NECROFAGO(BRA) - Desire for Blood Demo 1987, this is an amazing demo with incredible vocals, seems guitars are downtuned and the vocals are deep, this demo was reissued in a Compilation with the stuff from NECROFAGO from Mina Gerais, but this guys are from Sao Paulo, the music is totally different and one can easily think "hey this is just another band" or "how could they get worse in terms of sound?". This demo is pretty great and obscure, and I remember seeing the 12'' in the house of a friend of mine. Never realised about this fact since never bought it and never care... Anyway, recommended demo, is pure Thrash metal with a death metal voice and some tremolo from time to time. You will enjoy it believe me, and for those years it has a great sound, I could compare this with MASSACRE(US). NECROFAGO(BRA) - Burtal Mutilation Demo II 1988, these guys are not the ones listed above, they were from Mina Gerais, Just by how they looked back then, with the picture included in the tape insert, ala SARCOFAGO(BRA), SEXTRASH(BRA) or HOLOCAUSTO(BRA), you could expect something like Back/Death/Thrash metal, they were kind of noisy, I hardly see any difference with the aforementioned projects but with a lower quality, this demo sounds like a rehearsal. If you are into this vein of Brazilian stuff you will love it, no doubt. I just think they were a hidden project because bands around did better with better sound and by the time some of those already had their released LP under Cogumelo. HELLPREACHER(US) - Resurrection demo 1986 - RE by LifeEternal Prods, well besides being extremely well done on 7" including insert with "Texas Scene Report" which tells the story about the guitar player and includes old flyers, these guys are the Thrash Metal version of MACABRE(US) mostly because of the kind of riffs and vocals rythms, check "Parricidal" track for instance! The sound of the guitar is like HEXX(US) for example in a little bit rawer version. This 7" sounds excellent! AH man only 3 tracks and one rehearsal track hahaha I definately wish it had more! SLAUGHTER(POL) - Into the Darkness 1989 demo now on 12'' by Olschool Metal Maniac/Thrashing Madness polish label, these label did a magnificient work on it, is a fat vinyl with great ancient sound, spectacular top quality insert with photos and a great interview with the involved ones. I was really shocked by the fact that PIEKIELNE WROTA(POL) drummer played here! I had no idea about that, that's another gem from the polish underground. I was told by Life Eternal Prods Thomas that this would kick my face instantly, and honestly it did! You can think of projects like IMPERATOR(POL) before their allmighty "The Time Before Time" LP, for instance the Death Live '87 demo atmosphere and the aforementioned project of the drummer mixed with some Brazilian music from the ancient SEPULTURA(BRA) era and in paralel some raw DESTRUCTION(GER), the intro reminded me instantly of "Sentenced of Death" MLP and totally thought of OBSCURITY(SWE) because of it speed and insane vocals and POISON(GER) kind of riffs can also be heard! Vocals rythms and tune also reminded me of the allmighty ANGKOR VAT(URY) from my country! You should check the fantastic track "Assassin"! Killer project totally unknown to me, I bought the 12'' just for the sake of being surprised and luckily it went that way man, highly recommended! Thanks thomas, you were right! DIAMOND HEAD (UK) - Lightnings to the Nations 1980 LP, when you think about the beginnings of NWOBHM cannot avoid this name, or should not... even though this is quite famous and if you feel like overwhelmed by the repetition of huge names and avoid bands, that happens to me lot of times, this one deserves attention in detail. Why I say in detail here ? because, as I previously stated I am psycho manic fuker in terms of guitar players, here you can hear and feel the JIMMY PAGE style and also IOMMI's even in some guitar tunning, I know almost nothing about guitar skills nor scales but you will surely recognize some scales later used by IRON MAIDEN(UK) in the track "Transylvania" track, I am talking about their track "Sucking my love" track. Well you will also recognize METALLICA(US) 's way of speed riffs and the "Am I Evil?" cover and why they were quite picky about it. This is an LP that only has 7 tracks, but the length of some are impressive, for instance "Sucking my love" is like 09:30 minutes long... and it does not bore you. All tracks are recommended and the whole album feels great. This is a total gem. MOTORHEAD (UK) - Overkill 1979, As you might read before, I was not into MERCYFUL FATE(DNK) but now I love "Melissa" and I was never into MOTORHEAD (but yes into all the bands they influenced) but in this case I am still not in love with them. I totally perceive the influence they had because bass is on the top of your jaw, crunchy and dirty, you have some great riffs and Fast Eddie is what draws your attention instantly when the first omoniumous track starts. Thanks to this album one can say GIRLSCHOOL(UK) where an interesting clone and I fukin love GIRLSCHOOL. One can also recognize some RUSH(CAN) influences, for instance the track "Limb from limb" has a riff that reminded me of "Working man" from their first LP Rush 1974 ARGH I wish I had it! This album must have been the key to a whole new experience for those into extreme music; hardcore acts, black metal acts, heavy metal acts and thrash metal acts intended to develop this into further realms. The music itself shows you unstressed musicians who wanted to play dirty and who cares what someone else thinks?! I still think some ideas were taken from JUDAS PRIEST(UK) at least in terms of drums... three years before, one of the best albums was already out and I am talking about "Sad Wings of Destiny", by the time these guys were probably finishing their first LP named like the band, but that first album , the first thing I ever listened from MOTORHEAD; for me was boring as fuk... I don't know, some things just don't fit in my brain, I find it dull, boring... I am not interested in it at all... I listened to it many times throughout the years with any luck. But this one did make it in my brain at least in some points. I am not going to say I am one of their fans, no I am not, I'm saying this album is good, has its good things and I am writing this as a mongoloid who never listened to it before and even not at the proper time. To understand the real value of this album you should have never listened to any Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Hardcore band before in your life! Anyway, I did my best to understand it and position my mind in the proper timeline, it is hard, but is an album that should not be avoided either. I will be heading towards their next releases in the future. I think that for those years, the vocals seem original and totally rebel, probably shocking... but how can I tell if I already know violence in music? that's the sad thing about discovering stuff in the wrong frame of time... WOW (US)- Kommander of Chaos 1984 - Talking about MOTORHEAD(UK) and GIRLSCHOOL(UK), this is another band totally inspired by MOTORHEAD, drumming is the first thing you notice about it. And some riffs too of course. I never enjoyed THE PLASMATICS(US), dull punk, sorry folks... but yes, I found it like that when if first got into the name Wendy O. Williams... this is the only album that really drew my attention because starts with rawness and power with its track "Live to Rock", this album is quite weird, it has a live track in the middle of its tracklist, probably because they wanted to keep the message spreaded by Wendy, "Ain't none of your business", this one is really punk and quite boring but as it is live, you end up getting in the mood. All tracks are pretty killer but the one I did not understood its lyrics was "Fuck that booty" HA HA ! "work that musle" ??? HAHAHA no man... My couple told me "then metal seems to be not too far from cumbia in that lyric ah?" HAHAHA fuking right though... This is a great album anyway. If you like speed metal and fem vocalists you will definately love this one. I even recognized "Warrior whip your horse" riff from KIM SIXX (DNK) in "Goin' Wild" (first riff) and they were contemporary, impressive! BLACK VUL DESTRUKTOR (ARG) - Volition+Adoration+Destruction demo 2008, This band became part of my life when I first knew Javier while he became part of the band as a guitarrist, who ended up being one of my best friends from abroad. In this demo and the following he was not there yet. This demo provides a good starting point for the project being into Black Metal ways with lots of tremolo and good riffs that are into Death Metal, so it is indeed a Black/Death metal with the south american touch on the top of it with a raw production that creates that environment of filthy and somber Black Metal. As I firstly got the other demo, this one is good to check for retrospective purposes which makes the click to understand how they started. Good demo. BLACK VUL DESTRUKTOR (ARG) - Bestial Obscure Metal Caos EP 2012, For me this is the real deal of the band, great EP with 4 tracks, where "Vul's Temple of Invocation" got re-recorded, and super tracks like the openning "The Torment of the Illumination" and "Altar" break your neck. For me they achieved something unexpected if you were following the previous demo, this is more into classic death metal, lots of tremolo on guitars, bass is constantly pressent with a high tremble so you feel the strings, lots of sounds take me to "Bestial Devastation" from SEPULTURA(BRA) and vocals from time to time, where some lunatic screams take place, you can feel MARTIRE(AUS) from Australia. All tracks rule and "Death Posture Transmutation" riffs vocals drums are fukK YEAH! This is the best from them even though I think that from here on, the band got more skilled and professional and all their tracks in one way or another, keep their essence and nothing can make them bad at all. I was lucky to share stage with them twice, their shows are killer and they sound spectacular. If you think they could cheat you playing live, you are wrong, they play and sound just like in their recordings and even better because it's fukin live! BLACK VUL DESTRUKTOR (ARG) - Necromantic Live Ritualization 2018 , live split tape of them with IMPURITY(BRA) from Brazil, a project I just don't like. I kept this tape because I traded it with the B.V.D.'s vocalist and having a live recording from a band of some friends is pretty killer. I cannot recommend this one in a generic way, this is something you must have only if you enjoy live audio recordings. I normally don't, but as I said, this has something special for me. All the tapes I own from them were released by Diego, the vocalist, under his own label "Black Kaos Descent" and this last coproduced with the label by the guitarrist Javier named "Cabra Negra". I think I still count on some tape artworks from "Bestial Obscure Metal Caos" EP , not numbered, for trade dubbed tapes in case you could be interested, get in touch! SEPULCHRAL DEATH (HOL) - Praising Death demo 1986 , this is a raw recording, obscure for the time, I remember getting into this name because THANATOS(HOL)'s drummer was also part of this project, and thanks to my bastard friend from this lands I could also get a recording a rehearsal where he takes part, he did not on this one. I cannot say this is a remarkable recording but is not bad for the time, probably more obscure than other project but the lack of quality makes it quite difficult to shine. Anyway, this is part of the beginning of extreme music in that european area. USURPER(HOL) - Chants of Traducement 1987 demo, well SEPULCHRAL DEATH(HOL) evolved into this band because the name was easier to remember, I Read that in a fanzine and that's why I asked for this recordings, I never knew that the band existed after SEPULCHRAL DEATH' death, anyway for me that moniker was much better but the music from USURPER is fantastic! And here we have the evolution in terms of quality and also in compositions, this is more clear sound, great music, little bit slower probably, not that obscure but it is a great Trash Metal demo , I can think of ASSASSIN (GER) and I feel some German touch from here and there, probably the guitar riffings and tuning. Excellent demo. Vocals are quite insane, mostly in first track I don't know what happened to the guy in the rest of the demo, feels as if he got tired or less interested in screaming Hahaha. USURPER(HOL) - Demo #3 1988, doesn't ATHEIST(US) ring the bell on this one!? Kelly Schaefer vocal tune is just right there! Well another recording from these guys that goes further in terms of smart compositions and arrangements but not bad at all. Still extreme. Only three tracks of a not that technical kind of ATHEIST, some that are not too much into them could be interested in this project, for me ATHEIST were gods but this one is also good. A proper continuation of what they have already done in the other demos. Impressive how they strated and in what they ended up. KnNHNKa(RUS) - ...HNWTRK, KnNHNKa 2002 , Compilation from 1986-1991, but the tracks in m-a seem to be take from 1988 to 1991 so I don't know why the inlay says 1986 or why m-a says 1988... this is a funny band, starts with a live recording from 1988 ? with stolen riffs from THE ROLLING STONES, the next track stolen riffs from LED ZEPPELIN ? Hahahaha, sung in Russian barking insanity. The inlay shows a Piece & Love symbol haha this is the first time I come across with russian hippies!? HA HA HA , anyway, it is excellent, I only checked the stuff when they played Thrash Metal and not this, I found it extremely weird, nothing that I was expecting at all. Following tracks were taken from the second LP. The music is still violent Hard Rock, lots of blues, reminded me of RAVEN(UK) first LP "Rock until you Drop" (an excellent LP by the way). In this compilation, I don't know why the fuk the 8th track was included,sucks badly... is like folk music. From the 9th track and on you have tracks traken from their first 1989 LP "NoTepeÑHbIÑ 6NneT" (hard to find as fuk as far as I remember) that are crushing thrash metal, first intro is quite long but the music is fantastic. Purely agressive thrash metal in the russian anger ways! This is the best from this CD. I was about to buy a couple of this release but our borders are closed for some countries and no one said anything about it in the post office!! Anyway I got WAV's and I can burn my own CDs and print the covers. This compilation tracklist is quite weird and I don't understand why it was done in that way. I wish I could get the first release only in its original order, I think the order of the tracks was also altered here. Beside the drawbacks on this compilation, this is a great unknown release. What the hell this guy is saying about DESTRUCTION and ANTHRAX ?!! HAHHA listen to that intro please! I cannot stop thinking about the fact that this drunk bastard enjoys talking a lot! HAHAH! the intro with a JAZZ piano in the background man WHAT!!!??? Hey really what does the russian vodka has in it?! FUEL! APOFENIA (ARG) - A Cold Night's Death demo 2018, tape by Despreciable Realidad, this is young band from San Luis, Argentina which was formed by two sisters (vocals and drums), their first demo was OK, second one better, but this one is beyond those, it is a classic Death Metal project totally influenced by bands from USA like DEATH and AUTOPSY, but it has a raw sound and makes it great. Vocals are excellent, far better than before. This along with NARCOLEPSIA(ARG), PSICOSIS(ARG) and FUNERAL WHORE(ARG) are the best death metal projects I have listened from that country in the last few years, and all count on female vocalists. I am really glad they made their way throughout the scene, if there is a scene out there. Everything is well done on this tape, it is highly recommended, the only bad thing I appreciate is that the artwork aesthethics is almost like the masterpiece MLP "Deathcrush" which at first glance it really disappointed me, but the music did not and it is the most important. I hope they release something else in this vein soon. Regarding the previous short story about my satanic lust in guitarrists I forgot to mention one of all times popular favourite... yeah, JIMI HENDRIX with its JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE(US)... let me tell you something, there's a show from him in 69 in England, where you can definately see he was extremely ahead for the time... check his habilities with the wahmmy man! he was a total deathrasher almost 15 years before its existence hahahaha amazing. And I mentioned JIMMY PAGE, "The song remains the same" DVD has one of the best shows I ever seen in video man! And I must tell you, Danny Corrales from AUTOPSY(US) also kills in his drinking sessions recording solos in the DARK CRUSADES DVD! HA HA did you watch his flying guitar!? And for the sake of mentioning some of the most impressive guitarrists of all times, my fav is the Steve Vai of osbcure death metal,the real king of chaos, the real azathoth, the unholy TREY AZAGTHOTH besides the bastard child of JOE SATRIANI, yeah... I mean the Yog Sothoth of extreme metal, the keeper of the gates, MIKE TORRAO! enough said... CHEERS! HUMANDEADENDS(GER) - Demo 2014, Arghh Fuckill Records released this tape, I own a dubbed one, my friend bruno has the original so I dubbed he he, This project is from my friend Alex from EXPULSED ANGEL(GER), he is at drums here, surprised me man, pretty skilled psycho fuker ... this is a primitive NAUSA(US), is mid tempos and Hardcore guitars, reminded me of CRUDE SS(SWE) at times, hardcore with extreme vocals , is this called Crust? well, the vocals are done by a lady which surprised me, this is great. I cannot state this is the best you will ever listen to because it is not, this genre is quite boring because all copy the same classics, but it won't disappoint you if you see it around, you should get this tape, the artwork is quite shitty but the music and the pictures plus the lyrics are great (short lyrics but consistent). What happened to this project Alex? By the way, I was in fukin love with the name of the record label! HA HA! MORBID FAITH #12 is OUT! Get it or die fukin lazy fuk!!! Tons of underground contacts,recommendations ,flyers ,etc,etc... total devotion here no false bastards! Also distributed by my label upon request. Ohh and thanks to all the readers, I was amused by the fact that some bastards from this land also read my site and requested my ANTITHEIST AGRESSION(URY) mediocre CDR! Makes me feel honoured to write here, it was not just a waste of my spare time hahaha!