Relapse Issues Classic Death Concerts In Non-Analog On-Stage Series

As the arc of history yet again becomes a circle, we find out that only certain bands and subgenres make the cut because everything else consists of artistically simple but aesthetically complex variations on the Same Old Thing that humans create whenever groups of them try to make music in order to be popular.

As such, interest in the old bands is rising, including a focus on the early days of underground death metal, and Relapse jumps into the fray with its latest antique recordings issuance, the Non-Analog On-Stage Series which seems to take old concert DATs and remaster them for live streams.

The first recording in the series, Death Montreal 06-22-1995, shows us a concert from the days after Human when Death was attempting to be a technical death metal band before veering into heavy metal territory once Schuldiner and Company nailed that cover of “Painkiller.”

Apparently, more recordings are to come, including some from the more-desired early 1990s and late 1980s, when the Death sound was still in formation.

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27 thoughts on “Relapse Issues Classic Death Concerts In Non-Analog On-Stage Series

  1. Parasite says:

    Hey Brett have you thought about hopping on the killstream for a debate/interview? I think it would be great. Xoxo

  2. bloodypulp says:

    cool cool cool

  3. RDS says:

    Oh shit, now people are going to know where all of those Blood Incantation riffs were hijacked from!

  4. seaman says:

    “when Death was attempting to be a technical death metal band before veering into heavy metal territory once Schuldiner and Company nailed that cover of “Painkiller.”

    Schuldiner covered Painkiller on The Sound of Perseverance. This album was already more heavy metal and melodic than Symbolic and previous works. So it’s not accurate to say Death decided to become heavy metal once they got traction with Painkiller.

    1. Flying Kites says:

      Prolapse Death of AIDs

      Why?

      “Painkiller” was sung by a gay man, the album included the song precisely because it was an album of heavy metal songs created by Schuldining.

    2. They played it live for some years before, if memory serves.

    1. jesus christ jax says:

      this stands on its own completely
      it did then and it does now

      1. Mumbo Jumbo says:

        I agree, from what I’ve read it laid the fundations to US Power Metal.

    2. CM says:

      Very elementally balanced (in the alchemical sense), lends it a perennial quality.

    3. cringe says:

      disco dancing boomer cock rock tripe.

      1. Mumbo Jumbo says:

        I guess you think the same about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs5NOrYYV2s

        1. Actually likes disco says:

          And he’d be right.

          1. swaztika mandala says:

            boogie on

      2. 2 and a half mennonites says:

        tryhardism is tired, man

        1. Mumbo Jumbo says:

          whatever… man

          1. 2 and a half mennonites says:

            consume my trousers man

        2. cockhardism says:

          i mean i listen to music because i like it, not because it’s good

          1. 2 and a half mennonites says:

            that’s fine

            but if someone is going to give themselves over to the subjective experience, they have no authority to be casting judgment on any music, since their experience is occurring in a bubble of personality boundary that no one else is constrained within

            it’s the posturing as if one’s own personality boundary is of a higher value than what’s actually good or bad that is tryhardism

            1. Mumbo Jumbo says:

              Just sharing music pal, stop bitching a bit and chill

              1. 2 and a half mennonites says:

                well I wasn’t bitching, rather was condemning the fool who called the warlord album tripe because it’s actually a good album. but I seem to have stumbled into a thread amongst stoned mongoloid so I guess I’ll just dip

                1. Mumbo Jumbo says:

                  Confusing anwer-storyline, sorry

                  1. Mumbo Jumbo says:

                    Answer*

            2. cringe says:

              this is a pretty tryhard post and yes the scorpions were garbage until the 80s when they wrote the majority of their hits

              1. Mumbo Jumbo says:

                that’s cringe

              2. 2 and a half mennonites says:

                jokes on you, I put forth zero effort in my posts. the wisdom just flows from my fingertips like an eternal fountain. actually I’m blindfolded, and my little brother has the keyboard so I’m not even really typing right now, just projecting telepathic suggestions, so any typos aren’t my fault either

                1. Mumbo Jumbo says:

                  It is very usual to make any comment on this site and somebody replies he’s gonna sodomize your rectum and blow up your prostate, my fault. have a good weekend sir.

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