Unknown Band - Unknown Track (????)

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Genre: Doom/Death Metal
Country: Unknown
Year: Unknown

1. Unknown Track

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NOTE: This was previously mislabeled as Gothic Castle's "In The Chared Cradle" demo. This is incorrect and it has been confirmed that this is NOT even Gothic Castle at all.

If anybody has any information regarding this track, leave a comment!

Whoever the fuck this band is, they were going for pure DOOM. Very dark and gritty-sounding, the production suffers slightly with scratchy guitars, but it works oh so well for this style of music. One word to describe this demo is "deliberate". Very slow-paced and controlled, this one song demo starts off with an almost march beat, slowly but surely plodding on, making sure everything stays together in one place. A sharp, purposeful riffs breaks out a minute or so in and holds for the rest of the song, steadily building off its solid foundation. Things start picking up at about the six minute mark and we're soon hit with another core riff; yet another piece to this concrete puzzle. Alternating between soulful riffing and frigid drilling, we also have a few doomy solos thrown into the mix sounding of cries of desperation and anguish.

The vocals are dirty and harsh to the max. Cold as winter, there is no respite in these words as they match the sound of the guitars in their unforgiveness. Ocassional clean vocals break out in traditional Russian (?) style, well-placed to bridge the 13 minute song.

This demo sounds like it was recorded in the early 90s, but again, that's just speculation.

Paroxia - Paroxia (1992-1994)

No Artwork

Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: Bulgaria
Year: Unknown

1. Vechen Ad
2. Nenormalnost
3. Degradiral Zakon

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Credits to entity over at Pile of Remains for this hidden gem.

I am particularly fascinated with this demo, because absolutely zero information exists about this band anywhere on the internet. They are not in the Metal Archives, don't have a Myspace page, I created their Last.fm page, and their name isn't so much as even mentioned anywhere at all, except for this blog and entity's. Hell, I don't even know the title to this demo or what year it was released in. All we know is that a band named Paroxia released these three tracks, and that's it. Nothing else. Very mysterious.

Anyway, onto the music. For being so unheard of, this music is actually quite good. The main style is rather chunky with a decent amount of speed and ferocity in both the instrumentation and the vocals. The guitars are lively with solos and choppy riffs, along with what seems to be some jazz influence thrown in there for good measure. A very energetic piece of music, and I certainly hope to, at the very least, discover more information about Paroxia!

Timeghoul - Unreleased Recordings (????)

timeghoul
Genre: Death Metal
Country: USA
Year: Unknown

1. PROJECT-1
2. PROJECT-2
3. PROJECT-3

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As heavy and hard-hitting as ever, these tracks are definitely worth a download if you liked Timeghoul's other material. Keep in mind that these are only concept tracks, unfinished recordings of a potential new album or demo. The sound is raw and stripped down here, and production isn't the greatest, but don't forget what I said earlier.

No vocals at all, just Timeghoul's innovative riffing and atmosphere present on three lengthy tracks. Listening to these kinda makes me depressed that they split up so soon. If they had only kept going, they would be legends in the Death Metal world. These guys were going places.