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POSSESSED: 1984 'Death Metal' Demo Available For Download

July 11, 2007

POSSESSED's classic 1984 "Death Metal" demo has been made available for download at MetalKult.com.

Months before POSSESSED's debut LP, "Seven Churches" hit the stores, cassettes of "Death Metal" had been spreading throughout the extreme metal community. While the tape typically traded contained four tracks: 1) "Death Metal", 2) "Evil Warriors", 3) "Burning in Hell" and 4) "Fallen Angel", the original self-produced demo did not contain "Fallen Angel". "Fallen Angel" was reportedly recorded during the "Death Metal" session, but did not make the official demo, because it was either banged out quickly at the end of the recording session or because, as legend would have it, tape ran out before the song was completed. But, through the tape-trading process, "Fallen Angel" became tacked on to the end of "Death Metal".

While the classic POSSESSED lineup is universally considered to be bassist/vocalist Jeff Becerra, guitarist Larry Lalonde (who went on to gain notoriety as a member of PRIMUS),guitarist Mike Torrao and drummer Mike Sus, the lineup for the "Death Metal" demo was Beccera, Torrao, Sus and guitarist Brian Montana.

After "Seven Churches", POSSESSED released another full-length studio album, 1986's "Beyond the Gates", and an EP the following year called "The Eyes of Horror" (produced by Joe Satriani, oddly enough). The group disbanded soon after, and in 1989 singer Jeff Becerra was shot while being robbed on his way home and left paralyzed from the waist down. Although confined to a wheelchair, Becerra is still planning to appear onstage with a reunited POSSESSED at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany, on August 2-4.

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