Tag: demo

  • Rwake – Xenoglossalgia (The Last Stage of Awareness)

    Rwake – Xenoglossalgia (The Last Stage of Awareness)

    I don’t deny that I dig Rwake’s later stuff—pretty sure Rest cracked my year-end Top 10 in 2011—but I must admit I’d never heard their ’98 debut before… which was, after all, an extremely limited, independent EP.  They raised a few red flags in the liner notes when, by their own admission, they mention “This…

  • Thantifaxath – s/t Demo

    Thantifaxath – s/t Demo

    The debut demo by Toronto-based black metallers Thantifaxath is enough to make you’d wish you’d never given up your cassette player. It’s certainly an incentive to get it back.

  • Fatality: 3-song demo

    Here is a three track demo release from Toronto’s FATALITY, a thrash metal band with plenty of aggressive, melodic technical hooks, blasting beats and soaring roaring vocals, complete with fast, intricate solos.

  • High Spirits: 4 song demo 2009

    This four track demo EP is pure 80’s metal. It sounds to me like the early output of Scotland’s Heavy Pettin’ fronted by a singer that sounds somewhat similar to Kevin Griffiths of the NWOBHM band Briar.