Century Media has dug deep into the rotten soil of the ancient death metal grounds and has announced the successful exhumation of entire demo recordings of Finland’s notorious death metal masters NECROPSY.

Emerging from the small yet fantastic Finnish death metal scene of the late 80s / early 90s, Necropsy dwell amongst the few but legendary bands of that time such as SENTENCED, AMORPHIS, CONVULSE, XYSMA, DISGRACE, DEMIGOD, DEMILICH, ADRAMELECH, ABHORRENCE or PURTENANCE. Never having reached a wider audience during the band’s existence from 1987 to 1993 (until its resurrection in 2008) Necropsy nevertheless managed to release a bunch of demos containing outstandingly great real Finnish death metal, that just deserve to be discovered by more people than those lucky guys owning the original tapes.

Tomb Of The Forgotten – The Complete Demo Recordings (to be released on June 3rd) includes the band’s complete demo recordings, from the first demo Mental Disturbance from 1989 until the last recorded tune 'Anointing Of The Sick' (1993). The entire material has been carefully remastered at DMS Mastering Studio (MORBID, ASPHYX, GRAVE etc.) from the original tapes. The result is mindblowing: Without ever destroying the analog charm of the old tapes, all songs sound fresh, just like they have been recorded just a few years ago.

The cover has been done by César Valladares (Asphyx, KRISIUN etc.) and perfectly captures the spirit of the ancient death metal demo days. Timo Hanhirova of Miasma Mag (Finland) has done a detailed interview with Necropsy's main man Janne Kosonen and former guitarist Aatu Holma telling the entire story of the band. And of course the release is stuffed with loads of old and never-seen-before photos, demo art, flyers, etc.

Tomb Of The Forgotten – The Complete Demo Recordings is going to be released as a 3CD jewelcase with o-card and extensive booklet as well as on limited 4LP and as digital download. Check out CMdistro.com to get your hands on a copy of the super limited colored vinyl version.

Tomb Of The Forgotten – The Complete Demo Recordings tracklisting:

CD1:

'Mental Disturbance'

'Extricate From The Life'

'Slippery Games'

'Intro - Appearing Lunacy'

'Scars Beyond Recovery'

'Fetchers Of Soul'

'Imminent Prophecy'

'Curse'

'L.G.I.'

'Intro - Sanctify The Crucifixion Ritual'

'Dust Thou Art'

'Allienced With Darkness'

'Fall-Out'

'G.A.B.G.'

'Chronic Agony'

'Formal Absurdity'

'Charge Of Undead'

Tracks 1-3: Taken from Mental Disturbance demo (1989)

Tracks 4-9: Taken from Curse demo (1990)

Tracks 10-17: Taken from Indigestion demo (1990)

All tracks previously unreleased on CD and vinyl.

CD2:

'Never To Be Forgotten'

'Dark Fantasies'

'Refusal Of Cross'

'Under The Masses'

'White Perfect Fume'

'Locked'

'Born And Begotten In Sin'

'Dance Among The Dead'

'Cross Of Deceased Flesh'

'Garden Of Rotting'

'Cold Inert Mass Of Meat'

Tracks 1-2: Taken from “Promo 1991” demo

Tracks 3-6: Taken from “Another World” demo (1991)

Tracks 7-11: Taken from “Go All The Way Of Flesh” demo (1992)

All tracks previously unreleased on CD and vinyl, except tracks 1 and 2 that have been released on the 'Never To Be Forgotten' 7inch EP (1992).

CD3

'Intro'

'Blasphemous Degradation'

'White Perfect Fume'

'From The Depths'

'Under The Masses'

'The Morass'

'Implicit Confidence'

'Shattered'

'Rune Of Suffering'

'Black Dyed Dawns'

'Martyrdom'

'Anointing Of The Sick'

Tracks 1-6: Taken from the split LP with DEMIGOD

Tracks 7-11: Taken from the “Promo 1993” demo

Track 12: Taken from the “Monoheads” compilation

All tracks previously unreleased on CD, except track 12.

Tracks 7-12 previously unreleased on vinyl.