Release date: February 25 – 2022<\/p>\n
Marbled gold\/cristal vinyl LP. Limited to 300 copies.<\/p>\n
Friday June 8th 1990 is the opening day of the World Soccer Cup. Maybe that\u2019s the reason why there are so few people present at tonight\u2019s concert in Aktivitetshuset in Esbjerg on the Western coast of Denmark. The evening\u2019s program offers no less than three brutal bands with visiting underground phenomenon Darkthrone as headliner. At this point the Norwegians are still playing death metal and so is tonight\u2019s local name Maceration. This is the evening of their debut, and the recording on the album you are now listening to is a documentation of no less than the night death metal came to Denmark!<\/p>\n
Jacob Hansen: \u201cIt all started when I went to folk high school in 88, because one of the teachers had a marvel of a four-track tape recorder. For some strange reason, I have been interested in recordings and studio work right from the very beginning, so I borrow the recorder and heads for the school rehearsal room and record a bunch of songs. It\u2019s just me doing all instruments in one afternoon, and later I record a little more myself in Invocator\u2019s rehearsal room. I think it also inspires us in Invocator but it\u2019s hard to persuade a band that already has it\u2019s own thing to e.g. start tuning down. We discovered that Carcass already did this on \u201cSymphonies of Sickness\u201d (1989). In Invocator we were more Dark Angel and late 80s thrash and maybe also some Sadus and Ripping Corpse, not so much death metal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead Jacob Hansen fulfills his death metal ambitions in a bunch of solo recordings, where tracks such as \u201dHideous Disfigurement\u201d and \u201dTime Flies\u201d later will be introduced to Maceration, while tracks with titles such as \u201dFoxy Carcass\u201d and \u201dInorganic Sperm\u201d mercifully is left to rot. He invites friends Rune Hansen (guitar and vocals) and Lars Bangsholt (guitar) to rehearse with him. Later, Jakob Schultz from Invocator (bass) also joins, and at the end of 1989 Maceration is a real band.<\/p>\n
The concert on June 8th 1990 is just another concert somewhere in the outskirts of Denmark, but unlike so many similar events that have long since been forgotten, both Maceration\u2019s and Darkthrone\u2019s concerts are recorded by the soundguy and in time officially released. For Macerations, though, this was never meant to be. The band is first and foremost a playground for a group of friends who have just discovered death metal, and while Jacob and Jakob are already experienced musicians who have done several shows with their main band Invocator, Maceration is in every way a debuting outfit. Jacob Hansen doesn\u2019t play drums in Invocator nor Jakob Schultz bass, Rune Hansen on guitar and vocals has never performed live, and this is almost also the case with the other guitarist, Lars Bangsholt, who had only been on stage once as lead singer in his band Regurgitated Guts in 89, but otherwise not performed outside of rehearsal room shows with his grindcore band Blind Mirror in 88, so that was his second concert<\/p>\n
When listening to the recording from that night it is obvious that this is indeed Maceration\u2019s first concert. It lasts a little over half an hour, and in that time the band manages to play nine tracks with only four of them being originals – the two tracks from Jacob\u2019s old recordings and the two new tracks \u201cIncombustible Remains\u201d and \u201cTotal Obstipation\u201d. The rest are covers of the American bands Defecation, Death and Obituary. Obituary\u2019s song \u201cGodly Beings\u201d is even played twice, as the band hasn\u2019t rehearsed enough material for the encore which the small audience enthusiastically demands. And actually it is a pure coincidence that the as yet totally unknown Maceration ends up playing with Darkthrone – who at this point has released four demos and are soon to enter Sunlight Studio in Stockholm to record their debut album \u201cSoulside Journey\u201d<\/p>\n
This text is an edited excerpt from Benni B\u00f8dker\u2019s book Incombustible Remains out on Emazipation Productions<\/em><\/p>\n Tracklisting:<\/p>\n 1. Intro-Megaton\/Vestige Of Earthly Remains Release date: February 25 – 2022 Marbled gold\/cristal vinyl LP. Limited to 300 copies. Friday June 8th 1990 is the opening day of the World Soccer Cup. Maybe that\u2019s the reason why there are so few people present at tonight\u2019s concert in Aktivitetshuset in Esbjerg on the Western coast of Denmark. The evening\u2019s program offers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[97,397,162],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-23390","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-lp-en","product_cat-maceration-en","product_cat-vinyl-en","product_shipping_class-lp-en","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n2. Hideous Disfigurements
\n3. Incombustible Remains
\n4. Godly Beings (Obituary cover)
\n5. Total Obstipation
\n6. Slowly We Rot (Obituary cover)
\n7. Time Flies
\n8. Evil Dead (Death cover)
\n9. Godly Beings (Obituary cover)
\nBonus tracks:
\n10. The Forgotten (live in Aarhus, 1992)
\n11. Dawn Of Eternity (Massacre cover)
\n(live in Zwolle, Holland, 1993)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"