KAT, Metal And Hell/Oracle, 1986

• Metal And Hell
• Oracle

“Metal, truth is black metal, Metal, truth is black metal, And Hell…, Metal, truth is black metal, Metal, truth is black metal, Dark as night…” Roman Kostrzewski, Piotr Luczyk, Wojciech Mrowiec, Tomasz Jaguś, Ireneusz Loth

Vulcano, 1983-1986, Bloody Vengeance…

“many believe that Vulcano not only kick-started musical blasphemy in Brazil, but throughout the whole of Latin America”…

Vulcano is a part of the Brazilian Unholy Trinity (together with Sarcófago and Sepultura). In fact, it was the first of the three bands to release a studio album, back in 1986

“Vulcano is one of the bands that still holds the torch of extreme metal of the 80’s – raw, undisputed, honest. It’s an honour and a pleasure to work with these Brazilian brothers and help show the metalheads – old school and new school – how authentic extreme music sounds like” – Fernando Reis

Vulcano, Bloody Vengeance, 1986, First Wave XXXIV

• Dominios Of Death – taking everything that has come before and melding it together into a Black Metal megalith…
• Spirits Of Evil – the vocalisations are truly evil…
• Ready To Explode – Lucifer will return, Heaven will have an end, Sacrifices and rituals in the night, 666, it’s the number of the death…
• Incubus – the intensity is overwhelming…
• Death Metal – another influence of the emerging Death Metal scene…with Blackened touches…
• Voices From Hell – as it says…
• Bloody Vengeance – Bathory on overdrive…

“Stabat daemon, Stabat daemon, Decollatus – decollatus, Demon, demon – sabat, Fire, fire – satan, Salt-salt, fire water, Earth, earth – silver, Satan…” Zhema, Angel, Laudir, Soto Jr, Flavio

Kreator, 1984-1986, Blackened Death Metal…

Tormentor and the two demos released under that moniker, followed by the two albums and an EP released as Kreator were arguably the most extreme of the Blackened Thrash era of Black Metal, more extreme than anything by Sodom or Destruction, only Slayer were able to match their intensity…Eventually like all the Blackened Thrash bands Kreator developed into a more pure thrash sound…

Sodom, 1983-1986, Obsessed By Cruelty…

Sodom, like the other three titans of Germanic Thrash; Destruction and Kreator, exploded out of the proto-Black Metal scene and turned up the hellish heat, both in terms of intensity and extreme lyrics…but like those other bands Sodom soon morphed into a pure thrash metal band and started exploring other tropes that included more mainstream political, social and psychological influences, dropping the Satanic and Death Metal influences…

 

Kreator, Pleasure To Kill, 1986, First Wave XXXIII

• Choir Of The Damned – Hammer House Of Horror meets Germanic Black Metal…
• Ripping Corpse – Blackened Death Metal…death metal riffing overlaid with Black Metal lyrics…
• Death Is Your Saviour – a great hardcore thrash Black Metal explosion…brutal…
• Pleasure To Kill – very violent Blackened Death Metal…
• Riot Of Violence – more of a pure Black Metal track with Death Metal vocals…
• The Pestilence – a fantastic thrash metal track that leaves most other bands in their wake.
• Carrion – Lights are flashing down the alleys the reaper has arrived, The medieval brutality is still alive, The death machines of one hundred countries are ready to strike, No remorse no mercy only hate is in their eyes, Satan and his legions will be their guides, He’ll make the world a slave to his hellish might…
• Command Of The Blade – hellacious thrashing.
• Under The Guillotine – Night is over, Now it’s dawn, Your final day, Has begun
  Hear the steps, On the floor, Hear the sounds, Of the opened door, Too proud to scream, Too proud to beg for mercy, You will die by the executioner’s hand…

“Worms and rats attack your brain, You stare at the sun as you pray, Pray for help but it’s stupid cause you know, There ain’t no help for you, Death draws near and you fear the smell of Armageddon, But you’ve got no chance to escape, You will die in hell…” Mille Petrozza, Roberto Fioretti, Ventor

Pleasure To Kill rivals Reign In Blood for intensity…

This marks the final chapter from the Blackened Thrash era of the mid 1980’s. The influence of the music contained in the small group of bands output can still be felt in the Second Wave Of Black Metal that crept out of the underground in the 90’s…The intense riffing became the backbone of the exploding Thrash and Speed Metal scene. Also a lot of these albums became big influences on the Death Metal genre that was gaining momentum and would become such a massive (undead) movement.

From now on the death of the First Wave would give birth to the truly evil Second Wave and things were going to suddenly get very serious…

Venom, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1986

• Intro/Too Loud (For The Crowd) – very fast version…”Hammersmith, we have returned…”
• 7 Gates Of Hell – fine bulldozer bass action…
• Leave Me In Hell – brutal live version…
• Nightmare – They speak of vengeance and your gods, into the fire – out of the flame
• Countess Bathory – but, when evening spreads it wings, she rapes them of their blood…
• Die Hard – Satan, Father, Help me from this grave…
• Schitzo – faster version of a great Speed Metal NWOBHM classic.
• Guitar Solo Mantas
• In Nomine Satanas – In the name of Satan, Great things can be done…
• Witching Hour – All hell breaks loose, Hell’s breaking loose…super fast…
• Black Metal – Blistering Cvlt anthem…
• The Chanting Of The Priests – a forerunner of Venom’s post split sound direction.
• Satanarchist – I preach the ways of Satan, Answer to his calls, I translate manuscripts, On ancient Latin scrolls…
• Flytrap – Thundering NWOBHM classic.
• Warhead – Screaming furnace – Death of life, Demons calling – Chosen wives.
• Buried Alive – I’m alive but dead, awake but asleep, As friend gather round and mourners they weep…great proto-Death Metal.
• Love Amongst The Dead – Writhing in a mound of death, Maggots under the flesh, Digging fresh arrival thus, To lovingly caress…Death Metal!
• Bass Solo Cronos
• Welcome To Hell – Kill we will kill death, Masturbating on the deeds we have done, Hell commands death kill, Argue not of feel the death of sun…
• Bloodlust – I am Count Cronos, Vampire Supreme.

Fantastic live set from Hammersmith Odeon in 1986, and The Ritz, New York 1986.

Cronos, Mantas, Abaddon

Sarcófago, Warfare Noise, 1986, First Wave XXXII

• Recrucify
• Black Vomit
• Satanas

Re-recorded versions of tracks released as the Black Vomit demo, extremely raw – and pure – Black Metal from a pioneering band from South America, truly evil…

Antichrist, Incubus, Butcher, Leprous

Onslaught, 1983-1986, Punk to Blackened Death to Thrash Titans…

Pioneers of the British thrash metal scene, Onslaught have been referred to as one of the country’s so-called “big four”, along with Sabbat, Xentrix and Acid Reign. Starting as a hardcore punk band and evolving into a Blackened Death Metal band before eventually becoming  pure UK thrash titans.

Onslaught, The Force, 1986, First Wave XXXI

• Let There Be Death – Blackened Death Metal…
• Metal Forces – a typical early UK thrash sound.
• Fight With The Beast – powerful Blackened Thrash, a classic mix of many of the sounds that have come so far…
• Demoniac – a flash back to the Power From Hell album…with Mercyful Fate vocals…
• Flame Of The Antichrist – Bathory sound mixed with King Diamond vocal range…epic proto-Black Metal
• Contract In Blood – Death Metal with Black Metal lyrics and vocals…
• Thrash ’till The Death – very fast UK Thrash Metal.

“Church of Christ breeding hate the flame of hell shall rise, Satan’s force rains from the, throne to slay the priest of lies, 1,000 years was bound by chain Satanus seeks revenge, Burning flame the Antichrist no mercy no repent…” Sy Keeler, Jase Stallard, Steve Grice, Paul Mahoney, Nige Rockett