Widowmaker : Blood and Bullets

I'M THE WIDOWMAKER
I'M THE ONE 

WHO'S BRINGING YOU DOWN

I'M THE WIDOWMAKER

WATCH YOUR WALLS CRUMBLING

TO THE GROUND

 Blood and Bullets

 is the debut 

studio album

 by American 

heavy metal band 

Widowmaker 

released on 

July 28, 1992.

"Emaheevul", 

"Gone Bad", 

"Calling for You", 

 are songs 

Snider had 

previously recorded

 with his

 short-lived band

 Desperado 

for their shelved 

Elektra Records 

debut album. 

The album would 

surface as the

 Bloodied, but Unbowed 

bootleg 

in the mid-1990s 

and eventually see 

an official release, 

titled Ace, 

via Angel Air

 in the UK 

and 

Deadline/Cleopatra

 in the

 US in 2006, 

and

 Del Imaginario Discos 

in Argentina in 2007.

Background

After Twisted Sister 

disbanded in 1987, 

frontman

 and songwriter

 Dee Snider

 formed a new band, 

Desperado, 

and recorded an album

 for Elektra Records. 

Two weeks before

 its scheduled release

 in 1990, 

the label shelved

 the album 

and the band 

subsequently dissolved. 

Snider spent another year 

unable to pursue

 further musical activities

 as he remained

 signed to Elektra, 

but once free

 he formed 

Widowmaker. 

After a period

 of struggling

 to generate 

record company interest

 and finance, 

Ric Wake 

signed 

Widowmaker

 to his independent label 

Esquire Records 

and the band recorded

 their debut album,

 Blood and Bullets, 

with Wake

 as the producer

 Much of the

 material recorded 

was co-written

 in 1989–90 

by Snider 

and Bernie Tormé

 when 

Desperado 

were active. 

Three songs from 

Desperado's 

debut album

 were re-recorded 

and Snider

 and Widowmaker

 guitarist

 Al Pitrelli 

co-wrote a couple

 of new tracks.

Blood and Bullets 

was released on 

July 28, 1992, 

and the band 

embarked on a US tour

 to promote it.

 "Emaheevul" 

and

 "The Widowmaker" 

were released as

  promotional singles 

from the album.

 A music video was shot for 

"The Widowmaker" 

and was directed by

 Milcho Manchevski 

and produced by 

Kate Judge.

According to Snider's 

autobiography 

Shut Up and Give Me the Mic: 

A Twisted Memoir, 

the album achieved over 

50,000 CD sales.

Speaking to

 the Gannett News Service 

in 1992, 

Snider said of the album,

 "It still has the appeal of 

Twisted Sister, 

but it has more

 musical depth. 

Twisted Sister 

was very one-dimensional.

 We had catchy songs 

and an outrageous image

 but that was it. 

Widowmaker 

has the songs with 

great hooks

 but there's

 musical integrity there, too."

 The song

 "Reason to Kill" 

was inspired by

 Snider's experiences with

 his previous labels 

Atlantic and Elektra

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