Les Carlsen shouldn’t need much introduction as the vocalist of the legendary Christian metal band Bloodgood. However, that is only a part of his musical life. Before joining Michael Bloodgood’s band, Les had been performing since the late 60’s. A notable stop in his musical journey was landing a role in the musical “Hair” when it came to Seattle, where he would meet his eventual wife, Joyce Macek. While touring for the musical, he wrote and recorded his first solo album, “1971.” After his experience with Hair and recording, he was in a couple of bands before landing on a winning combination of working with Joyce again in The Carlsen-Macek Band around Seattle. After a dark time in their lives, Les and Joyce found Jesus and decided to redirect their music for ministry. At about that time was when Les joined Bloodgood and started a career as the frontman for one of the forerunners of Christian Metal bands.
This album takes some cues from Les’s Bloodgood days, but is less raucous in its approach. I would describe the genre as hard rock with some metal tendencies. Les infuses his theatrical bend into the music so a song is more than a musical production, but also a play. This approach makes the message of Jesus Christ that much more clear.
Roxx Records is always striving to bring you the best quality reissues and some of the best new Christian Rock on the market. While we are more than excited to bring these two new reissues back to life, it’s a little bittersweet for us. It was early this year, when planning our 2022 release schedule, that these two titles were added to our release schedule. In fact, we had already begun working on them. Like the rest of the world we were shocked and saddened on July 29th when we learned of the untimely passing of one of the most iconic bass guitarists and the true ‘Metal Missionary’… 
Les Carlsen the voice of Bloodgood recently released his first solo single, He’s Coming. Carlsen reported the following:
Bassist Michael Bloodgood, of Christian metal pioneers Bloodgood, passed away on Friday according to online reports. Bloodgood formed in 1984 in Seattle, Washington and became one of the biggest Christian metal bands in existence. They are credited with being a vital stepping stone towards what would become a massively successful genre in Christian rock.