DESECRATION (usa/ca)

4-CD + DVD Digipack edition gathering virtually all known material recorded by American Death/ Thrash Metal obscurities DESECRATION, an underground San Francisco Bay Area band active between 1985 and 1987. This extensive collection includes demos, live recordings, rehearsals, rarities and previously unreleased tracks from a band featuring Bob Yost, who would later join POSSESSED. As an added bonus, the set also contains the 1991 POSSESSED demo as well as numerous previously unreleased demo-rehearsals recorded between 1990 and 1992 featuring Yost, providing a rare glimpse into a little-documented period of the legendary California pioneers.

Far more than a standard compilation, "Dead... Yet, Not Forgotten" serves as a genuine historical document of the formative years of West Coast Death/ Thrash Metal. DESECRATION's recordings reveal a sound positioned between dark Thrash Metal and the emerging proto-Death Metal movement of the mid-1980s, sharing the same pioneering spirit that helped shape the foundations of extreme Metal. The included DVD further enhances the package with live performances and rehearsal footage recorded during 1986 and 1987, making this release an essential acquisition for collectors and devotees of the earliest days of American Death Metal.

Recommended for fans of: POSSESSED, DEATH (early era), SADUS, NECROVORE and MESSIAH. [Digipack]