Death Metal (album)
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| Music album by Running Wild , Hellhammer , Dark Avenger, Helloween |
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Publication |
1984 |
| Label (s) | Noise Records |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
32 min 29 s |
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Horst Mueller |
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Studio (s) |
CAET Studios, Berlin |
Death Metal is a sampler from the German record label Noise Records . The sampler was released in 1984 and contains contributions from the bands Running Wild , Hellhammer , Dark Avenger and Helloween .
Emergence
The sampler was an idea of Noise Records founder Karl-Ulrich Walterbach . Walterbach wanted to publish a similar sampler with bands from German-speaking countries based on the model of the American sampler series Metal Massacre or US Metal or the English series Metal for Muthas . Walterbach was faced with the problem that at the beginning of 1984 there weren't enough German metal bands with enough material for a complete studio album . Eventually Walterbach found the German bands Dark Avenger, Helloween and Running Wild as well as Hellhammer from Switzerland , each of which contributed two titles.
Running Wild wrote the song Bones to Ashes exclusively for the sampler . Hellhammer's song Messiah deals with a possible nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union . The sampler was recorded in the Berlin CAET studio in March and April 1984 . The producer was Horst Müller. Hellhammer recorded their EP Apocalyptic Raids while they were in the studio . The album cover for the sampler was designed by an artist named Freudstein. Walterbach wanted something horror-like for the cover with torture , intestines and a lot of blood .
For the origins of the misleading title Death Metal - none of the bands except Hellhammer played the music of the style of the same name - there are two versions. Karl-Ulrich Walterbach explained that he was looking for an extreme label with the title that also sounded handy. Hellhammer singer Thomas Gabriel Fischer, however, explained that Walterbach originally wanted to call the sampler Black Mass , which Hellhammer found clichéd and counterproductive. In a phone call, Fischer suggested to Walterbach to use the title of Fischer's fanzine Death Metal and offered Walterbach to use the logo designed by Fischer .
The sampler was indexed from October 1985 to September 2010 . A copy of the sampler was not available to the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to minors . A rare second edition of the sampler contains a record cover on which the reasons for the judgment of the Federal Testing Office are printed. While Helloween and Running Wild later rose to become the most successful German heavy metal bands worldwide, Hellhammer advanced to become the most influential death and black metal bands . For Dark Avenger, however, the two songs on the sampler were the only release of their career alongside a demo from 1985.
Track list
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reception
Holger Stratmann from the German magazine Rock Hard described the sampler as "an overall good record which, if Hellhammer had been left out, could have got a better rating". Since the three other bands “have format”, Stratmann awarded 7.5 out of ten points.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Matthias Mader: A small rampage - a legend turns 30 . In: Rock Hard . No. 330 , November 2014, p. 76 .
- ↑ Profile of Dark Avenger in the Metal Archives (English), accessed on May 5, 2020
- ↑ Holger Stratmann: Death Metal . In: Rock Hard . No. 6 ( rockhard.de [accessed on October 23, 2014]).