Consisting of bassist Adam Grant, drummer Eugene Parkomenko and guitarist Kent Law — most well-known locally in Western Canada as members of the stoner-metal quintet Black Wizard — Bloodrhine, while just as punishingly heavy as the Wiz, are simply focused on having a good time. As Grant and Law log onto their video interview with RANGE, their demeanor is relatively chill, most likely because they are, admittedly, a little stoned.

“We all got full time, busy jobs,” Grant says. “So coming to the jam space is where we can just let loose. Unplug from all that shit, right?”

“It’s just a great time to hang out,” Law adds. “We just sit there and laugh and play riffs.”

Bloodrhine released their debut self-titled EP in November 2023 and confirmed that even the band name itself was born through the boys hanging out together.

“About 10 years ago, Black Wizard did our first tour of Europe,” Parkomenko says. “On that trip we played a town called Basel, Switzerland, which the beautiful Rhine River runs through. We spent the day after the show hanging out, drinking and floating down the Rhine. It was a very memorable day. Shortly after, someone told me a story that sometime in the ‘80s there was a large chemical explosion at one of the factories based on the same river and it turned the water blood red in colour. Hence Bloodrhine. Nothing to do with music directly, but man, is it a cool metal band name.”

Taking influence from thrash, punk and stoner metal, Bloodrhine’s riff-centric sound is as heavy and thick as it is accelerative and hostile. Personality-wise, the trio’s fun-loving and goofy chemistry is undeniable in their latest music video “Twice As Dark.”