Needs research. - Flesh Mantle (death metal, New Jersey, USA)
- ? (Tape)
Years active: 1999-1999, 1999-?
Line-up:
Brian - Guitars (1999-), Vocals (1999-1999), Vocals (backing)
Shawn - Drums (1999-), Vocals (backing)
Lou - Vocals (lead) (1999-)
B.J. - Guitars (rhythm)
Former Line-up:
Donny/Donnie - Bass (1999-1999, 1999-)
Kris - Bass (1999), Vocals (1999-)
Brian - Guitars (1999) (Might be the same person as B.J.)

According to the band's bio, they had recorded a demo twice and not released it but had plans to release a demo tape for a show, which was cancelled. The website was later used as a page for Abysmal Gates, so this might be a precursor to that band. The transition doesn't seem to be archived, so they might have released something during that time. There are also merchandise pages that are empty except one that seems to be from the Abysmal Gates era. Someone with a facebook could probably contact Abysmal Gates and find out.

Also, they had two logos:
http://web.archive.org/web/200112060741 ... lelogo.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/200008310408 ... fmlogo.jpg

All pages on Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sou ... ipod.com/*
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mem ... ulburn13/*

Needs research. - Black Witch (Germany, melodic death metal?)
- ...And When the Darkness Eats Away (1995, demo, cassette)

All information taken from m-s.de, no samples or other info to be found. I talked to the tape owner there and he said that it's actually by the Blackwitch from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Telling from the logos, one is clearly written with a space and one isn't, but of course there's no reason why they couldn't have slightly changed the name at some point. Allegedly the members are the same. The m-s.de guy wouldn't elaborate how he knew that, but I presume there's a lineup printed on the tape inlay. I'm hesitant to add the demo to the existing page, would like to confirm that it's indeed the same band first, but the guy didn't respond further. Leaving this here for now.

Added. Proposition None (United States, death metal)



By the way, Halloween, I finally heard back from the Haunted Child guy and if all goes well, he'll send me his last tape copy soon.

I went through their facebook looking for more information. Didn't really find anything useful, but they could probably be contacted.

They list the demo under their discography here. Track 5 might be "Fires" and not "Fire".

Also this says they still have a copy of the demo.

Show flyers:


The other logo on the flyers is extremely familiar. I wonder if I saw it in an old zine somewhere.

I've sent them a FB message.

Tape confirmed, around 25 copies distributed. I've restored Dembo's sub.

Sweet If you're still in contact, might be worth asking about Premonition mentioned here, something about a demo tape:
https://www.facebook.com/12546396080414 ... =3&theater

Sure, will do.

Added. White Lion (United States, heavy metal/hard rock)

No releases. Clanissa's Surplus (Austria, heavy metal/hard rock)

Not Metal. - Eye of the Storm (E.O.T.S.)


Added. - Misled


Not Metal. - Delta of Venus


Needs research. - Trilogy
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TRILOGY-S-T-HYP ... Swu4BVoiml

Delta of Venus:
Not metal, this is a later release but "Port of Saints" is also on the demo:
https://soundcloud.com/delta_of_venus/

Of course the cheaper one was easy to cross off . Added the rest to the OP. Misled's samples sound fine, though. Might be worth submitting?

There's so little to go on, though. What about the label field? Independent?
I know his ad says indie, but it's a standard thing he writes...

Not metal. - Power Touch (Belgium, heavy metal?)



Not metal. - The RH Factor (United States, heavy metal?)

Added. - Prassein Aloga - Greece.

I don't know about physical, but

https://itunes.apple.com/bz/album/midas ... d490169964
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006NHQ01C

Thanks! Submitted.

Concerning E.O.T.S.
viewtopic.php?p=2594454#p2594454
According to Rik Baez, they played grunge, a genre they knew little about. They gave it a go, soon realized it wasn't their thing, and called it quits.

Nice work and hey all the reasonably priced ones are crossed off,

Regarding Misled:
There was a Misled in the 90s mentioned here in the album notes:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/chrisrico


All of this Misled's later albums are here. No idea if it's the same one, though. Probably not, but it's the only thing I can find.

Never hurts to ask. Just shot him a message via myspace.
No photos of that album, though. Besides, they have two logos, but neither matches the one we're looking for.

EDIT: No reply.

Needs research. - Violent Bloodshed (side-project of this bloke).

I did a design for them back in early 2013 for an upcoming demo CD. Not sure if it ever got released or not; maybe somebody can ask if it got pressed.

I can't, since I permanently deleted my FB a year ago.

White Lion is (about to be) added, I got my hands on a full vinyl rip. This oughta fly as heavy metal/hard rock.

Needs research. - Drosera (United States, doom metal?)
All of this information comes from the promotional blurb about Drosera's fourth album from Silvis Records:

Quote:

Drosera is a reclusive dark/ambient band based on Revillagigedo Island, Alaska, and active since 2008. "Cassiar," Drosera's 4th full-length album, makes a departure from the band's previous doom-laden meditations to a dance-beat backed coldwave/gothic sound.

This new album sounds like a Cure cover band played through a blown out speaker, but I cannot seem to find any information about this band, or their three previous albums, anywhere on the internet. The do not appear to have any social media feeds, and the only thing on YouTube are shitty rehearsal songs from a Chilean death metal band with the same name.

I've reached out to Silvis to see if they have any information or contact info on Drosera, but have not heard back.

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Status: Unknown
Why not Split-up? It's been 32 years since that release.

Sure.

Added. Vociferance (United States, progressive death metal)

It was released officially as a digital download here. I don't know if mediafire counts or not:
http://web.archive.org/web/201110140200 ... light.html

It might have also been released physically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJsh1VuoaSk


The guy's soundcloud with a fb link if you want to contact for more info:
https://soundcloud.com/SeanHart213

Which you might, they were first formed under the name Skåda and released a demo, "Demo 2009". It was available for download (according to the bio here), but also might have been released physically. This photo is captioned "get yours now". Their myspace listed it under releases on the sidebar, as well. However, I can't find any other references.

Thanks. Yeah, DeGa just sent me this as well, I've restored his submission.

I'll contact the guy about a CD/Skåda soon.

CD-R release, added. Interestingly, he said they never did any CDs with Vociferance, download-only, so the image DeGa provided appears to be BS or a bootleg.

Needs research. - Iɴᴄᴜʙᴜs (NWOBHM), Exeter, England
http://nwobhm.com/incubus-2/
http://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/554534

Melodic Rock with insanely bad quality - Oxxɪᴅ, Heavy Metal, France

Added. Necrohell (Sweden?, black metal?)

Can't find anything on that one but I found another Necrohell and submitted it

Updated the OP!

I know it's not the place to ask, but I think one post couldn't hurt. Could you actually listen to those songs on Myspace? I haven't been able to listen to anything on Myspace for about six months now, and, for some reason, I thought I wasn't the only one. My laptop's up to date, so not sure what's going on.

Yeah, I can listen to them, but that happens to me sometimes. If I leave the tab open and then open other myspace pages they eventually play. I don't know if that's the same problem you're facing, though.

Also, if you have an adblocker, try to disable it for myspace. I noticed it can get stuck on ads if they don't play. Seemed to help me a little bit.

Thanks. Still can't get it to work, though. I'll see what else I can do, now that I know the source isn't the problem.

Got samples for Power Touch. It's metal-ish hard rock.

Just got a reply from Misled. It's not the same band. "We have the name trademarked," they said, "but that doesn't keep others from using it." Anyway, I'm thinking of submitting the band as an independent act, hoping someone would file a report to fill us in. All in favor?

Eᴅɪᴛ: adding -> submitting

Needs research. - Gravedefiler (Austria, black/death metal?)
- Herr der Herren (1998, demo)

An earlier name of Bloodfeast. Apart from the mention in the notes, proof is slim. There is this German Wikipedia entry listing the demo (added on July 3rd, 2009) and in their FB bio they write that "[t]hey recorded the demo MC "Herr der Herren" as early as [1998]". Listed on their IA'd website without much useful information.


Needs research. - Grimforst (Austria, black metal?)
- Wölfenwald (1999)
01. Intro
02. Untitelt [sic?]
03. Der schwarze Prinz
04. Winterland Pt. I
05. Winterland Pt. II
06. Endless Winternight
07. Wölfenwald

- Totentanz (2007, EP)
01. Pt. I
02. Pt. II
03. Pt. III
04. Pt. IV
05. Pt. V

Apparently this is not the same band as the listed one from Carinthia (this is not 100% confirmed, though). Tracklists were given to me by RunningWild_AT, he also has covers. Need to ask him more about this band.

Their Myspace (I can't get the songs to play, hence the ? in the genre): https://myspace.com/grimforst

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