old school death metal ... not easy to find something interesting these days
i liked Funebrarum (US) - Interment (SWE)_-_ Conjuration of the Sepulchral split released in 2007 !
Old School Swedish Death Metal bands!!!
three links for you my SWE-dödsmetall fans:
first:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =111014925
-> a new book in the works, which gonna be killer
second:
http://www.carnagedeathmetal.de/carnage ... tudio.html
-> Sunlight discography I did with Leif of Carnage zine
(also a basic one existing for Gorysound/Unisound:
http://www.carnagedeathmetal.de/carnage ... sound.html
http://www.carnagedeathmetal.de/carnage ... sound.html)
and third:
first:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =111014925
-> a new book in the works, which gonna be killer
second:
http://www.carnagedeathmetal.de/carnage ... tudio.html
-> Sunlight discography I did with Leif of Carnage zine
(also a basic one existing for Gorysound/Unisound:
http://www.carnagedeathmetal.de/carnage ... sound.html
http://www.carnagedeathmetal.de/carnage ... sound.html)
and third:
I find such stories very interesting... "At the gates" dedication I mean. This must have been mid April 1991, right? My avatar picture is from Deads tombstone.DaN wrote:THE all-time favourite for me. First time I heard them was when they opened for BOLT THROWER on their "Warmaster" tour. This was before the release of their MLP and their first gig outside Gothenburg if memory serves me right. Their unique, bombastic sound and Tompa's insane stage antics shitshocked us all and when he dedicated "At The Gates" to Pelle Dead (the word of his suicide had gotten out the very same day) you couldn't help getting a wee bit verklemmt.Ernest Thesiger wrote:At the Gates - the Gardens of Grief 12" is an all-time favourite
Unfortunately the crap production on "The Red In The Sky Is Ours" made me loose interest in them later and when they got back on track I was lost on other musical pastures...
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do you mean my links ?SolidSnake311 wrote:OMS!!! (Oh my Satan) WOW COOL WEBSITE!!!
SO those two other links belong to labels selling original recordings of those bands?
* the book may hopefully be out late this year. The guy is in process of layouting the stuff.
* the links for studio-discographies are for suckers like me hunting each Sunlight/Gorysound recording. It's just a "studio"-discography. The Sunlightlist is already incomplete as I found two more Sunlight demos (Achromasia demo and the 2nd Cripple demo were recorded there as well. Leif hasn't updated that yet). The Gorysound/Unisound lists are only basic lists which I hopefully can work on in summer.
* the picture should only cause some wet dreams... nothing for sale.
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OK! So I'm in a nostalgic mood again, so if you can't stand reading an old man's rambling about his days of yore. Stop reading now! Anyway...
...seeing all those demo tapes I felt an urge to ask whether any of you have heard any of the demos made by Epic Irae. That was a band I sang in between 1988 and 1993 (by which we had abandoned the original monicker for Quicksand Dream - I had recently bought the Necromandus Bootleg LP back then...). We recorded three tapes during our existance:
Ballet of Desolation (1989-90)
One Cloudy Day (1990-91) (no Def Leppard recording budgets just a friend's portable four track studio at christmas break on these demos)
A Lonely World (a few complete songs and some basics tracks recorded in 1992 - completed by me and the bass player one year later after the band had split and eventually mixed and sent out in very few copies amongst former band members and friends, maybe in 1995-96 or so...)
We were never a true death metal band but we certainly recorded some songs within that genre. The first demo were pretty much thrash metal with a heavy metal feel (speed metal?).
The second were a mix of thrash/doom/death metal songs, some harsh and some melodic vocals and a Black Sabbath/Pentagram/Saint Vitus inspired one.
The third demo was a mixed affair with mostly melodic doomy/progressive influences, one death metal track (including a folky part with female/male voices) and a cover of BS's Electric Funeral. Also on this was demo versions of the two tracks that we later recorded for the Metal North compilation (as Quicksand Dream): Recreate A Thought (Nothing) and Wings of Suffering.
The first two demos were made in about 30 copies each and the third one probably less than 10. Still they seem to have spread a tiny wee bit by tape traders or such. I remember recieveing a letter from one member of Dark Tranquility (Sundin something???) commenting the One Cloudy Day demo - sort of praising our "professionallity"
. Also I was in contact 
with the suspicious "owner" of Doom/Peace/hard'n'heavy rockville music/Audible Deafenings and he had heard our first two (if memory serves me right) demos and liked the guitar sound (little did he know of the tiny black and orange Roland amplifier from which it had emerged 
).
The bands we were listening to at the time would have been:
Manilla Road
Candlemass
Death
Coroner
Celtic Frost
Bathory
Fates Warning
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Sabbat (UK)
Personally I never really was into Death Metal that much - or even Thrash. The earliest rehearsal recordings sort of sounded like a really slow and doomy Iron Maiden with an adolescent Kari Hokkanen (Stillborn) on vocals. I tried to introduce bands like Savage Grace, Attacker and Tension to the others but they never seemed to bother. I was kind of reluctant when the more brutal influences began to show in the songs written but did my best (which wasn't much) trying to adopt and kept the heavy metal connection as much as I could - eventually learning to sing properly.
...seeing all those demo tapes I felt an urge to ask whether any of you have heard any of the demos made by Epic Irae. That was a band I sang in between 1988 and 1993 (by which we had abandoned the original monicker for Quicksand Dream - I had recently bought the Necromandus Bootleg LP back then...). We recorded three tapes during our existance:
Ballet of Desolation (1989-90)
One Cloudy Day (1990-91) (no Def Leppard recording budgets just a friend's portable four track studio at christmas break on these demos)
A Lonely World (a few complete songs and some basics tracks recorded in 1992 - completed by me and the bass player one year later after the band had split and eventually mixed and sent out in very few copies amongst former band members and friends, maybe in 1995-96 or so...)
We were never a true death metal band but we certainly recorded some songs within that genre. The first demo were pretty much thrash metal with a heavy metal feel (speed metal?).
The second were a mix of thrash/doom/death metal songs, some harsh and some melodic vocals and a Black Sabbath/Pentagram/Saint Vitus inspired one.
The third demo was a mixed affair with mostly melodic doomy/progressive influences, one death metal track (including a folky part with female/male voices) and a cover of BS's Electric Funeral. Also on this was demo versions of the two tracks that we later recorded for the Metal North compilation (as Quicksand Dream): Recreate A Thought (Nothing) and Wings of Suffering.
The first two demos were made in about 30 copies each and the third one probably less than 10. Still they seem to have spread a tiny wee bit by tape traders or such. I remember recieveing a letter from one member of Dark Tranquility (Sundin something???) commenting the One Cloudy Day demo - sort of praising our "professionallity"
. Also I was in contact with the suspicious "owner" of Doom/Peace/hard'n'heavy rockville music/Audible Deafenings and he had heard our first two (if memory serves me right) demos and liked the guitar sound (little did he know of the tiny black and orange Roland amplifier from which it had emerged ).The bands we were listening to at the time would have been:
Manilla Road
Candlemass
Death
Coroner
Celtic Frost
Bathory
Fates Warning
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Sabbat (UK)
Personally I never really was into Death Metal that much - or even Thrash. The earliest rehearsal recordings sort of sounded like a really slow and doomy Iron Maiden with an adolescent Kari Hokkanen (Stillborn) on vocals. I tried to introduce bands like Savage Grace, Attacker and Tension to the others but they never seemed to bother. I was kind of reluctant when the more brutal influences began to show in the songs written but did my best (which wasn't much) trying to adopt and kept the heavy metal connection as much as I could - eventually learning to sing properly.
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Sounds like a must-hear, GJ. Might I suggest this thread for an upload? - - > http://www.thecorroseum.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1822
New bigass Corroseum feature - - > 
I would really like to. Got to check with the ol' bassist (who's the keeper of the original tapes as well as having knowledge and equipment for such a transfer) if he can help me out with this...DaN wrote:Sounds like a must-hear, GJ. Might I suggest this thread for an upload? - - > http://www.thecorroseum.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1822
Just don't expect anything mindblowing musical wise. Some of the stuff is quite ok though...
So, anybody bought the book? According to the review at VFTDS it's very interesting, but I'd like a second opinion before spending €40. Also, is this paperback? Glossy paper or recycled brown easy-to-tear-shit-pages?peterott wrote:three links for you my SWE-dödsmetall fans:
first:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =111014925
-> a new book in the works, which gonna be killer
Well, I know now that Patrick (my old bassist pal) has transfered the tapes into digital soundfiles (not sure about the quality of these) so I guess I just have to go visit him bringing with me some beer and cognac and lock ourselves in his house for a weekend indexing the stuff and getting it onto cd and mp3.Helm wrote:GJ, I'd really like to listen to your old band as well.