

Toms vocals here sound like Lemmys kid brother from Hell.raw, yet tasteful and conviencing in a way 99.9% of the pseudo thräsh bands with "raw" vocals grandly fail at. Crude raw distortion of Motörhead, crudest punk and early Venom, but with a personality and style unique to themselves. This the 2nd demo by Hellhammer is a musical monster. Must of put a proud smile on Quorthons lips in the day.ĭeath Metal of the crudest rawest and darkest kind.

Track "Into The Pentagram" here is a bone chilling dark Black Metal classic. Medieval prophecy Ep and their demos remain their Black Death Metal legacy for me. I watched with anticipaton towards Samael's debut album Worship Him (1991) but quite frankly it failed to deliever and was a Black thrash outing at it's best. Vorphalack hade the most incredible raw dark occult, yet conviencing Black Death Metal voice I'd heard since Quorthon.It had it's own unique character specific to him which made it original. This Ep had a Hellhammer/Gothic Doom metal vibe combined with Quorthon like vocals that almost surpass the master himself. Two brothers with an obvious Bathory and Black Death Metal obession began Samael and recorded a raw demo and in 1988 released this great crude raw Ep or 3 song single. A song from the LP, "Acid Vat", features a guest appearance by Fisher's CANNIBAL CORPSE bandmate Erik Rutan.After Bathory began their Pagan metal approach in 1988 there weren't many bands who looked like to continue their specific Black Death Metal legacy but this obscure Swiss band came along. The 10-song effort was co-produced by Nick Bellmore ( DEE SNIDER, KINGDOM OF SORROW) and Jamey Jasta ( HATEBREED) and will be made available through Jasta's new label, Perseverance Music Group. I don't have any reservations about which way I'm going. It made me really go, 'Okay, I'm not trying to do this anymore. And he's a little unassuming guy - a nice guy. He was singing like he was some 250-pound guy that could bench press 700 pounds and throw you across the street with one hand. When I saw it live, I was, like, 'Holy…' 'Cause he just stood there. Chuck Billy on 'The Legacy' record, 'First Strike Is Deadly', the scream on that and some of the other higher screams he did on those records, it was amazing. But those high screams, if you've ever listened to us, then definitely he has the biggest hand in me ever wanting to do those. He continued: " Chuck is less of a growler than, say, what most modern death metal singers are, like Glen Benton or John Tardy. When I saw Chuck Schuldiner, and then, all of a sudden, all these other waves of death metal bands started coming along, I knew that I wasn't ever gonna be singing or singing, like, thrash I was gonna be singing growling and death metal." I was probably singing stuff in my room, trying to be Jeff Becerra and Tom Araya. That's what I wanna do.' And I was listening to all these bands. I said to myself, 'I wanna sing like that. And when they played 'Infernal Death', 'Die! Die!', when he did the high, that changed my whole world that changed my world like BLACK SABBATH did. And I was literally standing right in front of Chuck Schuldiner he was right there in front of me singing and playing. couldn't play, so DEATH, I think, had a longer set.

And they were supposed to play with this band called DEAD BRAIN CELLS - D.B.C. And there was, like, 25 people there there was barely anyone there. And 'Scream Bloody Gore' was great, but I did not really understand the power of Chuck Schuldiner's voice until that show. I know that 'Leprosy' had not come out yet.

It might have even been a little bit later, but I'm not sure. Speaking about how Schuldiner inspired him to sing death metal, Fisher said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I saw DEATH play in Baltimore, Maryland, where I'm from, in 1987 or '88. In a new Revolver "Fan First" interview, CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher shares his personal journey as a fan, from discovering BLACK SABBATH to a seismic moment watching DEATH's Chuck Schuldiner to his experiences in the early Florida death metal scene and his upcoming solo album.
