What to say... I lost another of my friends, my dog ïA, she was the last chapter of my book, she was my re-living childhood, and the beginning of my return to shangrilá. May the earth embrace such a beautiful, innocent and protective creature. Forever immortalized in my finite brains, at least this time I could say goodbye, I stared at your fading life with my heart full of pain and gratitude, I will surely miss you. The vomit of these extensive months: CARNAL DECAY(Rus) - The Fumes of Shrivelled Mass 1993 tape. This is a Russian Death Metal project, even though it starts with a couple of tracks that has nothing to do with the genre, the third track "Malignant Haemorrhage" begins to expose their ideas ala CARCASS(UK) with some DEMILICH(FIN) , DISGORGE(Mex) -ish growls. The weird sound used on the snare makes it quite interesting and the sound of the guitar is also interesting because it's clearly russian, probably similar to DEATH VOMIT(Rus) , sometimes even at the edge of the Swedish-Greek ways. The rest of the tracks are "Explotation of the rancid Flesh" , "The Fumes of Shrivelled Mass" and "Deceased Flesh" which is an spectacular outro ala KRÜGER(Rus) . Interesting for historical purposes, I had no idea about this project. Thanks again den! NASTY SAVAGE(US) - Wage of Mayhem 1984 Demo, RE by Headsplit Records on tape in 2019. I always overlooked this band mostly because their first LP is too weird for my tastes and the guitars are not my kind of beer. I was encouraged by my friend joakill not to ignore this demo anymore, so I did listen to it and indeed is a fukin 4-tracks demo totally super. "Unchained Angel" is great. "Savage Desire" kills and the "Witches Sabbath" is the top-track on this demo, its chorus is just brilliant and I feel this is a faster and more metallic version of WITCHFYNDE(UK), and lastly "XXX" track which closes the demo. The label properly included some live gigs to take advantage on tape length but the extra tracks not part of the demo are not as remarkable as the demo itself. Anyways this is a fukin killer recording that needs to be part of your tapes, hugely recommended. KAMP (Dnk) - Kamp EP 10'' by Messe Noir 2019. This is an excellent and totally original fast Heavy Metal. NWOBHM influences crossed with a VOIVOD(Can) -ish vein are kind of their style. These are four tracks that will totally blow you away from the fancy shit of the 21st century, side A is "Schtmf" and "Heavy Metal Holocaust" with some IRON MAIDEN(UK) -ish intro, while side B is "Freezing Death" and "Heavy Metal Freedom". And yes, being Heavy Metal the guitars will rip you apart along with the simple but great vocal tune that even reminds to MOTOSIERRA(Ury) at times. Highly recommended! EXORCIST(Pol) - Voices from the Graves demo 1987. If you are looking for some quite technical, raw and polish Speed/Thrash Metal act, well this will totally suit your needs. Having 4 tracks, "Last Priest" , "Seven gates of Hell" , "Pile Driver" and "Nun's Sabbath" , you get embraced by the polish sound and attitude, even though they differ in music style, the environment produced on this demo reminds me of "Into the Darkness" by SLAUGHTER(Pol) and even though their music isn't that fast, the vocals are deeper than what one could expect, adding something more agressive and dark to the whole. On the other hand, music took me a little bit to SECOND HELL(Hol) , while "Seven Gates of Hell" takes you to SLAYER(US) too in a much rawer version. The melodies used on some riffs and solos seem totally influeced by Heavy Metal making the whole demo really dynamic. Atypical and great demo totally audible despite being raw. EXORCIST(Pol) - After the North Winds 1988. Fuk... you won't believe this is the very same project. The only thing I connect this recording with the previous demo is that you can easily identify some essence on the guitar riffs mostly on the Speed/Thrash approach, and it's obvious since aggressor, the guitarrist, was there again with his axe, the vocalist is fukin great and you will totally think of AGRESSOR(BRA) on "Kill or Die" demo and I think including the music, this could be connected to "Last Judgement" by EXCRUCIATION(Swi) . This has only two tracks surrounded by intro and outro, "After the North Winds" and "Resurrection", both excellent. These two demos were released by the top quality label Thrashing Madness on CD in 2017, with a great extensive insert with interview, photos, few lyrics and comments from other members of the underground scene in Poland. If I were you, I would not doubt on getting this one. This was closed by a couple of instrumental tracks recorded in the 90s, fuk these are exellent, a mixture of SLAYER(US) and DESTRUCTION(Ger) , why the fuk didn't they recorded this with screams shit!!! Then a couple of extra live recordings were added, one from 1988 gig and a couple more from 1987, the "Nun's Sabbath" live in 88 sounds that killer I cannot believe why they did not record a whole demo that way! it's excellent, totally killer! Then "Last priest" is also outstanding, 1987 live, these couple of live recordings totally expose how much devastating this act was in the past, again, spectacular live registers for this band! ABADDON(Chl) - From the dark of our minds 1993, demo tape by Australis Records. Unknown to me, this is a Death Metal project influenced by the classics from US during the end of the 80s beginning of the 90s , so I found similarities in sound and composition to what the DISINTER(Per) guys did back then, some sharp screams also reminded me to BELIAL(Chl) . I am not going to say this is for vein-cutting activities but is not bad either, it has some originallity . If you are into this kind of death metal, you will definitely enjoy this recordings. This pro tape is superbly done with a really extense insert, apart from that, it counts on some interesting things that give them some identity, but is hard to say with closed eyes this comes from Chile. SIJJIN(Ger) - Summerian Promises LP 2021, RE 2022 Tenebrae Records, spectacular Death Metal in the vein of SADISTIC INTENT(US) , MORTEM(Per) , MORBID ANGEL(US) and surely POSSESSED(US) . The artwork and the name of the album depicts nothing more than a black metal project but fuk... I was totally wrong, this is fukin excellent, some riffs are too MORID ANGEL, "Hunting the lizard" even ressembles in ideas to "Day of Suffering" (instrumental), but has more violence on vocals on each track, which makes it really appealing. Don't even hessitate on getting this tape because is fukin great, even though one could think of a clone, has some extra fresh sounds and super killer skilled fukin guitars. I wish this tape had included the lyrics, seem quite interesting, those are about summerian shit as you may have noticed by the name of the album. EVIL BLOOD(Cro) - Midnight in Sodom 1988 demo, bootleg. This is a Speed/Thrash/Heavy Metal act coming from Croatia, I got into this thanks to the "Empire of Death" reissue on CD, which is awfully remastered and the sound on digital drums are that disgusting I will have to be quite patience to see if I can cope with it. In the meantime, I found a rip from this demo and gave it a try, just to get rid of that bad taste. This demo has a real drummer, raw sound and killer rythm mixture. At first glance you can think instantly of METALLICA(US) but on each listen to this you will find more stuff under the surface, like VIOLENT FORCE(Ger) , SODOM(Ger) , SLAYER(US) and VENOM(UK) . This rip seems to come from the LP version reissued by Buried by by time and dust Records, which includes three tracks from the other mentioned demo, but here lacks of that ugly remasterization, even though you hear the shitty fake drums, the sound is much better, in fact I could even enjoy the riffs, "Kill with Napalm" reminds me to BLACK DETHE(US) on "Mary's Blood" demo. I totally recommend this recordings! Thanks Vic SOS for your enlightning! EJECUTOR(Chl) - Muerte... El orgasmo de la vida 2022 LP, by Trauma Records from Colombia. Well this is a project I have seen live on a rehearsal room in Santiago de chile years ago under the spells of alkohol on a rehearsal room somewhere along with BLACK BEAST(Chl) . Even though I remember the fukin great and fast drumming during that time, I never had the chance to get anything from them neither was interested, I am not into this kind of blackened thrash metal sung in Spanish language (I have few classic exceptions) . Playing this release my mouth was shut with a spiked-punch, as soon as this starts, after the introduction, when you listen to the lyrics, the expressions on the vocalist (who is also the drummer!) and its production, you realise this is definitely a South American release in the Southamerican terms, due to my ignorance on this matter, I think I can only relate it to the Colombian ultra metal scene like SACRILEGIO(Col) , REENCARNACION(Col) , MASACRE(Col) , PARABELLUM(Col) and the likes, here and there on few tremolos I associated some ideas coming from the Death metal sphere, like DEATH(US) , and AUTOPSY(US) on slow parts (bass sounds in that vein), which could connect in some ways with FORCE OF DARKNESS(Chl) too, even on its Speed Metal parts. I know this band is well known in the underground but if there are some mongoloids like me out there, you should definately try this album. Thanks leo for inviting me to your archive! Cheers & congrats on this release!! Cheers to Jesus too! BURIED(Chl) - I won't stay dead EP 2020 by Putrid Prods on 7". Coming from chile this is not what I was expecting, but isn't bad either, the thing is, is not fresh at all, just another band coming from the bunch of north-american death metal influenced bands that don't make it far beyond than that, vocals are good, ala Martin van Drunen mixed with Chris Reifert and Chuck . Having such a great putrid deathrash metal roots in their country, is a pity they fall in such an over used resources, the best is the organic sound as if it were taken from a live session. Thanks pelado ( BLACK BEAST(Chl) ) for the gift! L.S.N.(US) - Fall to the Reich 1986 Demo. only a bloody mp3... shit! I read about it on the Blowing Thrash #3 1986 and I was curious enough to give them a try, 4 tracks of furious Thrash Metal full of hatred speed and bowels vomit , at first sounds as if it were METALLICA(US) plus DAMNAKLEEZ(US) BLOODFEAST(US) and later goes right into the very vein of RANCID DECAY(US) in "Slaguhterhouse" track plus, of course, some DARK ANGEL(US) and even DISARM(Jpn) , yes that b-side lost-in-time recordings, great demo I must put on my wishlist for anyone willing to share/trade this killer recordings. MORTUARY(Mex) - Where Death takes your Soul 1988 demo, dubbed. As far as I know, I always ignored this band due not to finding their LP much interesting, too plain and lacked of ideas. But this demo presented a more south american approach inspired by SEPULTURA(Bra) Morbid Visions era mixed a little bit with KREATOR(Ger) , including vocals a little bit more deep which one could say they were indeed approaching to the death metal ways, in fact the environment of the demo reminded me of NECROPHILIAC(Spa) in a live demo, part of Xtreme Recs compilation. This four track demo alternates vox between the bassist joel, and the guitarrist pedro, I must say joel had a killer and chaotic screams that can be appreciated on "Sacrilegious" track at its beginning. In the end a killer demo, not too original but the productionless and simplistic approach in music is by far much more interesting than what I previously checked from them. Thanks joakill for the trade. PAGANFIRE(Phi) - Of Deathlands and Bloodsoaked Paths 2019, by Morbid Ways to Die Records. These philipino-guys speed-switch was finally turned on, these realease, in my opinion is the best they have achieved, it's not dull, it's not slow, it lacks of those ugly cuts on guitars we all hate, and rips your face with its chaos and their astonishing solo works plus vocals effects (those seem quite original and made me think of SCHIZOPHREIA(Bel) kind of effects). Here you will encounter a pretty good mixture among SEPULTURA(Bra) , KREATOR(Ger) and Ingo's kind of screams! ( NECRODEATH(Ita) , the intro even reminds to "Matter Tenebrarum" 's one ) . Really good brazilio-italian mixture , some Chilean deathrash too ala DRENCROM(Chl) or EVIL MADNESS(Chl) ; may be that could even be just Philipinian. Highly recommended for those looking for great underground music, they do not need introduction, but for those who need it, these words are good for a deathrash-intake! Cheers erik, thanks for this and greetings Nonoy! MAJESTY(US) - Bestial Vomit 1987 demo + Demo II 1987, bootleg tape. This is Oscar García, the well known icon of grindcore death metal who formed NAUSEA(US) and TERRORIZER(US). This is in the line of early MASTER(US) , the intro seems the same one used by NECROPHAGIA(US) on their track "Ancient Slumber" , I had no idea this was reissued on CD honestly, but I remember pretty good times with my friend bruno listening to TERRORIZER and digging a little bit further what happened before those aforementioned big projects, in fact, I think we got the bootleg split CD from them, once we traveled together to buenos aires to get our reissue of MORBID BLOOD(Ury) on tape. Killer memories, we were into "Purity Dillution" from DEFECATION(US) and even were willing to do a project in all this vein both of us only, he was going to be bruno harris and I federico harris HA! ... anyway, another project quite hidden as MAJESTY, is UNKNOWN DEATH(US), also from Oscar, this one, I am still missing a good rip/dubbed tape, please let me know if you want to trade it, in fact, yes I used their monicker as one of my pseudonims in the underground he he, I liked the music but the monicker sounds just fantastic. In Demo II you can hear a little bit more REPULSION(US) 's on the vocal mainly, it's more ripping. I think this recordings are good to know if you are curious about the development of NAUSEA & TERRORIZER activities. Pure mid tempo deathgrind! ERONYMOUS(Sgp) - Surrender unto Evil 1991 demo, dubbed. This is a real invitation to surrender into evilness. As soon as the vocals vomits, I could not avoid linking this to DEATHLY SCYTHE(Chl) , the vocalist's tune is extremely similar, in fact, I happened to relate this demo with their "Celestial Darkness" MLP . In the rest you find that typical brazilian influences from that era , the omonimous track is a little bit more chaotic so pretty good one, seems from another recording session but I am still not totally sure. "Rising of the darkness" keeps in the same line as their first track, but suddenly a fast IRON MAIDEN(UK) riff appears done in tremolo-ish ways hahaha , is it from "Trooper"? kind of wierd due not sounding too obscure like the rest, the great vocal works allow you to ignore that fact anyway. "Bring the heavens down" is much more into that blackened atmosphere provided by the helenic ways, even after those common blackmetalish riffs a good rythm followed by a great bass line reminds me to DEATH COURIER(Gre) . With all these in mind, you know you will get a great demo to listen. Recommended. Thanks joakill for the trade. CORPSE GRINDER(Chl) - Distracted or Evil demo 1990. RE 2021 by Connuctione Incesta Records. This is a four-tracks demo in the vein of early Grindcore acts like NAPALM DEATH(UK) , CARCASS(UK) and I would mention BENEDICTION(UK) on their most death metal riffs and some palm-muted riffs takes you to MASSACRE(US) (yes, where one can think this monicker comes from) and even some ATOMIC AGGRESSOR(Chl) , on their last track "Decay" you can even feel little SEPULTURA(Bra) mostly on vox. This isn't one of the best recordings from Chile but is good to know, the label did an excellent work on its insert, the reissue is totally professional with serigraphied tape. IN AGGRESSION(Chl) - An extensive Aberration Demo 1989, RE Soul Repear 2020 on tape. This is a Death/Thrash Metal band not remarkable for their speed but for some of their guitar-works and the vocalist's tune, which ressembles to a mixture among DARK ANGEL(US) 's Don Doty , CELTIC FROST(Swi) 's Tom Warrior and CHAKAL(Bra) 's in "Abominable Anno Domini". At some points one also can think of DARKNESS(Chl) . It's a good project to know. When the second track "Fatricide" starts, one realises SEPULTURA(Bra) 's "Schizophrenia" was one of their sources of inspiration, not only in terms of compositions but in terms of production, being a little bit more obscure on tremolo parts though. Side B with "Desmaterialized for Intoxication" 's end I could think of POSSESSED(US), and even at vocals level, "Genetic in Extreme" also demonstrates this influence at guitar rythms, which is pretty well done . Another properly desecrated demo from the old times, great insert plus serigraphied chromo tape with an excellent sound. I wonder how their first demo sounds... anyone has it? CLAUSTRO(Chl) - Demo 1 1991 , RE 2024 by Soul Reaper on tape. Another well done exhumation. This is a project I haven't heard of before, this demo is pretty raw and amateurish as stated by the biography included in the insert, but with really dynamic rythms and melody changes, solid ideas and each member show certain skilled capabilities on each track. I can be wrong but I can think of ABSIDE(Ury) , the only project coming to my mind listening to this. Vocalist is in the vein of DEATH YELL(Chl) 's and ANARCHUS(Mex) 's and few rythms on guitars, mainly on the track "Paradise in hell" made me think of a faster TREBLINKA(Swe) . I must admit this demo twisted my brains, probably because being at the edge of musical realms I don't dig too much. CLAUSTRO(Chl) - Demo 2 1991, RE 2024 by Soul Reaper on tape. This is clearly an step forward in terms of production and skills. The essence it's the very same you get on their previous demo, but the vocals are more Death Metal oriented, I would say they are almost mimicking Anton from PENTAGRAM(Chl) , but a little bit deeper, anyway this music is more melodic, in fact in the beginning of "Of terror and Hate" track I felt some ala VARATHRON(Gre) kind of slow melodies, on "Infected World" intro too. This demo confirms that the project itself was surrounding the more melodic aspects of the typical Death Metal approach from the time, but in a quite early stage. Best tracks are "Death Ecology" , "Infected World" and "Power of the dark". Тяжёлый День(Rus) - В полёт 1987 , LP by Мелодия . USSR Heavy Metal in the very vein of classics like JUDAS PRIEST(UK) but, even though you recognize tons of influences, ends up being quite original, comparable with the live recordings of Клиника(Rus) or Старый Город(Rus) , in that way, but not falling into cloning. LED ZEPPELIN(UK), ACDC(Aus), DEEP PURPLE(UK) , JEFF BECK(UK) are the most notorious influences, even some PINK FLOYD(UK) . At first, I thougth it was quite boring and not that fast project, but ended up really enjoying this recording. Anyone willing to get a copy of this one, should do it since it's still pretty cheap. By the way the monicker translates into Hard Day. SABBAT(Jpn) - Sabbatical Blasphemous Gospels 2012, by Rawblackult Productions. Excellently done compilation of the first five 7" released by these japanese masters ordered chronologically! No more words needed for this masters of obscure vomits. Buy it if you have the chance! HELLAVENGER(Chl) - The Primordial Fire CD 2024 by El Abismo Records & Holycaust. This is one of the most awaited albums in the underground circle since their previous advance tape, which totally kills, also reviewed/distributed by myself in the past. The whole art & aesthethics has been perfectly preserved, thanks to the astonishing art done by "Made in Darkness" artist, whoever you are, you are the master of black arts! This insane person kept the music hand in hand with the art, I needed to spare some words on it because it is devastating. "Intro: Enter the cold darkness" opens this masterpiece, giving place to "The Forbidden Shrine" who was part of the advance tape but this time with hell ov an outstanding quality, in terms of sound and excecution, here you appreciate the remarkable "The Dead" 's drumming skills, which at times made me think BLACK BEAST(Chl) too, mostly in fast tupatupa's but his snare and toms works are from beyond!! "Hellavenger"'s vox is fukin exquisite , Tom G -ish , Cronos-ish ,etc super classic, I would love a little bit more almost-clean vox used previously, this time are more obscure, but it's killer anyway. The solo works are perfect and sound identical to what I already heard, totally impressive, again by "Mr. Armageddon" 's axe. "Interlude: The call of the Evil Spirits" prepares the bonfire for "Gleam of a dark summoning" being doomish they perfectly used tons of arrangements between drums (killer fast double bass kick) plus bass along with great complete guitars which later explode into tremolo-ish-n-solo chaos, immediately followed by "Sacrilegious Rites" with a cut ala BULLDOZER(Ita) is excellent, really speedy, soon to be mixed with agression and black power, it also uses a pretty overused resource by most VENOM(UK) worshippers, a cut and vox phrases, but thanks to the original vocal tune totally dark and agressive, along with the rest of the instruments, fits perfectly, I could also heard some rythm and phrases ala OMEGA(Gre) from their "Second coming Second Crucifixion" album, the track "Black Metal Rust" rings the bell. "Interlude: Triumph of the Beast" tunes you into , in my opinion, their absolute total mayhemic top killer track "Consecration of Doom" which yes has some excellent mimicks reminding HELLHAMMER(Swi) on their "Apocalyptic Raids" release, totally rising the kingdom of Death!!! I cannot believe this could be rerecorded and improved. "Sempiternal Terror" has a pretty Speed Metal riff but with a total obscure aura being quite a unique track on itself, once again the vocals are fukin remarkable, I can also think of CRUEL FORCE(Ger) here , probably CRUCIFIXION(Aus) and also HEFESTO(Ury) , again, the works in solos are great. "Interlude: Trascending into an immortal glory" accompanions you into whispering "Curses from beyond the Grave" with a VARATHRON(Gre) scales after the first nordic melodies, fuk what a great mixture, the next riffs and the rythm on vocals are really weird and original which end on an unexpected turn demonstrating the smart dynamism used along the whole recording, and don't even try to forbid your gutvomits on the solos, WOW!! As you may have noticed, the whole album used intros, luckily for those who die by anxiety attacks, these are not long and complement the record, you will get a piece of ACHERON(US) 's "Rites of the black mass" thanks to those. This album is above expectations, here HELLAVENGER lies triumphant, forever, in the Iron Legion! BLOWING THRASH(Chl) - Colección 1985-1986 Book - 2023, this is an outstanding fanzine compilation that totally make you vomit over it when you open the first appearing issue.... WTF!?? this crap was totally pixeled!? why the fuk did they do that?!!! okey okey okey... I am going to cut my offense... this is marvellously done apart from that fact... I own a couple of xeroxed issues, and trying to read the unreadable (I am exagerating a little bit) first issue which opens this compilation, was total shit... I stucked with my xeroxed papers... after keeping my mind clean off few pages, I got into the second issue, wait... this starts with an spectacular intro I forgot to mention... then going on with 2nd issue, yes, this one and the 3rd one are correctly printed, these are followed by an spectacular compilation of gig flyers, promo pictures, letters to anton (the one from Azagthoth and his specs on guitar pedals/amps kills!), and so on... impressive work and passion demonstrated in this book. It's awful that you have to really cry on reading the first issue while there are better scans in the underground more than what was really used on this... just a huge crap, but the rest, honestly, for historical purposes, totally worth it. The content besides the issues is fantastic, I wish anton would have added more of his words before each number, just like John Kristiansen did on SLAYER(Nor) book. But anyway, a total must, and more if you never heard of BLOWING THRASH(Chl) fanzine! INSANITY(Chl) - Compilación de sus tres volúmenes 1987-1988 . Another incredible fanzine compilation (I guess one of the bests) . Top quality in every sense. When one observes the amount of underground bands exposed here, you grasp why Chile knew/knows about obscure deathrash metal from the whole world, even at that time they were spreaing lots of obscure projects. Fanzines like this and the predecessor BLOWING THRASH(Chl) there must have been such fukin black bibles back then. To close this , they also included tons of bio's , pictures and flyers that were part of their vault. Impressive. You can appreciate really intersting facts here and there... total mindblowing. I hugely recommend you this book. INRI(Chl) - Completa Exhumación Vol I & II 1989-1991 , another book with these two issues of this fanzine whose author is "Wolfgang" from CORPSE GRINDER(Chl) . I had no idea about the band nor the fanzine, so these was all new for me, an I totally devoured this short but excellent and humble reading. Has lots of short interviews with tons of pretty well known bands but some others I never heard of, ended up being a huge source of chilean-underground-digging. Spectacularly printed on semi-hard-cover on Office size. Hugely recommended for anyone willing to read about their past. Spanish-written , I think this is the first spanish-written metal fanzine exposing an antifascist point of view. Thanks Vic SOS for saving all these for me brother, I owe you a lot!!