Amon "Sacrificial / Feasting The Beast" Cassette

Both classic AMON (pre-DEICIDE) demos Sacrificial and Feasting The Beast, finally available again on limited 180g LP, jewel-case CD and MC. Officially licensed from the Hoffman brothers, these cult-demos are among the most significant and important underground releases of the late 80s and, along with a handful of other bands like MORBID ANGEL, DEATH, NOCTURNUS or OBITUARY, mark the beginning of the legendary Bay Area death metal scene from Florida.

Remastered for this DSR-release by Dan Swanö (Unisound) in June 2023. MC limited to 400 white tapes, 4 panel J-card

The second demo of Amon Sacrifical was recorded around December of 1989. This demo you can tell was done in the studio instead of an 8 track, because of the sound quality of the recordings. It almost sounds like a fullength recordeing. Even though this is not as raw as their first offering it still maintains a distinct brutalness all through out.
This is where deicide really finalized their sound/style. Also the track listing is very strong and offers two more tracks then their previous work. The riffs are very catchy and aggressive as well as great druming by Steve Asheim. Great leads very old death metal style very similar to early Morbid Angel. This demo shows why Deicide would become legends in the death metal genre. Glen's vocal patterns now changed from the low& heavily distorted to his man stay deicide style.
Highly recommend this demo for fans of deicide and old scholl death metal alike.Highlights Lunatic of Gods creation, Dead by Dawn, and Carnage in the temple of the damned. Great stuff here! Aside from the awesome intro, the insanely raw and brutal music, the vocals on this album are definately inhuman. I always here people talk about how inhuman Lord Worm, Ruban Rosas(Devourment) or Jaime (Brodequin) sound on the mic, but GLEN BENTON tops them all off on here. I don't know how to describe these vocals, they sound nothing like Deicide ever put out on CD, and sound nothing like any other band I've heard. His vocal style changed a lot on the Sacrificial demo, which was more like the self titled album. These vocals sound like a demonic pitbull vomiting into the mic really fast. The music is raw, extremely brutal and fast. The lyrics, well, this is Deicide (although they were called "Amon" on the demos), I don't need to talk about the lyrics.
Fans of raw death/black/speed metal, check out this demo. It was re-released on CD along with the Sacrificial demo and is called "Amon: Feasting the Beast".

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