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Thirteen tracks of old-school death metal. Selections include '90s demos and underground albums, modern works from old masters, and remasters of classic titles. Listen Now Playlist 1. Amorbital, "Inside The Bodyshell" SLOVAKIA - Taken from their 1998 album, Invidia . Available for Name Your Price on Bandcamp from Tryzna Productions. BONUS: Tryzna’s entire 64-release discography is currently available for .80 Euros . That’s less than a buck for this album, another one later in the show, several more Slovakia ‘90s death metal releases, and a slew of modern death and black metal. 2. Purtenance, "Crown Waits The Immortal" FINLAND - Title track of their 1991 7" EP. The EP was included on Xtreem Music's 2011 remaster/reissue of their '92 classic Member of Immortal Damnation.  Available on  Bandcamp . 3. Lemming Project, "Washed" GERMANY - Taken from their second album, Hate And Despise , released by Century Media in 1992. Cheap, quirky, old-s...

Nine track mix of old-school death metal. Selections include '90s demos and underground albums, modern works from old masters, and remasters of classic titles. Listen Now Playlist 1. Sickening Gore [Switzerland], "Blood For Tears" Taken from their 1993 album,  Destructive Reality. 2. Purulence [Canada], Devoted To Lunacy Featuring Steeve Hurdle ( Gorguts ). Taken from the band's 1993 demo. 3. Mercyless [France], "Banished From Heaven" Taken from the band's 2020 full-length, The Mother of All Plagues 4. Hazael, "Episode 29" Taken from their 1995 cassette, "When The Sun Is Dead" 5. Sacred Sin, "Firethrone" Take from their 1999 album Anguish…I Harvest 6. Violent Dirge, "Explain Away" Take from their 1995 album, Craving  [Moon Records]. 7. Beheaded, "Rigorous Aberration" Taken from their legendary 1995  Souldead  demo. 8. Warlord UK, "Disintegration" Taken from their 1995  Maximum Carnage  album. 9....

I recently picked up two of the 2018 Peaceville Cancer reissues: Cancer - 1990 - To The Gory End [2xCD 2021 RE] Cancer - 1991 - Death Shall Rise [2xCD 2021 RE, RM] I was expecting a matching set, but it's not: To The Gory End — Original or at least very dynamically remastered audio. Second disc of cleaned up and remastered demos. Wrapped in an O-Card, no liner notes. Death Shall Rise — Pretty well remastered audio. A second disc with a live show recorded before this album was released. I think there's only 1 song from this album in the set and I'm not sure if James Murphy was in the band at that point. No O-card (Discogs shows this is a repress an earlier release with an O-card), a fun recent band interview in the booklet. By buying the two together you essentially get a very deluxe edition of the first album (demos, live set, interview, etc.), and a nice reissue of the second. They also reissued the 3rd album, Sins of Mankind as a single disc. Not sure about remastering...

The sophomore full-length release of Poland's   Violent Dirge   is a fantastic platter of intricate, noodling King Crimson worship in the guise of ripping, technical   Cynic -esque death/thrash. Whereas Cynic had fallen off the death/thrash stool into transcendental meditation and feelings by the time they recorded    Focus , Violent Dirge maintain their metal spine no matter how far out they drift in the technicality.   Vader   they are not, nor even   Dies Irae   or   Sceptic , but there's still sinister intent behind the washes of ambience.  Highly recommended. Originally released on cassette in 1995 by Loud Out Records , it was later reissued on CD by Moon Records (Ukraine) in 2003. Prices for the CD are in the $150 range on Discogs. YouTube: Violent Dirge - Craving [Full Album] Here's a link to their first release as well for good measure:  Violent Dirge (Pol) - Elapse (Album 1993)