BSoD + D²: Cruelty to Blues distributed to streaming platforms

Cruelty to Blues distributed to streaming platforms? The new album from BSoD + D²? In other words, The Bastard Sons of Dennis with Dave Danielli on bass?

That’s right. The Cruelty to Blues album by BSoD + D² was sent away to a new distributor we wanted to try. It is now available to listen to at all the big (and many smaller) streaming platforms. But not spotify!

The nature of the original artwork for the Cruelty to Blues album proved to be something of a difficulty. The streaming services balked at all the alchemical symbols and lettering that was not part of the title of the album and the name of the artist. We learned that if we wanted Cruelty to Blues distributed to the streaming platforms, we would need to change the artwork.

We asked if a completely black Smell the Glove type artwork might be ok, and one of the bosses at the distribution company said that it would, as long as we didn’t use what Spinal Tap had originally intended as the artwork for their infamous album.

In the end, we managed to produce some artwork based upon four lines of one of the songs. Can you guess which song, and which four lines?

That is why the same Cruelty to Blues album has two different covers. The one we used for the offical release, with the alchemical symbols, such as the version at Bandcamp. And the version of Cruelty to Blues distributed to streaming platforms, with the flights of black horsemen that soar over churches, pursued by an army of birds in the rain. Ah, that might be a spoiler…

Anyway, the middle and both ends of this tale are that the Cruelty to Blues album has now been distributed to many, many streaming platforms via a new distributor who we’ve decided we like. We shall probably use them again.

It is not available on spotify though, and nor is anything else in our catalogue. Spotify are hell bent on detroying music, and their CEO on humanity itself it would seem. So do yourself and the music you love a favour – remove any music you have at that vile platform and cancel your subs. They don’t need to use your money to invest any more into AI war machines or AI-generated music.

We shall be updating our recent “Boycott Spotify!” post soon, and including it in the Miscellaneous section of our website. Watch out for news of this via our News service and on BlueSky and X, formerly Twitter.

To listen to or download the album Cruelty to Blues by BSoD + D² from Bandcamp, please click here.

To listen to it at one of the streaming platforms, e.g. Tidal, please click here.

The original artwork for Cruelty to Blues by BSoD + D².

The artwork for Cruelty to Blues by BSoD + D² as used by the streaming services.