Toxodeth(MEX) - Mysteries About Life & Death (Wild Rags Records 1990)
1. Intro
2. The Beacon
3. Phantasm
4. Visit of the Dead
5. Doom Predictions
6. Graveyard
7. Mausoleum
8. Seeing to Our Ages
9. Tales From the Beyond

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Notes: How could you judge a band with the cover like a postcard, hehe... This is TOXODETH, one of the oldest metal band from Mexico. But their debut ablum had the worst production I ever heard. It sounds like they took the recording in a concrete pipe. The music is fine, thrash metal with a feeling of CORONER, and it did has some quite nice guitar melody.

Jag Panzer(US) - Tyrant (Mausoleum 1983/1991)
1. Battle Zones
2. Death Row
3. Metal Melts the Ice
4. Iron Shadows
5. Tower of Darkness

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Notes: I never touched this band before, As I first time picked up this ablum, I did like the raw sound and the amazing performance of The Tyrant. If you get enough of JUDAS PRIEST or IRON MAIDEN, you should give this monster work a chance.

Acid Bath(US) - When the Kite String Pops (Rotten Records 1994)
1. The Blue
2. Tranquilized
3. Cheap Vodka
4. Finger Paintings of the Insane
5. Jezebel
6. Scream of the Butterfly
7. Dr. Seuss is Dead
8. Dope Fiend
9. Toubabo Koomi
10. God Machine
11. The Morticians Flame
12. What Color is Death
13. The Bones of Baby Dolls
14. Cassie Eats Cockroaches

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Notes: ACID BATH is a sludge doom band with the death metal guitar sound, the songs are really flexible, but lost some rawness, if you compare them with the bands like EYEHATEGOD.

Mortuary(MEX) - Blackened Images (JL America Records 1992)
1. Abyss Angel
2. Sickish Disease
3. Sacrilegious
4. Asphyxiation
5. Reign of Dead
6. Blood Storm
7. Rites of Death
8. Blackened Images

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Notes: This ablum perfectly mixed the aggression of old school thrash and brutality of earlier death metal.

特在此春节降临之际，我祝愿所有我的亲人，朋友，浏览过我BLOG的朋友，以及憎恨我的人猪年大吉大利，一帆风顺!
At the fine moment of the celebration of chinese springfest I give all my good wish to my family,my friends,people who visited or are visiting my blog, and people who hates me. WISH YOU HAVE A AMAZING LIFE IN YEAR OF PIG.

Morbid Scream - The Signal To Attack: 1986-1990

I just got the news that the legendary death/thrash band MORBID SCREAM just released an ablum which contains all their demo works and some rare live tracks. For the old school fans this should be one of most exciting releases of 2007. You could order it directly from the labelwebsite:http://www.tarotproductions.com/.

For Listening: http://www.myspace.com/morbidscream

Obliveon(CAN) - From This Day Forward (Active Records 1990)
1. From this Day Forward
2. Fiction of Veracity
3. Droidomized
4. Imminent Regenerator
5. It should have Stayed Unreal
6. Access to the Acropolis
7. Chronocraze

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Notes: After getting into this ablum, you will easily understand why CRYPTOPSY made such a progress on their music. All this was with the help of the guitarist from OBLIVEON. Back to his own band's debut, the music is a combination of traditional thrash and progressive rock. The original cover is total different as the pic I put here.

Soothsayer(CAN) - Have a Good Time (New Renaissance Records 1990)
1. Free Violence
2. Dig
3. Buzz Fly
4. The Game I
5. 101
6. Go Them Go
7. E.T.
8. The Game II
9. Pimple Sprayer
10. Together to Make a World
11. Changes
12. Rock'n Roll Forever

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Notes: Just like the ablum title, it's a quite entertaining street-thrash metal work. Musically there was a touch of WEHRMACHT and SPAZZTIC BLURR.

Prong(US) - Primitive Origins (Spigot Records 1987)
1. Disbelief
2. Watching
3. Cling to Life
4. Denial
5. Dreams Like That
6. In My Veins
7. Climate Control
8. Persecution

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Notes: Just another band who has changed their style so much that the cult-status is completely destroyed. Anyway I do think this release was the one of most original and exciting thrash/crossover works in 80s', so don't ignore this because of their later shits.

Death Strike(US) - Fuckin' Death (Nuclear Blast Records 1991)

1. The Truth
2. Mangled Dehumanization
3. Pay to Die
4. Re-entry and Destruction
5. The Final Countdown
6. Man Killed America/Embryonic Mist
7. Pervert
8. Remorseless Poison

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Notes: One of the first projects of Paul Speckmann. Even more rawer than his MASTER.

Maceration(DEN) - A Serenade of Agony (Progress Records 1992)
1. Intro-Silent Lay the Gentle Lamb
2. A Serenade of Agony
3. Transmogrified
4. Pain and Pleasure Incarnate
5. The Watcher
6. The Mind Rampant
7. Reincarnation/Time Flies
8. The Forgotten

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Notes: Dan Swanö als vocal with the members of INVOCATIOR, typical old school death metal.

Filthy Christian(SWE) - Mean (Earache Records 1990)
1. Introitus
2. Obey to get Indepandence
3. Go Your own Way
4. the Scene
5. Drunk Driver
6. Zombie Holocaust
7. Extremely Bad Breath
8. Who Cares?
9. Party and Fight for your Right
10. The Disease
11. Burn(Let those Bastards
12. Your Goals
13. Herring Attack
14. Just Another Metal Band
15. If You're Hardcore...I'm not
16. Old, But not so Wise
17. Dom Ljuger
18. A Case for Teddy
19. Lev Som Du Lar

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Notes: This "Mean"s grindcore, one of great release of the earlier Earache.

Messiah(CHE) - Psychomorphia (Noise International 1991)
1. Birth of A Second Individual
2. Psychomorphia
3. Right for Unright
4. M.A.N.I.A.C.

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Notes: After the two amazing works MESSIAH did this EP which technically more approched the modern death metal.

Sacrifice(CAN) - Soldiers of Misfortune (Metal Blade Records 1990)
1. As The World Burns
2. Soldiers Of Misfortune
3. In Defiance
4. Existence Within Eternity
5. Pawn Of Prophecy
6. Lost Through Time
7. A Storm In The Silence
8. Truth (After The Rain)

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Notes: I just think this one was as great as their classic "Forward to Termination". Though the songs sound less raw than before but the band did make a technical progress. This is not the re-released version, so none of their demo works are included.

Reign of Terror(US) - Threnody of the Impaled (Evil Vengeance Records 2002)
1. Damned
2. Ruler of Heaven's Ill-Begotten Seraphs
3. Sado-Sodomite Communion
4. Excavating the Frontal Lobe of Jehovah
5. Marching Plague
6. Procession Through the Eyes of Perversity
7. The Cruel Trades
8. Uteral Incision
9. Simulacra (Isle of the Mute)
10. Devil Pig
11. Threnody of the Impaled

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Notes: Unholy death metal from Texas, Unlike their statemates they didn't downed in the brutal-death wave and played well arranged old school death metal. If you like this, write directly to the band or visit their website: http://www.terrorkingdom.com/