DESULTORY · Darkness Falls (The Early Days) | CREAM WHITE LP

Cream white vinyl. Comes with a 20-page 12" booklet including an interview and many never before-seen pictures. An A2 poster is added to every vinyl. Includes download code. Limited to 266 handnumbered copies.

Background information about ''

Swedish death metal has always had that special something — a cold, razor-sharp edge that sets it apart from the rest. And Desultory? Man, these guys were right there in the thick of it from the start. Darkness Falls (The Early Days) finally collects the band's three seminal demo tapes on one slab of wax, and it's about damn time.

This isn't just some cash-grab reissue. Mastered from the original tapes by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony (the man's a wizard when it comes to this stuff), these recordings breathe with a vitality that's been buried for decades. From the raw, chainsaw guitar tone to Klas Morberg's unmistakable growl — it's all here, preserved and amplified. The demos capture Desultory at their most primal, before they refined their sound into the melodic death metal mastery of Into Eternity and Bitterness. Tracks like "Forever Gone" and "Depression" hit with a desperate, hungry energy that only young bands in sweaty rehearsal rooms can conjure. The 20-page booklet featuring a brand new interview and unseen photos makes this the definitive document of a band that helped shape an entire genre.

For fans of:
Dismember, Entombed, Unleashed, Grave, At The Gates

Other Versions

CD · 14,99 € 3TAPE BOXSET · 74,99 €

Track listing

From Beyond Demo 1990
A1. Eternal Darkness
A2. The Awakening
A3. Cease To Exist
A4. Insanity
Death Unfolds Demo 1990
B1. Passed Away
B2. The Chill Within
B3. Death Unfolds
Visions Demo 1991
B4. Forever Gone
B5. Depression
B6. Visions

Manufacturer: Darkness Shall Rise Productions, Lengenfelder Straße 58, 08107 Kirchberg, Germany, Contact: darknessshallrise.de