Mortician - Brutally Mutilated - LP PICTURE

MORTICIAN's first official demo after a super-rare rehearsal tape the previous year, this 1990 document kicked off the then-trio's dominance of the death metal underground. Back then, the band had in their ranks drummer Matt Sicher, who’d unfortunately die in 1994; thereafter, MORTICIAN utilized drum-programming since, in their eyes, no drummer could compete with Sicher. And while that drum-programming soon became a signature element as much as Will Rahmer's ultra-guttural vocals and Robert Beaujard's beyond-downtuned guitars, it’s still an interesting event to hear live drums on a MORTICIAN recording. Likewise for the short-lived appearance of Incantation’s John McEntee on guitar (Rahmer was concurrently that band's vocalist), which puts a uniquely creepy touch to these three songs, which would then be re-recorded for the band’s first EP, to be released later that year on the infamous Seraphic Decay.