Customer Reviews

The Awakening

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No mercy to anyone. This is sick death trash. From start to finish fullspeed ahead. This record is also quite short one just 8 song and 27.19. On the other hand this is actually enough for me. Best tracks are Pure Hate, Dreadful Fate and Realm of the Dark.

Sadly this remains one of the most under rated Swedish deathrash albums of the late 80s-early 90s period.It came out on the late Euronymous' Deathlike Silence Productions in 1989 and was initially hard to get at all with Euronymous' budgetary constraints and notorious poor management meaning that even months after it had originally sold out he still didn't have enough money for a repress.This situation was rectified a little when it came out on CD in the early 90s and then when Osmose rereleased it with bonus tracks in 1998 (or 1999).
The music is a kick in the face-short songs, vicious vocals which bring to mind "Pleasure To Kill" by Kreator and a relentless energy from start to finish much like early Sadus.At 28 minutes it IS short and sweet but if it was any longer it wouldn't be as good.
Perhaps due to chronic underpromotion and the imminent rise of the Swedish death metal scene (Entombed, Dismember)this one was left buried by time and dust for the few who do manage to stumble across it's path.Definitely worth searching for.

the ULTIMATE deathrash album.
i'll tone down my language but it's a mother f'n time f'n tested, ultimate, violent, aggressive, manic, g.d. brutal deathrash classic that will leave you either wanting more, or laying in a pile of your own innards wondering when the hell you were disemboweled. It'll sometimes remind me of when Exodus were scary and menacing (Bonded by Blood, and the total riff madness soaked in reverb therein) and Possessed in general with a hint of Sodom but much MUCH more savage and hellish than all three combined, ok maybe not as hellish as Possessed, but indeed more savage and vile. One of the most underrated albums of all time and certainly mandatory for those who know what real metal is like, now why can't i just rate this a 10!??!!