Dismember - Reborn In Blasphemy [promo] (1990)

 

 The band formed in Stockholm in 1988 as a trio of vocalist/bassist Robert Senneback, guitarist David Blomqvist and drummer Fred Estby. This initial line-up only maintained itself for just over a year but did release two demos in the shape of 'Dismembered' and 'Last Blasphemies'. The original Dismember folded in late 1989 with Estby joining forces with Carnage and Blomqvist opting for Entombed. However, shortly before recording of the debut Carnage album Blomqvist jumped ship from his new act to join the band. 

Carnage dissolved when guitarist Mike Amott quit to British extreme Metal act Carcass leaving Estby, Blomqvist and vocalist Matti Karki to resurrect Dismember. Still a trio, this new line-up released the Tomas Skogsberg produced 'Reborn In Blasphemy' demo before inviting Senneback, then a member of Unleashed, to resume his position in the band. Dismember also augmented their sound with the addition of ex-Carbonised bassist Richard Cabeza. Having signed to Germany's Nuclear Blast label, the first hard product to arrive was the inclusion of two of the latest demo tracks on the 'Death Is Just The Beginning' compilation album.
The band began recording in earnest in 1991 and released their debut album Like an Ever Flowing Stream that year. The album is today heralded as a milestone for the burgeoning Swedish death metal scene and established the band's fanbase, which was further bolstered by the controversy surrounding one song in particular, "Skin Her Alive". The song was confiscated by British and Australian customs for being 'indecent and obscene' (hence the title of their 1993 album). Her Majesty's customs had objected to song titles and lyrics such as 'Skin Her Alive' and 'Brutal Orgy Of Flesh'. The subsequent court case shot Dismember's name to the forefront of the current wave of Death metal acts.

The band toured Europe opening for Morbid Angel in June 1991 but these dates were curtailed due to disagreements between the two acts. Further live shows included Dismember's appearance at the Rock Hard festivals alongside Death, Pestilence and Napalm Death.

In 1992, Dismember released the Pieces EP, which saw more live shows in Europe, touring in conjunction with Obituary and Napalm Death and the following year continued with second full-length Indecent & Obscene which featured their song "Dreaming in Red"; the "Dreaming in Red" videoclip was shown in MTV's Headbangers Ball.

Like many of the other Scandinavian death metal bands, Dismember began softening their sound in the mid-1990s, with 1995's Massive Killing Capacity having more melodic approaches, which had a good public response. Nevertheless, they attempted a return to style with 1997's Death Metal, which ultimately became a sales disappointment.

 

 -Tracklist:

 Side A
1. Intro     02:11    instrumental
2. Dismembered     03:53

Side B
3. Sickening Art     04:09
4. Defective Decay     03:54

14:07

 

-Line up:

• Matti Kärki : Vocals (lead), Lyrics
• David Blomqvist : Guitars (rhythm) (lead on track 4), Bass
• Fred Estby : Drums, Lyrics.

 

 

 

Label: Nuclear Blast.

Recorded and mixed at Sunlight Studios, 1990.
Produced by Dismember, all music by Dismember.

 This demo was both self-released by the band and released by Nuclear Blast:

Self-released version:
- Xeroxed covers
- Recorded onto studio tapes, usually black

Nuclear Blast version:
- Pro-covers
- Recorded onto studio tapes, usually black with a red sticker on the shell.

 

 

 

 

 

Darkthrone - Return To Ultima Thule [bootleg] (2001)

In the beginning were a death metal band under the name Black Death formed in late 1986, whose members were Gylve Nagell (Fenriz), Ivar Enger (Zephyrous)  and Anders Risberget. The band changed their name to Darkthrone in late 1987 and were joined by Dag Nilsen. In the spring of 1988, Ted Skjellum (Nocturno Culto) joined the band on guitar and vocals. Based in the Oslo suburb of Kolbotn, the band recorded four demo tapes during 1988 and 1989, (Land of Frost, A New Dimension, Thulcandra, and Cromlech) and was eventually signed by England's Peaceville Records, for whom they recorded their 1991 debut, Soulside Journey. This contained technical death metal in a similar vein to then dominant Swedish groups like Entombed, Edge of Sanity, and Tiamat, and was severely at odds with the small, but dedicated heavy metal community coalescing around Oslo's infamous Helvete record store. It was at this nondescript location, operated by Mayhem guitarist Euronymous, that the seeds were sowed for the so-called "Inner Circle" of Norwegian black metal, whose subsequent activities (involving numerous counts of arson, suicide, and the murder of Euronymous himself at the hands of Burzum's Varg Vikernes) inadvertently drew more international attention than the inaccessible music itself ever could. It was also at Helvete that the members of Darkthrone fell under black metal's irresistibly evil spell, and, no doubt influenced by Mayhem's primal racket, not to mention first generation black metal bands like England's Venom, Switzerland's Hellhammer, Sweden's Bathory, and Brazil's Sarcófago, they began applying corpse makeup and turned their backs on death metal. 

 In August 1991, they recorded their second album, which was released at the beginning of 1992 and titled A Blaze in the Northern Sky. The album contained Darkthrone's first black metal recordings, and Peaceville Records was originally skeptical about releasing it due to Darkthrone's extreme diversion from their original death metal style. After the album was recorded, bassist Dag Nilsen left the band, as he didn't want to play black metal, and is merely credited as "session bass" with no picture on the album.

 

 -Tracklist:

A1. Eon / Thulcandra
A2. Archipelago
B1. Snowfall
B2. Life
B3. Untitled Live Songs (Finland 1991)

 

-Line up:

 • Fenriz : Drums, Vocals (additional), Bass, Guitars (additional).
 • Nocturno Culto : Vocals, Guitars, Bass.

 

 

 

 Label: Not On Label.

A1 & A2 are reissued from Thulcandra Demo
B1 is reissued from New Dimension Demo 1988
B3 is unreleased & exclusive to this record.

 

 

 

Riihimaki, Finland, 1991.

Obituary - Live Xecution - Party.San 2008 (2009)

 

 Obituary is an American death metal band formed in 1984 in Tampa, Florida under the name Executioner, then changed the name’s spelling to Xecutioner, and later changed their name to Obituary in 1988. The band comprises vocalist John Tardy, drummer Donald Tardy, guitarist Trevor Peres and bassist Terry Butler. The band is a fundamental act in the development of death metal music and one of the most successful death metal bands in the world.

Obituary is one of the pioneering bands of the death metal genre. Founded as Executioner in Seffner, Florida during 1984. They soon dropped the «E» from their name because of another band of the same name, becoming Xecutioner. At the time the band was composed of John Tardy (vocals), Allen West (lead guitar), JP Chartier (guitar), Jerome Grable (bass) & Donald Tardy (drums). The band released demos in 1985, 1986, and 1987, the 1985 demo as Executioner and the 1986 and 1987 demos as Xecutioner. They made their vinyl debut in 1987 with two tracks («Find The Arise» & «Like The Dead») on the Raging Death compilation. Not long after its release, Grable was replaced with bassist Daniel Tucker. Shortly before the release of its first album the following year, Slowly We Rot, they changed their name to Obituary. The band still remains an influential piece of the Florida death metal movement that arose in the late 1980s.

After 1997’s Back from the Dead album, the band had grown tired of touring, which led to the band disbanding. During the hiatus, Donald Tardy played in Andrew W.K.’s touring band (during W.K.’s appearance on Saturday Night Live Tardy wore an Obituary shirt). Allen West focused on his two projects, Lowbrow and Six Feet Under while not playing in Obituary. Trevor Peres formed Catastrophic in 2001, which released one album, The Cleansing, in that same year. Obituary reformed in 2003 and Catastrophic continued to exist alongside the reformed Obituary. A reunion album, Frozen in Time, was released in 2005. The band’s first live DVD, Frozen Alive, was released in January 2007.

 

-Tracklist:

1. Find the Arise     02:33
2. On the Floor     03:25
3. Chopped in Half     04:03
4. Turned Inside Out     02:08
5. Forces Realign     05:26
6. Insane     03:39
7. Face Your God     03:12
8. Dethroned Emperor (Celtic Frost cover)     05:15
9. Evil Ways     03:27
10. Drop Dead     03:36
11. Contrast the Dead     06:47
12. Second Chance     03:40
13. Stand Alone     10:00
14. Slow Death     03:08
15. Slowly We Rot     06:16

01:06:35

 

-Line up:

 • John Tardy : Vocals
 • Ralph Santolla (R.I.P. 2018) : Guitars
 • Trevor Peres : Guitars
 • Frank Watkins (R.I.P. 2015) : Bass
 • Donald Tardy : Drums.

 

 

 

 Label: Regain Records.

 Filmed live at the Party San Open Air Festival in Bad Berka, Germany, August 9, 2008.

 Mixed at Redroom Recorders; Tampa, Florida. 

 Cover art: Marcelo Vasco.

Photography by Rudy De Doncker.

 

 

 

 

Beastcraft ‎- Dawn Of The Serpent-Trinitatis Infernalis - In Memoriam Of Alastor Nefas [2012]

 

 Beastcraft were formed in Norway, 2003, united by members that has been a part of the scene since the early nineties. The band were created as a rusty audible sword towards the clean and bleak metal sound of the new millennium, focusing heavily upon both the original necro production and its aesthetics, combining the core of the first and second wave of black metal. 

The band has deliberately been extremely selective both when it comes to doing interviews and playing live, wanting the band to remain in the underground shadows. In 2012 Beastcraft preform their second black metal mass as a tribute to Nefas, at Bunker 2012 Festival in Oslo on friday the 24th of August, together with a.o. Carpathian Forest. A box-set of the demos was released on Black Saw Rec. in December, containing 3 7″s and poster (Dawn of the Serpent – Trinitatis Infernalis – In Memoriam of Alastor Nefas). After the untimely death of Nefas in May, at the age of only 34 in 2012, Beastcraft ended all new recordings with the fifth and final album, The Infernal Gospels of Primitive Devil Worship, in 2016.

 

 

 

-Tracklist:

Pentagram Sacrifice   

Side Pentagram
A1 Burnt At His Altar    
A2 Pentagram Sacrifice
    
Side Sacrifice
B1 Energumen    
B2 Demonic Horde Of Satan Prevails    
B3 Torn From The Cross

15:20
    
Satanic Supremacy 

Side Satanic
C1 Recrucifixion
C2 The Horned God Rises
    
Side Supremacy
D1 Daemon Calling
D2 Satanic Supremacy

11:28

Crowning The Tyrant 

Side Crowning
E1 Satanist     
E2 Her Highness Of Hell     
E3 Satanic Fiend
    
Side Tyrant
F1 Baptised In The Lake Of Fire     
F2 Crowning The Tyrant.

 15:15

 

-Line up:

   • Alastor: (tracks: A1 to B3, E1 to F2)
 • Ghoul: (tracks: A1 to B3)
 • Sorath: (tracks: A1 to B3, E1 to F2)

 

 

 

 Label: Black Saw Records.

 Box limited to 500 hand-numbered copies, featuring 7'' versions of the first 3 demos and a mini-poster and insert.

Pentagram Sacrifice:
Recorded in Leviasathanas Dungeon 2004 a.j. Originally pressed and released in 50 handnumbered copies on CD-r, September '04, by Deathcibel Productions.

Satanic Supremacy:
Recorded in the Necrochamber, October '04. Originally pressed and released in 50 handnumbered copies on CD-r, November '04, by Deathcibel Productions.

Crowning The Tyrant:
Chanted in the Necrochamber of Leviasathanas Studio, Norway, Autumn 05 a.j. 

 

Cattle Decapitation - To Serve Man (2002)

 

 Cattle Decapitation formed in San Diego in 1996. Cattle Decapitation's songs protest the mistreatment and consumption of animals, the abuse of the environment and touch subjects such as misanthropy and genocide of the human race.

The lineup originally featured David Astor on bass and Gabe Serbian on drums (both were then also members of the Locust) as well as an unknown guitarist/vocalist, who allegedly vanished without the other members knowing anything about his whereabouts. Seeking a replacement on vocals, the group turned to Travis Ryan, who had actually been playing drums for another San Diego metal band, Strangulation, in addition to serving as vocalist in a gore metal group called Anal Flatulence. With Ryan on board, Astor moved from bass to drums, and Serbian moved from drums to guitar. This lineup quickly released two albums, the Human Jerky LP (on the Nevada label Satan's Pimp) and the Homovore CD/LP.

Next, they added a bassist, Troy Oftedal, with whom they recorded their third full-length, To Serve Man, released in the fall of 2002 on Metal Blade, a move that would expose them to a more death metal-oriented audience (as opposed to the primarily hardcore/grindcore one that they had been playing to before). To Serve Man saw controversy in Germany, where distribution company SPV refused to handle the album due to its graphic cover. Also in 2002, the band added a second guitarist, Josh Elmore (formerly of 7000 Dying Rats), who eventually took over as their sole guitarist after Serbian left in order to devote himself more fully to the the Locust. Serbian plays drums in the Locust, replacing Astor, who ironically had left the Locust so that he could more fully devote himself to Cattle Decapitation. Astor left after To Serve Man and was replaced by Creation Is Crucifixion drummer Michael Laughlin for the 2004 release Humanure.

 

 

-Tracklist:

 1. Testicular Manslaughter     02:50
2. I Eat Your Skin     01:54
3. Writhe in Putressence     03:16
4. Land of the Severed Meatus     02:21
5. The Regurgitation of Corpses     02:02
6. Everyone Deserves to Die     02:35
7. To Serve Man     03:06       Show lyrics
8. Colonic Villus Biopsy Performed on the Gastro-Intestinally Incapable    02:56
9. Pedeadstrians     03:26
10. Long-Pig Chef and the Hairless Goat     02:08
11. Hypogastric Combustion by C-4 Plastique     02:36
12. Deadmeal     02:34
13. Chunk Blower     03:05

34:49

 

-Line up:

• Travis Ryan : Vocals
• Dave Astor : Drums
• Josh Elmore : Guitars
• Troy Oftedal : Bass.

 

Label: Metal Blade Records.

Recorded at Trident Studios. The band claims there were absolutely no vocal effect processing used on this recording.

 Cover artwork: Wes Benscoter.

Band logo: Mike Miazo.

It's the first album by the band to feature their iconic logo in its earliest design.

Producer: Juan Urteaga.

 

The Beast - Fixed By The Devil [EP] (2002)

 

The Beast is created in 1994 under the name of Horns. Formed by several members of Enthroned.

Necro sound for necro maniacs only !!!

 • Discography:

 - Pacta Conventa Doemoniorum [Demo] (1996)
 - Him [Demo] (1998)
 - Fixed by the Devil [EP] (2002)
 - Bestial Torment [Split] (2012)

 

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Enter     01:03
2. Fixed by the Devil     02:20
3. Black Ritual     01:47

Side B:
4. Devil Pig (Von cover)     02:08
5. Satanic Dominion     03:59
6. Leave     01:28
7. Untitled     02:56

15:41

-Line up:

• Nornagest : Vocals, Guitars, Effects, Lyrics, Songwriting
• Headfukker : Bass, Drums.

Label: Painkiller Records.

Limited to 500 copies.

Recorded under Satanichemical influences during Millenium Diabolous.

Lyrics & noise by Nornagest except ''Devil Pigs'' by VON. 

Effects by Nornagest and N. Daemon.

 Cover art by C.Moyen.