Bobby Ponte, known professionally as Bobby Blood, is an American musician and filmmaker. He is the former drummer of the NYHC band Merauder and current drummer of Los Angeles rap metal band Downset. Blood is also the writer-director of the movies Hell Nurse, The Death Valley Meth Lab, Hearse Hotel and Terror 66. Biography Born in the 1970s to a Portuguese father and a Mexican mother, Bobby Blood grew up in Southern California where he began music as the drummer in a hardcore metal band called Revenge at age 16. He served eight years in the US Army, earning National Defense Service Medals for service in both the Middle East and South Korea. Blood has served time in a California prison for gang-related weapons and assault charges against a police officer. Blood plays guitar and is the founder of the hardcore beatdown band Cold Existence. Bobby Blood is heavily tattooed. He supports animal rights, and is a PETA spokesperson. Blood is a lifelong advocate of a straight edge lifestyle and a longtime vegan who regularly speaks on behalf of animal rights during interviews. In March 2010, Bobby Blood reappeared on drums with First Blood for the first time in four years for tours of the US, Mexico, Central America, and Canada. In the summer of 2010 Blood was also on stage with Merauder for headlining tours of US, Mexico, Scandinavia, and Europe. In August 2010 Blood was on stage as guitarist with Cold Existence for a headlining tour of Europe including appearances at Ieper Hardcore Festival and Filled With Hate Festival. Blood played his final shows with Merauder in September 2010 during a headline tour of Canada. In November–December 2010 Blood appeared on drums with First Blood for support tours of Australia and New Zealand. In January–February 2011 Blood appeared on drums with First Blood for support tours of Europe and the United Kingdom including an appearance at Switzerland's Dance of Days Festival. In 2012, Bobby Blood appeared on bass guitar with Murder Death Kill for tours of the US as well as on drums with First Blood for tours of Europe, Japan, Brazil and the US and at of Hardcore Black N Blue Bowl in NYC. Blood also reappeared on drums with Merauder for the music festival Summer of Hate in Cleveland, Ohio, in July 2012. In 2013, Bobby Blood appeared on drums with Crowd Deterrent in Germany for