Talk about your oldies, this dates back to the Seventies: the initial dozen from '73-74 and the last three recorded (more professionally) in '79. Beyond the nostalgia angle, it's currently valid in that a trio of Bedemon musicians were also part of Pentagram, including (to-this-day) frontman Bobby Liebling! Bedemon originator, late guitarist Randy Palmer, borrowed members of that long-running Virginia-based doom franchise, to help him record, as needed. These recordings are taken from the original, 40+ year old, master tapes! Raw and bombastic, with plenty of fuzz tones, wah wah pedal guitars, feedback and sludgy echo, only in the lo-fi days of post-kvlt black metal anti-technology recordings could this see the light of day on anything but a bootleg (which apparently it has, over the decades).

Like fledgling Alice Cooper material (try “Touch The Sky”), not everything's a gem (“Drive Me To The Grave” is barely audible), but the genesis of eventual 'stardom' is there. A real Black Sabbath vibe in “Frozen Fear”, while the bits of Blue Cheer I've heard are recalled by “One-Way Road”. On a completely different tip, the mellow & clean delivered “Last Call” might as well be The Doors. Indicative of the era, only two of the 15 crack five minutes (most well under four) and an infectiously direct “Skinned” the shortest, at just 2:02. Love the grinding twisted bass tones in “Child Of Darkness II”. Garage band freak-out music of a bygone era.