Just cuz I'm going through all my old demos because I'm moving soon...thought it would be fun

Wargasm
Formicide
Cardinal Sin
Demise/Experiments in Fear
Deslok
Temporary Insanity
Hearing Impaired/Dim Mak
Meliah Rage
Atomicaust
Valhalla

some not listed for personal reasons

i was only 4 in 1984. i was too busy trying not to shit my pants to check out the thrashy goodness going on back then.

not Bad Karma?

Always respected Bad Karma but when you try to talk to them...heavy attitude and arrogance...at least back then there was...

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Note: How do you do a P and a R in internet speak?? Help me out Spaldino!

MASlayer said:

i can't say i haven't heard that before...
great demos though

one my favorite memories was watching Wargasm switch instruments and play "Witching Hour" at the Paradise. (Was that show with wrecking Crew? Fuck I'm gettin' old)

I saw that, I actually jumped up on stage and screamed "AAAAAALLLLLLLLL hell breaks looose!!!" into the mic.

That Temporary Insanity band sure sucked.

I would be willing to give MELIAH RAGE's demo shit a listen, but the shit I've heard is fucking awful... And I saw them and hated that as well. Somewhere in the range of UNCLE SLAM as far as their relevance to Thrash Metal is concerned.

What about fuckin EXECUTIONER?

A short review for those who were not born or too young..

Wargasm-if dont know by now, forget it. The Kings of Boston Metal during that time. They singlehandedly put boston metal back on the map in the mid 80's.

Formicide-absolutely awesome, super tight early Metallica-ish speed metal. Played many a show with them. Their demo from like 1989 is fucking sick.

Cardinal Sin-originally from Puerto Rico, relocated to this area. I think my fav. from that era. Good friends of mine as well at the time. Also very Metallica-ish but more technical. Very well composed songs. A CD just came out of their old stuff called "Resurection" get it, you wont be sorry if you like that kind of stuff. Also did a lot of gigs with them.

Demise/Experiments in Fear-cant say I remember that much about them. I think they were kinda like super fast thrashy stuff.

Deslok-Another good band from the era. Darryl has come to some of our shows lately.

Temporary Insanity- my old band, speed metal crossover/moshy stuff. Our guitarist was a smokin player (still is) and made the band in my opinion.

Hearing Impaired/Dim Mak-from what I remember, more towards the punk side than most.

Meliah Rage-Straight ahead metal/thrash. The drummer was the brother of the guy in Bad Karma who plays guitar with one arm (something I always was amazed by)They were signed to Epic for a while but got dropped. I think some form of M.R. still plays gigs from time to time.

Atomicaust-awesome, techincal thrash stuff. Played lots of gigs with them as well.

Valhalla- dont remember that much, but I think they were just generic speed metal.

BestialOnslaught said:


EXECUTIONER!!!!!!!!!

Is there anyway I can get these demos/albums?

BestialOnslaught said:

im not a big meliah rage fan either, singers gotta go

Randy said:

IN THE NAME OF METAL YOU WILL DIE

Pat Meebles said:


the Cardinal Sin "Resurrection" CD is pretty available, look on the net. Thats a great CD.

what about
subjugator
graven image
afterbirth
the mighty PTL KLUB
leige lord from ct
spectral incursion

christ i wish i could remember more ..but i burnt those brain cells out a long time ago

Wow...Randy from TI...I remember you...last time I saw you was a party years ago in some basement on the South Shore I think with Steve Repucci...surprised you don't remember Demise that much...you went to our shows! ANd your description was accurate...very fast thrashy stuff...I'll have to call John from Cardinal Sin and tell him that you're here...how's Glen these days?

ah, the good ole days
*sigh*

I miss the Channel, too

All hail the Channel!

I only saw one show at the Channel, and a fucking great show it was...

Sept. 23, 1991

MORBID ANGEL
ENTOMBED
UNLEASHED
CARDINAL SIN
INTRUDER


Fuck yeah, I was 21 and I had a blast!

you lucky mofo

I saw soooooooooo many bands there...practically lived there as a kid...most memorable moment...opening for DARK ANGEL and EXCEL...memories...

Darkness Descends > Life in general

o man, i would die to open for Dark Angel, Darkness Descends is a fuckin classic!

Speaking of the Channel, what was the name of the small club attached to it?

oh, fuck. Good trivia question but I totally fuckin' forget

I think it was called "The Edge" but I'm not sure. I smoked quite a bit of weed between then and now...

hahaha, me too but not anymore BECAUSE of that

wasn't it called VENUS DeMILO'S, I DONT KNOW HOW TO SPELL IT?

SLAYER and MELIAH RAGE at the CHANNEL!! The week in the Abyss tour 1990!! TESTAMENT and RAVEN November 1988 at the CHANNEL!! WARGASM and BIOHAZARD 1990 at the CHANNEL!! SICK OF IT ALL, NAPALM DEATH, SACRED REICH and SEPULTURA at the CHANNEL 1991!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY and BIOHAZARD at DERRINGERS 1990!! HADES, MELIAH RAGE, WARGASM, NUCLEAR ASSAULT and MANOWAR (the HOLIDAY THRASH BASH) 1988 at the BAYSIDE EXPO-CENTER!! SICK OF IT ALL and NUCLEAR ASSAULT at the old LIVING ROOM 1989!! VITAL REMAINS, RITUAL SACRIFICE, CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY and SELF DESTRUCT at the LIVING ROOM 1989!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY, CARDINAL SIN, WARGASM, MUCKY PUP and GWAR at the ESCAPE CLUB 1991!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY, DEMOLTION HAMMER, MELIAH RAGE, PANIC, CORONER and NUCLEAR ASSAULT at the ESCAPE CLUB 1991!! BAD KARMA, VALHALLA, BURNT OFFERINGS, DESLOK, TEMPORARY INSANITY, MELIAH RAGE, FORMICIDE, WARGASM and FLOTSAM & JETSOM at the KINGSTON, NH. FAIRGROUNDS October 1988!! WARGASM and CRO-MAGS at DERRINGERS 1991!! The "BIG GIG" featuring all of the area's top rock bands and CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at the TWEETER CENTER 1992 (7000 people)!! OVER KILL at the LIVING ROOM 1990!! OVER KILL at the CHANNEL 1990 and 1991!! WARGASM and MELIAH RAGE at the CHANNEL 1988!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at the PORTSMOUTH MUSIC HALL 1989 (seats got ripped out for a pit..... no more metal shows)!! TYPE-O-NEGATIVE and BIOHAZARD at the CHANNEL 1991!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY and TYPE-O-NEGATIVE at CLUB 490 in 1993!! DEVASTATION and DEATH at the PARADISE 1990!! WRECKING CREW and NUCLEAR ASSAULT at the PARADISE 1989!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY and SICK OF IT ALL at the ESCAPE CLUB 1992!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY and BRUTAL TRUTH at CHAPTER 2 in 1994!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY and OVER KILL at the AXIS 1993!! LIFE OF AGONY at the MIDDLE EAST 1993!! LIFE OF AGONY at CLUB BABYHEAD 1993!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY and NUCLEAR ASSAULT at the AXIS 1994!! the CARNIVORE re-union show at SARATOGA WINNERS 1995!! CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY, NON-FICTION, ANACRUSIS and OVER KILL at the ESCAPE CLUB 1991!!

MASlayer said:

I know, I saw you guys a lot but honestly I really cant recall your songs....at least I got the description right. Never had a demo, or lost it a while back! Was it you guys that did the PIZZA GUY song?I have John Dones' email, talk to him periodically, also to Kenny Grau via email.

Glen is married to a hot chick and has a child that is about 1.5 years old. He lives in Brockton (so do I) actually used to live right down the street from me, but I moved to the other side of town.

shows I remember going to from that time period...CSDO might have mentioned some these in his huge message but here goes...

Kreator & Voivod at TT the Bears(yes they used to have ALL the great shows!) saw these there too:

Nuke Assault and Ludichrist
COC
Agnostic Front
The Mentors(!)
others Im sure

Slayer "Reign in Blood" tour at the channel 1987
Anthrax at the Paradise 1985 or 6
Trouble and Kilslug (Larry Fuckin Lifeless) at Celebrations 1984
Testament at the Channel
Armored Saint and WASP at the channel (Metallica was supposed to play but it was the show that Lars got deported)To this day, that WASP show was the loudest show I have ever heard .

Possesed & Dark Angel at the Paradise

so many others I forgot, im sure.

How about CRONOS solo at The Paradise? CANDLEMASS and best or worst of all CELTIC FROST on the 'Cold Lake' tour? Man, I'm old as dirt.Oh fuck! Almost forgot-ANVIL and TANK at Celebrations.

i used to love ANVIL, i met them at ROCKET RECORDS in saugus back in the late 80's.

And then there was RAVEN on the 'Stay Hard' tour.When good bands go bad.

SAMHAIN & KILSLUG at Hanum Hall.

Can I get a 'Whooooa STEEL ASSASSIN

Some highlights from my concert diary:

5-21-1987 (The Living Room)
JERRY'S KIDS
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES

11-1-1987 (Lupo's)
WRECKING CREW
YOUTH OF TODAY
AGNOSTIC FRONT

12-28-1987 (Providence Civic Center) 17 YEARS AGO TODAY!!!
SAVATAGE
MEGADETH
DIO

1-21-1988 (The Living Room)
M.O.D.

4-20-1988 (Veteran's Memorial)
SANCTUARY
WARLOCK
MEGADETH

6-12-1988 (Sullivan Stadium)
"Monsters of Rock"
DOKKEN
SCORPIONS
METALLICA
VAN HALEN

7-6-1988 (The Living Room)
TESTAMENT

7-25-1988 (The Living Room)
INDESTRUCTABLE NOISE COMMAND
NUCLEAR ASSAULT
OVERKILL

9-6-1988 (The Living Room)
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
KING DIAMOND
(The "Them" tour!!!)

10-27-1988 (Veteran's Memorial)
OVERKILL
SLAYER

11-13-1989 (The Living Room)
ANNIHILATOR
WRATHCHILD AMERICA
TESTAMENT

2-16-1990 (The Living Room)
COURAGE TO BE
NASTY SAVAGE
D.R.I.

3-12-1990 (The Living Room)
SELF-DESTRUCT
DEVASTATION
DEATH

3-25-1990 (The Living Room)
DEAD ON
FATES WARNING
SANCTUARY

4-26-1990 (The Living Room)
SYLENCE
EXCEL
DARK ANGEL

8-7-1990 (Church House Inn)
PHLEGM
VITAL REMAINS
MORBID ANGEL
("Altars of Madness" tour!)

8-13-1990 (The Living Room)
FORCED ENTRY
OBITUARY
SACRED REICH

9-4-1990 (Church House Inn)
PHLEGM
CARCASS
DEATH

11-28-1990 (Katina's)
VITAL REMAINS
SADUS
OBITUARY

3-25-1991 (Club Babyhead)
NAUSEA
NOCTURNUS
GODFLESH
NAPALM DEATH

1-20-1992 (Club Babyhead)
PHLEGM
GORGUTS
CANNIBAL CORPSE

3-16-1992 (Club Babyhead)
PHLEGM
GRAVE
MASSACRE

4-20-1992 (Club Babyhead)
RIPPING CORPSE
EXHORDER
ENTOMBED

5-29-1992 (Club Babyhead)
INCANTATION
DEAD HORSE
ENTOMBED

7-11-1992
GRIEF
PHLEGM
BRUTAL TRUTH
GOREAPHOBIA
INCANTATION
PUNGENT STENCH
IMMOLATION

8-5-1992 (Club Babyhead)
NYBRAS
HEADROT
VITAL REMAINS

10-5-1992 (Club Babyhead)
DEMOLITION HAMMER
CANCER
DEICIDE

3-20-1993 (Club Three's)
ASTAROTH (Pre-TRANQUIL PASSING)
RANCID CHRIST
REVENANT

5-23-1993 (Club Confetti's)
HEADROT
INCANTATION
MORGUE (Chicago)
VITAL REMAINS
AUTOPSY (!!!)

2-5-1994 (Club Three's)
ENGORGED (Mass)
LIVING IMPAIRED
TRANQUIL PASSING
DELUSION
AFTERBIRTH
DESOLATE
MORTAL DECAY
INTERNAL BLEEDING
CRUCIFIER
MOURN THY PASSING (CEMETERY EARTH)
DETERIORATE

+ many more!

I can't believe I forgot the mighty-SUBJUGATOR and BLOODLUST

WRECKING CREW was pretty Trashy too, my man.

Randy said:

i remember blackie lawless only had 2 strings on his bass that night.

asshole

rich spillberg (wargasm) and me (wargasm) watched as some kid asked randy piper for his autograph; piper said, 'no, man, if i do you, i'll have to do everybody.' and walked away. rich decided that wasp should pay for that. he went up in front holding up a sign that said 'BLACKIE BALL-LESS' and blackie saw it and spit at him and missed; rich spit back and hit him square in the face

good times

what about Doom Bull?

Damn...this thread makes me sad that I'm so damn young. I'd have killed to catch some of these shows.

Cathach said:

Fuck yeah....STEEL ASSASSIN

th3rdknuckle said:


and you are.....?

shit.. I forgot

Sepultura at the living room-Beneath The Remains tour.

Sepultura(i think) and Obituary at Derringers.

Agnostic Front at TTs. I got punched in the face by a skinhead when I got within like 20 feet of the stage.

King Diamond at the Channel.. Abigail, I think.

some of the bigger bands....

Metallica on Master of Puppets tour at the Centrum....backing up Ozzy, who they blew off the stage.

Ozzy/Motley Crue at the Gahden. Shout at the Devil/Bark at the Moon.

Judas Priest at the Gahden...Defenders Of the Faith. Tripping on Mescaline. They were fucking LOUD!!!!

Iron Maiden on Powerslave tour...twice. What a show that was, let me tell you.

BestialOnslaught said:


Fuck yeah..Wrecking Crew. Keith Bennett.

Cathach said:

Cronos at the Paradise. What a joke. He sucked so bad. I was one of the guys yelling "PLAY VENOM SONGS!!!!" So Cronos says "we dont play that evil crap anymore". HUH??? Its fucking Cronos. So they finally play At War With Satan towards the end of the set and the place goes nuts. He looked like such a poseur.

Celtic Frost and Anthrax at the Orpheum. Not sure if it was Cold Lake but they had another guitarist. It was still awesome because it was the only chance I ever had to see Frost. Plenty of death grunts. Martin Ain was like " Are you ready for some death grunts? Let me hear you say OOOOUH!" It was great.

So many shows I saw, I cant possibly remember them all.

Violence at the Channel
FLosam & Jetsam & Fates Warning at the Channel
Forbidden and Death Angel at the Channel

<sigh>at least I was able to experience the Golden Age first hand and have tons o' memories from it...<sigh>

thats bob mayo
bass vocals - wargasm


Randy said:

and i belive SADUS too on this one Sepultura(i think) and Obituary at Derringers.

Randy said:

what about dark ages!!! no one remembers dark ages!!!???

D R E A D
6L6

I WISH I HAD FRIENDS BACK THEN I WOULDA WENT TO SOME OF THOSE SHOWS

6l6 was cool...didnt that come after 92....come on jim u must remember dark ages!

good point rob i was just kinda reminising cause both those bands were reallty cool

6l6 was way better with gina on guitar in my opinion

b'zrker too was another good one i think they were formed in 1990

I THINK I SAW DARK AGEGS BUT I DON'T REMEMBER I DID SEE A LOTTA BANDS BUT THOSE WERE MY DRUNKIN BLACK UT DAYS

I REMEMBER SEEING
AUDOTORY IMAGREY A FEW TIMES

OUT...OF...BO...DY...EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!

what about Savoure Faire (sp?)

now we're rockin'...

hahahaha.... savoure faire "you must be an angel"!!!!!!!
scott you and me only remember dark ages i think...how sad

what about doom bull?

WARHEAD

who the fuck is doom bull??.....ritual sacrifice, dear life , wretched grace , murder one

Wretched Grapes!

subjugate said:

Warhead!!! i forgot about them

what about Genital Fungus? Rob, what was that guys name? the one who killed the mice in his studio with his teeth and kept 'em in a dunkin donuts bag stapled to the wall...

so this turned into like the 3rd concert thread,so i'll add my 2 cents,My favorite show i saw was ...

Carcass
Death
Pestilence
@ The Channel

oh yea also, It WAS Sadus that was on the Sepultura/Obituary Tour,I saw that show at some hole in the wall in Brockton.

subjugate said:

Shit, I wish I knew

i remember that death/carcass show..killer

CandyStriperDeathOrgy said:


Haha. My band played that show. That was the best. Our singer Mike DiSalvo went on to be the vocalist of Cryptopsy in Canada.

Sullitms said:

i remember this show,we borrowed my buddies moms car cause he was the only one old enough to drive and we completely trashed the interior thanks to gwar,wow,i hadn't thought of that in so long

5-23-1993 (Club Confetti's)
HEADROT
INCANTATION
MORGUE (Chicago)
VITAL REMAINS
AUTOPSY (!!!)

I have the Incantation, Vital, and Autopsy set's on video....fucking killer stuff. Autopsy was fucking sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was 2 in 1984.

live up the old times, but what the fuck are you doing now? oh, nothing? shut the fuck up and make some original music you talentless, worthless fucking faggots. why doesn't anyone come to your shows? because it was generic shit the first time around, and no one cared then. slit your fucking wrists.

silky said:

A classic example of someone who missed the point completely...shove an M-80 up your twat and DIE!

AUTOPSY_666 said:

Hah...I was at so many of those.

silky said:

Bold words from someone who links bands in his profile that steal every 90s grind/metalcore/Converge/screamofag and dissonant Voivod riff (yeah, one of those TALENTLESS generic bands that noone cared about the first time around yet still managed to copy a thousand times) in the book.

Instead of trying to aimlessly hamstring REAL metal fans, who have been listening for decades to what they love, why not go spend another 20 seconds writing another 'original' and forgettable art-fag grind tune while you masturbate to your Locust, Pig Destroyer and Lightning Bolt records, and we'll see you next week when you graduate to Thomas Yorke teabagging you Johnny-Come-Lately yuppie faggot. I'll bet your shows draw a TON of kids this week. I'm sorry Relapse doesn't want you.

Thrash Frog

Fuckyeah

1/2 of Thrash Frog became Violent Anal Death, who became the Frustrators.
1/2 of Thrash Frog became One Ton Tomatoe who became Dumb it Down.
Dumb it Down is getting old, but thinking of becoming Thrash Frog again.

Did they really spell tomato the Dan Quayle way?

MASlayer said:


I know that CSDO arnt from Boston but how u can list local Thrash metal bands without mentioning them

dan quayle would be proud, yes we intentionally spelled it One Ton Tomatoe. (it looked good)

Temporary Insanity, how could I forget about that band.

The singer for Dread, played drums for Kevorkian's Angels in 1998.

MASlayer said:

Damn Rich! I'm tickled you mentioned Hearing Impaired/DimMak here...we played with every one of the other bands mentioned regularly as well as most Boston hardcore & punk bands from that era.

Randy, good to see you on here as well, and you're right, we leaned a little more toward the punk/crossover school of '80's thrash than most. All the shows mentioned too, wow, I was at most of those myself. Massive nostalgia blast as I read this.

Greg D. from Subjugator is now the bassist in Ichabod with me, along with Ken McKay on vocals, from Big John Studd.

By far my favorite metal demo from this area from that era is the Blind Surgeon demo with Jonah Jenkins (Only Living Witness) on vocals. My buddy Chris and I are going to be putting together a CD of the two Hearing Impaired demos and maybe some Dimmak live stuff, I'll post when it's done.

Hello gang talk about flashbacks. I'm going to be self serving here but how about.
Death Angel
Cardinal sin
Forbidden
Atomicaust
at the Channel back in god knows when. It's nice to see some old and dear friends here.

I was at that Death Angel show, it was pretty sick.

what a great show that was...place was packed and every band delivered the goods...and Dave why would I forget to include you guys?? Back then there was actually a SCENE to speak of, one I'm proud to have been a part of and shared!

was that the a.f. around helloween time. i remember after that show they played in a basement at a house in mission hill for a party and i think ended the set as a joke with a u2 cover and i remember all this electrical equimpment around all this flooding in the basement but no one got shocked.
all those shows like coc and the crossover shite were nuts there. fuckin exploited, dr know and psycho was cool too.

Atomicaust!!!!!!!!!


FACE THE FUCKING BUTCHER!

my old man was in valhalla - Pat Joyce W00T

Subjugator
Dread

My old bands. Fuck anyone who has a problem with them.

Steel Assassin/Metallica/Raven at the Rat -Were you there? No you were not- FTW

Exodus/Slayer/Venom
Voivod/cromags/Venom The ritz in 86
Cromags and Motorhead- Channel
Wargasm/Overkill/Slayer- Channel

Oh and can I not mention The Dread schoolbus............good times.

awesome thread!!! thanx for the AFTERBIRTH metion!!

Hey Man, Just saw a post of yours from many years back but thought I would take a chance. USed to hit a ton of old Boston Thrash shows and recently started trying to collect old demos from the area. I saw that you had quite a few demos or at least at one time and wondering if you would be interested in selling, selling copies, trading some stuff if you still got them. I am looking for anything by Demise, Cardinal Sin, Hearing Impaired, Scarecin, Bzerkr, Blind Surgeon, Psychosis, Delusion, Infestation, Toxic Narcotic, Wrecking Crew, Candy Striper Death Orgy. I do have some atomicaust, only living witness (demo and album) same with Sam Black, wargasm, Meliah Rage, Subjugator, temporary insanity. Let me know what you think, if you get this. Oh I also have all the formicide demos coming on that CD they put out and same with Deslok. Thanks man,

John

Hey Man, Just saw a post of yours from many years back but thought I would take a chance. USed to hit a ton of old Boston Thrash shows and recently started trying to collect old demos from the area. I saw that you had quite a few demos or at least at one time and wondering if you would be interested in selling, selling copies, trading some stuff if you still got them. I am looking for anything by Demise, Cardinal Sin, Hearing Impaired, Scarecin, Bzerkr, Blind Surgeon, Psychosis, Delusion, Infestation, Toxic Narcotic, Wrecking Crew, Candy Striper Death Orgy. I do have some atomicaust, only living witness (demo and album) same with Sam Black, wargasm, Meliah Rage, Subjugator, temporary insanity. Let me know what you think, if you get this. Oh I also have all the formicide demos coming on that CD they put out and same with Deslok. Thanks man,

John