Bloodshoteye broke up in 2011 and have not reassembled. What they have done is finish one piece of work: a film for "The Slaughterhouse Romance", the song that closed Expect the Unexpected in 2010, which Decibel put out today.
The song is about Robert Pickton, the man Canadian papers called the Pig Farmer Killer, who took as many as twenty six women from downtown East Vancouver to his farm in Port Coquitlam and murdered them there. He was killed in prison by another inmate two years ago, which is part of why the band could put a line under this now. "The song is based on one of the ugliest Canadian stories of our lifetime," the guitarist Shane Ivy says, "Robert Pickton and what happened on that farm in British Columbia."
Treating that material as a horror short rather than a performance clip is the right call and the harder one. The temptation with a case like Pickton's is spectacle, and a band finishing a sixteen year old song has no commercial reason to be careful about it, so being careful about it is a decision.
They came out of Leamington, Ontario, were active from 2002 to 2011, made three albums for Galy Records and CDN, and toured with Dying Fetus, Cryptopsy, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Despised Icon and Unearth. Their own bio calls them pioneers of the female fronted side of the genre, which in Ontario twenty years ago was closer to true than it would be now. The band put the anniversary at twenty five years.