Description
Polish pressed music cassette. Colour cover and a clear cassette without print.
Poland is probably the country that had the most record labels in the world that only released cassettes. But even though there were lots of labels the market was still small as they only printed these for their own market inside of Poland. And a label in one town maybe lacked the distribution for another town and so on. A Warzaw or Krakow label might print more copies of a tape then labels from a smaller town. So even if there are thousands of releases you will notice how rare some are if you start to try to list the catalogue number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. Most Polish cassette labels disappeared in May of 1994 when Polish Parliament passed on a new copyright law. The Polish label that released the cheapest looking cassettes must be Deck, a company based in Lublin that started in the second half of the 80s and lasted into the early 90s. Almost all of their releases came with just a greyscale printed cover with the track list, and the DECK logo, printed on the front. Most of their covers also missed the backflip so the cover is made up of just the front and spine cover. Deck ran adverts in Polish music magazines like Thrash em All and Na Przelaj. By the end of their existence they started to print colour covers
Another old school release from the days that death metal was still a new and developing genre. Compared to their earlier EP Resurrection Absurd, The Eternal Fall was a step forward for Morgoth in terms of production. Musically it was more dynamic and tighter. Morgoth were big fans of Death, so much is obvious when listening to their Eternal Fall EP. The Schuldiner imitation by vocalist Marc Crewe was very transparent, hovering somewhere between Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy. (Check out the in a womb you cannot hide so better close your eyes line in Female Infanticide !) Was that a problem? Of course not, because those kind of vocals are exactly what death metal should sound like. The music however, although still heavily Death influenced, was slightly more European in terms of using a fairly larger amount of polka punk drums. The songs themselves were uptempo catchy death metal and at that point in time probably the best pure death metal Germany could offer. The opening of Burnt Identity was very powerful and the dynamic Pits Of Utumno is by far one of the best songs from Eternal Fall together with Female Infanticide on which Crewe really excels. In 1990 Morgoth wasn’t the most original young band around, but the quality of these songs was surely enough to give this EP a place in the early death metal hall of fame. Unfortunately they never released anything this good afterwards.
Track listing:
1. Burnt Identity
2. Female Infanticide
3. White Gallery
4. Pits Of Utumno
5. Eternal Sanctity