Pestilence

One of the earliest death-metal bands, in the same musical vein as Death and Possessed, but a bit more technical and original.

"Malleus Maleficarum"

  1. "Malleus Maleficarum/Antropomorphia" (4:10)
  2. "Parricide" (3:47)
  3. "Subordinate to the Domination" (4:14)
  4. "Extreme Unction" (1:28)
  5. "Commandments" (5:14)
  6. "Chemo Therapy" (4:46)
  7. "Bacterial Surgery" (5:01)
  8. "Cycle of Existence" (3:15)
  9. "Osculum Infame"--instrumental (1:50)
  10. "Systematic Instruction" (4:06)

You just GOTTA love the song titles here!! This album is a true classic--raw, blistering, and overwhelming in power. I originally owned the crappy vinyl and searched high and low for the CD, when it mysteriously appeared in the used bins one day. Whoohoo!

"Consuming Impulse"

  1. "Dehydrated" (3:07)
  2. "The Process of Suffocation" (2:40)
  3. "Suspended Animation" (3:28)
  4. "The Trauma" (3:19)
  5. "Chronic Infection" (3:55)
  6. "Out of the Body" (4:38)
  7. "Echoes of Death" (4:15)
  8. "Deify thy Master" (4:52)
  9. "Proliferous Souls"--instrumental (2:07)
  10. "Reduced to Ashes" (4:53)

Bought this CD when it first came out, but haven't listened to it more than one or two times. Not that it sucks or anything, it just because...aw hell, I don't know.

"Testimony of the Ancients"

  1. "The Secrecies of Horror" (4:55)
  2. "Bitterness"--instrumental (0:30)
  3. "Twisted Truth" (4:01)
  4. "Darkening"--instrumental (0:29)
  5. "Lost Souls" (3:39)
  6. "Blood"--instrumental (0:27)
  7. "Land of Tears" (4:46)
  8. "Free us from Temptation" (0:30)
  9. "Prophetic Revelations" (5:20)
  10. "Impure"--instrumental (0:59)
  11. "Testimony" (3:50)
  12. "Soulless"--instrumental (0:31)
  13. "Presence of the Dead" (5:49)
  14. "Mindwarp"--instrumental (0:24)
  15. "Stigmatized" (5:22)
  16. "In Sorrow"--instrumental (1:12)

Now this is an interesting twist, sticking tiny instrumental bits in between each of the tracks. The music itself is more avant-garde than any of their previous works, with lots of keyboards and stuff like that.

"Spheres"

  1. "Mind Reflections" (3:20)
  2. "Multiple Beings" (4:05)
  3. "The Level of Perception" (3:49)
  4. "Aurian Eyes"--instrumental (1:32)
  5. "Soul Search" (3:16)
  6. "Personal Energy" (4:09)
  7. "Voices from Within"--instrumental (1:12)
  8. "Spheres" (3:29)
  9. "Changing Perspectives" (3:23)
  10. "Phileas"--instrumental (1:16)
  11. "Demise of Time" (3:41)

Once again, keyboards are dominant here, creating quite an aural experience (especially on the song "Personal Energy", perhaps the first DEATH METAL BALLAD ever??) The CD is quite SHORT, too, at only 32 minutes or so. Maybe they were running out of ideas at this point...and that could be right, since I haven't heard a peep from the band since.

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