CASBAH: Classic 1987 'Infinite Pain' Demo Available For Download

August 10, 2007

The 1987 "Infinite Pain" demo cassette by Japanese thrashers CASBAH has been made available for download at the Bang! Bang! metal demo blog.

According to the blog post, "The catalytic title track to this tape sounds exactly like NAPALM DEATH's first forays into structured metal a couple years later. And then the excellent 'Chain Gang' — featuring the joyous nonsense lyrics 'Chain gang! Make it spang!' — could be an 'Arise'-era SEPULTURA demo, except SEPULTURA at this time was still hammering out crude death metal."

"[CASBAH] certainly had all the connections, but for whatever reason an American or European record deal eluded them."

Bang! Bang!, the weblog of Ian Christe (author of "Sound of the Beast" and host on Sirius Satellite Radio's Hard Attack),is dedicated to "celebrating the tradition of freely-traded heavy metal demo cassettes and preserving the pioneer spirit of the underground, one magnetic particle at a time."

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