Alchemicon - witness to the afflicted demo 1988

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Alchemicon - witness to the afflicted demo 1988

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Does anyone have any opinions on this one? I couldn't find any sound clips for this
demo. All info welcome.
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Standard and occasionally dark thrash with some nice throaty vocals. Production is a bit thin. Nothing exceptional overall.
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I hope to get a copy next week and also the band before ALchemicon was named Crusader which I also hope to get a copy.i had attended a couple crusader gigs at my local high school back in the eighties.the guitarist plays in a bay area death metal band called oblivion now. Thanks for the above replies
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Vocals are terrible but it's overall a very good demo (being from 1988), with a little of german thrash edge (Violent Force, Sodom etc.), which is surprising since they are from USA ...
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I recall an ALCHEMICON from the Bay Area back in 86/ 87... I had got a few live tapes but I thought that was more like Hardcore?!
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I wouldn't call it standard ... it's pretty much above average Thrash like the rude Dark Angel stuff.
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Prowler wrote: like the rude Dark Angel stuff.
Not even close as far as brutality is concerned.
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The sample track on the death records sampler ain't too bad at all.i await to hear the entire release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQzqAeTsxs


has it's good moments :)
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Prowler wrote:the rude Dark Angel stuff.
My fave Dark Angel song is "Get Your Fucking Dog Off My Lawn".
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Either that or "I drank all the milk and left the empty carton in the fridge"
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Buried By Time and Dust wrote:The sample track on the death records sampler ain't too bad at all.i await to hear the entire release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQzqAeTsxs


has it's good moments :)
the whole terror:
http://www.divshare.com/download/19709724-cdd

still sounding like mixing parts of "We have arrived" and "Darkness descends" ...
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Only for Bay Area completists.
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Re: Alchemicon - witness to the afflicted demo 1988

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There's an addition of another demo of ALCHEMICON in M-A, prior to this one. I wonder if anyone here has it and is willing to upload it. I'm listening again to the '88 demo and it's better than I remember it, has at least two killer tunes, "The Intruder Within" and the instrumental "Third Degree", and the whole demo generally rages hard enough.
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Re: Alchemicon - witness to the afflicted demo 1988

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ION BRITTON wrote:There's an addition of another demo of ALCHEMICON in M-A, prior to this one. I wonder if anyone here has it and is willing to upload it. I'm listening again to the '88 demo and it's better than I remember it, has at least two killer tunes, "The Intruder Within" and the instrumental "Third Degree", and the whole demo generally rages hard enough.
Already here - http://thecorroseum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8209
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