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BENEDICTION
1990 - Subconscious Terror.
1991 - The Grand Leveller.
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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

October 10, 1991 - 2026: 35 years of: The Grand Leveller.

The terror as awoken.

Following Mark Greenway's exit to NAPALM DEATH, a new frontmen was summoned: Dave Ingram. Once again, Great Britain is the stage for calculated extremes. Haunting the chapel, here's Round Two for BENEDICTION.

With a fat tone, doomness takes over on "Vision In The Shroud" and builds-up into a certified mosher. Digging deeper into the corpse, hordes of "Graveworm" chew away, while "Opulence Of The Absolute" thrashes with serious might. Always possessed by pentatonic power, the rock effect of "Child Of Sin" and "Born In A Fever" incorporates powerchords and in unison, the macabre reprise for CELTIC FROST's "Return To The Eve", is a suiting addition.

England strikes again.

In track with 1990's Subconscious Terror CD, the divine doom of BENEDICTION would provide another shade of death. Caught between 1991's deathmetal speed-race dominion, BENEDICTION remains the lost in the fog Stonehenge.

The Birmingham brummies would present 1992's Dark Is The Season MCD, featuring an overdriven version of ANVIL's "Forged In Fire". BENEDICTION shall step-up the pace with 1993's intense riffology Transcend The Rubicon CD.

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The Grand Leveller = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtfV-nikfU8&list=PLkROH3Eqs0T96LesERxJAsPJANY9ivIdC
Foetus Noose = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAw84avihjI
Dark Is The Season = full MCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKW4lXLoPiw&list=OLAK5uy_lWDyM8J_Z_bvECoJIjbWWlcT7zyUdH5SY
Live in Germany in 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSE4NNG_ssA

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