Blackstar "Barbed Wire Soul"

Blackstar was a British hard rock band, formed as a retooling of the band Carcass in 1995 without Bill Steer along with former Cathedral guitarist Mark Griffiths. The band name comes from a Carcass song off the Swansong 1996 album. Thus far they have released only a single album. After a while the band was forced to change its name to Blackstar Rising. The band dissolved because Ken Owen suffered from a brain haemorrhage.

Barbed Wire Soul is the only studio album by English rock band Blackstar, released on 9 June 1998 by Prosthetic Records. In the USA, the band was credited as Blackstar Rising.

Recording information:

Recorded at Parr Street Studios, March 1997.
Mixed at the Chapel Studios, April 1997.

Mastered at Battery.