Archiwalne nagrania PHOBIA (Norway) wyda NWN! Ciekawe kiedy demówki Elvisa.

 

On June 14th internationally, Nuclear War Now! Productions will reissue the collected works of Norway's Phobia, Slaughterhouse Tapes, on CD format. The band was a young precursor to Norway's legendary Enslaved, and also included a future founder of Theatre of Tragedy.

The emergence of the Norwegian black metal movement is often regarded as a sudden paradigmatic shift in sound and aesthetics. But it didn’t take place in a vacuum; many of the key players in the scene were already involved in underground metal.

So it was for the founding members of Enslaved (Grutle Kjellson and Ivar Bjørnson) and Theatre of Tragedy (Hein Frode Hansen), all of whom initially played in a short-lived but impressive death metal band called Phobia. The “Slaughterhouse” to which the title of this collection refers is Gamle Slaktehuset, or “old slaughterhouse,” a community youth center in the small town of Haugesund that served as an incubation center for numerous adolescent bands in the region. Equipped with multiple rehearsal rooms, a studio, a café, and a performance space, Slaktehuset offered everything a fledgling band needed.

With the rapid rise of black metal, Phobia was unfortunately relegated to the increasingly distant past. This compilation collects—for the first time—Phobia’s two demos, along with three previously unreleased tracks.

In the meantime, hear the brand-old track "Fog of Uncertainty" HERE at Nuclear War Now!'s Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Phobia (Norway)'s Slaughterhouse Tapes

1. Intro
2. Fog of Uncertainty
3. The Last Settlement of Ragnarok
4. Feverish Convulsions
5. Frame of Mind (studio)
6. Thy Rottening Flesh (rehearsal)
7. The Last Settlement of Ragnarok (rehearsal)
8. When the Jews Return to Zion (rehearsal)
9. Frame of Mind (rehearsal)
10. Feverish Convulsions (rehearsal)