In 1994, Portugal's death metal/grindcore outfit, Evisceration, released Hymn To The Monstrous, their one and only full length album, and follow up to their 1993 demo, In The Flesh. I acquired this one from Nuclear War Now for $5.00, which is a heck of a deal for a CD that I enjoy a great deal. Truth is, I didn't know anything about this band when I ordered this CD, and it only made it onto my order as a last second substitution for a different CD that had ended up being out of stock. Lucky accident at best. Not to mention the a death metal mood had taken over my purchasing habits at just that time, so that really was kind of a perfect storm of conditions that lead to Hymn To The Monstrous ending up in my Denon.
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Beyond The Ninth Wave is a Black Metal group from Canada Volume 1 is their 2005 full-length debut featuring forty odd minutes across seven songs, limited to 1,000 copies. Seven painful songs, I might add. I picked this CD up from 
a departure for what was going on in the rest of the Norwegian scene at the time. Steeped deeply in thrash, they had little in common with their black metal brethren that ran rampant elsewhere. Unfortunately, they only managed to produce two demos, First Demon (1990) and Load Error (1991), prior to their dissolution in 1992. While God Sleeps collects these two demos onto one album for ease of public consumption.