Funeral Chant - Entrance to Dimensions Unknown demo 1998

Funeral Chant - Entrance to Dimensions Unknown demo 1998
1) Entrance to Dimensions Unknown
2) Wrath of Artemis

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Here's a VERY short demo from the little-known Greek band Funeral Chant and as far as I and the contributors of Metal Archives (from where the less-than-glorious cover image was borrowed) know, it's also their only release. Tape traded item once again.

Ok, so I said it's short. How short? Well, an intro sort of instrumental, keyboard track and one metal track that last together a bit over 7 minutes. However, it's quite good seven plus minutes of music and that makes me wish they'd done more. Atmospheric sort of black metal with Greek touch, some spoken word female vocals and howling main vocal which reminds me a bit of Macabre Omen. Not bad at all, if not exactly legendary material either. Sound is good and dub & rip ok as well, some minor tape wear. Recommended to those who like their bm Hellenic.

Immortal - Live in Wolverhampton 15.09.1995

Immortal - Live in Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, UK 15.09.1995
1) Intro
2) At the Stormy Gates of Mist
3) Battles in the North
4) Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms
5) Moonrise Fields of Sorrow
6) Unsilent Storms in the North Abyss
7) A Sign for the Norse Hordes to Ride
8) The Sun No Longer Rises
9) Blacker than Darkness
10) Storming Through Red Clouds and Holocaustwinds

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And here's another band from the same evening, the one and only Immortal. I'm not 100% but I think Moonspell and Immortal were warming up for some big name, Morbid Angel maybe? Anyone remember? Well, that's enough of that, let's get back to this tape.

It's of course an audience recording and I think by the same person who did the Moonspell bit posted previously, but now he's obviously in position already and doesn't miss anything. The overall sound quality is quite good and clear enough for a hardboiled bootleg listener. All instruments can be heard, even if the guitar drowns a little. Of special note is the very audible bass. Long intro and nine songs which are suprisingly balanced as there's only 4 songs from the then last album "Battles in the North", exactly same amount from the previous album "Pure Holocaust" and only one song from the debut. Quite a nice set in my opinion. Recommended if you like older Immortal and can bear the bootleg sound.

Moonspell - Live in Wolverhampton 15.09.1995

Moonspell - Live in Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, UK 15th September 1995
1) Love Crimes
2) ...Of Dream And Drama (Midnight Ride)
3) Vampiria
4) Alma Mater

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After the Turkish invasion it's time to move to post something more standard for this blog and what could be more standard than a Moonspell live from 1995? Yeah, here's another! Two days before the Beerse gig posted back in Dec 09 and another short one as they were a warm-up act on this tour.

As you notice it's only four tracks and "Love Crimes" isn't all from the beginning so I assume the person who recorded this came in late and most likely missed the first track which must have been "Wolfshade". His recording is okay, the start is less than promising as he probably moves about a little, but the sound settles quite soon and remains very listenable for the rest of the time. Don't know if it's due to my trader's equipment or the original recording, but it favours the right speaker quite strongly. It's not as distracting as I feared while ripping, though. Ok, if you've enjoyed the Moonspell posts so far you'll grab this too. If not, you'll wait for something else I suppose.

Asafated - Humanity Landscape demo 1994

Asafated - Humanity Landscape demo I 1994
1) Humanity Landscape
2) Divine Suffocation

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Still more Turkish material, this one familiar from earlier posts. "Humanity Landscape" is the First demo of Asafated and you probably recognize both titles from later releases - "Divine Suffocation" being re-recorded on both the 2nd demo (which itself was re-recorded too, I'll post later that version) and the album. However, the versions present on this demo differ enough to merit a listen if you're into the band at all. I got a dub of this from a trading friend, however he also provided me with the original covers which I scanned & included here.

The sound on the demo is good, not very deep and heavy but clear. Musically this is more in basic death metal vein compared to the doomy feel of the later demo and album. A bit technical at times but not particularily complex, decent enough musicianship and all that. Strange intro to first track. Not as good as the 2nd demo but ok.

Flying Dirty Clouds - Dispersing... Nothing Has Mean demo 1994

Flying Dirty Clouds - Dispersing... Nothing Has Mean demo 1994
1) Maximum Love Has No Meaning
2) The Horn
3) Slave to the System
4) Died by Rotted in Lies
5) Dream of Iceland
6) Dispersing
7) Maternal Deprivation
8) There's Mask on Your Face

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One Turkish demo more, this one, like the previous one, is a mixure of death & grind. However, there are some unusual moments that I might dare call atmospheric scattered about, most notably the whole of track 5. Most of the time it's fast-paced death/grind with ok sound and grunting vocals. I received the cover for this one, so it's scanned and enclosed. Lyrical content would appear to be life metal. As is typical for this genre, the tracks are short and the demo lasts just a bit less than ten minutes. I'll keep the post short too, so go ahead and download it. Or don't.

Obscurity - Child's Play demo 1994

Obscurity (tur) - Child's Play demo 1994
1) Intro 
2) Gipsy Ward 
3) I Hope Not 
4) Boring the Cunt with a Broken Flask 
5) D.I.E. 
6) Cunt (Stamp the Arse) 
7) The Lunatic 
8) Slice 
9) Roasted Human Flesh 
10) Hi Nathalie..!11) Child's Play (Revenge of the Sodomizer)
12) Brain Scratching from Nostril by Corkscrew

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More Turkish brutality and Obscurity. Which is the name of this band here, and a host of others. However, this one played goregrind or death/grind, I'm not so good with these genres, and released only this single demo as far as I know. You might wonder at the image up there? Well, M.A. didn't have any sort of image on their entry nor could I find one so I scanned MySpace for a Turkish death metal or grind Obscurity and found this one. The profile was kind of empty otherwise so I just borrowed this and decided it was meant to be the same band. Anyways...
UPDATE: The Archives page was updated with band pic, logo and demo cover which you can see to the right and is included in the reupped folder. However, I kept the top pic because it's cool.

To the content. No less than 12 tracks here but most are very short, a bit less than 2 minutes average. Raw and brutal sounding death/grind but some of the tracks manage to contain quite a bit of groove in them which is nice. I like the sound and the harsh, snarling main vocals. The lyrics are your usual dumb misogynic splatter stuff, with the odd exception (Gipsy Ward). Since they're mostly incomprehensible, I don't let them annoy me too much. I actually kind of like this, so I guess I can recommend it in pretty good conscience. Oh yeah the dub & rip quality are ok too.

Cenotaph - Promo 1996

Cenotaph (tur) - Promo 1996
1) Source of Suspicions
2) Life Immortal

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It's new year and pretty much the same old tricks... though I decided to start off the year with a few atypical posts, first some Turkish brutal death metal and grind demos. Cenotaph from Turkey play brutal and gory sort of death/grind, as you can see from the unpleasant cover image I borrowed from Metal Archives. I got this recording from a tape trader as filler to a tape and that pretty much all the back story I have to give on this. I presume this tape was released right before their debut album.

Two quite short tracks of brutal gore death metal with a pretty good, clear demo sound and ripped from a mostly good dub. The sound drifts to one side a little on the 2nd track's beginning but gets back in line soon. Slow heavy parts aplenty, which is always good, are countered by bursts of speed. I suppose the sound could be a bit heavier but othewise I don't have much to complain even if this isn't really my cup of tea. My disinterest in gore probably affects my opinion here. Recommendable for death maniacs.