Description
Box featuring 3 lps on white vinyls, 3 cassettes and a 44 page fanzine. Limited 350 copies
Like the extreme music they created, San Francisco’s Possessed seemed cursed by dark and evil forces throughout their troubled career. Formed by guitarist Mike Torrao and drummer Mike Sus in 1983, the group would lose first singer Barry Fisk to suicide before even graduating out of their garage band status. They persisted though, and after recruiting vocalist/bassist Jeff Becerra and guitarist Brian Montana, the band was offered a slot on Brian Slagel’s Metal Massacre 6 compilation. Possessed’s savage sound immediately stood out from their competition and drew the attention of Combat Records, with whom they signed in 1985 after replacing Montana with guitarist Larry LaLonde. Issued later that year, the brutal Seven Churches was arguably the first true death metal album and set the stage for the genre’s breakaway from thrash. This lovely box set features the bands first demos, a 1984 rehearsal and live concert from 1987. If you want to find out the first stepping stones of death metal then this is the box to own. This is American Death Metal the way it was and should be.
Vinyl track listing:
1. Death Metal-Death Metal demo 1984
2. Evil Warriors-Death Metal demo 1984
3. Burning In Hell-Death Metal demo 1984
4. Fallen Angel-Death Metal demo 1984
5. Pentagram-rehearsal 1984
6. Swing Of The Axe-rehearsal 1984
7. Twisted Minds-rehearsal 1984
8. Fallen Angel-rehearsal 1984
9. Satans Curse-rehearsal 1984
10. Beast Of The Apocalypse-live 1987
11. Holy Hell-live 1987
12. Tribulation-live 1987
13. The Heretic-live 1987
14. Burning In Hell-live 1987
15. Phantasm-live 1987
16. Seance-live 1987
17. Fallen Angel-live 1987
18. Twisted Minds-live 1987
Cassette track listing:
19. Death Metal-Death Metal demo 1984
20. Evil Warriors-Death Metal demo 1984
21. Burning In Hell-Death Metal demo 1984
22. Fallen Angel-Death Metal demo 1984
23. Pentagram-rehearsal 1984
24. Swing Of The Axe-rehearsal 1984
25. Twisted Minds-rehearsal 1984
26. Fallen Angel-rehearsal 1984
27. Satans Curse-rehearsal 1984
28. Beast Of The Apocalypse-live 1987
29. Holy Hell-live 1987
30. Tribulation-live 1987
31. The Heretic-live 1987
32. Burning In Hell-live 1987
33. Phantasm-live 1987
34. Seance-live 1987
35. Fallen Angel-live 1987
36. Twisted Minds-live 1987