Friday, September 13, 2019

Epidemic

Epidemic - Pandemic - The Demo Anthology - 1987/1991
Epidemic - The Truth Of What Will Be... - 1990
Epidemic - Decameron - 1992
Epidemic - Exit Paradise - 1994
Epidemic - Lament - 1994
01. Epidemic - Pandemic - The Demo Anthology, 1987/1991 CD Album Compilation Limited Edition Remastered
     Tribunal Records, Divebomb Records - none, DIVE027
     Reissue from 2012 - 1-9: The Truth Of What Will Be 1989; 10-14: Extremities 1991;15-19: Immortal Minority 1987
02. Epidemic - The Truth Of What Will Be..., 1990 CD Album
     Metalcore - CORE 4 CD
03. Epidemic - Decameron, 1992 CD Album
     Metal Blade Records - CDZORRO 50
04. Epidemic - Exit Paradise, 1994 CD Album
     Metal Blade Records - CDZORRO 79
05. Epidemic - Lament, 1994 Vinyl 7" 33 ⅓ RPM EP
     Metal Blade Records - 14041-7
Thrash metal über alles! An underground hit in the late 80s,  Epidemic managed to keep it fresh although they displayed very low originality. But with twelve tons of intensity per song, that builds up personality: rage, blood, cannibals as in a blast of The Accüsed | Angkor Wat through an Exodus | Sacrilege BC blender. For more modern references, addicts like me of the Hacked To Death album by Detherous will find in early Epidemic the origin of their happiness. Then the frantic crossover of the Epidemic demos, my favorite of the lot, matured into darker things on the last two albums. More downward tunnels, less speed, still heavy thrashing. Amazering thrasherizing screaming riff machine!
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!ZER Epidemic ZER!

5 comments:

  1. I agree, Epidemic weren't that original, but man, they had energy!
    -Harry, the guy with a tattoo of a snake on his face

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  2. Thanx a lot for this post!
    Looks like "The Truth Of What Will Be..." contains only 7 tracks.

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    1. The CD combines four songs into two tracks.

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  3. Sorry, my mistake, i didn't notice it.

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    1. No problem, my tagging process is lazily automated and does not combine song titles...

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