Description

Hellhammers fourth demo recorded at Sound Concept studio in Switzerland on December The second of 1983. This album gives us a view into the developmental minimalism of Hellhammer.
This demo recording preserves a fuller range of their early efforts than official sources, showing a band with a flatter, more nullified sense of lead guitar tone and inflection of rhythm playing; this perhaps reveals many of the hardcore punk stylistic influences in this band. This demo in the long run, helped influence an entire generation of music. When one looks in retrospect at this from 1983, the reader can see the milestone for what it is. Yes, Venom may well have been the first black metal band, with Bathory close behind, but that’s not really the point being made. This album, seemingly played by amateurs, showed an amazing thing: less can be more. By giving the album a very dark, evil feeling and atmosphere, it didn’t matter how well they played, or what chord progressions they used. This album (along with Quorthon) helped pioneer the raw vocals that we all love in black metal. Once again, looking in retrospect, look at all the bands that have used this formula of raw vocals, poor recording, and evil atmosphere. Classic albums have been made with this formula: Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas; Gorgoroth – Pentagram; Dark Funeral – The Secrets of the Black Arts; the list goes on. Any essential old school black metal album follows this formula, a formula that really wasn’t broken or expanded on until the symphonic black metal wave hit. This album is recommended to all fans and historians of metal. If you want to see where black metal came from, I recommend this as a start. Highly recommended to all metal fans.

Track listing:
1. Intro/Messiah
2. Third Of The Storms (Evoked Damnation)
3. Buried And Forgotten
4. Maniac
5. Euronymous
6. Triumph Of Death
7. Revelations Of Doom
8. Reaper
9. Satanic Rites
10. Crucifixion-outro