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EXCESS - Crucifixion: Complete Excess CD

EXCESS - Crucifixion: Complete Excess CD
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EXCESS - Crucifixion: Complete Excess CD
One of the first death thrash bands in the region came from the Ludwigshafen area and became a breeding ground for musicians who are now active in successful, albeit stylistically different-sounding groups. However, you don't have to be a fan of Crematory, Mystic Circle or Blood to like or find Excess (later: Malignity) fascinating, but the traditional roots are clearly evident.
 
Excess was founded in the summer of 1988 and after a short time the first line-up was Harald Heine (bass, vocals), Thorsten "Smog" Aschenbrenner (guitar) and Markus Jüllich (drums). They shared a rehearsal room that stank of foul beer with the locally popular thrash band Sudden Darkness, whose material was also released on Golden Core via double CD a few months ago. The guitarist of this group recorded the first Excess demo "Torment Of Death" with limited means, but at least already multitrack, which sounds surprisingly good considering the circumstances. Many a black metal band would have liked to have had this sound on their album in the nineties. Of course, the technical skills of the three musicians were still very limited, but it is precisely this "compulsory primitive" that makes these five tracks so authentic, but also brutal.
 
The best-known and certainly the most popular demo opens the CD: "Crucifixion" from 1992. Reinforced with singer Clausi (later active in the band Blood) and with a change on the drums, they offered a real quantum leap, but without the simple one Mix of Death, Thrash and sometimes Doom. The production by Guido Holzmann (Economist, Mystic Circle, Graveworm, etc.), whose studio was still under construction in 1992, is still an incredible, yet transparent "wall of sound" that is second to none.

After being renamed Malignity, the final demo followed before three of the four musicians joined better known acts, serving different scenes than the ones they started with as Excess/Malignity. Nevertheless, all those involved agreed to this re-release and support the work on it. Thus a gap in the history of German death thrash can now be closed.

Tracks 01-04: "Crucifixion" (Demo, 1992) Tracks 05-06: "Promotape" (Unreleased 1992) Track 07: "Unreleased Live" (Unreleased 1993) Tracks 08-12: "Torment Of Death" (Demo, 1989) Tracks 13-18: Malignity "Invasion Of Unknown Dimensions" (Demo, 1993)

TRACK LISTING:
1. Grinding Raid
2. Evil Child
3. Homicide
4. Death Creation
5. Baby Blood
6. Cry For God
7. Kill Human Life
8. Torment Of Death
9. Sudden Death
10. Endless Horror
11. Living Dead
12. Aggression Of Pain
13. Apocalypse
14. Desired Death
15. Reaching Light
16. Invasion In Unknown Dimensions
17. Diabolic Excivation
18. Millenium Of Torment
Product Details
Band Excess
Format CD
Year 2023
Packaging Type / Attributes Jewel Case
Number of Discs 1

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13.99€
Price in reward points: 1400
  • Stock: Sold Out
  • Reward Points: 7
  • Catalog Number: GCR 20187-2
  • Weight: 0.15kg