THE DIGITAL FORMAT HERE.)
