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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, ‘Grim Reality’. Not by any means is ‘Gloom’ a masterpiece and may not even warrant the status of being a landmark album — if anything, it's simply an important album. Like ‘Grim Reality’, the music on ‘Gloom’ 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, ‘Gloom’ awarded Macabre a cult following, and it also set the stage for the group's eventual breakthrough with ‘Sinister Slaughter’. This is the very much sought for second press from 1990 that features the ‘Grim Reality’ EP as bonus 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. Serial Killer 21. Mr. Albert Fish (Was children you favorite dish?) 22. Disease 23. Mass Murderer a. Sulfuric Acid b. Morbid Curiosity c. Lethal Injection 24. Son of Sam 25. Hot Rods to Hell 26. Ed Gein 27. Natural Disaster