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XYSTER: demos 1987-88.

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:39 am
by Ernest Thesiger
Intense Slayerised Frash from Warrington, Cheshire. These two demos were recorded on 4-track (their last tape, Black Bible, was their first studio effort) but sound a lot more effective that the In Good Faith..? album.

COCK-UP ALERT! The first song on Children of Violence is encoded at 128 rather than 192 kbps, although it doesn't seem to sound worse than the other tracks, and there's an embarrassing system alert sound plink-plonking some 1' 10" into the last song. These aren't my rips, but I thought I'd warn you. Apart from that, enjoy!

Xyster, Children of Violence demo 1987
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I0FK76P5

1. Firestorm
2. Dead Life / The Hour of Death
3. Frozen Mind
4. Burning the Cross
5. Suicide
6. Children of Violence


Xyster, In Cold Blood demo 1988
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7XDNYMCZ

1. Inquisition
2. Subnormal
3. Xyster
4. Genetic Deformity [*]
5. In Search of the Swastika
6. In Cold Blood
7. Death Sentence



[*] I nearly typed "Genital Deformity".

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:39 am
by DaN
EVERYONE who claim to be a fan of brutal stuff need to check this out! I'll try and remember to bring the TED HEATH demo for upload tomorrow.

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:25 am
by Enforcer
This sounds really interesting!

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:39 am
by omen of hate
Thanks for the demos !
I'll give this band another chance, if my memories are good, their album was rather average !

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:42 am
by DaN
omen of hate wrote:if my memories are good, their album was rather average !
Your memory is excellent. These early recordings on the other hand ---> Death By Evil Hell-KIll!! :twisted:

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:09 pm
by The Sentinel
Thanks, will download later :twisted:

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:49 pm
by The Sentinel
Holy Fuck !! This is great !!! Reminds me sometimes of Recipients Of Death. Can indeed someone re-release this on LP, please?

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:36 am
by BloodOfChrist
I only have the In Cold Blood demo, the LP, and the Black Blood demo. Ive always wanted to hear Children Of Violence. Thanks a lot for this!

Ive seen the '30 Minutes of Metal' demo on some tradelists, but I never got it. Does anyone know if its as good as the other demos?

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:04 am
by Ernest Thesiger
BloodOfChrist wrote:Ive seen the '30 Minutes of Metal' demo on some tradelists, but I never got it. Does anyone know if its as good as the other demos?
I downloaded it but one song was cut, so I didn't keep it. It's easily as heavy as the other stuff, and Steve Hatton (Xyster guit/voc) claimed it was his favourite of all their tapes.

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:51 am
by DaN
BloodOfChrist wrote:Ive seen the '30 Minutes of Metal' demo on some tradelists, but I never got it. Does anyone know if its as good as the other demos?
I didn't recognize the title at first but when I checked Metal Archives it turns out this is the TED HEATH demo I was talking about - now available for your listening pleasure:

http://rapidshare.com/files/39797120/TE ... 6.rar.html

Ripped at a whopping 320kbps and straight from an original tape if I remember correctly. This is my fave of all their tapes. It has the best vocals and the lead riff in Eternal Conflagration is to die for!

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:12 pm
by The Sentinel
Thanks, this raging stuff, great !!!

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:13 pm
by BloodOfChrist
DaN wrote:
BloodOfChrist wrote:Ive seen the '30 Minutes of Metal' demo on some tradelists, but I never got it. Does anyone know if its as good as the other demos?
I didn't recognize the title at first but when I checked Metal Archives it turns out this is the TED HEATH demo I was talking about - now available for your listening pleasure:

http://rapidshare.com/files/39797120/TE ... 6.rar.html

Ripped at a whopping 320kbps and straight from an original tape if I remember correctly. This is my fave of all their tapes. It has the best vocals and the lead riff in Eternal Conflagration is to die for!
Ernest Thesiger wrote:
BloodOfChrist wrote:Ive seen the '30 Minutes of Metal' demo on some tradelists, but I never got it. Does anyone know if its as good as the other demos?
I downloaded it but one song was cut, so I didn't keep it. It's easily as heavy as the other stuff, and Steve Hatton (Xyster guit/voc) claimed it was his favourite of all their tapes.
Nice! Thanks a lot to both of you! Im going to download it now.

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:17 am
by Ernest Thesiger

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:15 pm
by omen of hate
DaN wrote:
BloodOfChrist wrote:Ive seen the '30 Minutes of Metal' demo on some tradelists, but I never got it. Does anyone know if its as good as the other demos?
I didn't recognize the title at first but when I checked Metal Archives it turns out this is the TED HEATH demo I was talking about - now available for your listening pleasure:

http://rapidshare.com/files/39797120/TE ... 6.rar.html

Ripped at a whopping 320kbps and straight from an original tape if I remember correctly. This is my fave of all their tapes. It has the best vocals and the lead riff in Eternal Conflagration is to die for!
The track-lists of the TED HEATH demo and the "30 minutes of Metal" demo are indeed the same. Is it 2 different recordings or the same demo released under 2 different band names ?

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:06 pm
by Ernest Thesiger
omen of hate wrote:The track-lists of the TED HEATH demo and the "30 minutes of Metal" demo are indeed the same. Is it 2 different recordings or the same demo released under 2 different band names ?
I always thought they'd already changed their name to Xyster by the time 30MoM was released, & that they'd recorded one demo as Ted Heath previously. That was my understanding from reading UK zines from '89/'90. Hmm.