BEYOND POSSESSION - 1985 Demo Available For Download
September 11, 2008, 15 years ago
The 1985 three-song demo cassette by Calgary punk-metal thrash pioneers BEYOND POSSESSION has been made available for download at the Bazillion Points metal demo blog here.
According to the blog post, "Beyond Possession from Calgary, Canada, have at least one molecule of a legacy, thanks to a legendary punk 7?, an album on Death/Metal Blade, and a smattering of mid-1980s compilation appearances. Short and to the point, here are three songs
in five minutes that stand alongside Seattle's THE ACCUSED and Oxnard's DR. KNOW as some of the coolest, sickest music of its day.
There's even a kind of hectic early VOIVOD psychosis going on here-–yes, BEYOND POSSESSION were that good. No Ed Repka artwork, no
bullet belts, no colored vinyl, no puffy white sneakers, this is just horror, speed, and great songs; everything that made frantic thrash
metal work on a gut level."
BazillionPoints.Info is the weblog of Ian Christe (publisher of Bazillion Points Books, author of Sound Of The Beast, and host on
Sirius Satellite Radio's Hard Attack), and is dedicated to "the tradition of freely-traded heavy metal demo cassettes and preserving
the pioneer spirit of the underground, one magnetic particle at a time."
