Abolisher-Lament the season 2001

Hailing from Chicago, these guys landed Brian Griffin for production duties who always does a great job. They are classified as death metal but tend not to be as "brutal" as your standard death metal band. The release is slightly progressive and seems like a good stepping stone for the band but as it's been ten years since we heard anything from them, things seem bleak. Anyways, check it out.lament the season

Dark Lore-Life Scars 1996???

The second demo from Beaver Dam's death metal band Dark Lore. For this one they enlisted the services of Corpsicle's Toby Hull on drums. Another great one to add to the collection.

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Demonished-Dominion (1999??)

Demonished were based out of the Monroe/Freeport area in the late 90's. They played a technical brand of death metal heavily influenced by Death and Morbid Angel. Lyrically, the band was on the Christian end of the scale which surprised me since I hung around them quite a bit and had no idea they were Christian until I got the cd home and read the words.Adam used to be in Anshar with me previously and when I joined Affliction these guys were a blast to play gigs with. Great band and highly recommended.


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Dark Lore-Threads of Life (1994)

Awesome demo from these guys. Jason Lueck went on to play in a bunch of bands and now does sound for several bands in the area. Jay Austin was a band mate in Anshar and went on to play with a few different bands. I can't remember who played drums. Killer death metal that's highly recommended.threads

Born of Witch-Oward to Sabbat-2009

Solo black metal project from Vermillion's Bill Werner. Primal and primitive. Highly recommended for fans of Krieg, Leviathan, and Burzum.

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Vermillion-Rehearsal demo 2011

These guys just played a great show this last Saturday. Brutal and uncompromising, these guys are an extremely capable 4 piece who have been playing throughout southern Wisconsin quite a bit over the last year. Kurt Manthe who used to be the lead vocalist of Madison death metalers Corpsicle, also decided to take up rhythm guitar duties here as well. He shares lead vocals with bassist Rob Michels in a verbal display of contempt that complement each other perfectly. Bill Werner is a guitarist who has been with Kurt since the Corpsicle days. Along the way he played technical thrash in the band Soulkeep and was the sole musician in black metal project Born of Witch. Filling out the four piece is drummer James Kalagian who also has served time in Corpsicle and his technical ability is firmly on display on this rehearsal demo. Please remember to take the sound on this with a grain of salt as it is just something meant to tide them over until they can enter a studio. If you like what you hear, get your ass to a show, buy some merch, spread the word and tell your friends. The sound is vaguely a cross between Mortician and Macabre with a dash of Skinless tossed in for good measure. Great shit so check it out.

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Anshar-Defacing Humanity 1993

In retrospect, we spent too much damn money on this cd but it was alot of fun at the time. Metallica, Pantera, Megaeth, Slayer, Testament were all some of our favorite bands and though this isn't as progressive or as heavy as I would like, the tunes still went over great live. We could never find a consistent practice place and the fact that we practiced from midnight till 3 in the morning didn't help.
Jeff "Shitz" Tetzlaff-vocals
Derek Davison-lead guitars
Roger Benter-r. guitars
Dean Gehrmann-bass
Ed Castle-drums

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RABID CAPTOR - Last Rites - demo 90

Saw these guys at a Milwaukee Metalfest where the singer quit the band shortly before the show and the band proceeded to play the show anyway with the bassist doubling on lead vocal duties. It was a great set and I honestly preferred his voice over the singer on this tape. The tape still kicks ass no matter who is on vocals but I think that show was the event that inspired the band to change their name to Arc of Descent and keep going with the aforementioned bassist still doing vocals in the new band. Could be wrong, though. When Anshar was doing tracks at Cornerstone Studios we kept on running into the bassist who was getting ready to lay down bass tracks and I was always impressed as the guy was usually pretty drunk but always did great a job laying down his tracks.

 
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Silence the freak 2002 self titled

To be totally honest these guys are not really my style of music as the band seems to fall into that niche occupied by bands like Godsmack and Disturbed who are both bands that i cannot stand. That being said, for this style they seem pretty competent and appear to be jamming together again. They have another release besides this one out and are based out of the Sheboygan area . They have a facebook page so check them out there.

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Soulkeep-final nail in the coffin

The final release from Soulkeep.  We added another vocalist for this final batch of songs and mixed thrash, power metal, and death metal together. A great line up but considering the distance and family obligations of all involved, it became too much of a hassle to keep the band together.

drums-toby hull

bass-eric anderson

guitars-rob parkinson

vocals-dean gehrmann
vocals-matt devries

1.a bitter pill to swallow
2.hypercritical
3.the right to remain silent
4.the day that reason wept
5.bleed for gods

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Liquid Clockwork-Father Time 1996

Extremely cool alternative band originally from Beaver Dam when this cd was made-now they are spread all over southern Wisconsin. These guys were all in the end of high school when this was recorded which makes the maturity heard on the disc all the more remarkable. I was good friends with Vaughn for awhile which is how I ended up obtaining a copy of this. I remember that we both ended up driving to Madison and paying some guy $15.00 each for cdr copies of our bands' releases! I think we both ended up spending a couple of hundred on cdrs that would cost ten dollars in total with today's technology. For awhile I heard that he was playing in Madison band Livid who were starting to get pretty popular but ended up disbanding a couple of years ago. This band has a strong Seattle sound and I remember Vaughn was extremely into Alice in Chains but I guess I would compare the band's overall sound to the band Sweetwater. They do have a page up on Facebook stating that they are still making music together all these years later.


Tim Cornell - Lead Vocals, Vaughn Klein - Guitar, Sean Berry - Guitar, Shawn Christensen - Drums, Brad Salzman - Bass/Flutaphone

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