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White cover with neon orange and black printed cover. Black vinyl with orange and green labels. Comes with Seraphic Decay records A4 insert Old school Swedish death metal are promised by this little known Motala act Toxaemia, a band that operated for only a few years to produce some truly grimy death metal, more of old school Entombed and Grave with a touch of Dutch bands like Pestilence and Asphyx. These guys were not writing university textbooks here, just good old disgusting death metal with a lot more character than complexity. During their tenure from 1989 to 1991, Toxaemia released two demos (Kaleidoscopic Lunacy and Buried to Rot) and this classic 7" on Seraphic Decay titled Beyond the Realm. One of the members once said that no one could play when they started the band. That they just learned along the way. Toxaemia were hardly innovators of their style, they simply took some brutal US influence, flavoured it in a little of that home brewed, thick tone and wrote some crude yet effective material that would have been ripe for a mosh pit. But it's certainly authentic feeling, without the added burden of nostalgic intent. Nothing here would have qualified for a Left Hand Path, Indecent & Obscene or a You'll Never See…, but it does the trick if you're honing your ears into primal, morbid chaos. Any fan or collector of Swedish death metal should buy this. Track listing: 1. Beyond the Realm 2. Another Lie Another Death 3. Who Dies 4. Expired Christianity