Sepultura - Arise Rough Mixes

This is a rip of a rare LP that was pressed for the 1991 Rock in Rio festival, containing early mixes of the whole "Arise" album. The sound quality is perfect, too, so I guess nothing can go wrogn with today's "tape"... Oh except for the fact that this recording sounds basically identical to the officially released version. I haven't compared the songs one by one, but after loving and cherishing this album for 20 years, I think it's been engrained in my brain sufficiently that I can remember every riff, solo and vocal effect by heart. The only difference I was able to detect is that "Dead Embryonic Cells" lacks its intro, so if you really hated those 20 seconds of atmospheric sounds, today's your lucky day. Otherwise, add this to your collection, listen to it once and then put it away - that's what I'll do.

Track listing:

1. Arise (3:19)
2. Dead Embryonic Cells (4:31)
3. Desperate Cry (6:46)
4. Murder (3:27)
5. Subtraction (4:49)
6. Altered State (6:37)
7. Under Siege (4:45)
8. Meaningless Movements (4:40)
9. Infected Voice (3:17)

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Atrophy - Demos + Live in Toronto 30.01.1989

Seeing as some of the most popular downloads from my blog are the metal bands - the Voivod demo, the Slayer bootleg, the Napalm Death rarities and so on - I guess I should feature more metal stuff and give the ex-Yugoslavian punk obscurities a rest from time to time. Trouble is, metal as a genre is VERY well documented on thousands of other blogs, and I'm really having trouble finding something which you can't get someplace else. Even this collection I'm uploading today is easy enough to compile from a few different torrent sources, but due to the nature of torrents and their relatively short lifespan, I hope I can provide it a more permanent home. So, Atrophy were a mid-to-late '80s thrash band from Tombstone, Arizona, who have released two official LP's, which are both still in print as CD reissues; this material however, features their six-song demo "Chemical Dependency" (an excellent tape, by the way), two more songs from another promo tape, and a shoddy sounding live show just for the hell of it. Everything but the promo songs was included on a bootleg CD called "Product of the Bong", but I have updated the "Chemical Dependency" songs with copies from a better sounding source.

Track listing:

1. Chemical Dependency (demo) (4:01)
2. Rest in Pieces (demo) (5:20)
3. Preacher, Preacher (demo) (4:26)
4. Suicide Pact (demo) (5:14)
5. Product of the Past (demo) (4:01)
6. Beer Bong (demo) (2:03)
7. Socialized Hate (demo) (5:00)
8. Matter of Attitude (demo) (3:27)
9. Urban Decay (live) (4:02)
10. Killing Machine (live) (4:00)
11. Rest in Pieces (live) (4:52)
12. Chemical Dependency (live) (3:30)
13. Product of the Past (live) (4:09)
14. Socialized Hate (live) (4:54)
15. Matter of Attitude (live) (3:43)
16. Beer Bong (live) (2:35)

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Heathen, Destruction, Sepultura, Exodus - Live Thrashfest Classics 2011

Sepultura in Zagreb; from Time Machine Music.

Here are complete sets by four of the five bands which participated in last year's "Thrashfest Classics" tour, recorded at Hamburg's Markthalle on December 5th 2011. The only band that is missing is the first one, Mortal Sin from Australia, which is a pity for me personally because that's the band that I missed when the tour came to Zagreb. All the other bands were excellent, playing material from their early, genre-defining rainbows* (although Sepultura's "Chaos A.D." is hardly a THRASH classic) in the modern spirit of '80s nostalgia (which usually bothers me, but it's hard to keep one's convictions while Sepultura is playing "Infected Voice"). The sound quality is wonderful for an audience recording, you just might need to play with the equalizer a bit to take down the bass and enhance the middle; this worked for me but hear for yourself. And to give credit where it's due: all four sets were downloaded from Dimeadozen, where they are available as torrents, in FLAC format; I've converted them to 320 kbps mp3's to save drive space, but if you want the originals, get them there. On to the sets...

Heathen track listing:

1. Intro (1:28)
2. Pray for Death (3:33)
3. Goblin's Blade (5:17)
4. Open the Grave (7:46)
5. Hypnotized (7:29)
6. Opiate of the Masses (8:00)
7. Mercy Is No Virtue (6:38)
8. Death by Hanging (5:41)

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Destruction track listing:

1. Intro (1:13)
2. Total Desaster (3:19)
3. Satan's Vengeance (3:16)
4. Mad Butcher (5:15)
5. Black Mass Intro (0:52)
6. Antichrist (3:16)
7. Death Trap (6:00)
8. Invisible Force (3:54)
9. The Ritual Intro (2:08)
10. Tormentor (4:12)
11. Eternal Ban (3:39)
12. Bestial Invasion (5:10)
13. Curse the Gods (5:22)
14. Outro (2:00)

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Sepultura track listing:

1. Arise Intro (1:16)
2. Intro (1:33)
3. Beneath the Remains (4:23)
4. Refuse-Resist (3:35)
5. Dead Embryonic Cells (6:30)
6. Desperate Cry (6:32)
7. Amen (4:46)
8. Mass Hypnosis (4:35)
9. We Who Are Not As Others (3:56)
10. Altered State (6:38)
11. Infected Voice (3:58)
12. Subtraction (5:45)
13. Primitive Future (3:34)
14. Inner Self (5:10)
15. Territory (5:37)
16. Arise (4:04)

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Exodus track listing:

1. Intro (0:47)
2. The Last Act of Defiance (4:13)
3. A Lesson in Violence (4:08)
4. Fabulous Disaster (6:04)
5. Brain Dead (5:05)
6. Exodus (4:58)
7. Deranged (3:12)
8. Pleasures of the Flesh (8:57)
9. Piranha (3:51)
10. Encore Break (1:44)
11. Metal Command (4:14)
12. And Then There Were None (5:13)
13. Bonded by Blood (4:15)
14. The Toxic Waltz (5:24)
15. Strike of the Beast (7:03)

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* Of course I meant early RECORDS, but the chorus to Saxon's "A Frozen Rainbow" was playing as I was typing this and the mistake made me laugh hard enough that I decided to keep it.

Slayer - Live at Olympic Stadium, Moscow, 15.03.2011.

Slayer in Zagreb.

Here's a rather good sounding show from the current Slayer tour, European Carnage 2011. I was lucky to see two shows on the tour, one in Rome with Gary Holt replacing Jeff Hanneman, and the other in Zagreb, with Pat o'Brien replacing Gary replacing Jeff. Both shows were absolutely wonderful, and so is this one - the set list differs slightly from the one at the shows I saw, with "Snuff" and "Seasons in the Abyss" replacing "Hallowed Point" and "Mandatory Suicide" in the latter part of the tour, but most of it is the same. With the last two Slayer albums being an incredible return to thrash metal form, because of me never having seen them before, and after all the hassle of getting into the sold-out show in Rome (through a hole in a fence, across a tennis field, by the roadies, through the kitchen, and into the first row!), I will always remember that evening.

And the Devil saw that it was good.

Track listing:

1. Intro (1:31)
2. World Painted Blood (4:59)
3. Hate Worldwide (2:58)
4. War Ensemble (5:19)
5. Postmortem (3:44)
6. Hallowed Point (3:33)
7. Dead Skin Mask (5:53)
8. Silent Scream (3:13)
9. The Antichrist (2:57)
10. Americon (3:43)
11. Payback (3:10)
12. Mandatory Suicide (4:16)
13. Temptation (3:32)
14. South of Heaven (4:23)
15. Raining Blood (3:08)
16. Black Magic (3:42)
17. Angel of Death (6:10)

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Voivod - A Flawless Structure? Demo

This artifact is slightly less rare then most of the stuff I try to find for the blog - it is easily available on file sharing networks - but it is the only Voivod demo (except for the "Rrröööääärrr Rough Mix Demo", which I wasn't able to find anywhere) not available on any blog, so it is kinda exclusive - at least in the sense that no-one else had bothered uploading it before. I am including it here because I wanted to have at least something by Voivod, to celebrate the fact that they will be playing in the city where I live in a few months, and that makes me extremely happy because I had never expected to see them - I was pretty sure they gave up on the band as a live act after their guitarist's death. For the uninitiated, Voivod were formed in Canada in the early Eighties, were incredibly influential in at least three metal genres (black, thrash and progressive metal), yet never sounded much like any other band in any of those genres. They started out as a primitive black/thrash hybrid, went on to incredibly intelligent technical thrash, then to progressive metal (sometimes even closer to rock than metal), and ended up as a band which does whatever they please, basically. (Oh yeah, their last few albums feature a nice gentleman by the name of Jason Newsted on bass guitar.) This live demo was recorded during the peak of their progressive thrash period, and although you should listen to the studio albums first if you haven't heard them before, the sound is good enough to make the demo more than just a curiosity for collectors, and the set list features a brilliant Dead Kennedys cover, way before it was cool for metal bands to flaunt their punk/hardcore influences.

Track listing:

1. Intro + Overreaction (5:57)
2. Experiment (6:14)
3. Tribal Convictions (4:48)
4. Chaosmöngers (5:18)
5. Ravenous Medicine (4:32)
6. Korgüll the Exterminator (5:41)
7. Technocratic Manipulators (4:26)
8. Macrosolutions to Megaproblems (5:53)
9. Medley (7:34)
10. Brain Scan (5:14)
11. Psychic Vacuum (5:17)
12. Order of the Blackguards (4:53)
13. Holiday in Cambodia (3:51)
14. Batman (2:20)

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