Limited to a one time press of 500 copies.
Comes with slipcase and a 12-page booklet.
CD 1:
01-06: "Erupted Evil" Demo 1989
CD 2:
01-03: "Necrocarnation" Unreleased Rehearsal Demo 1990
04-10: Live in Emmeloord 25/8/1990
The "Erupted Evil" demo was recorded & mixed in Kampen, 24/9 - 1/10, 1989.
The Live recordings were made at "de Klos" in Emmeloord On August 25th 1990 where Necro Schizma performed as the opening for the godly Asphyx!
Necro Schizma is a very peculiar band, as they may be one of the first true extreme doom bands. However, their existence was so short lived that they didn't last long enough to have a real impact. This album compiles their only real demo recording, and a live set, so you get the entire Necro Schizma expierience. Whether or not that is a good thing depends entirely on the listener.
Musically, Necro Schizma plays an ultra slow, ultra simple, brand of death/doom which is so incredibly primitive, one has to guess whether or not the lack of variation was intentional, or simply due to the band's musical shortcomings. Anyone looking for doom with any hint of melody or beauty will find none here, this is pure crawling speed, sub-sonic terror(which is odd because the band has no bass player).
As for the material at hand, for the period it was released it is not bad, but it certainly does get old kinda fast, mostly because there really nothing to set the songs apart from one another. Every song has the predictable slow and low riffing, with an occasional guitar lead, and the simple slow drumming which fits the music, but the drummer could switch it up a little more(I dont even think he has double bass pedals). The vocals are a very guttural, pukey shouting which does'nt really sound like something I've heard in death or doom metal.
You can't really pick stand out tracks because most of the songs sound pretty similar, but their cover of Hellhamer's "Triumph of Death" is pretty cool, and you can tell they take a lot of influence from them. The live tracks really only serve to make the album longer, as the recording quality is so bad they are barely listenable. This kind of sucks because the live set has two great songs which are not on the demo. The album's liner notes are pretty cool, with lots of pictures and a biography of the band written by the singer.
All in all, this is a fairly mediocre release. Necro Schizma may have been somewhat ahead of their time(or behind their time depending on how you look at it) but aside from a few decent slow riffs, they simply don't offer enough to really keep one interested. I would recomend this only to people who love pure, raw doom metal, or Hellhammer.
I've had this disk for a while now so I thought I should write an update on how it has fared for me through the years. While I wouldn't give it a higher score, I must say it has come to occupy a special place in my collection of obscure metal releases. The fact is, Necro Schizma really doesn't sound like anyone else, their sub-sonic doom while amateurish, is completely their own, taking the brutal simplicity of Hellhammer, stripping it even more to it's base elements, and cutting the tempo by about ninety percent. So if you are looking for something influenced by first wave black metal as well as some NWOBHM, Necro Schizma is a truely strange entry in the doom field.
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