Monday 28 August 2017

Review - Stigma (Greece) - Sickness of no survivors 1991


A magnificent death metal demo. Featuring great technical thrash riffs, one of the most amazing drum sound/performance ever layed on tape, absolutely frantic, some keyboard and acoustic breaks similar to how Death did them around the same period; good if slightly unimpressive vocals. The main draw--apart from the quality of the songwriting--for me are the drums, similar in energy to the drums in the second Thanatos album but with a more natural sound. Truly amazing. It's a shame the band didn't release any official albums; one of the best death metal early 90's bands from Greece, along with Death Courier, Septicemia and Selefice,

You can listen to the demo on Youtube here

Their next and final demo, Epitaph (1993), is also great, with a more straight death metal sound and vocals, slightly less exciting production though--but still very high quality. You can check this one out here

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