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MASSACRE
1991 - From Beyond.
1992 - Inhuman Condition.
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July 1, 1991 - 2026: 35 years of: From Beyond.

Hail Kam Lee !
Hail Rick Rozz !
Death-Metal's co-creators.

1984's corpse-grinding adventure started with MANTAS. On vocals and drums Kam Lee and on guitars Rick Rozz and a young ...Chuck Schuldiner. After a handful of demos, all heavily influenced by the VENOM and HELLHAMMER / CELTIC FROST school of darkness came the split: Kam and Rick joined Bill Andrews's MASSACRE, while Chuck continued with DEATH ...and the rest is deathmetal history.

MASSACRE's 1986 Aggressive Tyrant and Chamber Of Ages demos are old-school deathmetal blueprints. Hand in hand with the brutal times: Reign In Blood and Pleasure To Kill LPs, the speed factor is imminent. Feel the vibe, hear the rawness and meet the sickest vocals on the planet ...prepare for the Second Coming !

On vocals: Barney Lee.
The trademarked "Ugh" and "Hey" are forever bound with CELTIC FROST's extremist expert Tom G. Warrior. Yet this time it is upped to new heights, or lows. The birth of Death-Metal. The cornerstone of said genre: low grunts and screaming growls in inhuman conditions. For the history-books: the year is 1986 and Mr. Lee is the first deathmetal singer. Hail Kam Lee !

And on lead-guitar: Frederick DeLillo.
Dive-bombs, cat-strangling, whammy-wanker, pick-tapping, hammer-ons, pull-offs along natural-harmonics and pinched-harmonics ...all fine techniques, used by most shredders. But this wild B.C.Rich Ironbird Guitar yielding beast happens to use them all, in every solo, in every song, at lightning speeds. This is his iconic signature, this is his iconic style. Hail Rick Rozz !

Death-Metal's co-creators.

The massive geomagnetic-reversal intro-riff of "Dawn Of Eternity" makes no mistake, the ultra-saturated razor-sharp toned guitar is truly from beyond. The D-tuned staccato E-riff is palm-muting heaven, in a hellish world of death-grunts and brutal metal assault. The initial epiphany.

Cutting edge tracks like "Symbolic Immortality" and the elevating titletrack, the alien-infested cloudy dimensions of "From Beyond" are finally properly laid to tape. The downstroke-picking riff-o-rama of "Cryptic Realms" and the finest lady of the night, the "Succubus", are two deathmetal gems. After the eerie soundtrack-intro, the revamped 1986 neck-breaking signature-track speed of "Chamber Of Ages" is a milestone in the genre: "Ash to ash, dust to dust, life after deeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaath !"

And now, the genre-defining piece ...so cult classic that one of the scene's frontman borrowed the title as his very stage-name. Written back in 1984, the wrist-wrecker simple E and A-string of "Corpsegrinder" is all it took to change the game. "Sex with the dead, is what I crave, touch the cold flesh, that drives me insane". From speedmetal to actual deathmetal, the Ed Gein trendsetting horror-track is an immortal icon in the genre's repertoire.

Tampa's 1991 Death-Metal ...the scene of a real massacre.

Written and ready, the proposed The Second Coming was shelved by the record-label and the official From Beyond CD became a compilation of re-recorded past material. The studio lineup includes Lee, Rozz with Andrews on drums and ex-DEATH future all-star bassist Terry Butler. Engineered by Scott Burns behind the console at Morrissound Studios and produced by Colin Richardson for Earache Records, all the elements are present for an eternal classic.

Blossoming where no life dwells, this blessed are the sick expansion shall issue new insalubrious material in 1992: the Inhuman Condition MCD.

Hail Kam Lee !
Hail Rick Rozz !
Hail Bill Andrews !
Hail Terry Butler !
Hail MASSACRE !
Hail Old-School Death-Metal !

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Chamber Of Ages = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqlh7YhmINw
From Beyond = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdsN_Fyug7Q&list=PL6_qhP3eWX5OVeXb-WkJ1K_RDLSQ2DSyx
Live in Birmingham in 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TurnW9Y5iEw

March 30, 1992 - 2022: 30 years of: Inhuman Condition.

Tampa in 1991: Ground Zero for deathmetal ...a massacre from beyond.

After the godly tide-steering exhibition of the From Beyond CD, the subsequent killings of 1992's Inhuman Condition MCD is a step-up in the writing department. Following the debut's hot traction, the band now features additional lead-guitar player Steve Swanson for added texture.

The phenomenal crushing title-track, the piranha-riffing of "Plains Of Insanity", the "Provoked Accurser" sheer madness B-side and the WW3 VENOM-classick with a very special evil guest behing the microphone: the hell-bastard himself on lead-vocals for "Warhead" ...Mister Conrad Lant !

MASSACRE would rise again later in a tame 1996 scene, with a death-rock mindset ...the side-lined Promise CD.

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Inhuman Condition = full MCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ED2ibg8LM&list=OLAK5uy_ldokjlXN1OpktIibtAJp3jJXot_dP-TXM
Live in Montreal in 1992
youtube.com/watch?v=3hlYTdNKe4A

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