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Description: Brand new and sealed!!!! WHITE VINYL Check my listings for way more heavy metal / punk !!! Dave Hewson - vocals, guitarTerry Sadler - vocals, bassRon Sumners - drums 01 Disintegrater02 Incinerator03 Maim to Please04 Tyrant of Hell05 Shadow of Death06 Death Dealer07 One Foot in the Grave08 Surrender or Die09 Eve of Darkness10 Massacra11 Strappado12 Tales of the Macabre13 Cult of the Dead Mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in September 2020. It is fair to say that without Slaughter, the sound and aesthetic of death metal as we know it today may have turned out a bit differently – although in fact, the Canadians wouldn´t necessarily have tagged themselves like that. Rather, they were a rabid thrash metal outfit right from the start, taking influence from the heaviest metal that was available when they came together in the early 1980s. With the double punch that was their first two demos in 1984, they stood right beside a few other chosen ones (Slayer maybe most prominently) who almost single-handedly anticipated basically all modern extreme substyles within the genre. Then one year later, “Surrender or Die” became a new yardstick in terms of brutality and, from a compositional point of view, Slaughter´s most accomplished work yet. “It was just three young kids bashing out as much noise as we possibly could”, guitarist and singer Dave Hewson plays down the fact. “Still, it´s my favourite release” – and justly so, regarding both the song quality and impact it had. With an insane cover of Hellhammer´s ´Massacra´, the trio basically wore their inspiration upon their collective sleeve while taking everything at least one step further: Tunes such as the overwhelming ´Maim to Please´ or the relentless ´One Foot in the Grave´ epitomize what this type of music is all about – speed, catchiness and a punk attitude that got lost throughout years of overthinking and diluting the initial template. “Surrender or Die” was recorded and mastered at Toronto studios Accusonic and Silverbirch respectively, sounding as punchy today as it did back in the day. And while Dave keeps insisting that “the real standout tracks are ´Strappado´,´Disintegrater´, ´Incinerator´ and ´Eve of Darkness´”, you cannot possibly find one weak moment here. Underscored by a deep and dirty guitar tone and crashing drums, the front man dealt out lyrics rife with macabre imagery, thus laying the foundation for much of the gory stuff that came later; it´s probably not for nothing that no other than Death´s Chuck Schuldiner would briefly join Slaughter in 1986… Apart from a slipcase CD edition, “Surrender or Die” for the first time ever receives a proper vinyl treatment. Carefully restored by Patrick W. Engel in order to stay true to the original sound, the material is available on either black, red or white wax, the latter with black and red splatter effect. Andreas Schiffmann Ships safe -- Make way for the incinerator!!!!!!!!!! Slaughter's third demo is considered a demo? Even before it was re-released it had seven song! I thought demo's had like 2 or 3 songs. Guess these guys needed to make their point clear. This is pure thrash at it's best -fast, fast, fast. Let's look at the third song for fastness, Maim To Please. If it is true that these guys influenced death metal then I guess this is also the place to start. The drum beat is just a rapid beat, no fills just an occasional cymbal here and there. The tempo lets up and down throughout the song, but you can almost imagine the singer letting out a growl of death metal. The riffs are all pretty cool; they are really either fast or fast and somewhat technical. I think what makes the guitar riffs stand out and come together is the constant beating of the drums. The singing is rather straight forward with a low tone. Almost sometime it could sound like a death metal growl. Sometimes they even throw in the thrash backing vocals where parts of the song is repeated, like in Incinerator. There are only two problems with this album. Being a demo, of course it is going to have shitty production. The first song Disintegrater has a chainsaw roaring, but when the drums come in is that still the chainsaw or the guitars. Kind of hard to tell. Even though it was re-released (who knows how many times) some of the junk that gets in there can't be cleaned up. I imagine it would be really bad if you were listening to the original recording, but the latter ones aren't to bad. The other problem is the songs get repetitive, so bad that sometimes you feel like you already listened to the that song before. Other than that this album is pure bang your head fucking thrash. Any fans of early death metal or thrash metal should get a hold of this especially if you like really old Slayer.

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End Time: 2024-03-12T00:18:38.000Z

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