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BENEDICTION
1990 - Subconscious Terror.
more BENEDICTION.
way more Helter Skelter.

September 2, 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: Subconscious Terror.

The formula: the UK, doom-death and motherfuckin' Barney.

While 1989-90's deathmetal was about speed and aggression ...some bands explored other shades of death. Great-Britain's underground scene was build on punks, yet the late 80s saw two separate branches of extreme-metal emerge: grindcore with NAPALM DEATH, CARCASS and BOLT THROWER ...and doom-deathmetal with PARADISE LOST, CATHEDRAL and BENEDICTION. Here's some: darkness and cold deathmetal.

The eerie intro of "Portal To Your Phobias" brings your worst fears to life has the epic title-track for "Subconscious Terror" slowly sets in with a chilling "Yeeeaaah ah-ah-aaahhh!" maniacal laugh. Pure morbid magic, wrapped in underground guitar-tones and mid-paced rhythms.

The HELLHAMMER / CELTIC FROST worship continues on "Grizzled Finale", the at dawn they sleep of "Eternal Eclipse" and live devourment of "Spit Forth The Dead". Simple thrash-riffs and monstrous throat-work builds-up and swallows you into oblivion ...an evil benediction.

Frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway recorded with BENEDICTION and jumped ship to a faster pace by leading the NAPALM DEATH gang. Yet his roots lies deep within the old-school, featuring the Tom Warrior "Ugh" and Kam Lee "Hey" deathmetal shouts. Eternal classick war-cries.

BENEDICTION would enlist new singer Dave Ingram and propose more downtuned metal with 1991's The Grand Leveller CD.

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Subconscious Terror = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPkeqcOxxw&list=OLAK5uy_lmc7NiR7BNM9gai9S5eqe0kYRyDsh-3-o
Live in Wales in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bJ8TA-4cIA

more BENEDICTION:

#Death-Metal 1988-92
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#NAPALM DEATH
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#Death-Metal EU 1991