Description

Green vinyl with lyric insert

By 1989 when this album came out on Vinyl Solutions and quickly circulated around Europe, Macabre had been in existence for a few years and had developed their sound beyond the proto-death metal found on their shoddy debut, ï¿½Grim Realityï¿½. Not by any means is ï¿½Gloomï¿½ a masterpiece and may not even warrant the status of being a landmark album — if anything, it’s simply an important album. Like ï¿½Grim Realityï¿½, the music on ï¿½Gloomï¿½ isn’t exactly genius, and it’s hard to get past the murky production, yet one must once again consider how pioneering such brutally fast music and such perverse lyrics were for it only being 1989. By being a template for the evolving death metal genre, ï¿½Gloomï¿½ awarded Macabre a cult following, and it also set the stage for the group’s eventual breakthrough with ï¿½Sinister Slaughterï¿½.

Track listing:
1. Embalmer
2. Trampled to Death
3. Holidays of Horror
4. Fritz Haarman the Butcher
5. Evil Ole Soul
6. Harvey Glatman (Your Soul Will Forever Rot)
7. McMassacre (James Humberty)
8. David Brom Took an Axe
9. Cremator
10. Nostradamus
11. I Need to Kill
12. Ultra Violent
13. Rat Man
14. Hey Laurie Dann
15. Patrick Purdy Killed Five and Wounded Thirty
16. Exhumer
17. Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones)
18. The Green River Murderer (He’s Still Out There)
19. Funeral Home
20. Disease
21. Natural Disaster

Additional information

Label	Hammerheart records
Catalogue Number	HHR 2011-25-TEN
Release Year	2011