![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From about a catapult stone’s throw away, Sindrome can be spotted infecting the pitted blades of both styles, particularly the guy with the bent mikestand dry coughing all over the joint. Well, sometimes the smoke clears when the wind blow just right. Regardless, the terrain – especially the battleground therein where the styles cross swords - is almost always hazy. I was a pudgy kid, however, one I don’t mind saying had heard more than the average teen at the time, and Into the Halls of Extermination has stuck with me like a tapeworm throughout the multi-tonnage of music I’ve ingested since and remains a tall-standing mile marker of mid/late ‘80s deathrash right next to a Ripping Corpse demo or two, and a lot of its adhesiveness will be blamed on what I’ve dubbed ‘the all-star bellow’.ĭeathrash is a stylistic term that’s gonna get thrown around here a tad, the obvious cross-pollination of death and thrash metal beset with guidelines that were and still are as headachingly-subjective and opaque as most any sub-style with –core as its caboose. ![]() Yeah, surely I was easily impressed an eighteen year old who in the scope of things hadn’t heard half his weight in metal. I mean, its full-color J-card and pro-printed cassette easily cost more than my then-current issue’s entire print run, therefore after marveling at its cosmetics, as fast as I could slap it in I began marveling at its phonetics. High hopes radiated from this thing, and despite the front cover shamelessly announcing its ‘debut demonstration cassette’ rank, it was still well beyond yer standard Memorex tape and crookedly-folded, Xeroxed card scribbled in dried-out pen. As I lounge here collecting thoughts about a demo that’s been a fave of mine since I barely had enough scruff on my taint to scratch, I recall my twinkle-eyed delight that a band from Illinois not only heard of, but decided to seek space (and my opinion) in my dinky, still-new ‘lil zine. ![]()
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