For the most part, _Bloodline_ ends up sounding like the skeletal remains of songs that never made the cut to go get on actual Obituary albums, and ironically that's not always a bad thing. "I'm Alive" and "Deep Down" are so simplistic and stripped down that they could easily have been written by a pair of (Floridian) teenagers; their sense of goggle-eyed nostalgia making them far more entertaining than they promise to be on paper. "Scream Descendant" pairs acoustic strumming and New Wave of British Heavy Metal to stunning effect, John Tardy's haunting chorus of "You can't stop me" adding an additional layer of menace to proceedings. Still, with a proper Obituary full-length only a few months away, and a host of acts chucking in similar efforts as freebies with proper releases, most will want to file _Bloodline_ under "money to burn" on the shopping lists.