WARGASM Prep Album Of Demos
September 26, 2013, 11 years ago
Boston thrash metal band WARGASM is commemorating the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Why Play Around?, by readying an album comprised of their mid-'80s demos for release before the end of this year.
The 11 songs that comprise the album were taken directly from the original cassettes, and the record will include every track from the band’s four demos: Satan Stole My Lunch Money, Your Dog’s Teeth, ‘Gasm It, and Spirit In Decay.
Mayo continues: “We were amazed that the cassettes still sounded so great. We did have to do a little work on them because remixing them was out of the question. They don’t sound perfect, but they sound better now than they did on those original demo tapes.”
Those tapes were traded extensively in the '80s metal underground, and one of them, 1986’s Satan Stole My Lunch Money, led to Wargasm’s first record deal and the release of their debut LP, Why Play Around?. “Working on this record definitely brought me back to those days,” says Mayo. “Thrash was just evolving and the tape trading underground was a really powerful way to get your band heard all over the world. Those times were really special to us and so are these tapes. They’re part of the metal underground’s history and we’re psyched to be able to release them all together this way.”
Wargasm released three albums and one EP between 1985 and 1995.
