Death - Rehearsals / Live '85-'88

 

One of the first death metal bands, originally founded in 1983 as Mantas, changed their name to Death in late 1984.
Death disbanded due to Chuck Schuldiner dying of a high-grade pontine glioma (a malignant type of brain cancer that invades the brainstem) on December 13th, 2001. The cause of death was that he took the drug vincristine to help combat the cancer and his condition worsened as he became ill with pneumonia.

Throughout their career, Death went through constant line-up changes; however, the long enduring name was and still is regarded as a moniker of mastermind Chuck Schuldiner, who was the only member to appear on all recordings, except for one demo, which Kam Lee released, under the name Death, after Chuck's move to San Francisco in 1985. The demo is better considered Massacre material.
Death had some dramatic changes in their sound; in the beginning, before even releasing a demo and under the name Mantas, the band wanted to play Venom/Celtic Frost influenced metal, but upon hearing bands like Possessed, Mantas wanted to play and expand death metal. Thus, they decided to change their name to Death to sum up what their music and lyrics were about. So Death started off as death metal with gore related lyrics, as heard on Scream Bloody Gore. Starting with Human, the band underwent a noticeable transformation, with lyrics not relating to gore but more to the human mind; starting Individual Thought Patterns, the band had brought in progressive elements: thus the last studio album, The Sound of Perseverance, has a sound significantly different from that of the traditional death metal the band originally helped to define.

 
A tribute album is in the works for Death and Chuck courtesy of ex-guitarist James Murphy and will have appearances by members of: Obituary, Six Feet Under, Iced Earth, Shadows Fall, Testament among many other big names in metal.
Beginning in 2012, former members of the band and others have toured as cover/tribute band under the names Death to All, Death DTA, and Death DTA Tours. These acts have the support of the Schuldiner family's Perseverance Holdings Ltd., which manages Chuck's legacy. 

-Tracklist:

01. Infernal Death
02. Summoned To Die
03. Corpse Grinder
04. Evil Dead
05. Power Of Darkness
06. Baptized In Blood
07.  Baptized In Blood (2nd attempt)
08. Baptized In Blood (3rd attempt)
09. Seizure
10. Beyond The Unholy Grave
11. Power Of Darkness
12. Baptized In Blood
13. Baptized In Blood (2nd attempt)
14. Archangel
15. Infernal Death
16. Infernal Death (2nd attempt)
17. Summoned To Die
18. Corpse Grinder
19. Death By Metal
20.Death By Metal (2nd attempt)
21. Legion Of Doom
22. Slaughterhouse
23. Curse Of The Priest
24. Slayer medley
25. Left To Die
26. Pull The Plug
27. Forgotten Past 
28. Denial Of Life.

 

-Line up:

• Chuck Schuldiner (R.I.P. 2001): Guitars, Vocals
• Kam Lee: Drums
• Rick Rozz: Guitars.

 

 

 

These 28 tracks are 2 two "cleaned up" rehearsal tapes from april/march 1985.
and as bonus the 4 live tracks from the Combat tour in 1988.

 

Blasphemy - Fuck Christ Tour 1993 (bootleg)

 

Blasphemy formed in 1984. The band released a demo titled Blood Upon the Altar in 1989 and their debut album, Fallen Angel of Doom, the following year through Wild Rags, a record label they had signed to while touring the United States.

Their second full-length studio album was the 1993 Gods of War released through Osmose Productions. In 1993, Blasphemy also took part in the "Fuck Christ Tour" and toured through Europe with Immortal and Rotting Christ.

Blasphemy was then inactive for several years. Ryan Förster joined the band in 1999. The band's July 2001 concert in Vancouver was released as a live album titled Live Ritual - Friday the 13th in 2002.

They were inactive again until 2009, when they played two concerts; one in Montreal and one in Helsinki, in the Black Flames of Blasphemy festival, with Proclamation, Black Witchery, Revenge and Archgoat. In 2010, Blasphemy headlined the second installation of the Nuclear War Now! festival in Germany.

Blasphemy's song "War Command" has been covered by Beherit and the cover appeared on Beherit's 1999 compilation album Beast of Beherit - Complete Worxxx. Blasphemy's "Winds of the Black Gods" was the opening track on the 2004 compilation Fenriz Presents... The Best of Old-School Black Metal.

-Tracklist:

01. Blood Upon The Altar    
02. Blasphemous Attack    
03. War Command    
04. Demoniac    
05. Goddess Of Perversity    
06. Fallen Angel Of Doom    
07. Hoarding Of Evil Vengeance    
08. Emperor Of The Black Abyss    
09. Necrosadist    
10. The Desolate One    
11. Gods Of War    
12. Ritual    
13. Atomic Nuclear Desolation    
14. Blasphemy    
15. Weltering In Blood.

 

 

-Line up:

- 3 Black Hearts of Damnation and Impurity: Drums
- Caller of the Storms: Guitars, Effects
- Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds: Vocals (lead)
- Ace Gustapo Necrosleezer and Vaginal Commands: Bass, Vocals (backing).

 

 

Originally recorded in 1993 at "Fuck Christ Tour" which is considered to be the first Black Metal live tour ever recorded. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suffocation - Human Waste [EP] (1991)

Suffocation are widely recognized major innovators of death metal. They had a massive influence on the genre and pioneered the balance between brutal and technical sounds commonly heard in modern death metal. Frank Mullen is considered as one of the most emblematic death metal vocalists as well as one of the first to use a very deep "death growl" vocal style.

There was an earlier "incarnation" of Suffocation existing from 1988 to around 1990 which featured vocalist Frank Mullen, bassist Josh Barohn, guitarists Guy Marchais and Todd German and Barohn's friend on drums. By 1990, the band had hired guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Doug Cerrito along with drummer Mike Smith, members of the local band Mortuary which had already disbanded.

The band split-up after Despise the Sun and reformed in 2002 with some line-up changes. Doug Cerrito was asked to join when the band reformed, but apparently he wasn't interested. Mike Smith left the band again in 2012 due to personal differences with other members and was replaced by Dave Culross (who had previously played with the band on Despise The Sun). Culross was later replaced by Kevin Talley.

Human Waste was the first CD ever released on Relapse Records, though they aren't the first band released on the label (they first released a bunch of 7" singles). It is the first printed and distributed CD by Relapse.

 

-Tracklist:

 Side A:
1. Infecting the Crypts     04:37
2. Synthetically Revived     03:38
  
Side B:
3. Mass Obliteration     04:28
4. Catatonia     03:55
5. Jesus Wept     03:38

 

 

-Line up:

• Frank Mullen: Vocals
• Terrance Hobbs: Guitars
• Mike Smith: Drums
• Doug Cerrito: Guitars
• Josh Barohn: Bass.

 

 

 

 

 

Label: Nuclear Blast.

Recorded & mixed at Recardamatt Studios, West Islip, N.Y., Sep. 1990.

Engineer: Paul Bagin.

 Considered Suffocation's second demo.

The intro of "Human Waste" was taken from the 1988 film Hellbound: Hellraiser II.

Track 4, "Catatonia", is commonly known as the first song the band's ever written - a re-recording of which appears on their 1998 EP Despise the Sun. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sodom - Agent Orange (1989) LP PIC (2005)

 

Sodom was formed by Tom Angelripper and Aggressor in 1981 in the western German industrial town of Gelsenkirchen. They were mostly influenced by bands like Motörhead, Tank, Raven, and Venom.

They soon found a drummer called Bloody Monster who was, however, quickly replaced by Chris Witchhunter, with whom they released two demos, Witching Metal and Victims of Death in 1982 and 1984, before signing a deal with SPV GmbH. After a gig in Frankfurt in 1984 (with Destruction and Tankard) Manfred Schütz of SPV GmbH came to the band and spoke the legendary sentence "You guys are so bad, you will sell a lot of records!". This led to the recording of their debut EP In the Sign of Evil. Missing was Aggressor, who had left the band. He was replaced by Grave Violator (recommended to the band by Kreator's Mille Petrozza), who also wouldn't stay very long. A full album's worth of material was intended to be recorded for In the Sign of Evil, but problems with the label meant the release was truncated to an EP.

In Grave Violator's place, Michael Wulf joined, just to leave the band shortly after the recordings of what would be their first full-length album Obsessed by Cruelty in 1986 to join Kreator (where he would last only one show). He later died in a motorcycle accident in 1993. Obsessed by Cruelty was entirely re-recorded (also in 1986) with another short-time guitarist at the stipulation of the record company, though confusingly both versions ended up being released. The new recording (featuring an additional song called "After the Deluge") was used by Steamhammer for the European release, but for the American release through Metal Blade, the original rejected recording was accidentally used instead. Mislabeled re-issues of the album over the years have only served to further muddy the waters and the original recording has ended up being more widely heard.

After Obsessed by Cruelty was released, the band abolished their Satanic image and replaced it with the (pacifistic-motivated) war theme that can be found on most of Sodom's records. With their new guitarist Frank Blackfire, the most legendary Sodom line-up recorded two albums (plus a live album, Mortal Way of Live, the first of various Sodom releases which had a censored cover in Germany): Persecution Mania (which was the first Sodom album produced by the band's long-time producer Harris Johns, and also had the first cover that featured the band's mascot "Knarrenheinz") and Agent Orange (including the single "Ausgebombt"). This album made Sodom the first German thrash band to ever enter the charts (it reached number 36 on the German Media Control charts).

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-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Agent Orange     06:04    
2. Tired and Red     05:26    
3. Incest     04:40    
4. Remember the Fallen     04:21

Side B:
5. Magic Dragon     06:00
6. Exhibition Bout     03:36
7. Ausgebombt     03:05    
8. Baptism of Fire     04:04
9. Don't Walk Away     02:55

 

-Line up:

• Tom Angelripper: Bass, Vocals, Lyrics
• Chris Witchhunter (R.I.P. 2008): Drums, Percussion, Vocals (backing)
• Frank Blackfire: Guitars, Vocals (backing).

 

 

 

 

Label: Vinyl Maniacs.

Limited to 1000 copies.

 Recorded at Musiclab Studios, West-Berlin, March/April 1989.
Mixed at Horus Sound Studios, Hannover, April 1989.

 Producer, Engineer, Mixed by Harris Johns.

 Layout: Janette Andersson.

 "This album is dedicated to all people - soldiers and civilians - who died by senseless aggressions of wars all over the world".

 

Obeisance - Satanik Shoktroops Auf Doom [EP] (2008)

 

Obeisance was founded by Martin Von Fah-Q (a.k.a. Chivo) in April of 1992, the first song written was "October Demise".

Obeisance got their name from a Bathory track titled "Nocturnal Obeisance", which happens to be the intro track for Bathory's self titled debut, The Return... and Under the Sign of the Black Mark albums.

After a couple of line-up changes and our first demo '93 "The Cold Waste",founding god Martin (throat) joined forces with Shuvaka (chainsaws) and recorded the
"Black Baptism of October" demo at the beginning of 1994. At the end of '94 theband was joined by Blackness the Dark One(warhead onslaught), and the Evil Onit (death axe), and the band wentinto a Mexico City studio to record their debut, "Hellbent on Slaughter",
withproduction duties being handled by Daniel Corchado (of Cenotaph/The Chasm fame).This recording was released as a split with Equitant (solo project of Absu guitarist) on Hellfire records. By Febuary of the unholy year of nineteen hundred and ninety six six six, the band started the recording of their first full length, "Infierno Eterno", in The Chasm's Metal Command Studios, again in the
unholy Tenochtitlan: Mexico City. This recording also featured Daniel Corchado at the production reigns. Obeisance came, saw, recorded, mixed (i.e. drunk on Sol beer and Charanda moonshine), and conquered in less than 24 hours. The band then took an unscheduled hiatus due to Martin's commitment to the Texas State
Penal System. The spirit of the band is infinitely diabolic and this setback did not break the unholy will of the band. In 2 days in late December '01 and early January '02 these metal warriors recorded "Lucifer Master"; once again with Daniel Corchado at the production helm in the newly formed Lux Inframundis Studio in Chicago, Ill. This release introduces Kalvator (chainsaws and bass butchery) into the Obeisance horde . Touring support for this release ensued for the next few years. Metal maniacs were slaughtered in Milwaukee, Chicago, and a tour of Mexico as well. In addition, numerous supporting
gigs were played in Juarez, Mexico and Hell Paso. Due to members relocating, Martin was in search of a new lineup. In the spring of '02 metal brother Evil Onit was brought back into the Obeisance fold to play chainsaws. In the fall of 2004, Martin recruited Megiddo the Blood Glutton on war kegs. At this point, Martin also took over the bass duties. Between gigs, new songs were written and in February 2005, the band entered Marching Plague Studios in Hell Paso and recorded demo tracks for the upcoming "Unholy, Unwholesomeand Evil". October '05 brought another line up change, due to personal differences Megiddo Blood Glutton is no longer performing drum duties. But by months end on October 31st D. Krazy was recruited for battery onslaught.

Obeisance means to bow before.

 

-Tracklist:

Side A - Side Satanik
1. Satanik Shoktroops auf Doom     05:18
2. Satanik Metal City     03:07
   
Side B - Side Disease
3. Satanika Pandemonia     03:32
4. Satanikally Transmitted Disease     03:33

 

-Line up:

• Martin Von Fah-Q: Bass, Vocals
• D. Krazy: Drums
• The Evil Onit: Guitars.

 

 

Label: Iron Bonehead Productions.

Limited to 500 copies.

 "Fuck you to : Al Gore, Bono and all Nobel Peace Prize winners!"
From 7"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Xerión - Ulfxurz (2014)

 

Xerión was born at the beginning of the year 2000 as a singing solo project, Nocturno, which began working on the first melodies and lyrics. The name of the band comes from the Celtic mythology of Galicia.

Thus, in May and June of the same year and in the solitude of his small recording studio (Estudios Breogán) gave shape to the first five topics that would be part of the first work, O Espírito da Fraga. This demo was self-published under the seal that Nighttime has with his companion Daga, Nigra Mors, like almost all the works of the band.

In 2002, two more works were recorded, O trono de Breogán and A harpa do Guerreiro, edited and distributed by French labels, Taran Productions and Gorification Musix respectively. The first shared with national bands, Foscor primer and Cryfemal followed, as well as re-releases of the latest demos through Nigra Mors and Wolf Records, who get the name of Xerión to be known beyond Galicia.

In August of 2002 Daga began to be part of the project touching the keyboard, and at the end of New Year began to look for other members to be able to offer the first concerts of Xerión. After some comings and turns, Lovo joined the guitar and Notna down. Together with a box of rhythms, the first concerts in Galicia are offered at the end of 2003 and 2004, in which they even visit Euskadi.

New jobs also came with the new training. O Diaño das Tebras was released in 2005 on a CD shared with the Basques Nakkiga and Omendark through Oniric Records, and In the mystical search of Amh-ghad-ari, edited in the same 2005 on a CD shared with the Portuguese band Decayed, also through Nigra Mors . In these works he has had the special collaborations of Leonardo in the violin and The Celtic King In Exile in the Irish bagpipe.

At the beginning of 2006, with Aboriorth already in the drum position, and after offering the first concert in Portugal, in the IV Metal Attack of Covilhâ, Nocturno decides to return to the beginning and that Xerión becomes a solo project (something that in the background it will always remain).

-Tracklist:

1. Na Noite Escura     07:49
2. Na Decadencia de Mística Saudade     04:40
3. Lachrimae     07:13
4. Neosofía do Inconcebible     05:55
5. Ulfxurz     01:25
6. Cántico Derradeiro     07:43

 

-Line up:

- Nocturno: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum programming
- Daga: Keyboards
- O Rei Celta No Exílio: Bagpipes.

 

 

   

 

 

Label: Azermedoth Records.

 
Recorded & mixed at Estudios Breogán (Amh-Ghad-Ari, Ourense).
 Design: Raquel Tamayo & César Valladares Fernández.

 

 

 

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