Candlemass - The Tales of Creation

The Prophecy

"Holy was the star from which you were born,
to a world where darkness and fear take form
A lonely soul with a heart of light to find
beyond reality, forgotten in time
Seek the heart, seek in your dreams
visit your nightmares and realms yet unseen
You are alone, the last one to be
a representative of mankind to decide the final destiny
Will you be saved or will you stay blind
deep in your soul the answer you'll find" 

September 25th, 1989

Tirant Sin - Desecration Of The Grave

Thrash metal, 1987, USA
Demo

This demo features Paul Mazurkiewicz (drums, vocals), Joe Morelli (guitar), Bob Rusay (guitar) and Rich Ziegler (bass, vocals)

It features two members who would go onto Cannibal Corpse. Paul and Rich alternate vocals, Paul does the more higher vocals and Rich does the lower vocals.

1. Slaughtered
2. Desecration of the Grave
3. Blasphmey
4. Mass Mutilation

Tirant Sin: Metal-Archives.com 

Tirant Sin - Desecration of the Grave: mediafire.com (zip, 16MB)

Morbid Fear - Darkest Age

Thrash metal, 1990, Sweden
Demo

The precursor to Authorize before they changed names, this band is much more in the thrash vein. The demo starts with an acoustic intro and eerie, spoken vocals over top. Broken Hynposis comes next, being a fairly fast song (faster than most of Authorizes material) with some early blast beats present. The vocals are more of a croaked, almost black metal frog like, that I find odd than anything else, reminds me of some of the vocals Paul and Rich did for Tirant Sins demos. The vocals get much more "screamy" later on in the 4th song, Mindless Confusion.

Thrash, thrash, thrash riffs. Fast, and headbangable pretty much sums this demo up with an eerie intro/outro (the intro and outro are very similar they are practically the same). After releasing this demo, Darkest Age, they changed their name to Authorize and started to play death metal. I think they got their names mixed up, Morbid Fear sounds much more death metal than Authorize! An incredibly solid release, hampered a bit by the poor recording. They definitely knew what they were going for and were committed to achieving it.

A brief interview with their drummer can be found here, explaining as to why they changed style.

1. Intro
2. Broken Hypnosis
3. Darkest Age
4. Mindless Confussion
5. Thy Kingdom
   

Morbid Fear: Metal-Archives.com

Morbid Fear - Darkest Age: mediafire.com (zip, 25MB)

Authorize - The Source of Dominion

Death metal, 1991 from Sweden
Putrefaction Records

Mid-paced death metal with twisting, dark passages from Sweden.

1. Intro
2. Silent Nocturnal Symphony
3. Broken Hypnosis
4. The Source of Dominion
5. Subconscious Nightmare
6. Darkest Age
7. God of Christianity
8. Within the Obscurity of Tormention
9. Infanticide
10. Mindless Confusion
11. Nothingness

Authorize: Metal-Archives.com
Authorize - The Source of Dominion: mediafire.com (zip, 65MB)