Seance (Swe) - Fornever Laid To Rest (1992)

Seance (Swe) - Fornever Laid To Rest (1992)

This is a bit of a strange album for a Swedish band.  At a time when most all Swedish Death Metal sounded like Entombed or Dismember, this one sounds like it should be from Florida.  It is up there with the greats like Morbid Angel and Malevolent Creation for sure.  Also good to know that this was released on Black Mark Productions, so thats how you know this is going to be a good album.

Tracklisting:

1. Who Will Not Be Dead
2. Reincarnage
3. The Blessing Of Death
4. Sin
5. Haunted
6. Fornever Laid To Rest
7. Necronomicon
8. Wind Of Gehenna
9. Inferna Cabbala

Country: Sweden

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Cancer (UK) - To The Gory End (1989)

Cancer (UK) - To The Gory End (1989)

Death Metal really picked up and exploded around 1990.  This is one of those albums released a year before.  Yes, Death had already released a few albums and were already boring as fuck by then and plenty of bands had demos, but there were nowhere near as many full Death Metal LPs in 1989 as there was in 1990.  You had Obituary, Morbid Angel, Atheist, Autopsy, Morgoth, and Pestillence, just to name a few of the bigger names.  You also had this album, Cancer.  I find a lot of the bands who released a Death Metal album in 1989 had a lot darker, primitive feel about them.  This is a good thing.  To The Gory End is no exception and straight away you can see just from the cover artwork this is apparent.  I mean come on, if you hadn't already noticed, this artwork is taken straight from George A. Romero's 1978 film Dawn Of The Dead.  Perfect for a Death Metal album with a title like To The Gory End.  I wont even start to get into how good these songs are otherwise I will be here all night.  Just fucking worship this album.

Tracklisting:

1. Blood Bath
2. C.F.C.
3. Witch Hunt
4. Into The Acid
5. Imminent Catastrophy
6. To The Gory End
7. Body Count
8. Sentenced
9. Die Die

Country: UK

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Destructor (US) - Maximum Destruction (1985)

Destructor (US) - Maximum Destruction (1985)

When it comes to 80's bands from the USA playing the more aggressive styles of metal, 85-86 was the peak of this period. Before then you have a bunch of bands influenced by the NWOBHM and afterwards you have slightly weak, disappointing clones coppying those pre-85 bands.  What you have in between is sheer perfection.  More than often anyway.  Destructor is one of those bands and this album is non-stop speed metal insanity.  I still remember the first time I heard this album and I was hooked straight away.  I still feel the same sense of awe I did the first time everything I hear that first scream in Maximum Destruction up until the outro of Bondage.  By the way, Hot Wet Leather and Bondage are meant to be seperate tracks, but they blend together and it works too well not to have them together so I left them all as one track.  You just can't listen to one without the other.

Originally released on the US label Auburn Records, it was also released on Roadrunner Records in Europe.

Tracklisting:

1. Prelude In Sledge Minor, Opus 7, 1st Movement
2. Maximum Destruction
3. Destructor
4. Take Command
5. Instrumetal
6. Pounding Evil
7. Overdose
8. Iron Curtain
9. Hot Wet Leather/Bondage

Country: USA

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Sodom (Ger) - Persecution Mania (1987)

Sodom (Ger) - Persecution Mania (1987)

With this release coming a month after the Expurse Of Sodomy EP it is clear to assume it will sound somewhat similar.  And you would be correct.  Although I think this is't as good as what is found on that EP, it still has that same early darkness the band are known for from their early releases which would later be lost on future recordings.  You can see that the lyrical themes are starting to lean more and more towards their war themes that the band would later be known for, even though they always had this kind of style (Burst Command Til War from the first EP).  But you still have some of the blasphemous stuff from their early days here too.  The last truly perfect effort by this band whos next album would be hospital grade sterility at its peak.

Tracklisting:

1. Nuclear Winter
2. Electrocution
3. Iron Fist (Motörhead cover)
4. Persecution Mania
5. Enchanted Land
6. Procession To Golgatha
7. Christ Passion
8. Conjuration
9. Bombenhagel

Country: Germany

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Sodom (Ger) - Expurse Of Sodomy (1987)

Sodom (Ger) - Expurse Of Sodomy (1987)

Following Obsessed By Cruelty you can see the progression made.  When the first recording of that album was made and then scrapped for being too messy the second version was made and was overall cleaner.  I hated it and thought it lacked a fair bit.  This is the obvious next step and I assume they learned from the last album.  This is what the new recording of Obsessed By Cruelty should've sounded like.  This is cleaner by far, but it still has that raw edge to it.  The vocals sound as evil as ever here and all three tracks are worthy enough to have been included on their touring setlist and ended up on their Mortal Way Of Live album a year later.  This is the perfect combination of the darkness and filth of what came before and the cleaner polish production that came later.

Tracklisting:

1. Sodomy And Lust
2. The Conqueror
3. My Atonement

Country: Germany

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Sodom (Ger) - Obsessed By Cruelty [Steamhammer] (1986)

Sodom (Ger) - Obsessed By Cruelty [Steamhammer] (1986)

I'm sure everyone knows about the problem surrounding the release of this album and how there are two different recordings out there.  If not, go look it up, its everywhere on the internet and I can't be bothered typing out what hundreds already have.

Anyway, this is the European Steamhammer recording which is meant to be the "better", less shit version which was recorded after the first was scrapped.  I don't like it as much, it sounds too clean.  Thats not to say it has super sterile modern day production, but for what this is and compared to the original recording found on Metal Blade pressings, this is boring.  It sounds about as threatening as a wet cardboard box in comparison.  Only upside is that this version actually does have the track After The Deluge which is missing from the US pressing.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro (The Rebirth)
2. Deathlike Silence
3. Brandish The Sceptre
4. Proselytism Real
5. Equinox
6. After The Deluge
7. Obsessed By Cruelty
8. Fall Of Majesty Town
9. Nuctemeron
10. Pretenders To The Throne
11. Witchhammer
12. Volcanic Slut

Country: Germany

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Sodom (Ger) - In The Sign Of Evil (1984)

Sodom (Ger) - In The Sign Of Evil (1984)

The first offering from Sodom is nothing more than an explosion of pure evil.  Another legendary EP and one I listen to regularly, surely I've mentioned before that some of my favourite recordings are EPs.  This is definitely up there with some of the best metal recordings ever.

Tracklisting:

1. Outbreak Of Evil
2. Sepulchral Voice
3. Blasphemer
4. Witching Metal
5. Burst Command Til War

Country: Germany

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