INSANITY 1985 Demo 12" Vinyl - Death Thrash Pioneers Earliest Death Metal BLAST
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In September 1985, with death metal in its nascent stages, San
Francisco's newly-formed Insanity began playing an intense mix of
warp-speed thrash and technically brutal riffs, unlike anything that had
been heard before. By October of 1985 they laid down a live demo tape
which quickly made its way through the underground tape trading circuit,
garnering rave reviews from fanzines and radio shows worldwide. Shows
followed around the Bay Area with the likes of Death, Possessed, &
more but due to the untimely death of co-founder and vocalist Joe
DeZuniga in 1987, the band was unable to produce a proper record and
remained underground. However, in the years to follow, Insanity's brand
of brutal death thrash would be cited as an influence on such legendary
extreme metal bands as Carcass and Napalm Death, with the latter even
covering the demo's first track "Fire Death Fate" on their Leaders Not
Followers: Part 2 album.
This features the complete
1985 live rehearsal demo, packaged with a full-color 12"x24" poster with
rare photos and graphics from the band's archives.
