Here are two fucking scorching demos by NWOBHM legends SATAN. Formed way back in 1979 in Newcastle. This band has featured members from such bands as MYTHRA, BLITZKRIEG, TYSONDOG, AVENGER and SARACEN. Practically English royalty right! The first demo here is the first real studio material the band committed to tape and its on fire. These tracks are surprisingly heavy and dark for the time. One of the best demo's I have heard from 81. The track "Executioner" is especially abrasive and tough. The opening riff really surprised me. Each track follows basically the same rocking path to total metal! Two of these songs "Kiss of Death" and "Head's will Roll" appeared on their first single Fans of HELLHAMMER, BATHORY, AVENGER, CLOVEN HOOF, VENOM, take note! Steve Ramsey (G)Russ Tippins (G)Graeme English (B)Andy Reed (D)Trevor Robinson (V)
1.Kiss of Death
2.Heads Will Roll
2.Heads Will Roll
3.Oppression
4.The Executioner
4.The Executioner
Next we got the "Into The Fire" demo. These guys are a little more polished this time around, but still a very heavy record. This demo features a different line up than the previous demo and in fact most of the recordings these fellows did feature different lineups. The song writing is much more mature this time around, but there is some energy missing. The music on this reminds me a little of early MERCYFUL FATE, but with out the crazy King Diamond vocals.This is damn good stuff don't get me wrong. Most bands would have killed to make a demo this good in 82, but Its just not as great as their first one. Amazing stuff check it out.
Steve Ramsey (G)Russ Tippins (G)Graeme English (B)Ian Swift (V)Ian McCormack (D)
1.Into the Fire
2.Trial by Fire
3.Blades of Steel
4.No Turning Back
5.Break Free
6.Pull the Trigger
7.The Ritual
2.Trial by Fire
3.Blades of Steel
4.No Turning Back
5.Break Free
6.Pull the Trigger
7.The Ritual











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Last we have the "Hands of the Ripper" album, this one is a bit of a mixed bag, the cover is amazing and misleading, this really isn't a horror album. However it does include a 9 minute reworking of Sutch's classic "Jack the Ripper" re-titled as "Hands of the Ripper", but other than that this is really just Sutch bashing his way through some classic 50's covers. The high points here are"Country Club" and "Gotta keep-a-rocking", which again is a reworking of an old Sutch track called "Don't you just know it", not his best album but still a damn fun listen. The line up of the band is pretty damn impressive again, I mean Ritchie Blackmore, Keith Moon and Noel Redding that's fucking amazing. Though I think I love Blackmore enough that I could probably listen to a tape of him farting in a microphone and like it! One last piece of trivia I want to mention is that if you have ever heard the ROLLING STONES song "Get Off of My Cloud", I'm not sure how you wouldn't have but, the guy who shows up "All dressed up just like a Union Jack", well guess who there talking about.







Wow, here are two great, if not completely different albums involving Halloween record mastermind Wade
Next we have one of my absolute favorite Halloween albums. This time around Wade is joined by Kay 





Here's a strange one for sure. I first became aware of these Australian noise punk mongers around 90 or 91. On one of my trips to Lexington, Ky with my old friend Doug Hilbert, a crazy redneck punk metal maniac and a damn nice guy who turned me onto alot of great punk and metal music. Doug got some kind of check for an accident that he was in and on multiple occasions would skip school and go to Cut Corners records in Lexington and Doug would buy a ton of punk, metal and weird records, mostly based on what we thought of the cover, this was years before I meet Stoney Tombs or any of the other Lexington weirdo crew. So anyway low and behold, this was one of the records that Doug bought. Long story short he didn't dig it and I did, thus it became mine. This is damn hard to categorize, because this little gem goes from funeral doom/circus music to mean noise punk to love makin blaxploitation music and back again. Crazy stuff. These dudes put out several records after this one which I liked but this one is the best for sure. My favorite tracks here are "Beyond the Grave", "Nervequake" and "Frotting with Ennio", all different, but all good. I really dig the raw ass guitars and some of the weird lyrics like "Even the birds in the tree's seem to whisper GET FUCKED!". The main guy here, Stu Spasm went on to the band CRUNT, with his then wife Kat Bjelland of BABES IN TOYLAND. They pretty much sucked, but don't let that stop you from checking this out, but only if your a more curious listener. Of course the cover art is an A++, I don't think you could make a much better cover for this. See what you think. 




Since I mentioned this the other day before all the controversy started, ha. I guess I will go ahead and post these three Monster music classics. First we got the two MUNSTERS records I was talking about. The first one, simply called "The Munsters" is a fun and groovy 60's dance,surf, garage party record that 




