🔥Necrophagia Season Of The Dead Review🔥

🔥Necrophagia Season Of The Dead Review🔥

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Welcome to album review Tuesdays here on the channel. So, tonight I am doing another subscriber request. This one comes courtesy of Brandon Derment. He has asked me to review an absolute OSDM classic and one of the albums that are among the first death metal albums ever released.. Yes folks tonights review is of NECROPHAGIA-Season Of The Dead (Released in 1987 on New Renaissance Records) Now before we get into the review im going to give you guys some background history on Necrophagia! But before I do let me break down the line-up on Season Of The Dead
Killjoy (R.I.P. 2018) Vocals
Bill James Bass
Joe Blazer Drums
Larry Madison Guitars

Along with San Francisco's Possessed and Florida's Death, Ohio's Necrophagia were one of the pioneering death metal bands of the mid-'80s. Formed in 1983 by vocalist Killjoy -- whose love of Venom only barely exceeded his passion for slasher movies -- Necrophagia first made waves with their Death Is Fun demo of 1985. Two years later, they hooked up with the New Renaissance label and unleashed their unnaturally coarse, but very influential debut, 1987's Season of the Dead. But shortly after its release, the remaining bandmembers, guitarist Larry Madison, bassist Bill James, and drummer Joe Blazer, fell out with Killjoy over matters of musical direction, spelling Necrophagia's premature breakup.

Over the next few years, Killjoy remained busy with a number of projects, including the death metal supergroup Ravenous (featuring Nuclear Assault's Danny Lilker and Autopsy's Chris Reifert, among others), the raw black metal outfit Viking Crown (with Pantera's Phil Anselmo), and even a thrash-gore band named after himself. Eventually, he also decided to resurrect the Necrophagia name with the help of guitarist Anton Crowley (aka Anselmo yet again), bassist Dustin Havnen, and drummer Wayne Fabra for 1998's Holocausto de la Morte, 1999's Black Blood Vomitorium EP, and 2000's Legacy of Horror, Gore and Sickness collection. This sudden flurry of activity persisted into a new deal with Season of Mist Records, which issued the Cannibal Holocaust EP in 2001 and the Divine Art of Torture album in 2003.

So the album opens up with the title track which has some great clean guitar melodies and passages that set the tone for this album of pure decay and stinking death all in the vein of a zombie apocalypse. One thing I also wanted to point out here? This is the band that also pioneered “Horror metal” and that’s what we get with necrophagia. Pure unapologetic depravity and horror. The song’s clean guitar sections last for about 2 mins before it breaks into a cacophonic ominous keyboard driven ambient synth laden section of dark chants, ambience and bell tolls and it fits this atmosphere perfectly for setting up the upcoming invasion of the dead roaming the earth with its savage visceral riffing, and double bass drumming, ominous bass tones and killjoys vocals which are unmistakable! The riffing towards the mid section of the song takes on an almost ethereal horror themed tone before it blasts into full on cacophonic horror tinged guitar leads and dark foreboding riffing that signifies the dead hungering for flesh! This is a killer opener guys!

Next up is the track Bleeding Torment and well, for 1987 this was probably one of the most dark and ominously vile putrid songs out there in the world of extreme metal because what we get here is a straight up OSDM attack of horror, blood, gore and death and the tormentous emotions that linger in these riffs, drum work and killjoys vocals? Is incredibly well timed, immaculate and perfectly crafted within its chamber walls of death, mold and putrid vile slime and disgusting dripping drenched atmospheric texture of terror and fear and the fact that this is one of the most uniquely crafted offerings of 1987 is no fucking accident. This is another killer song!