Insanely classic. Imagine seeing these guys live in 84-85. YT is a great source to hear underground shit. Back when I first started listening to metal in the late 80s (87-90) the only way you could hear this is if you were lucky enough to get your hands on a rare copy or dub a tape from someone. Now, you just fire up YT and spend an afternoon checking out legendary music. We have it good!
I remember getting a dubbed copy of metal massacre with swing of the axe on it, in 1986 and that track blew my mind and also scared the heck out of my 16 year old self... I had gotten the bathory album, venom black metal, slayer hell awaits... I thought what have I gotten myself into this stuff is evil! what a great time... I remember every kid at my school was getting into the thrash and crossover DRI was a 'local' band so it was on!
Well, Possessed and Metallica were both in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early days and Metallica had a serious liking in the underground scene there so, it makes sense
@@widepootis Of course, but Bathory's ST released late in '84 and that doesn't take anything away from how innovative and intense this Possessed demo was for that time
I don’t see what’s necessarily groundbreaking about this. It’s heavily Slayer influenced and doesn’t do much different besides the vocals being a bit more extreme. It kicks ass, sure thing, but as far as innovation I don’t think it did much.
The quality of this demo is incredible, sound, writing and musicianship. And they were high school juniors when they did their debut album A YEAR after this demo!
@@ivansalvatore9631 exactly, '84-'85 demos of Possessed are more Thrash than Death, but you can't deny that some parts of the demos have a very clear Death Metal sound
@@ivansalvatore9631 si esto es thrash , Metallica es glam , jajajajaja. Tiene , y también black . Son los creadores del DM . Influyó de los Death en adelante. COPIAPO CHILE KMOT
@@jaimegodoy757 metallica justamente es la banda más mami de thrash, el thrash para mí es kreator, sodom, slayer, dark angel. que sea influyente o no es otra cosa. black flag influyó mucho en el sludge y no deja de ser una banda de hardcore
Nah this is still thrash, and seven churches is also a thrash album, on the heavier side of thrash. I won't take anything away from it, this is still groundbreaking for its time.
@@mummifiedcr keep quite even chuck says this is death metal and is the first death metal band ever, this is was old school death metal sounded, not everything has to be sound like cockiemonster vocals to be called death metal! Fvckin newbies
Fueron los mentores , los demás lo definieron . DEATH lo perfeccionó y patentó . POSSESSED lo incluyó en el mundo del metal , con su temazo DEATH METAL. Le guste o no a algunos . Quien tiene un cover d ellos. COPIAPO CHILE KMOT
The one who did the downvote I presume. It sucks, but personally I get more pissed about people bitching about 'em more than the downvotes themselves. About as useful as bitching about the salt in seawater.
It's nice to finally *HEAR* this clearly after almost 40 years. I had traded for this back in the day (because that's how we did things ;) but the copy was copied so many times it was terrible.
My first experience of listening to possessed was from Seven Churches. Even though I come from the death metal tape trading scene this gem was a bit before my underground years……
Me parece mucho mas oscuro,sieniestro y maldito lo que hizo hellhammer que tambien fue mas antiguo,imcluso los primeros trabajos de sodom q son mas antiguos sonaban mas siniestros,ahora bathory que en 1983 presentó su aporte para el scandinavian metal attak que fue lanzado el 19 de enero 1984 con las canciones sacrifice y the return of the darkness and evil...possessed y death son realmente increíbles pero no me sorprendieron mas q los antes mensionados
Great Demo The Lords Of Death Metal in The U S. Besides Death a year Later. Seen a interview with Jeff. "1982" possessed came out. Mantis in "1983" late.
"Possessed" formed in 1983 at MikeTorrao's garage with Torrao (guitar), Mike Sus (drums ), Jeff Andrews (bass) and Bary Fisk (vocals) .... "Death" also started 1983-84.
It's interesting when you look at those tape trading, pen pal adverts in fanzines of the time, you see Possessed being described as "if you're into black power metal like Slayer, Sodom and Hellhammer". I guess 'black power metal' can be translated to 'satanic extreme metal' in modern terms. Only Burning in Hell and the last track has elements approaching what would later come to be called death metal. You can hear some early Morbid Angel on those two tracks.
@@Hecatecrossways You meant sheep goes bah bah? It may be edgy from your point of view to call Chuck Schuldiner a poser and that's all that matters, right? After all it only makes you a poser and I won't go further feeding either trolls, posers or wimps.
@@iskavetaa464 He was a homosexual male like Rob Halford??? Scream Bloody Gore wasn't a Poser album, but Human was way too Mellow and wanky. If Chuck were still alive nobody would like Death after Spiritual Healing.
Yes the demo is called Death Metal, yes the style is very heavy for '84 (even if, at least for me, first Mantas/Death demos are even heavier) and it was very influential and all. But for me there is still a lot of Thrash in this demo, and even a few well hidden NWOBHM elements.
@@xraygamer9895 that is basically what i was trying to say. I mean, is it just me or it seems that in the last times everyone woke up one day and decided to claim possessed as pure death metal for some fucking reason?
The only releases that could claim themselves as death metal before this are Hellhammer Satanic Rites/Apoc Raids. Sodom demos were more black metal. Destruction Bestial Invasion of Hell more black thrash. Onslaught had more hardcore punk influence and Necrophagia was a lot more primitive at this time. Mantas came close but they were influenced by Possessed anyways. Hard to make a convincing argument otherwise in my opinion, these guys were likely the first.
I know they mention the same old influences in interviews but you need to realize Jeff Becerra saw Slayer’s first show in 1982 or 81? Regardless that’s literally all you need to know to figure if he was really influenced by them or not. I believe the motorhead and venom mentions more than exodus and especially metallica. Btw exodus didn’t even release shit till 85.
They may have _called_ it 'death metal,' but it's actually thrash metal. Venom also coined the term 'black metal' but are not modern black metal. Well know Mantas (Death) first performed death metal, the same year, with their demo ;)
I have to agree that this doesn't sound much like what would later come to be regarded as Death Metal. This sounds like early thrash, still with lots of Venom and Motorhead influences, except much faster and brutal. I see a clearer thread from Sepultura's Morbid Vision to Morbid Angel's debut, in the vocal delivery, drumming without over use of blast beats, riffs interspersed with tremolo picked lines, etc.
@@estebansteverincon7117 I agree. Possessed were never pure death metal IMO. They're like this weird outlier. Unless by 'death metal' we mean everything more extreme than Slayer.
I think Mantas demo is definitely a bit more death metal than this. This sounds like good ol Bay area thrash, perhaps with some slightly more sadistic vocals.
Not according to Kam Lee, the drummer/vocalist of Mantas: When we were in Mantas, (Chuck Schuldiner, Rick Rozz and myself) still had a more Venom/Motörhead sound kinda going on. And then I remember Chuck getting the Possessed demo, and I just remember hearing it and just freaking out like, 'Man, this is the way we gotta be.'
@@kebabmannen1 Black and death metal weren't much separated yet . You can hear that in Sarcofago , the 3 first Sepultura records, Bulldozer, Necrodeath and Schizo stuff, even , and that was quite influential also for the Norway BM scene as well that scandinavia in general, As they wore the shirts too, Abomination of desolation by Morbid Angel as well than the couple of Nocturnus Demo just following that in 1986-1988.
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Insanely classic. Imagine seeing these guys live in 84-85. YT is a great source to hear underground shit. Back when I first started listening to metal in the late 80s (87-90) the only way you could hear this is if you were lucky enough to get your hands on a rare copy or dub a tape from someone. Now, you just fire up YT and spend an afternoon checking out legendary music. We have it good!
I saw them live at the Balboa Theater in LA in 1986 - I still have the Seven Churches shirt I bought at that show \m/
I remember getting a dubbed copy of metal massacre with swing of the axe on it, in 1986 and that track blew my mind and also scared the heck out of my 16 year old self... I had gotten the bathory album, venom black metal, slayer hell awaits... I thought what have I gotten myself into this stuff is evil! what a great time... I remember every kid at my school was getting into the thrash and crossover DRI was a 'local' band so it was on!
Old School...
Don't let the elite take it away
Exactly, my lucky ass was born in 2000.
Possessed were ahead of their time.
Definitely hear their influences they always mention in interviews in this. Exodus, Venom, Motorhead. Even a bit of Metallica.
Especially Venom - Jeff Becerra's vocals were total Cronos here.
I hear Paul Baloff quite a bit too. Jeff sounds like he mixed the two.
fallen angel- bulldozer
Well, Possessed and Metallica were both in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early days and Metallica had a serious liking in the underground scene there so, it makes sense
Yeah Evils has no boundaries too
This is not only historic, it fucking SLAYS. For 1984, this is insanely ground breaking
Bathory self-titled?
@@widepootis Of course, but Bathory's ST released late in '84 and that doesn't take anything away from how innovative and intense this Possessed demo was for that time
Slayer
@@Kerry_kit_slayer the Bathory debut had wimpy ass drums Brah Brah
I don’t see what’s necessarily groundbreaking about this. It’s heavily Slayer influenced and doesn’t do much different besides the vocals being a bit more extreme. It kicks ass, sure thing, but as far as innovation I don’t think it did much.
The quality of this demo is incredible, sound, writing and musicianship. And they were high school juniors when they did their debut album A YEAR after this demo!
The quality compared to mantas/ deaths demo is 100% better quality
Oh yeah agreed
is correct
Death - Mutilation (demo)
I love this demo and recording. The 7 Churches album didn't hit me the same way the demo did in '84.
That’s coz this is a studio demo, where as the mantas “demo” every is talking about was just a rehearsal in a garage
I listen to Seven Churches way more often than this, but honestly this demo is so fucking classic. I wish I could hit the like button more than once.
This is way better
just make alts
El primero y clasico Death Metal de 1984... Genial Posesión....
El inicio del death metal.
Maxthorns Maxxor ->
Totalmente que viva Jeff Becerra
ses ses ses
Considering it’s 1.) A Demo & 2.) A DEATH METAL Demo, this is some really good production quality
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Where do you hear death metal man? This is thrash metal with harsh vocals lol
@@ivansalvatore9631 exactly, '84-'85 demos of Possessed are more Thrash than Death, but you can't deny that some parts of the demos have a very clear Death Metal sound
@@ivansalvatore9631 si esto es thrash , Metallica es glam , jajajajaja. Tiene , y también black . Son los creadores del DM . Influyó de los Death en adelante. COPIAPO CHILE KMOT
@@jaimegodoy757 metallica justamente es la banda más mami de thrash, el thrash para mí es kreator, sodom, slayer, dark angel. que sea influyente o no es otra cosa. black flag influyó mucho en el sludge y no deja de ser una banda de hardcore
man this is great.
This demo is the greatest
I'm a glam fan but this is fkin amazing,good music has no genre, this is a masterpiece for it's genre
Imagine being a glam fan and going to see Possessed in 1985. That was me ;)
.....and the death metal was born
Nope...this is a heavier form of thrash...death metal as a genre was born with death
@@mummifiedcr Well Possessed came up with it first, but yeah Death came up with the sound since Possessed was mostly still on the thrash metal side.
Nah this is still thrash, and seven churches is also a thrash album, on the heavier side of thrash. I won't take anything away from it, this is still groundbreaking for its time.
@@mummifiedcr keep quite even chuck says this is death metal and is the first death metal band ever, this is was old school death metal sounded, not everything has to be sound like cockiemonster vocals to be called death metal! Fvckin newbies
Fueron los mentores , los demás lo definieron . DEATH lo perfeccionó y patentó . POSSESSED lo incluyó en el mundo del metal , con su temazo DEATH METAL. Le guste o no a algunos . Quien tiene un cover d ellos. COPIAPO CHILE KMOT
Great sound !!! Possessed rules
POSSESSED 🤘👹🤘
What a gem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is life...without any irony !
Possessed fuckin rules, its cool to hear Brian Montana!!!
When early motorhead meets early slayer.
yeah some venom present as well
1 thumbs down from the biggest poser to ever exist.
WeinerShakes And that is...????
The one who did the downvote I presume. It sucks, but personally I get more pissed about people bitching about 'em more than the downvotes themselves. About as useful as bitching about the salt in seawater.
@@headsplitter46 Me
@@headsplitter46 lil' wayne
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Possessed forever!
When Mike is sus
¡ Que hp chimba de demo, brutal y contundente !
🤘🏻 💀 🤘🏻
Larga vida a Jeff becerra!!
It's nice to finally *HEAR* this clearly after almost 40 years. I had traded for this back in the day (because that's how we did things ;) but the copy was copied so many times it was terrible.
death metal
Prophets of genre Death Metal
yeah!! possessed first in deathmetal
I remind buying in a store of vinil,cd,and tapes of metal music this"eyes of horror"Ep
"Kids listening to Richard Ramirez really should be listening to us," Possessed.
♥🔥
Evil Warriors remember me Evil Was no Bondaries
Does anybody know which month of 1984 this was released?
Nossa que do caralhoooooo 🤘🏻👹
My first experience of listening to possessed was from Seven Churches.
Even though I come from the death metal tape trading scene this gem was a bit before my underground years……
Tiempos aquellos
First death metal release? Фuсk yeah, it is!
👊👊
Me parece mucho mas oscuro,sieniestro y maldito lo que hizo hellhammer que tambien fue mas antiguo,imcluso los primeros trabajos de sodom q son mas antiguos sonaban mas siniestros,ahora bathory que en 1983 presentó su aporte para el scandinavian metal attak que fue lanzado el 19 de enero 1984 con las canciones sacrifice y the return of the darkness and evil...possessed y death son realmente increíbles pero no me sorprendieron mas q los antes mensionados
Sodom 100%
looks like death metal was pretty much born in san fran 84! not every genre has a definitive birthing point as such.
Fucking classic
Great Demo The Lords Of Death Metal in The U S. Besides Death a year Later. Seen a interview with Jeff. "1982" possessed came out. Mantis in "1983" late.
Reign of terror Zion mantas
Mantas put out a rehearsal tape and some demos in the same year so no, as much as Chuck hated to admit it, Possessed were not the original.
@@HyborianAge: What does it mean that "Possessed were not the original"? Possessed demo came out before the first Death demo.
"Possessed" formed in 1983 at MikeTorrao's garage with Torrao (guitar), Mike Sus (drums ), Jeff Andrews (bass) and Bary Fisk (vocals) .... "Death" also started 1983-84.
@@piotrb8434 Right, but Death were called Mantas before and they released their demo " Death by Metal" in 1983.
hardd
Очень смело!
Fuck yes.
Lew of Death Metal
Title Death/Metal
Time 14m
Just ordered the CD off of Hells Headbangers!
Hahahahhaha
Sup Devils
Reminds me a lot of VENOM but next level talent.
When the drummer is sus
Definitely influenced COC’s Animosity LP…
os pais do DEATH METAL
It's interesting when you look at those tape trading, pen pal adverts in fanzines of the time, you see Possessed being described as "if you're into black power metal like Slayer, Sodom and Hellhammer".
I guess 'black power metal' can be translated to 'satanic extreme metal' in modern terms.
Only Burning in Hell and the last track has elements approaching what would later come to be called death metal. You can hear some early Morbid Angel on those two tracks.
No this is all death metal.
first death metal ever
Game changer total whammy bar death.
Mantas y Possessed en 1984
this is stupid hard for 1984.
Not as hard as Bathory or death
But why is fallen angel on this?
The archives say it only had 3 songs on it?
'84 til INFINITY
Is it just me, or are the songs a lot slower on this demo?
Wow I am 666th like. I feel honored
Ladies and gentlemen, witness the birth of Death Metal 🤟🤟🤟
Death by Metal
@@iskavetaa464 Chuck was a Poser who copied this demo . Death by Metal doesn't matter, this is da real 🐑 sheeeeeeit Brah brah
@@Hecatecrossways You meant sheep goes bah bah? It may be edgy from your point of view to call Chuck Schuldiner a poser and that's all that matters, right? After all it only makes you a poser and I won't go further feeding either trolls, posers or wimps.
@@iskavetaa464 He was a homosexual male like Rob Halford??? Scream Bloody Gore wasn't a Poser album, but Human was way too Mellow and wanky. If Chuck were still alive nobody would like Death after Spiritual Healing.
@@iskavetaa464 Possessed did it first. Accept the truth
Fucking wow.
And at….84?????
Check out Death by Metal by Mantas from the same year. You will be surprised. Talking about death metal you know.
These demos are not underground as u think. These are well known albums amongst people starting extreme metal
Yes the demo is called Death Metal, yes the style is very heavy for '84 (even if, at least for me, first Mantas/Death demos are even heavier) and it was very influential and all. But for me there is still a lot of Thrash in this demo, and even a few well hidden NWOBHM elements.
This is thrash not death metal
@@xraygamer9895 that is basically what i was trying to say. I mean, is it just me or it seems that in the last times everyone woke up one day and decided to claim possessed as pure death metal for some fucking reason?
@@user-yr3zp2br3yIt’s similar as to why venom gets labelled under black metal. They coined the term
When was the demo recorded?
1984
I looked up on Google Maps the address. Not a bad pad.
2 people are possessed by christ
Now 3
Mike sus
metal militia
sounds like
Sounded like venom blackmetal
The only releases that could claim themselves as death metal before this are Hellhammer Satanic Rites/Apoc Raids. Sodom demos were more black metal. Destruction Bestial Invasion of Hell more black thrash. Onslaught had more hardcore punk influence and Necrophagia was a lot more primitive at this time. Mantas came close but they were influenced by Possessed anyways. Hard to make a convincing argument otherwise in my opinion, these guys were likely the first.
sounds like slayers 1st album
Reminds me a lot of Bonded By Blood by Exodus.
I know they mention the same old influences in interviews but you need to realize Jeff Becerra saw Slayer’s first show in 1982 or 81? Regardless that’s literally all you need to know to figure if he was really influenced by them or not. I believe the motorhead and venom mentions more than exodus and especially metallica. Btw exodus didn’t even release shit till 85.
@@Leo-yn5fx If you mean BBB then yeah but they had a few demos before that. As early as 82 i believe.
Seven Churches clearly has some Show No Mercy influence.
Evil warriors, total show no mercy sound.
Frank Pucci did it with Necrophagia in 1983!!!!
They may have made a song called "Death Metal" but their name is 'Possessed' and usually sang about Satan. lol
Nothing can help it, this sounds just like thrash pretending to be edgy/evil.
The first track sound like metal militia of Metallica.
Or evil has no boundaries by slayer
Pales in comparison to Genocide Stench of Burning Death demo. The first BRUTAL DEATH METAL RECORDING.
Only this band have real death metal sound. Other bands sucks
Are you from Mongolia?
Keshakk Che no bro, from Kazakhstan
You need to listen to some Morbid Angel.
Stupidest thing I've ever read
most retarded comment I’ve ever seen on TH-cam
death metal sounds like venom´s black metal
Proto-death?
"Death Metal" sound very similar than "Black Metal" of Venom.
They may have _called_ it 'death metal,' but it's actually thrash metal. Venom also coined the term 'black metal' but are not modern black metal. Well know Mantas (Death) first performed death metal, the same year, with their demo ;)
Mantas played Speed/Thrash Metal not Death Metal :)
I have to agree that this doesn't sound much like what would later come to be regarded as Death Metal. This sounds like early thrash, still with lots of Venom and Motorhead influences, except much faster and brutal. I see a clearer thread from Sepultura's Morbid Vision to Morbid Angel's debut, in the vocal delivery, drumming without over use of blast beats, riffs interspersed with tremolo picked lines, etc.
It's Death Metal
@@skottcoucill8343 It might be Death Thrash, but not modern death metal.
@@estebansteverincon7117 I agree. Possessed were never pure death metal IMO. They're like this weird outlier. Unless by 'death metal' we mean everything more extreme than Slayer.
I think Mantas demo is definitely a bit more death metal than this. This sounds like good ol Bay area thrash, perhaps with some slightly more sadistic vocals.
Not according to Kam Lee, the drummer/vocalist of Mantas:
When we were in Mantas, (Chuck Schuldiner, Rick Rozz and myself) still had a more Venom/Motörhead sound kinda going on. And then I remember Chuck getting the Possessed demo, and I just remember hearing it and just freaking out like, 'Man, this is the way we gotta be.'
Did you hear the Vocals??? Death Metal
this sounds more like black (first wave) or thrash
@@kebabmannen1 Black and death metal weren't much separated yet .
You can hear that in Sarcofago , the 3 first Sepultura records, Bulldozer, Necrodeath and Schizo stuff, even , and that was quite influential also for the Norway BM scene as well that scandinavia in general, As they wore the shirts too, Abomination of desolation by Morbid Angel as well than the couple of Nocturnus Demo just following that in 1986-1988.
And i forgot Celtic frost , who transcenced every genre haha
Parecen unos venom brutalizados.