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I dig it. I've been drawn to early to mid 80s DM demos more and more over the past few months, part research and part fun.
Right on, I have enjoyed exploring that stuff as well. There are still more that I need to track down, but the most recent one I grabbed was Terminal Death's demo compilation, which was pretty good. It seems like that Chicago area was kind of a hotbed for that sort of thing.

Anyway, if you enjoyed Fuckin' Death, I would suggest Master's On the Seventh Day, God Created... Master as your next stop in the Paul Speckmann experience. Just like with Death's Human, Paul Masvidal provides the guitar lines, and absolutely smokes all of his output with his own band. Not as technical as Human, but maybe even more raging.

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5 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Right on, I have enjoyed exploring that stuff as well. There are still more that I need to track down, but the most recent one I grabbed was Terminal Death's demo compilation, which was pretty good. It seems like that Chicago area was kind of a hotbed for that sort of thing.

Anyway, if you enjoyed Fuckin' Death, I would suggest Master's On the Seventh Day, God Created... Master as your next stop in the Paul Speckmann experience. Just like with Death's Human, Paul Masvidal provides the guitar lines, and absolutely smokes all of his output with his own band. Not as technical as Human, but maybe even more raging.

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Sweet. Master has been on my list for years, but I haven't made the time. R.A.V.A.G.E. has been one of the highlights for me, no surprise considering how much I love Atheist, some of their stuff seems like it was really ahead of the curve.

You'll be happy to know that I'm listening to "Starspawn" again and finally actually enjoying it this time around!

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Sweet. Master has been on my list for years, but I haven't made the time. R.A.V.A.G.E. has been one of the highlights for me, no surprise considering how much I love Atheist, some of their stuff seems like it was really ahead of the curve.
You'll be happy to know that I'm listening to "Starspawn" again and finally actually enjoying it this time around!
I think I have one of those R.A.V.A.G.E. demos as bonus tracks on my copy of Piece of Time. Atheist was always ahead of the curve for sure, it took everyone else a few years to even come close at every stage in their evolution. Right on with the Starspawn spin, I'm going to have to spin it again myself. Maybe tomorrow at the gym...

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39 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

I think I have one of those R.A.V.A.G.E. demos as bonus tracks on my copy of Piece of Time. Atheist was always ahead of the curve for sure, it took everyone else a few years to even come close at every stage in their evolution. Right on with the Starspawn spin, I'm going to have to spin it again myself. Maybe tomorrow at the gym...

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The "On They Slay" demo, yeah, I should get that reissue. This 1985 demo caught my attention a while ago:

 

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On 2018-03-11 at 6:27 PM, MacabreEternal said:

First time with either, found Wardruna really calming to the point of being ethereal.  "Isa" is going to take a few more listens to fully absorb but all good so far.

I just love Wardruna and you are right, the music is very calming, in fact so calming that I listen to Wardruna when doing yoga. Would love to see them live one day.

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54 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

I just love Wardruna and you are right, the music is very calming, in fact so calming that I listen to Wardruna when doing yoga. Would love to see them live one day.

I have one particular album of North Ossetian folk music that I like to listen to while I'm stretching out - odd singing and sort of dirge-like fiddle stuff. Gotta get that back into my schedule.
 

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Yes, and this shit is absolutely nuts for a bunch of teenagers in 1993. This is almost like a cross-section between Unquestionable Presence, The Erosion of Sanity, and Omnipotence. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this made its way into the hands of the Gorguts dudes and it helped lead to Obscura, as there are some obvious precursors to that album here.



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42 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Yes, and this shit is absolutely nuts for a bunch of teenagers in 1993. This is almost like a cross-section between Unquestionable Presence, The Erosion of Sanity, and Omnipotence. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this made its way into the hands of the Gorguts dudes and it helped lead to Obscura, as there are some obvious precursors to that album here.
 

 


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Wow, yeah, that's really creative stuff. I hear your references, and maybe a bit of "Human". Very cool. I wonder if Cody knows these guys, they were from Long Island around the same time Afterbirth was coming up. Thanks for the link.

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Wow, yeah, that's really creative stuff. I hear your references, and maybe a bit of "Human". Very cool. I wonder if Cody knows these guys, they were from Long Island around the same time Afterbirth was coming up. Thanks for the link.
That seems likely. Same area, same timeframe, and the label that did the demo discography reissue is the same one that did Afterbirth's. They were all super young, and I can't believe how insane they sounded. The demo prior was very different, but also cool. It was kind of like Spiritual Healing meets Effigy of the Forgotten, or maybe a more brutal Considered Dead. Image what this band could have done had they continued, as this reaches nearly Timeghoul status for mind-bending death metal excellence.

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7 hours ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Yes, and this shit is absolutely nuts for a bunch of teenagers in 1993. This is almost like a cross-section between Unquestionable Presence, The Erosion of Sanity, and Omnipotence. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this made its way into the hands of the Gorguts dudes and it helped lead to Obscura, as there are some obvious precursors to that album here.
 

 


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I need this in my life.

 

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Indeed you do. What's crazy to me is that with a lot of modern death metal going in this direction, Embrionic Death is still pretty unknown. I found them on some random list of weird death metal bands, and saw them on Deathgasm's store when I was perusing their selections. If everything wasn't 60% off, I might not have pulled the trigger, and I would have missed out on this jewel.

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Indeed you do. What's crazy to me is that with a lot of modern death metal going in this direction, Embrionic Death is still pretty unknown. I found them on some random list of weird death metal bands, and saw them on Deathgasm's store when I was perusing their selections. If everything wasn't 60% off, I might not have pulled the trigger, and I would have missed out on this jewel.

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I found a copy for 6.99, and the same store is selling the Timeghoul comp for eleven bucks. I'm waiting for them to get back to me with a shipping quote, but I may be waiting a while - I think they're in New England, which means they're currently riding out the same massive snowstorm that we are.

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I found a copy for 6.99, and the same store is selling the Timeghoul comp for eleven bucks. I'm waiting for them to get back to me with a shipping quote, but I may be waiting a while - I think they're in New England, which means they're currently riding out the same massive snowstorm that we are.
Nice, death metal demo comps FTW.

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