This is a review of a compilation album which contains the early demo's from Germany's Necronomicon which where released in 1985 and showed the music mixing the first wave black metal style with the German Teutonic thrash metal sound of that era and the recordings where released as a single album by Vic Records.
The sounds of war start off the compilation along with a brief use of spoken word parts before going into a very fast aggression direction which also utilizes a great amount of blast b eats. Vocals bring in more of a classic thrash metal style while the music is also very heavily rooted in the first wave black metal style.
Tremolo picking is also added into some of the faster riffing while the songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing along with the solos and leads being more rooted in a thrash/speed metal style, the bass guitars get more powerful sounding then the first demo as well as the vocals also adding in more of blackened style, one song also adds in a brief use of clean playing.
On these demo's Necronomicon took the first wave black metal style of the early 80's and mixed it with the more traditional German thrash metal of their home country. The production sounds very old school while the lyrics cover Satanism, Occultism, Death, Evil and Destruction themes.
In my opinion this is a very great sounding collection from Necronomicon and if you are a f an of black and thrash metal, you should check out this compilation. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Genocide" "Danger" "Possessed By Evil" and "Bloody Revenge". 8 out of 10.
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