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Andrew's Collection

Death (Heavy Metal)   10/??/1984

Reign Of Terror Demo, Unknown, FL
Media Flac CDR   1 disc
Notes "Complete Demos 1984 - 1986"
Tech Notes "DEATH - COMPLETE DEMOS 1984 - 1986


Death by Metal Demo #1 1984 (Summer 1984)
1. Legion of Doom
2. Evil Dead
3. Beyond the Unholy Grave
4. Power of Darkness
5. Death by Metal


Reign of Terror Demo #2 1984 (October 1984)
1. Corpse Grinder
2. Summoned to Die
3. Zombie
4. Witch of Hell
5. Reign of Terror
6. Slaughterhouse


Infernal Death Demo #3 1985 (March 9 1985)
1. Baptized in Blood
2. Archangel
3. Infernal Death


Rigor Mortis Demo #4 1985 (May 1985)
1. Rigor Mortis


Back from the Dead Demo #5 1985 (October 1985)
1. Intro
2. Back from the Dead
3. Mutilation
4. Reign of Terror
5. Beyond the Unholy Grave
6. Baptized in Blood
7. Legion of Doom
8. Skill to Kill


Mutilation Demo #6 1986 (April 12-13 1986)
1. Land of No Return
2. Zombie Ritual
3. Mutilation


First of all, the Zero Tolerance CD's released recently by the parasites at Karmageddon Media are 100% bootlegs! They had no rights what so ever to release any of that stuff! From what I've been told the sound quality is awful! I hope none of you have bought that crap!

I mentioned on an earlier Death torrent that I was thinking about seeding all the Death demos. It took me a while to get this one ready. My copy of the Rigor Mortis demo didn't sound too good. Luckily Lacerated helped me out (thanks bro!). Regarding the quality, these are all from original copies or very low generation copies. So unless someone is able to perform any miracle with these old recordings, this is most likely the best quality you'll ever get to hear of these legendary demos! For those of you who haven't heard any of these recordings and only are familiar with Death through their albums (especially the more polished sounding 90's stuff) pretty much all of these demos are very rough sounding. Keep in mind that Chuck and the other members were all in their teens at the time. Most of the recordings were made by the band themselves. Unfortunately the only pro studio recording Death ever did in these early days was the Mutilation demo which got them signed to Combat Records. Too bad Combat didn't pick them up already in 1985 as there's more than an album's worth of awesome material on these early demos that never were properly recorded (not to mention, there's even more Mantas/Death material that never were recorded for any of these demos!). I have included some early demo covers as well. This one took me quite a while to put together so I hope you'll enjoy it!

IN MEMORY OF CHARLES "CHUCK" SHULDINER (MAY 13 1967 - DECEMBER 13 2001)"
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A/-    Sound: A-
Owned by Andrew · Last Updated May 23, 2023