I bet Tom, the DRP guest drummer would be one of those people that wouldn't bother responding if given an email about this old project. There are several people on Discogs mentioned as owning the record. When I get more time I was thinking about trying to message a few of them to see if they'd mind sending a song or two from the album.

Regarding Crazy Babies: Found drummer Arnaud-David Morellini from Strasbourg, Nancy. That's most probably him:
http://copainsdavant.linternaute.com/p/ ... ni-3095391
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxbpsF52Wdo

Added. - Monument

Added. - Ice Pik Lobotomy

Hardcore with metal influences. - Brainwash

https://uloz.to/file/KZFxunrZasuW/brain ... t-2002-rar
https://uloz.to/file/o4lWwWzmGJXN/brain ... t-2016-rar
Small tip: Before you post here, you can try to seach for these albums yourself on Uloz to (you can set it to ejngkish as your default language) or rac-forum.org, they now have renewed the links there. The album in Uloz to are often hidden under links with oly the band name or they are listed in related files to the bands other albums. Taht's how I find most links there.

Regarding Monument: This seems to be the Facebook page of Stefan Van Geel:
https://www.facebook.com/stefanvangeel.nl/
Guitarist Michel Wanner could be contacted through the homepage of his new band:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/emergendizerofficial/about/

Thanks for the tip Witcher! I didn't know about those sites, but they should come in handy if I run into any more of these kinds of bands. Thanks for linking the splits as well. I'll download these tomorrow and check them out to see if they are metal.

Regarding Rough Justice (uk): Just watching the video link below on YouTube, there is a mention that Southend-on-Sea, England NWOBHM band Redline's vocalist Garry Mielle (ex-The Edge) was in a band (presumably the same one) by this name.
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... lle/805599
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBmRI0MIO-8

The Japanese band Shishimaru sshould be removed from the band list, since they were recently blacklisted for not beng metal:
viewtopic.php?p=2923123#p2923123

Punk Rock. - Madam Flora

Added. - Damned Creation

Needs research. - Vexx
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Activity period: Late '80s to 1992. Changed name to Inveigh Catharsis in '92, released a demo the same year, disbanded '93.
Listed genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
Band members: John Brainard (https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... nard/49130 - guitars, vocals), Gary Stanfill (guitars), Anders Colsefni (https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... fni/268287 - drums), Paul Gray (https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Paul_Gray/5194 - bass), Bill Hartman (keyboards, harmonica, vocals on one song)
Discography: "Shadow of Reality" demo 1991, Inveigh Catharsis demo 1992
Discogs links: https://www.discogs.com/Vexx-Shadow-Of- ... se/8394290
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4998587- ... -Catharsis
(Note: Though this has members of Slipknot, only one of them was still around when they became very well-known. Some of their members played good metal in the early '90s, like the band Atomic Opera and Body Pit.)
(Feb. 5, 2023: Described by drummer Anders as cheesy, and like a mix of Metallica and White Lion. Thanks for getting that bit of information, mrmetalhead).

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Regarding Vexx: A review of the album, which describe it as Heavy metal/Hard Roc, not death metl. The band was founded in 1988:
https://melodic-hardrock.com/vexx-shado ... lity-1991/

Interesting - thanks, Witcher. In that case, if audio samples become available it could be determined whether they fall more to the heavy metal or rock side.

Here's also an interview with drummer Anders Colsefni, whre he mentions Vexx, but he says, that he probably won't release their material for free download, since he is not satisfied with the demo. However, he sees to be qite wiling to rerespond to questions about his old bands, so he could probably be contacted rregarding the official release of the Body Pit demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vwwu-kcyZM
https://twitter.com/anderscolsefni?lang=cs

Added. - Steel and Stone

Update on The Room of Massacre: I found another video in which the "demo" was uploaded, and a self proclaimed member of the band commented a few times: https://youtu.be/-VQLjvP9-Fo

The user "toto del valle" claims to be a former member of the band, and he replied to someone's comment asking about the release of this "demo" saying (as translated from Spanish using Google translate):

"I think it's from the end of 2009, we never recorded an EP, some good samaritan found the songs and compiled it in this video"

Original comment in Spanish:

"creo que es de finales del 2009, nunca grabamos un EP, algun buen samaritano encontro las rolas y compilo en este video"

So it looks like this really is a random compilation of songs from MySpace. That means this very likely isn't acceptable, unless there's some kind of translation error and the comment says something different, but that's unlikely. The Room of Massacre can be removed from the list.

Also, regarding LegioNex, here is the guy's Mikseri profile. LegioNex isn't on there, nor is it on his YouTube or his Soundcloud (his Soundcloud is linked on the Mikseri page, and the YouTube page is on his Soundcloud). If someone wants to try to contact him, that would be great, especially since I don't speak Finnish, and I'm not sure if he speaks English.
https://www.mikseri.net/user/BVR

I found a song from the demo on Youtube:

The uploader claims that it's his band too, so it could be worth contacting him for the rest of the songs. He hasn't uploaded in 5 years, however.

There is also someone who owns this on Discogs, so I (or someone else) can ask him to send a rip of the demo.

Thanks Ninten, good find. Looks like that logo was deceiving, as this is basically funk rock with a tiny bit of metal in the mix. We can cross this one off the list as far as I'm concerned. Definitely appreciate you looking into it, though.

Rock/AOR. - Red Bank

Thanks. I mean I could try to find the rest of the demo just to make sure the whole thing sounds like that song but I guess it's safe to assume it does? Idk.

He is and I already contacted him.


Nuked it from the list for now, but feel free to hunt it down if you want.

Working on buying it.

I am glad, that my suspicion was correct. TThanks for contacting himl.

Added. - Pagemaster

^ let's see if I'll be able to grab that copy.

Edit: I spent way too much money on it, but I got it. Will check once I received it.

The Austrian band Outburst can be removed from the list, since they have now been added:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ou ... 3540479279

Okay, so I listened to these, they probably aren't acceptable. It was metalcore, but not the kind where there are a lot of metal riffs. There was even some nu sounding stuff going on. This should probably be struck from the list now.

Needs research. - The Ninth Gate

Genre: Melodic death metal
Location: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Members: Presumably same as Neaera (since Neaera never changed band members at all apart from having one live musician).
Discography: Demo 2004 (unsure if released publicly)

This is the original name of Neaera. Originally the track listing of their demo was unknown, but they re-released the whole demo as part of a limited edition version of the 2020 self titled album.

From what I have gathered from an archived version of Neaera's old site, there were multiple copies of the demo made, but it is unknown whether or not they were distributed publicly or just sent to record labels. I did notice that they mention that they were surprised by the fact that Metal Blade Records signed them, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they didn't send it to Metal Blade. I also noticed that the first song from the demo was played in multiple clubs, but I'm not sure if that means the clubs played the song as in they had a copy of the demo, or if that was just what the band played live in the club.

I don't think sound samples are necessary for now since all the songs, with the exception of the outro, were re-recorded as Neaera, most of them being on their debut album. I do plan on getting a copy of the limited edition of the self titled album though, since it wouldn't hurt to get the original songs. But it isn't super necessary. All I need is evidence to show that the demo was distributed publicly.

Archived 2004 Neaera site that mentions their history as The Ninth Gate and the demo: https://web.archive.org/web/20040619201 ... eaera.com/

Note: I think I may have tried contacting Neaera on Bandcamp, but they haven't replied. Perhaps there's a better way to contact them?
Note: I never found whether or not the demo was released publicly in 2004. The band was added due to the fact that the demo's inclusion on a limited edition of Neaera's 2020 album makes that said release a split.
Note PagI: That compilation is NOT a split as discussed in Discord.

Needs research. - Kryatos
Location: Missouri, USA
Listed genre: Death/Thrash Metal
Band members: Dominic Kellins (bass - was later in the bands Mechanic, Faceless), Tom Kendrix (drums - later in Kreuzzug), Max Boldius (guitars - later in Boldius, Faceless), Parker Ryder (vocals)
Discography: Demo (1988), "Ausculation" demo (1990), self-titled demo (1991)
Discogs link: https://www.discogs.com/artist/7051180-Kryatos (no images, but person who contributed info about this band might have more than what is on the page - likely knows the band members personally or was a band member)

Added. - Gehen

Eternal Hill (Japan) has been added and can be taken off the list. Good work finding the audio sample, billm99uk!

The band has been added now so this can be removed from the list.

Added. - Krachmacher


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Per the band, didn't release a demo - only official release was the compilation track. - Ceremonial Death

Needs research. - Dream Maker
Location: Brazil (?)
Genre: Power/Speed Metal
Discography: Unknown/ featured on the Brazilian metal compilation "Collectanea Stars of Rock" (1995).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBejMPPtpuE (their song "Dream Maker" starts at 14:40. Vocals aren't great, but they're definitely a metal band)
Discogs link: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Collect ... e/10010302

Needs research. - Abhor
Location: Brazil (?) - not the same one already featured on the site
Genre: Heavy Metal
Band members: Ronaldo Reis (Vocals, Guitars), Ricardo Costa (Guitars, backing vocals), Cristiano Boti (drums), André Dias (Bass)
Discography: Unknown/ featured on the Brazilian metal compilation "Collectanea Stars of Rock" (1995).
Discogs link: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Collect ... e/10010302
Compilation song@YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSDhNg ... e=emb_logo (halfway through the video you can see a page with information about them from the inlay notes of the compilation CD)
Uploaded YouTube videos by a band member: https://www.youtube.com/user/PersonnalD ... uery=abhor
Full compilation on YouTube (people with further info may have posted here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBejMPP ... e=emb_logo

Regarding Krachmacher:
Facebook page of former member Nico Plantenga:
https://www.facebook.com/Nico.Plantenga3

Detailed bio featuring full member names:
https://m.poparchiefgroningen.nl/bands/ ... @bezetting

Added. - Angel Dust