Baleful Creed is our first guest of this new season of 2018. This is a four-piece band from Belfast in Northern Ireland
They started this project in early 2009 when two of their founding members, Fin and John, got together to play some cover tunes, just to blow the dust off the old guitars and amps. The covers didn’t last too long, though, when soon they started to write some original material to try out instead.
At their beginning, the band released 3 EPs: “Killing Time” as their debut album in 2009. That lead to a second and third sonically improved EPs: “Buried Beneath” in late 2011 and “III” in 2012. At this stage, all three EP’s were only available on the band’s Bandcamp digital online store. But with increasing interest from fans both online and at gigs asking for a hard copy CD, the band joined Neal Calderwood in Manor Park Studios and merged the last two EPs, remix and remaster them into a full debut album for final release on CD, 29 December 2013. In their own words, this CD packs in the head nodding tunes with a huge guitar tone, the whiskey soaked bluesy vocals backed by powerful bass and drums.
With this CD, the band was back out firing on all cylinders touring on the back of the debut album delivering their tunes in fired up performances, and working towards building a new set of songs for the next album. Writing and recording over the 2016 year, the band released a new album: “Seismic Shifter” on 6 June 2017.
This band has experienced many highs along the way, having their tunes spread across rock stations from initially Northern Irish DJ’s to around the world. They have been featured in international interviews and reviews in magazine such as Powerplay and Fireworks. A real highlight was playing as support to Bill Steer’s (from Carcass) blues rock power trio ‘Firebird’ in Belfast. Getting to grace the stage in the incredible Mandela Hall venue, Belfast as support to the American Ronnie James Dio tribute, “Rising”.