Candiria - Subliminal

Let me preface this post by saying that after this demo, this band turned to ABSOLUTE SHIT. They got so bad I needed to capitalize it.

This demo on the other hand is sort of Atheist meets Deicide. While I'm not a fan of Atheist, I love Deicide, so I can handle the jazzy parts a lot more in this than I can in most other "progressive", or whatever the kids are calling it these days, death metal.

This tape was brought to my attention by my friend Mithrandir who couldn't find it online and brought it by for me to make him a digital rip of. When I realized that this was actually pretty decent, especially when you compare it to the rubbish Candiria turned into, I figured I'd post it here so everyone could give it a listen.

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Люцифер - Live at Rock Forum festival 1989

I know literally nothing about this band aside from the trivial fact that the name translates to "Lucifer". What I'm offering here is 5 tracks of Russian black/death/thrash. These guys took a lot of influence from Celtic Frost/Hellhammer and also a bit from early Samael, especially in the slower parts.

Despite being live tracks, the recording on these is actually very good, and I'm glad, because, as far as I know, this is the only recording of these guys, and if it was a super raw unlistenable pile, they might not ever get any recognition, and they're definitely better than that.

I'd love to know more about these guys, so if you have any information let me know.

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Холостой Выстрел - Тотальный исход

This is some dark, nasty Russian death metal from the early 90s. Once again, being Russian, this isn't something I have a ton of information on. The band formed in the late 80s, and released 3 recordings: 1 demo in 1990 and another in 1991 and then this LP in 1993. Copies of the LP aren't super hard to come by for a reasonable price if you're patient, but for those of you who don't want to wait months for a copy to show up, I figured I'd post an upload of it here.

Metal from the former Soviet Union still seems to be unexplored territory for a lot of metal heads. It's not easy to digest because most of the information on it is not in English, and it's not super easy to find outside of those countries. I'm certainly not an expert either, but this is definitely one of the true gems of the Russian metal that I've heard.

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Abaddon - Funkin' Murderers

Abaddon were a local death metal band for me during my introduction to metal. Knowing that, it should be no surprise when I say I love this CD. Even in the face of the stupid "thug" interludes in some of the tracks, this CD has always stuck with me. The death metal contained on this disc is pretty damn good in my opinion, being slightly technical (as most was in the mid 90s), but not overwhelmingly so (like it was in the late 90s and early 2000s), and vocally varied, with the vocalist using both high screams and guttural growls.

Anyway, even though I professed my love of this album earlier, I don't really have a lot to say about it. It's not really reinventing the wheel or anything, and most of it's unique elements aren't really worth mentioning (aside from the stupid "thug" rants). Anyway, grab this while it's hot.

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Крематор - За Чертой

Being that this band is Russian and from a time when Russian music didn't reach the western world, I have no idea what to say about these guys. I know next to nothing about them, know no one who can fill me in, and have a feeling that even if I did, it wouldn't be as interesting as the music these guys made.

Totally ripping death/thrash from 1989.

I'm uploading someone else's rip of this because it's not available without having to use the horrible Russian iFolder service, and who the shit wants to do that?

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Living Impaired - Blossom and Decay

Living Impaired

Their debut album, World Keeps Spinning, was decent but nothing amazing, but the follow-up, Blossom and Decay is one of those albums that even though I have it in my collection, I frequently forget how good it really is. This is unique death metal with a hint of dissonant hardcore flavor. It sounds like it wouldn't work, but it does...really well. This used to be findable for dirt cheap in many second hand online shops, but I think with the recent (semi) explosion in obscure metal has caused a lot of places to charge stupid amounts for this. It also seem to not be available on the web in digital format except for on this blog, which surprised the hell out of me.

With Hell our Road Ends - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUsAqMvw-pI
Basic Values - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ee2AVlEk6w

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Dominus - A View To The Dim

Before they became Vol-beat (what a shitty progression...), or even released a garbage death-n-roll record (I like death-n-roll...I didn't like their take on it...), Dominus put out a super crushing, and by all accounts, excellent death metal album. View to the Dim is unrelenting. The drums pound away, the guitar is heavy, and the vocals fierce. You'd think from the cover art, they'd be all about vikings, and other lame crap, and you'd be partially right. They do have some songs about vikings, but they also have songs about the occult and some with anti-religious overtones...so you're not in for some Amon Amarth style lyrical subject suckfest. Some of the members where also in Panzerchrist and Illdisposed.

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Morbid Angel - Evil Demos

This bootleg contains 3 rehearsal demos from '86 and '87, plus the Thy Kingdom Come studio demo. The rehearsal stuff is cool, though some of it is pretty raw. Nothing that I personally found to be unlistemable, but others may have a tough time dealing with the raw, live, and unedited quality of some of these tracks.

I grabbed this just to have the Thy Kingdom Come demo/single on CD, since it's terrific stuff. But was surprised to find that there's at least one track on here which didn't make it on to any of the full lengths to my knowledge. Entitled Re-animator's Mutilations, it appears only one one of the rehearsal demos, there's a chance that it's an early version of another song, but I don't seem to recall it sounding very familiar. There's also an unnamed track, and I can't be assed to figure out if it's on an album or not.

Other than that it's got quite a few raw MA favorites on it, and it's got Mike Browning on drums.

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Ripping Corpse - Unreleased 1992 Album

I love Dreaming With The Dead, it's without question one of my favorite death metal albums of all time. This, could have been even better...if only it was completed and released.

What we have here are mostly finished tracks, the drums, guitars, and bass are all present, but it's lacking vocals. Some of the promo tracks (which are included) have vocals, but none of the actual album tracks got to that point.

Aside from the 1992 promo tracks (1-3), none of the tracks have names.

So, if you're interested in checking out what could have been, grab this here:
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