There Existed an Addiction to Blood

Clipping described There Existed an Addiction to Blood in a press release as a "transmutation of horrorcore", continuing that it "absorbs the hyper-violent horror tropes of the Murder Dog era, but re-imagines them in a new light: still darkly-tinted and somber, but in a weirder and more vivid hue".{{cite news|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/08/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood-nothing-is-safe-stream/|title=clipping. announce new album There Existed an Addiction to Blood, share "Nothing Is Safe": Stream|work=Consequence of Sound|last=Corcoran|first=Nina|date=August 14, 2019|accessdate=October 18, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://uproxx.com/music/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood-nothing-is-safe/|title=Clipping Announce Their New Horrorcore-Inspired Album 'There Existed An Addiction To Blood'|work=Uproxx|last=Rossignol|first=Derrick|date=August 14, 2019|accessdate=October 18, 2019}} Throughout the album, Daveed Diggs describes "gruesome movie scenarios", but, according to the Financial Times journalist Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, the lyrics do not contain the "sick [humor]" and misogyny associated with the genre.{{cite news|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2061402/album-of-the-week-clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood/franchises/album-of-the-week/|title=Album Of The Week: Clipping There Existed An Addiction To Blood|work=Stereogum|last=Breihan|first=Tom|date=October 15, 2019|accessdate=October 18, 2019}} Diggs speaks in the second person in the tracks, which Tom Breihan of Stereogum interpreted to be in order to do "everything he can to put us, the listeners, in the shoes of the victims".

The album title comes from the Sam Waymon song "The Blood of Thing (Part 2) Shadow of the Cross", written for the vampire film Ganja & Hess. This song is also sampled in "Blood of the Fang".

{{Music ratings

| ADM = 7.6/10{{cite web|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/10123/clipping-There-Existed-An-Addiction-To-Blood.aspx|title=There Existed An Addiction To Blood by clipping. reviews|publisher=AnyDecentMusic?|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}

| MC = 73/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood/clipping|title=There Existed an Addiction to Blood by Clipping Reviews and Tracks|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=October 18, 2019}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood-mw0003309934|title=There Existed an Addiction to Blood – clipping.|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=October 18, 2019|last=Simpson|first=Paul}}

| rev2 = Clash

| rev2score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood|title=Clipping – There Existed An Addiction To Blood|website=Clash|last=Roseblade|first=Nick|date=October 18, 2019|accessdate=February 1, 2020}}

| rev3 = Financial Times

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/f5c28c5a-ee6d-11e9-bfa4-b25f11f42901|title=clipping.: There Existed an Addiction to Blood — a highly accomplished reworking|work=Financial Times|last=Hunter-Tilney|first=Ludovic|date=October 18, 2019|accessdate=October 18, 2019|url-access=subscription}}

| rev4 = The Line of Best Fit

| rev4score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood-album-review|title=Clipping return with a strikingly eerie hip-hop masterstroke|work=The Line of Best Fit|last=Bray|first=Jack|date=October 14, 2019|accessdate=October 18, 2019}}

| rev5 = Loud and Quiet

| rev5score = 7/10{{cite web|url=https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood/|title=Clipping – There Existed An Addiction To Blood|website=Loud and Quiet|last=Haworth|first=Jamie|date=October 15, 2019|accessdate=February 1, 2020}}

| rev6 = Paste

| rev6score = 8.5/10{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood-revie.html|title=Clipping.'s There Existed an Addiction to Blood Underscores the Horrors of Humanity|website=Paste|last=Goodridge|first=Hayden|date=October 16, 2019|accessdate=February 1, 2020}}

| rev7 = Pitchfork

| rev7score = 4.5/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood/|title=clipping.: There Existed an Addiction to Blood|website=Pitchfork|last=Kearse|first=Stephen|date=October 21, 2019|accessdate=October 21, 2019}}

| rev8 = The Skinny

| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood|title=Clipping – There Existed an Addiction to Blood|website=The Skinny|last=Wade|first=Lewis|date=October 17, 2019|accessdate=February 1, 2020}}

| rev9 = Spectrum Culture

| rev9score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://spectrumculture.com/2019/10/28/clipping-there-existed-an-addiction-to-blood-review/|title=Clipping: There Existed an Addiction to Blood|website=Spectrum Culture|last=Hazelwood|first=Holly|date=October 28, 2019|accessdate=February 1, 2020}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10score = 8/10{{cite journal|title=Clipping: There Existed an Addiction to Blood|journal=Uncut|issue=272|last=Cochrane|first=Greg|date=January 2020|page=23}}

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There Existed an Addiction to Blood received mostly positive reviews: aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalized rating of 73, based on 11 critical reviews. Paul Simpson of AllMusic described the album's "most exciting tracks" as "downright hallucinatory" and considered that Diggs' delivery is "precise and unflinching, detailing gruesome scenes with pinpoint accuracy". The Line of Best Fit{{'}}s Jack Bray hailed as "disheartening and sonically intriguing", adding that it "is yet another successful experiment for the group and one of the eeriest examples of modern hip-hop to date".

All tracks are produced by Clipping.{{cite web|url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/118477259|title=There Existed an Addiction to Blood / clipping.|website=Tidal|date=18 October 2019 |accessdate=October 19, 2019}}

{{Track listing

| headline = There Existed an Addiction to Blood

| title1 = Intro

| length1 = 1:04

| writer1 = {{flatlist|

• Daveed Diggs
• Jonathan Snipes
• William Hutson}}

| title2 = Nothing Is Safe

| length2 = 4:57

| writer2 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson}}

| title3 = He Dead

| length3 = 4:22

| note3 = featuring Ed Balloon

| writer3 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson
• Edmund Oribhabor}}

| title4 = Haunting (Interlude)

| length4 = 0:57

| writer4 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson}}

| title5 = La Mala Ordina

| length5 = 5:46

| note5 = with The Rita, featuring Elcamino and Benny the Butcher

| writer5 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson
• Demetrius Jackson
• Jeremie Pennick
• John W. Snyder
• Sam McKinlay}}

| title6 = Club Down

| length6 = 4:30

| note6 = with Sarah Bernat

| writer6 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson}}

| title7 = Prophecy (Interlude)

| length7 = 1:11

| writer7 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson}}

| title8 = Run for Your Life

| length8 = 4:52

| note8 = featuring La Chat

| writer8 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson
• Chastity Daniels}}

| title9 = The Show

| length9 = 3:04

| writer9 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson}}

| title10 = Possession (Interlude)

| length10 = 2:10

| writer10 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson}}

| title11 = All in Your Head

| length11 = 4:29

| note11 = featuring Counterfeit Madison and Robyn Hood

| writer11 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson
• Sharon Udoh}}

| title12 = Blood of the Fang

| length12 = 4:49

| writer12 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson
• Sam Waymon}}

| title13 = Story 7

| length13 = 3:40

| writer13 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson}}

| title14 = Attunement

| length14 = 4:46

| note14 = with Pedestrian Deposit

| writer14 = {{flatlist|

• Diggs
• Snipes
• Hutson
• Jonathan Borges
• Shannon Kennedy}}

| title15 = Piano Burning

| length15 = 18:00

| writer15 = Annea Lockwood

| total_length = 68:37

}}

Track 15 is omitted from cassette copies of Addiction, likely due to its unusually long runtime.{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/release/14284858-Clipping-There-Existed-An-Addiction-To-Blood | title=Clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood | website=Discogs | date=18 October 2019 }}

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