Another ex-member of Ancients Dawn is Paula Sabina (violin between 2008 and 2012), also in Schwarzwald and later in Alice's Disorder:
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Paula/492555
https://lalacore.com/sites/lalacore.com ... sorder.pdf

Her linkedIn profile, in case you want to ask her:



Edit. One of the songs of the demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXQn1WTI1MA

Plus a facebook account wit a band photo only:
https://www.facebook.com/Ancients-Dawn-152963138077533/

And, according to this site, "they've decided to put their demo as direct download":
https://www.sancocho.com/ancients-dawn-a-dark-chronicle
But the link doesn't work anymore.

The demo's tracklist: https://metalarea.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=241332
The songs: https://www.reverbnation.com/traumata/songs (incl. Lyrics)

The songs are also on Youtube, the descriptions of the songs are the basis for the tracklist.
https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialTraumata/videos

Looks acceptable to me. Some melo deathy folk metal.

BlackFlag, thanks a lot for the help. I'm going to contact her to gather more information.

Paganius, thanks for finding more info about this band. However, it doesn't seem like there's real proof of release. The only slight mention of that is on a band's facebook post:

https://www.facebook.com/page/175496989 ... ch/?q=demo

They say that "Our first little demo is ready and just waiting for you to listen and download it", but I'm not sure if that's a correct translation.

Noise. - Sons of Baphomet

Needs research. - DreaMRealM
https://www.discogs.com/it/release/1296 ... -Moonlight

Needs research. - Twang
https://www.discogs.com/it/release/1283 ... ng-Dream-2

Regarding DreaMRealM - here is a last.fm page that might have some useful information:
https://www.last.fm/music/DreaMRealM
(don't take information from that site as hard fact, though)

Not metal - actually called Well of Souls - W öf Souls

It is and all songs can be downloaded from ReverbNation. The "tracklist" info is scattered across the youtube uploads, but lines up with the order they have on RN, so I very much think it's acceptable VR.

Needs research. - The Curse
Location: Canada
Demo 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0HWAcgGsE (photo is of the band Slaughter (Can), rumored to have shared member(s) with The Curse)

Alright, I'll put all that information in the bands that are ready to be submitted thread, I'm out of queue slots.
Thanks!

Added. - The Lane

Described by owner as hard rock. - Superior


Already listed on site, as Satanachristy - which seems to be wrong. Have fixed the issue. - Satanachrist


Needs research. - D.F.A. / Drug Free Attitude
Location: Ontario, Canada
Discography: Demo tape (self-titled?), released between 1990-1993. Track listing of side A: Steppin Stone / Our Rising Decline. Good Company Productions.
https://imgur.com/btoz9Ea

Needs research. - Hellsin
Genre: Black Metal
Location: Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Known member:
Fernando Arcidiacono (plays in Somas these days?)
https://somasbanda.wixsite.com/somas/somas

Possible members according to an old submission:
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... den/234476

Released a 4-track demo called "Tiempo de Crisis" in 2009, it seems:

https://www.rock-fueguino.com.ar/discos ... php?ver=83

Some more info on the band:
https://www.rock-fueguino.com.ar/bandas/hellsin/

Can't find anything beyond that link though.

Appears to be a blacklist evasion attempt for this band:
https://www.discogs.com/release/9459904 ... ulationHex

Blacklisted as "Grunge/nu-metal/alt rock with some sludge and heavy metal influences".
I'll take them off the list.

Needs research. - Bottleneck
Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
Genre: Crossover
Contact or band member: Uwe Haferstroh
Discography: "Trash till Weizenkeim" demo tape ('88)
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/2291041 ... Weizenkeim

Needs research. - Miller's Cell
Location: Massachusetts, US
Genre: Thrash/Groove Metal
Discography: 5-song demo ('9?)
Heavy Metal Rarities: https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 23#p228523

Needs research. - Gutwrench
Location: Massachusetts (?), US
Genre: Groove Metal
Discography: 4-song demo (mid-'90s)
Heavy Metal Rarities: https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 34&t=51710

Obscure bands with at least one cassette release that aren't on the site yet, from the collection of Richard Sanderson (on Facebook) - primarily a metal collection, with some hardcore. Most of the bands posted are from Canada.

Needs research. - Inhuman Behaviour
Location: Canada
Discography: "The Message" demo (1988; 10 songs, 18 minutes)
https://imgur.com/XWhnGfz

Added. - Serenity


Needs research. - D.O.T.
Location: Canada
Discography: "Pass the Anarchy" demo tape
https://imgur.com/BOoufBh

Added. - Freezing Fiction


Added. - Inferior


Needs research. - Neurotripsick
Location: Unknown (possibly the Italian band (from in or around Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna) that https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... zzi/268229 played in during 1993, maybe also before and after that year).
https://imgur.com/Vq3keu3

Added. - Anubis Rah


Needs research. - Hidden Forbidden
Location: Canada
https://www.discogs.com/artist/6106500-Hidden-Forbidden
(band members listed here). According to one source they played metal. Discogs lists them as AOR/hard rock. They were also on a compilation CD (one of the 3 songs on the 1989 tape), which is also listed on Discogs.

Needs research. - Раунд (a.k.a. Raund)
Location: Moscow, Soviet Union (Russia)
Genre: Heavy Metal
Band members: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... kov/111367 (drums)
Alexander Kuzmichev (bass) - this artist? - https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... hev/665685
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ova/141408 (?) - vocals / not 100% sure that it's the same person, though they have the band 'Round' listed in past bands, probably an alternate translation of Raund
Igor Kozhin (guitars) - https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... hin/210920
Vladimir Bazhaikin (guitars)
- 8-song recording of energetic heavy metal from December 1987 exists, streamable on YouTube. Official releases unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc7ATvNMAec
https://www.discogs.com/es/artist/48442 ... 0%BD%D0%B4

Rock. - Haykens


Needs research. - Catharsis
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Genre: Heavy Metal (?), Hard Rock (?)
Band members: J. Butt, R. McDaid
Discography: cassette from 1985 (tracks on one of the sides: Wonderin About You/ Take It All/ The Horsemans Ride/ Stand Tall/ Desire/ Room 33)
Cassette image: https://imgur.com/a/1Y7W7Tc

The first one is:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/S ... ane/189890

List updated - thank you, Paganius.

Needs research. - Maiden America
Location: Charleston, South Carolina, US
Listed genre: Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Band members: Tommy Snipes (guitars - https://www.facebook.com/tommy.snipes.3 ), Frank Palma (vocals), Marty Baker (drums), Richard Crum (R.I.P. - bass)
- they were active in the early '90s. Were going to have a reunion show recently, which was postponed due to covid, and now cancelled due to Richard's passing.
Discography: "Hostile Winnebago" demo tape (track listing: Animal Rage/ No More Pressure/ If the Feeling Is There/ Wasted in the Dark/ Where Has the Time Gone/ Kwik & Badd/ The Old Lady with the Blue Earmuff/ Hostile Winnebago)
eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255498301413?h ... SwikRiYFki
Cover art back-up: https://imgur.com/krocLoa

Did some research on this one and I guess I got them.

I think they are called Haykens and are a band of this guy:
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ens/516090

A band called Haykens is mentioned in his bio on his band's homepage:
https://sites.google.com/site/blackknightvorig/band
stating he's playing in Haykens since 1988 and later on it says they released a demo tape in 1994.

Looks like they are still active:
https://www.facebook.com/Haykens-502393 ... e_internal

and happened to upload their old demo songs to Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/haykens

Added. - Поли-Гон (a.k.a. Poligon)

- cassette purchased. Though it's not uploaded on Discogs, it says that there is a pro cover for it. Will let you know how it sounds when it arrives (also, I haven't looked further into the information at last.fm, but had made a post about a week ago with additional info about DreaMRealM - could lead to some more findings, potentially).
- (update: the Discogs seller has to issue a refund - it turns out the tape that they have for sale is a 2020 release from the Australian Hecatomb. I'll keep watching for this one - interested in hearing it as well.)

A former member of the band Decoder (New Jersey, US) got in contact and provided some additional information that is now posted in the original entry for the band within this thread - thanks, that was much appreciated.

Needs research. - Contregator

Location: Wrocław, Poland
Genre: Death Metal (presumably)
Years active: 1987-1990

This is the original name of Emperor's Hate. Their only demo under this original name, Elektryczna śmierć, is currently listed on the Emperor's Hate page. Not sure if there's enough to just make this a new entry, but the user that added the release, 68686, is very active on the site and my have samples.

Needs research. - Victim
Genre: Heavy Metal
Location: Germany
Discography: "Waste Your Time" demo (cassette, '80s?)
https://imgur.com/NvKgD50 (from someone's collection, in a picture of German heavy metal bands that are on M.A., other than this. Not one of the bands named Victim on the site currently, as far as I know.

Needs research. - Force
Location: San Antonio, Texas, US
Genre: Heavy Metal
- only information that I have about them can be found here: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ter/830696

Needs research. - Terry Sadler's early bands
Location: Canada
There is a whole list of them here, with some information: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... dler/35572

Needs research. - Charan Pagan
Location: California (?), US
Band member: Russ Charan Pagan
Discography: "Ice Cream Casualty" demo
- info/photo of cassette here: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... gan/131970

Needs research. - Crystal Myth
Location: Tennessee, US
https://www.discogs.com/release/5342849 ... ystal-Myth

Needs research. - Exsekra
Location: Spain
Genre: Metal (?)
Discography: "Buen Final" demo (1993, cassette)
Photo: https://imgur.com/icbM5vy
- this person should have further information: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006681106539

Needs research. - Decomposed Faith
Location: York, Pennsylvania, US (or a nearby city)
Discography: Demo tape (1989/'90)
All known info here: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ill/945469

Needs research. - Stikk
Location: Holland, Michigan, US
Genre: ?
Band members: Jim Hallett (guitars), Chris Smith (bass/backing vocals), J. Minarik (vocals), Dan O'Keefe (drums), Jeremy Smith (rhythm guitars). Guest backing vocals: Scott Walters. Produced and engineered by David Ross Cobb.
Discography: "No Apologies" demo (1986, cassette)
Photos: https://imgur.com/egG6bFR
https://imgur.com/1uyHYmn

Needs research. - Second Wind
Location: Pennsylvania, US
Genre: Heavy Metal (?)
Band members: Scott Winand, Dan Sowers, Trevis Becker, Sig (?) Snyder, Jamie Brubaker
Discography: "Vendetta" demo (1989, cassette)
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/86917 ... nd-Wind-10
Write-up (not by someone that I'd consider dependable by any means): https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/the-go ... demo-1989/

Added. - Bill Marquardt


Needs research. - Regurgitated Ghost
Location: Europe, France (?)
Genre: Crossover (?)
Discography: "Ausgekotzte Phantom: The Second Regurgitation" cassette (late '80s/early '90s?)
https://imgur.com/NIuLVvR

Needs research. - L'ace
Location: Portland, Oregon, US
Listed genre: Heavy Metal
Known band members: Rob Gunn (vocals), Paul Newman (drums)
Discography: Demo 1991
- info from Rusted Metal book. They formed in the '80s, and played shows at Starry Night, Pine Street Theater, The Riviera, etc. with Crysys, Jeff Labansky, Cruella, Lawless, Legend, Teacher's Pett, Wildlife, Arrogance, and others.
(July 15, 2022) - saw a physical copy of one of their cassettes on Facebook yesterday. A band photo was used for cover art.
Maybe someone here would know more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2467393 ... 561053217/

Needs research. - Hands of Fate
Location: Oregon, US
Discography: Demo 1990 (cassette, 3 songs)
- info from Rusted Metal book. Genre not specified.
Maybe someone here would know more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2467393 ... 561053217/

Needs research. - Corpus Sin
Location: Oregon, US
Discography: self-titled demo (1995, cassette, 5 songs)
- info from Rusted Metal book. Genre not specified.
Maybe someone here would know more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2467393 ... 561053217/

Needs research. - Envy
Location: Seattle, Washington, US
Listed genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock (?)
Band members: Ted Sitterly (lead vocals), Ken Pompeo (guitars), Ryan Russeff (bass/backing vocals), Mike Hoernlein (drums/backing vocals) - none seem to be on the site.
Discography: "Cries in the Night" demo (1989, cassette; track listing: I'll Only Love You Tonight/ Leather Angel/ Backstage Lover/ Together Again/ Shout It Out/ Cries in the Night)
- active from 1987-?. Their logo is in the Rusted Metal book, which looks metal - though the song titles sound much more like rock. Couldn't find anything about them online with a couple of searches. Played shows with Helix, Jagged Dagger, Risque, etc.
Maybe someone here would know more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2467393 ... 561053217/

Needs research. - Decadence
Location: Bellingham, Washington, US
Band members: Les Wilson (lead vocals), Jeff Randell (guitars, vocals), Ron Coburn (bass), Ray Anthony (drums).
Discography: Demo 1994 (cassette, 3 songs)
- information from Rusted Metal book. No specific genre mentioned, but should be either hard rock or metal. Recorded their demo at 7th Heaven Sound, split up in '95.
Maybe someone here would know more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2467393 ... 561053217/

Needs research. - Citadel
Location: Portland, Oregon, US
Band member: Brian Bonner (vocals)
Discography: "Fortress of Rock" demo ('92)
- Info from Rusted Metal book. Mentions traditional metal, but from the picture and a couple of song titles ("Sooner or Later", "That's the Way It Goes", title track "Fortress or Rock", "When Love Is Gone") I get the feeling it might just be rock, or at least bordering on it. Looking for audio samples anyway, though. They played gigs with Alloy, Gunshy, Stepmother, Torrid, DeSade, Wasted Angel, etc.
Maybe someone here would know more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2467393 ... 561053217/

Needs research. - China
Location: Washington State, US
Discography: Demo 1986 (cassette, 4 songs)
- Info from Rusted Metal book. No further detail.
Maybe someone here would know more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2467393 ... 561053217/

Needs research. - Beauty Kills
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Band member: Frank Ackerman (guitar) - earlier he had played in Aces High, and much later in July Fourth Toilet.
Discography: Demo 1989 (cassette)
- featured in Rusted Metal book. Beauty Kills had gigged often, and played a show with Alice in Chains prior to them becoming very well-known.

Needs research. - Axion
Location: Oregon
Discography: "Tostroksalid" cassette (1992, 4 songs)
- featured in Rusted Metal book. No further detail. Spelling of title is correct as printed (no google result).
Maybe someone here would know more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2467393 ... 561053217/

Needs research. - King's Champion
Location: Belmore, Australia
Discography: Demo '87 (one song is "Child of Light")
https://imgur.com/5k9IsF4
- this person may be able to provide further info: https://www.facebook.com/HugoCyrcka

The following are bands who played a mid-'80s gig in Albuqeruque, New Mexico, US with Hard Attack and Tarkus (M.A.-listed bands), whose logos/names are interesting. https://imgur.com/a/H2fKqpM - nothing else known at the moment.
Needs research. - Vigilante
Needs research. - Code Blue
Needs research. - Solid State

Needs research. - Brutal Decimation
Location: France
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal (?)
Discography: "We Can't Do It Again" official rehearsal (1992, cassette)
https://imgur.com/pm7mJcd
- point of contact: Frederic Lacan

https://chippewa.com/marquardt-lyrics-f ... 25e10.html

Seems there were two demos. The genre description by a journo is: "It is difficult to characterize the type of music, but it also has a violent, metal-thrashing edge."

And the "Thank you" section of the "My Dead Friends" demo according to the article is: "He also gave "unholy thanks" in the album credits to "Satan, Jeffrey Dahmer, the morbid angel, Adolf Hitler, the cannibal corpse and suffocation.""

Damn, one fucked-up guy behind that band. Thanks for finding the info.

If you noticed, the other guy involved in the band was also institutionalized at the time the article was published.

Oh, man - didn't see that the article continued under an ad that interrupted it.

Added. - Eros



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main list updated

Bit the bullet and ordered the copy on Discogs.

I have to take care of some things over the next few weeks, and won't be as active on this thread - apologies if updates or responses end up taking a while.

Needs research. - Dark Sanctuaire
Location: Brunei
Listed genre: Gothic Metal
Information about the line-up here: http://metalencyklopedia.blogspot.com/2 ... salam.html

Released a demo called "Dark Sanctuaire" in 2005. We need to find proof of release and music.

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Needs research. - Endless Night
Location: Canada
Listed genre: Gothic Metal
Information about the line-up here: https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/pt/band ... Night_(CAN)

Released a demo called "Lost Memories" in 2008. Proof of release and music required.

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Needs research. - Almas Liquidas
Location: Peru
Listed genre: Gothic Metal
Information about the line-up here: https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/pt/band/Almas_Liquidas
Also this: https://web.archive.org/web/20151023120 ... asliquidas
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVpp0 ... A-oN1UoT-A

Released "Almas Liquidas", an album, in 2011.

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Needs research. - Innerless
Location: Portugal
Listed genre: Gothic Metal
Information about the line-up here: https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/pt/band/Innerless
There's a dead download link here: http://portugalunderground.blogspot.com/2008/07/

I've found the Youtube channel of one of the members, I'll ask her for more information.

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Needs research. - Mastiphat
Location: Russia
Genre: Unknown

Released "Te Satanas Confiterum" on 2014 or earlier. Attached artist: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Sharon/566632

Needs research. - Стан-500 (a.k.a. Stan-500)
Genre: Heavy Metal
Location: Kirov, Soviet Union, Russia
Band members: Yuri Murashkin - vocals, Mikhail Davydov - guitar, Sergey Govorov - guitar, Alexander Bushmelev - bass, Andrey Diykov - drums
- recorded 7 songs in 1989. Release info unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzOZfNcbm98

Added. - Dark Horse

Needs research. - The Haunting of Leica
Genre: Deathcore
Location: United Kingdom

I am trying to find out if this self-titled EP by this band had a valid release. It sounds like it might make the cut to me. The band's other EP is on bandcamp but it sounded less metal. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St8EkN5XRak

https://www.facebook.com/The-Haunting-o ... 740738604/
https://thehauntingofleica.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/en/band ... g_Of_Leica
https://www.last.fm/music/The+Haunting+Of+Leica

Needs research. - Buried By Angels
Genre: Metalcore
Location: Unknown

Sounded like it had enough melodeath type riffs to me, but I can't find much info on the band or anything about this EP having a valid release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WitVemEqo_M

Needs research. - Harmagedon (Ger) - mid-'80s.
https://imgur.com/u8Gq2z9

Needs research. - Roulette (Venice, California, US)
Band member: Kirk Schoff (vocals)
Discography: Demo 1986 (cassette; track listing: Heat of the Attack, Towards the Sun, Runnin to Love) https://imgur.com/ZMZT3yo
- an old 'zine review suggests a sound towards commercial metal. Still interested to hear it, though. https://imgur.com/Ul6eX87

Needs research. - Target
Location: Australia
Band members: Batu, Till (last names)
Discography: Demo tape (year unknown, probably '80s. Track listing: Knights of Darkness/ Burning Batu/ Please be Mine)

Needs research. - Krypton's
Location: France
Discography: Demo tape (likely from the '80s) - https://imgur.com/Q9rfGLa

Needs research. - Raging Violence
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Info here: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... rke/824362
https://imgur.com/a/Ie2pk0m
Logo: https://imgur.com/zPxCDo3
Likely one of the members: https://www.facebook.com/john.kramme.94

Rock. Temple

Breaking Chain (UK)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTgsUtJ5Xw

http://www.metalhead.ro/breaking-chain/ ... #gsc.tab=0

https://www.ultimatemetal.com//forum/th ... n.1028705/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LWxBCd2vQ8

This was all I could find:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110708080 ... edbyangels
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ung/208584
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ans/208587
https://instagram.com/mark_evansdrummer ... MyMTA2M2Y=
https://www.facebook.com/SamarrabandOH

Contact Mark Evans through his personal IG or finally through the FB of his most recent band, if you want. I hope all this helps you ☺️❤️

Breaking Chain https://open.spotify.com/artist/2aCkeWtXcTpt8cMDqlDtlc