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Deceased - Worship the Coffin

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 September 1 2009 at 04:50:29 AM



“This goes out to all the fuckin' dead people…”

From PA to Peking comes this latest and most complete early demo anthology of legendary Death Metal band Deceased. Fans who came aboard and took leave after the triumphant  release of Fearless Undead Machines have without question missed out on some of the most compelling records in the last ten years. Yet even those who stayed quite possibly remained unaware of just how extreme and inventive this band's beginnings were, until now.

It is with great thanks then that Deceased Vocalist King Fowley and AreaDeath Productions mainman, Wang (!) deliver this limited but respectable run of 1000 copies compiling major demos - "Luck of the Corpse," "Nuclear Exorcist," "Birth by Radiation," "The Evil Side of Religion" – together with rare live tracks and rehearsals over 2 discs. An essential underground document covering roughly six years of home recordings and late night studio gambles on angel dust attesting that, if they never amounted financially to anything more, Deceased loved playing, recording and performing foremost as a band. “Vinyl ain’t shit!” screams Fowley to a crowd in D.C. His extensive liner notes revealing that, for all the costs of living hard, there’s nothing but thanks for all the scabby mutants, both friends and associates, that passed through the band’s orbit.

While each of the four demo tapes have previously been re-pressed by various labels, no single release was able to give such a chronological view of the band and the very blueprints of madness to come. Titles are swapped, reused, rewritten. Sound muffled, juiced and overdriven. Battling with already battered and sometimes homemade equipment, lost gems like “Death of Christ,” and “Witches End” (recorded in 1984 as Evilaxe) show early attempts at aping King Diamond and Venom, rolling faster into crafting a grinding sort of thrash two years later in “Raw Explosives” and “Gutwrench.” Their now familiar sound beginning to form from “The Cemetery’s Full” all the way up to 89's pivotal "Nuclear Exorcist" demo - some of their best material still as of now, never re-recorded,  including "A Trip To The Morgue" with its spectral outro riffing off Don DePaola's theme for Phantasm a year prior to "Left Hand Path."

Out of these 23 tracks Deceased’s early history is perhaps captured best by a 1985 run through of “Eaten by Disease.” A super-electrified séance of voices dubbed on top of the other, brains nearly disintegrating due to feedback wailin’ and screamin’ of guitar’s deadly currents from beyond. The evil and horror finally contained in one impressively durable boom box inside of a friend’s attic.

Sounds like a cool flick to me.

[Todd DePalma]

Deceased
Worship the Coffin
2009
AreaDeath Productions
type: reviews    keywords: death metal, demos, vinyl aint shit, lhp030,   

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