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Michael Hvolgaard Andersen – Please Return My Stamps

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Michael Hvolgaard Andersen – Please Return My Stamps

A book about the death metal underground metal scene from 1990 to 1994 written by Danish scene veteran Michael Hvolgaard Andersen. “Please Return My Stamps” takes you back to Naestved, Denmark in the early Nineties and tape trading, starting up a radio show at the age of 15, a fanzine at 16, a record label at 18 and the love of alcohol, extreme metal and almost getting arrested for the “please return my stamps” method and lots more.

The book, written in English, features 12 new chapters written in 2021 and 2022, original colors photos of Matti Karki of Dismember, Paul Masvidal of Cynic and Death and both Gregor and Nick from Paradise Lost back, and never seen before color photos of Napalm Death, Nocturnus, Obituary, Confessor and other cool stuff from the early 90s, like rare flyers and photos, concert tickets, flyers and scans the four original issues of the cult fanzine Emanzipation ‘zine written in the period this book is all about. The scans are from the original pages and features cut out logos and photos originally placed on the pages with glue. Everything was hand-made back then, except for the text which was written on Amiga 500. 200 A4 pages in total with new front cover artwork created by Jimmy Nielsen (Last Mile Records).

KEY POINTS:
* Underground metal book on 200 A4 pages, english written, with focus on the death metal scene in 1990 to 1994 written by Danish scene veteran Michael Hvolgaard Andersen.

*Rare and unseen photos by Dismember, Confessor, Nocturnus, Death, Cynic, Paradise Lost etc.

*Concert tickets, flyers etc.

*12 new chapters written in 2021 and 2022 and scans of the first four issues of Emanzipation ‘zine published in the period 1991 to 1994.

*Interviews with now classic acts such as Death, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Carcass, Dismember, Obituary, Napalm Death, Katatonia, Amorphis, Entombed, Dominus, Unleashed, Confessor etc. made in their early days.

About Michael Hvolgaard Andersen

Vocalist, author and composer since 1990. Active in the underground metal scene since 1990. Vocalist in the following bands and solo artist MHA: Withering Surface (est. 1994) and Thorium (est.1997). Founder and manager of Target Group.

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Turbocharged – Alpha Beast, Omega God

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Turbocharged – Alpha God, Omega Beast

Tracklist

1. Piss Stigmata
2. Irreligious
3. Slave Rhetoric
4. Phantom Cataclysm
5. Alpha Beast, Omega God
6. Chaos Chronicles
7. Sanguinary
8. Hunger Of The Wendigo
9. Land Of Pest
10. Hyper Blasphemous Shitstorm
11. Profane Vortex
12. Priests In Darkness

Lineup:

Freddie Fister – drums, backing vocals
Ronnie Ripper – bass, lead vocals
Old Nick – guitars


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Dawn Of Demise

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DAWN OF DEMISE

Dawn of Demise came to be when members Bjørn Jensen and Martin Sørensen decided that they wanted to play simple and heavy death metal. “Let’s play something that we actually can pull off, something like the heavy, groovy parts from bands like Suffocation, Pyrexia, Internal Bleeding, Dying Fetus, earlier Cannibal Corpse, and so on”. “Hate Takes Its Form” is the result of those initial thoughts and ideas. The band worked hard for years on what later would become their debut album. 

The line-up that was responsible for the album was, besides Bjørn and Martin who are still in the band, Jakob Nyholm (later joined Koldborn and Hatesphere), Kim Jensen  (also played in Koldborn and Illdisposed) and last but far from least, Mr. Scott Jensen. Scott, who used to be in the Silkeborg-based death metal band Infernal Torment, stepped out of death metal retirement to join the band. He had earlier stated that he was done with playing in bands and couldn’t be bothered. Maybe some convincing from younger brother Bjørn did the trick. 

The album has through the years earned the title as a modern day, Danish death metal classic. The band is still going strong, but a lot of fans still swear by the debut calling it the band’s best effort. When asked about the success of the album the band said: …“We were a very new band, confused, not knowing exactly what we wanted to sound like. Maybe that “confusion” and “experimentation” was a good thing”. 

“Hate Takes Its Form” was remastered by Marco Angioni at Angioni Studios. 

“Hate Takes Its Form” was re-released in LP (black/gold vinyl, limited to 300 units) on June 2022.

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Dawn Of Demise – Hate Takes Its Form

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Dawn Of Demise – Hate Takes Its Form

Tracklist

1. Hate Takes Its Form
2. …And Blood Will Flow
3. Degrading The Worthless
4. Within The Flesh
5. Intent To Kill
6. Impurity
7. Beyond Murder
8. Malice – Kill To Conform
9. Domestic Slaughter
10. Regain Our Masochist

Recording line-up:

Bjørn Jensen: bass
Martin Sørensen: guitars
Scott Jensen: vocals
Kim Jensen: drums
Jakob Nyholm: guitars

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Maceration – A Serenade Of Agony

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Maceration – A Serenade Of Agony

Tracklist

1. Intro / Silent Lay The Gentle Lamb
2. A Serenade Of Agony
3. Transmogrified
4. Pain And Pleasure Incarnate
5. The Watcher
6. The Mind Rampant
7. Reincarnation / Time Flies
8. The Forgotten

Bonus tracks (exclusive on CD)
9. Hideous Disfigurements
10. Incombustible Remains
11. Total Obstipation
12. Time Flies
13. Slowly We Rot (Obituary Cover)
14. Suffocation (Obituary cover)
15. Godly Beings (Obituary cover)
16. Incombustible Remains
17. Hideous Disfigurements
18. Silent Lay The Gentle Lamb (live)
19. The Mind Rampant (live)

Recording line-up:

Day Disyraah – vocals, keyboards, piano
Lars Bangsholt – guitars
Jacob Hansen – drums, lead guitars
Jakob Schultz – bass, lead guitars

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BRUTALITY – Sempiternity

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Brutality – Sempiternity

Tracklist

1. Orchestrated Devastation
2. Fluent In Silence
3. Artistic Butchery
4. Crushed
5. These Walls Shall Be Your Grave
6. Cries Of The Forsaken
7. 48 To 52
8. Cryptorium

Line-up:

Scott Reigel: vocals
Jeff Acres: bass, vocals
Jay Fernandez: guitar
Jarrett Pritchard: guitar
Ronnie Parmer: drums

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Iniquity – Grime

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Iniquity – Grime

Tracklist

A1. Tides Of Vengeance
A2. The Bullet’s Breath
A3. Border Into Shadow
A4. Bloodletting
A5. Spawn Of The Abscess

B1. Thawed For Breeding
B2. Stygian
B3. The Last Incantation
B4. Poets Of The Trench B5. Part II

Recording line-up:

Jesper Frost – drums
Thomas Fagerlind – bass
Kræn Meier – lead guitar
Mads Haarløv – vocals, guitar

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Maceration

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Maceration

Maceration started as a project of two Invocator members (Jakob Schultz and Jacob Hansen), joined by Rune Hansen and Lars Bangsholt. They are regarded as the first band playing death metal in Denmark and their debut live gig, opening for Darkthrone (still playing death metal back then) in 1990 is a piece of the Scandinavian genre, that went straight to tape (“Official Live Tape 1990”) and was heavily traded by avid death metal fans since then.

On their debut album “A Serenade of Agony” Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath) did the vocals using his famous pseudonym Day Disyraah. Dan Swanö and Jacob Hansen left the band after the CD was released. Lars Bangsholt and Jakob Schultz got a new line-up and played several shows in Denmark and Holland with acts such as Gorguts, Blasphemy, Dominus, Deadhead, Konkhra etc., until the band eventually split up in 1993. 

In 2021, however, there were some signs of life for Maceration again. Their mythical 1990 live gig opening for Darkthrone was the subject of a book (“Incombustible Remains (Dengang Darkthrone Spillede Koncert I Esbjerg I 1990”, written by Danish author Benni Bødker), that was released together with a CD featuring the live recordings of that night, remastered by Marco Angioni at Angioni Studios. Shortly after, a limited vinyl reissue of the live recordings, titled “Live Disfigurements”, was also released. A new studio album is confirmed to be released in 2022 as well, with original members Jakob Schultz and Lars Bangsholt featured in the recording line-up.

Shortly, after a reissue of their only album so far, “A Serenade Of Agony”, was also announced. It was be released on CD, limited vinyl and digital formats, with the CD including some amazing 11 bonus tracks, from the band’s unofficial 1990 rehearsal tape tracks, the 1990 demo tracks and two unreleased live songs.

In September 2022 the news spread like a wildfire: Maceration has recorded a new studio album, featuring again the mighty Dan Swanö as a singer, and was fully back to action. “It Never Ends…” was released on November 2022 and was an effective return to the scene by the Danes. 

The band’s third album “Serpent Devourment” will be released on 31 January 2025. Again, Dan Swanö has played an important role in the creation as producer and the man behind the mix in his Unisound studio. 

But this time he has not recorded the vocals. Maceration’s regular lead singer Jan Bergmann Jepsen (ex. Cor Vacante) has done the recording duties and he leaves no doubt after he has taken over the vocals on the new recordings. Jan Bergmann has been with Maceration live since the resurrection in 2022 and on some tracks on “It Never Ends” in a duet with Swanö, but now he is alone at the front. With a deep, growling and brutal vocal style, he is the perfect successor to Swanö and he carves this into stone on the new album.

Ten brand new tracks are what will be served on “Serpent Devourment”. Brutality, speed and heaviness are the key words for all tracks, but also melody and catchy riffs and choruses characterize Maceration’s tracks as always. This applies to the heavy riffs in the title track and “Where Leeches Thrive” and the fast easily recognizable themes in “The Den of Misery” or the triplet based aggressive main riff in “A Corrosive Heart Fell Below”. 

The whole new album is a varied creature, with fast death metal attacks like “The Suffering” and “For The End Alone” over heavy “Revolt The Tyrant Dream”, “In Rot Unleashed” or “Emptiness Embraced”. Fans of Maceration will nod in recognition to the band’s hallmarks and style, while new listeners will be embraced by stylish, brutal and aggressive old school death metal that has references back to the forefathers of death metal and also from the members’ previous bands such as Invocator, Spectral Mortuary and Corpus Mortale.
 
In addition to singer Jan Bergmann Jepsen, the band consists of Jakob Schultz – guitarist and main composer and only original member who was also previously in the renowned Danish band Invocator. Rune Koldby is a bass player with years of experience in Danish metal bands such as Exmortem and Spectral Mortuary, while the drums are handled by Nicolai Kaltoft (ex. Corpus Mortale) and Robert Tengs is the rhythm guitarist.

“Serpent Devourment” is out now on LP (black vinyl limited to 300 copies and light blue vinyl, limited to 200), CD and digital via Emanzipation Productions. 

Web:
https://www.facebook.com/maceration

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