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SIX FEET UNDER
1995 - Haunted.
1999 - Maximum Violence.
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September 26, 1995 - 2025: 30 years of: Haunted.

A deathmetal supergroup.

During the Spring of 1995, the CANNIBAL CORPSE machine was on full steam, preparing for their fifth killing, the planned Created To Kill CD. Everything was in the can, but Chris Barnes had some other musical ideas. Partnering with OBITUARY's guitar-player Allen West, the duo united forces with legend bassist Terry Butler of ex-DEATH and ex-MASSACRE fame. The grave was dug and the stench materialized SIX FEET UNDER.

And then shit hit the fan. Inner politics with the CANNIBALs had Barnes was fired from one of the biggest deathmetal band in history. No problem mutherfockers, the side-project now turns into a full-time band.

War is coming and the opposition is "The Enemy Inside", a fast death attack, with a rock-twist. The dark demonic cloud that is "Beneath A Black Sky" and the mosh-pit magnet "Silent Violence" are the best OBITUARY tracks, not performed by the slowly rotting ones.

Tension builds-up and finally explodes like being stripped, raped and strangled on "Lycanthropy", while the upbeat pain of "Suffering In Ecstasy" may not please CANNIBAL fans, but will exhibit the fact that the now ex-singer is a one-man army. The shooting-gallery of "Human Target" features the thick and juicy rock-element, a start-stop riff pattern that rarely gets used in the deathmetal mindset.

With low-mids guitar-tone, an overdriven bass and fat bassdrum kick courtesy of deathmetal knob-twister Scott Burns, Haunted CD is a modern soundwave. Simple repetitive heavy riffs within the pentatonic-scale, built on a solid drum-foundation, in so few words: SIX FEET UNDER are the AC/DC of deathmetal. Yet make no mistake about it, this is one vile release.

At that point, the supergroup-concept had not being fully marketed in extreme-metal, not since 1989's TERRORIZER. But Barnes and Co made it convenient, hence more unions sprung into action: BRUJERIA, HATE ETERNAL, LOCK UP, BLOODBATH, THE KOVENANT and WITCHERY.

Killing is metal's business and business is good and SIX FEET UNDER's modus-operandi shall repeat on 1997's Warpath CD.

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Haunted = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWYzY5280Qw&list=OLAK5uy_njqwm9hbLslbA_3SQSvSPgkrH5EkW6lkA
Interview in summer 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iifRPm0ksIs
Live in The Netherlands in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZ7FCKBc78

July 13, 1999 - 2024: 25 years of: Maximum Violence.

Death-n-roll rules.

Unearthed by 1997's Warpath CD, the deadly groove gets deadlier. Making sure old-school deathmetal is still present on the map, from the SIX FEET UNDER depths, our lovely gravediggers strikes with maximum violence.

The ultra fat-tone of "Feasting On The Blood Of The Insane" is a fast onslaught on dire consequences. The rotting remains are cut with a "Bonesaw" and with more high-paced killing with "No Warning Shot" and "Brainwashed".

Splittin' craniums open-wide along a "Short Cut To Hell", the monster metal riffing of "The Graveyard Earth" and "Victim Of The Paranoid" provides limitless headbangin' powers. The unorthodox reprise of KISS's "War Machine" and limited-CD edition-only versions of THIN LIZZY and IRON MAIDEN jailbreak cuts, breeds new angles into these immortals.

With deserting axemen Allen West, his position would be filled by ex-MASSACRE Steve Swanson. The band would repeat the reprise with 2000's Graveyard Classics complete homage-CD ...and the much darker 2001's True Carnage CD.

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Victim Of The Paranoid = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk-NS8l_Aw4
Maximum Violence = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKy1YsTzXHA&list=OLAK5uy_mBulDwwmWMqBf3-gDLrPxb005R_vWQwEg
Interview and live in Hamburg in 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy2jynXVXjw
Maximum Video = full DVD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBVLIgJWqA

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