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Reduced price due to bent mark in upper left corner

Mega rare original Dolores Records pressing with lyric insert. This is the first press with white Dolores label and lyric insert without the T-shirt for sale print

Grotesque was spawned out of the abyss in September 1988 rising from the ashes of death/thrash/metal band Conquest, a band first formed in early -86 by guitarist and songwriter Necrolord. Howsoever, this band didn’t become totally twisted, insane and serious until unholy screamer Goatspell (Tomas Lindberg who established himself as one of the greatest death metal vocalists and founder of At The Gates) joined in March -88. When Grotesque hit the local scene in the fall of -88 there were absolutely no other death metal bands around in the Gothenburg area and there were literally just a few people into underground death metal. Grotesque is an ugly, uncanny bastardisation of death metal. The complex song structures and raw, unrelenting atmosphere of early Morbid Angel is blended with the messy over-stretched teenage ambition of early Possessed. Add some manic Slayer solos, crushing slow passages, atmospheric intros, an overtly Satanic image (corpsepaint before it became popular) – and you have Grotesque. The aggressive death metal found on Incantation sounds just as fresh today as it did back then. All in all, an extremely nasty listening experience, and a classic example of real death metal. This is one of the best death metal releases that have ever come out of this country. Respect

Track list:
1. Incantation
2. Spawn of Azathoth
3. Nocturnal Blasphemies
4. Submit To Death
5. Blood Runs From The Altar