PHALANX #13
"Could this signify the end of music? Fans of MERZBOW, BDN, NAMANAX, or whoever would listen to this with a trained ear and think 'Damn, I think this is the most unpleasant thing I've ever heard.' In Fact, BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, a "co-action" between Power Electronics units DEATHPILE and GRUNTSPLATTER, is so totally devoid of any hint of music that I think it would be very hard to recommend to anyone really. With that in consideration, "Bled Out" may just be the ultimate end all of the extremes in music. I like the idea that it is so utterly offensive to the senses (and visually as well with blood red design and mangled broken bodies) that I'm intrigued by it all. Obliteration."

SUBCIDE #4
"I'm giving the BLUNT FORCE CD another blast at the moment. I think I'm starting to get a hold of it. I guess (from listening to the first track. Which I've just finished doing) that this stuff would be quite interesting to listen to stoned or while tripping on acid. It would make your interpretation of the sounds that may or may not be buried under/within the static (people screaming, voices, orchestral music etc.) quite interesting. Especially the screaming voices of agony coming out of the giant fire hurricane food processor from hell - bad trip 100% guaranteed!!! There's a start to a review in that... Oh and by the way, that food processor is being carried on a high speed Freight Train, which is being recorded as it passes by, through several distortion different pedals onto Scott and Jonathan's 4-track. There, I can't really think of a better way to describe BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA than that. As for the cover art Congratulations on the cover photo though. That's one of the few things I've ever seen like that, which actually shocks me. It's almost a little too over board. You kind of become desensitized to pictures of mutilated Adult bodies, but when it's an innocent kid, that had a whole life a head of it and has never done any wrong in the short time it's been around, it kind of fucks you up looking at it. I've never been into drugs, but this person I knew was always trying to get me to trip until she came over tripping one night and I improvised about an hour and a half of noise for her. After that she said that my mind was already in that state and I didn't need to trip to get there and she never mentioned it again.

WOUNDED 5/97
"Jonathan Canady (DEAD WORLD, DEATHPILE) and Scott E. Candey (GRUNTSPLATTER) joined their efforts for this project which offers shockingly brutal power electronics. Operating with low-end, throbbing noises BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA put a lot of extreme sonic weight on it and created 10 thick, heavy and quite complex noise compositions. Along with the accompanying graphic design it produces horrific, repulsive and sickly curious visions, while the loud noisewaves falls down crushing and hammering one's brains with unrelenting cacophony. I think people into ATRAX MORGUE and BRIGHTER DEATH NOW will dig this one, for BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA has a strongly developed concept behind them just like those aforementioned bands and that sets them apart and puts along the leaders of the power electronics. This is just what you may need if you think your life is getting boring and calm."

ENNUI
"Jonathan Canady (Dead World, Deathpile) and Scott Candey (Gruntsplatter, Cinderskin) have two things in common. They both enjoy making noise and they both have terribly large egos. Well, okay, maybe I am being unfair. The person who wrote up the bio is the one with the ego, and since I don't know which is at fault, they will both take the blame. This American noise duo is trying to compete with the noise coming out of Japan. I suppose that no one told them that the race to create the harshest noise has already been won. Perhaps someone should also tell them that they are not really all that harsh. Bled Out is full of tracks that, while they have fluctuations, high pitched squealing voices, and other changes within them, really just come off as a blast of constant, fairly regular electronically overprocessed noise. I would not say that is a bad thing necessarily. But many Japanese noise outfits have already created what Blunt Force Trauma is out to build. The CD is not bad and definitely listenable -- I find the constant noise quite restful, in fact. However, an "unparalleled experimental noise masterpiece " it is not! Rating: 6.5"

UNRESTRAINED! #3
"Frzzzhhhssshhh. Frhhhhhsssssssspppppeeeee. Man oh man... Thunderous wallops of sound and intensity blaring from this CD. 57-minutes of some of the most intense noise you've ever fuckin' heard. This'll make yer boombox bleed. Like it loud n' noisy? Get this then you fuckin' noisemongers."

WORM GEAR #5
"Packed with nearly an hour of some of the most punishing and hateful vibrations ever to cross my tinnitus plagued eardrums, comes the debut release "Bled Out", from BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA. This project is the joint effort of Jonathan Canady (DEAD WORLD/DEATH PILE) and Scott Candey (CINDER SKIN/GRUNTSPLATTER) whom effectively explore the limitless avenues of harsh noise scapes and infinitely layered articles of sound. The result is a challenging listen which sonically simulates the horror of being turned inside out, or possibly getting attacked by a swarming hive of bees. BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA have triumphed by incorporating an underlying dark atmosphere in the tracks "Saeva Indignatio", "Germinal Crawler" and "Shades Below" for example, by weaving indiscrete synth passages and samples into the caustic fray. Noise enthusiasts shall lap up the conviction and inventive delivery hatched by this 2 man project, and I think those of you into the Dark Ambient field will equally appreciate the sense of emotion swelling beneath the surface. Painful sounds from tortured souls."