Asafated - Lonely demo 1995

Asafated - Lonely demo II 1995
1) Goner
2) Lonely
3) Divine Suffocation (Re-Mix)

Reuploaded

And now something a little different, the 2nd demo of the Turkish death metal band Asafated - pretty well known in their own land and less abroad I believe. I got this as an original tape from a pen pal/trader of mine who apparently knew the guys. The band re-recorded the demo later in 1995, this is the original version. I'll probably post the re-recording too once I remember on which tape's B side it was on.

Music is death metal with quite strong death/doom influences. The sound is clear but somewhat lacking in power, which I guess might be a reason for them to re-record the thing. Three songs only, one being a new version of a tune from the debut demo, but they're all 5 minutes or so. Cover scans included.

Marduk - Live in Zaandam 10.06.1994

Marduk - Live at Drieluik, Zaandam Nederlands 10th June 1994
1) Intro - Dracula
2) Burn My Coffin
3) A Sculpture of the Night
4) Wolves
5) On Darkened Wings
6) The Black...
7) Those of the Unlight
8) Darkness Breeds Immortality

Re-reuploaded

Ok, this one should be familiar to all, Sweden's black metal warmachine Marduk has released their share of live albums and DVDs already which might lead you to ask why am I posting a bootleg live tape here? Frankly, I'm not here to anwer questions. This is an old audience recording of a gig from the "Sons of Northern Darkness" tour from 1994 so do not expect a sound comparable to the official live albums. If you are used to the bootlegs (and downloaded from this blog) you should be able to handle this. The person who records this is occasionally conversing with his friend which is a little annoying but fortunately not constant.

Intro borrowed from 1992's Dracula movie, six songs from the second album "Those of the Unlight" and "The Black..." (which is one of my Marduk favourites) as the only old song makes this a very compact gig at 32 minutes or so. Good stuff if you like older Marduk/2nd wave black metal/live bootlegs/download anything I post.

Seirim - ...Of The Dark One demo 1995

Seirim - ...Of The Dark One demo 1995
1) Intro
2) ...Of The Dark One
3) Short Way To Eternity
4) Torches Of Death
5) Sign Of Blasphemy
6) Slave Of Your Lord
7) The Unreal Chain
8) Outro

Reuploaded

I'm drunk and tired so I'm not going to bother with big introduction for this one; it's German blackened death metal and a demo. Decent rip and worth your time, really, if you enjoy black/death metal. That'd be all for now.

Savage Garden #2

Savage Garden 'zine, issue 2 (March 1997)Interviews:
Dimmu Borgir
Mithotyn
Eisenwinter
Sad Entheus
Darkstyle
Die Verbannten Kinder Evas
Lycia
...The Soil Bleeds Black
Lunar Aurora
Necromicon
Therion
Draconian (swe)
Forgotten Silence
Blazing Eternity
Bishop Of Hexen
Mussorgski
Blut Aus Nord
Exhumer (fra)
Your Shapeless Beauty
Arkham
Prophecy (fra)
Stille Volk
Asyndess
Elend
Vladimir
Falange Amata
December's Fire
Funereal Moon
Equitant
Nox Mortis

Reuploaded - 2022

9th February is my birthday. To celebrate the event I decided to get off my lazy (old) ass & finish scanning this 'zine. I started already like a month ago but it's really thick (90 pages) and put together in such a fashion that scanning Meathooked#2 (which I thought was a tedious task) was like a walk in the park with free beer and dancing girls. Anyways, I finally got it done so here you go. This is ... I guess I should call it dark metal/dark music 'zine as it covers bands from black metal to atmospheric synth music to dark metal to medieval folk and whatnot. Most interviews date to late 1996 and the 'zine itself was released in March 1997.

Besides the interviews listed above, there are a few articles (bands Sentenced, Seth, Darken and a piece about art and alchemy) and reviews, besides the usual albums & demos they also have two separate pages for books and classical music. How fancy. Written in English (surprisingly good English too) and with a simple, clear lay-out it's quite easy to read, if a bit annoying. The editors are very enamoured with everything artsy and/or keyboard-drenched. You might notice it from their pick of interviewees. It's also very reflective of the time of it's release. I get a little sick at times browsing through it but I'm sure there's plenty to read for most of you, for reasons varying from interest in bands involved to reminiscing years gone by to historical study. I recommend you to download it & check it out if you're even remotely interested in the bands/genres involved.

Desire - Advance Tracks 95, promo 1995

Desire (Portugal) - "Advance Tracks 95" promo 1995
1) The Purest Dreamer
2) (Leaving) This Land of the Eternal Desires

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Previous post was the band's 1993 promo track and now here we've their 2 song promo from 1995, released under the new name. The music has evolved, song structures being more complicated, synth is more prominent and vocals varied but they're still the same band at heart, playing death/doom. The songs were recorded during rehearsal sessions in March 1995, in S.T.S. studios so I'm not sure if this should be tagged as rehearsal or not as it hardly sounds like rehersal tapes I'm used to.

Both of these two (long! 8:15 & 12:50) tracks appear also on their debut album "Infinity..." but these versions sound different enough to merit a download and a listen. I don't think "Infinity..." has been re-released so I'm not certain of its availability, I know the label Skyfall Records has been dead for years, so I might rip & post the debut album later as well.

EDIT: MediaFire link which lead to wrong file fixed here too. Damn I've been sloppy.
EDIT II: Not going to bother ripping the album as you can find it already.

Incarnated (prt) - Death Blessed By A God promo 1993

Incarnated (Portugal) - Death Blessed By A God promo 1993
1) Death Blessed By A God

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Death/doom from down south by Incarnated, who changed their name after this release to Desire and released two albums and EPs. This promo consists, as the most observant have already noticed, of only one track but it's a lenghty one at 8 minutes and I guess it's better to have one good song to promote your band than 3 mediocre. Heavy and gloomy music with deeply growling vocals and sprinklings of synth.

I got this promo & Desire's 1995 advance tracks (well, promo 1995 in other words) from the band back in 1995 and the tape was still in decent shape so the rip is ok. Sound is early 90s demo sound, a little muddled maybe but otherwise very good. Give it a shot if you like death/doom.

Wings - Live in Lappeenranta 20.11.1995

Wings - Live in Lappeenranta, Finland 20th November 1995
1) Cast Asunder
2) Equidistant
3) Unwind
4) Sunburnt
5) Deus Ex Machina
6) Refuse/Resist (Sepultura cover)

Re-reuploaded

Here's a live tape from Finland's Wings, familiar from a few other posts and main man Gabriel's involvement with Enochian Crescent as Victor. I was going to post this sooner but I had cleverly hidden this recording from myself and it took this long for me to see through my cunning ploys.

This gig was recorded at an unknown (for me, or maybe I just didn't write it on the tape) venue in Lappeenranta and features songs from the album "Diatribe" plus Refuse/Resist as encore. I'm not sure if this is the complete set, it could be missing a song or two ("Thus Far" and "Austere" come to mind) and he does say "The next song is Cast Asunder" in the beginning. Or on the other hand it could've been just that and the person started recording the gig after intros and such. Who cares, what we've here are 6 complete songs with a quite good sound. Dig into them already if you like Wings or technical and atmospheric metal.

It's really a good quality live so if you even remotely enjoy the other Wings posts you should try it.