Some sort of metalcore
https://youtube.com/@duftofficial
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5gUtKotwj/?hl=en

In the Far East of the USSR as a whole, in the old days there was a group of interesting teams, from most of which, it seems, nothing remains. For example, people say, there was a band 'Rovers' in Khabarovsk, who played what would now be called "Viking metal" (in the USSR in 1985!) and existed until the '88. Of course, I did not find anything, although there were definitely records according to the testimonies.

In any case, if I come across anything else of note, I'll post it here.

Thanks for finding those links, GraveWish. If you or anyone else thinks they're worth submitting, feel free to do so. I won't bother adding them to the list since there's no research needed from here, just whether or not their music qualifies.

Appreciate the additional information on Trylika from Lithuania, Slon. If any of the bands that I posted in here are metal and have a valid release, they can be submitted.


Main list all caught up to here ------------------------------------------------------------------

Needs research. - Sunki Vasara
Location: Lithuania
Listed genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Discography: "Keistas Metas" Reel-to-Reel 1988

This band doesn't sound bad at all, but I don't know if they can be metal anough. The first song taken from the original recording 1988 definitively is. The second one, recorded in 1996... well, also may be ok but it belongs to Jis and their tape album "Tyla": don't know if there's some connection with Sunki Vasara. On Algirdas Ratkelis' youtube channel there are several other bands uploaded, including 13 (Trylika), Laikas, his solo album titled "Riba" (1989, there's the image of the tape with tracklist: it sounds a sort of experimental doom or whatever)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBlT1KxBObM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwNfZ2H4Jek
https://www.discogs.com/it/release/2512 ... stas-Metas

A link for Algirdas Ratkelis's "Riba" album and the follow up made in 1997 is here but I think we need to register to listen to it:

https://www.pakartot.lt/album/i/riba2

(added to the list)

- Wrong thread. Issue apparently already dealt with.

Needs research. - Nystagmus
Location: US (owner believes that they're from Illinois)
Cassette in someone's collection of local metal, mostly from the '90s. Title looks like "Follow End: The Descriminating Path" (sic)
https://imgur.com/5vPYIxz

(added to the list)

Added. - Deeper Vertigo


Added. - Eleventh Commandment


Recorded a couple of practice songs, but no demo or release. - Attica


Needs research. - Stormfront
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, US
Members: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ich/694355 (guitars, have sent a message), Casey Adams, David Midget (bass, vocals)
- not sure if they did a demo. Only ever played one gig, in August 1991 with Deeler, Mak'er, and Holy Sceptre.

(all 4 added to the list)

Needs research. - RipFist
Location: Mount Vernon, Ohio, US
Genre: Thrash Metal
Band members: 4 of them played in this melodic heavy metal band that was born from the ashes of RipFist in 1988: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Wi ... 3540277178 . In 2021 the Kight brothers and one other guy reactivated (not sure if that was for long term, or just for a gig).
https://www.youtube.com/@briankight6997 ... ry=ripfist (live footage with some original and cover songs)
Looking into it a bit, there was mention of a tape, but no details.

(added to list)

Needs research. - Aberration
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, US
Genre: Metal (early '90s band)
Members: Kurt Kohnen
Joe Hensley - https://www.facebook.com/joe.hensley.1253
Jay Brand - https://www.facebook.com/TheBrands139 (sent a message)
Discography: unknown
Logo - https://imgur.com/a/z8ZAmmd
- Jay is nowadays working with the bass player, and the band has been reactivated. Some of their songs are here:
https://www.youtube.com/@e.jaybrand9124

Needs research. - Coalition
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, US
Members: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ord/991739 (message sent)
Paul Baxter ( https://www.facebook.com/paul.baxter.969 )
- active in the early '90s. Logo here: https://imgur.com/a/uMaRQki
Released a CD demo. William said that he could post it when asked.

Needs research. - Deceived
Location: Sweden
Listed genre: Death Metal
- 2 mid-'90s demos/EPs are listed on Discogs without artwork. Seeking audio and proof of release.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4591419-Deceived-3

(all 3 added to the list)

Needs research. - Heavy Metal
Other names: Тяжёлый Металл, Чёрное Дело
Location: USSR (Novosibirsk)
Listed genre: A cross between Doom, Proto-Power, and Prog Rock
Status: Split-up
Formed in: 1979
Years active: 1979-1984, 1985
Discography: Demo (1981?), Live 1982, Чёрное Дело (1983), Бражник Мёртвая Голова (1984) [unreleased], Demo (1984?) [unreleased]

The second and third recording were definitely distributed on reels.

Other well-known participants include Nata Kriss and Sergey Moskalenko (Staryi Gorod, Salamandra).

https://i.imgur.com/BOnsqEb.png
https://i.imgur.com/VGioKYl.png

https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 19&t=51429
https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 12&t=51930
https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 22&t=51237
https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 09&t=51401
https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 44&t=50793

(added to the list)

Needs research. - Körgüll
Location: Norway
Discography: Demo 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWaNh8WYyxk (cassette image in the video - the printing kind of light on the left side)
Could probably use some more details before going to the site.

(added to the list)

I would say that sounds much more like an early example of the so-called "War Metal" (raw black thrash, in this case) to me, than death/thrash.

Needs research. - Die Smiley
Location: Denver, Colorado, US
Listed genre: Thrash/Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
Band members: Scotty, Pete, Manny, Luis, Dave
Discography: "Dominion" CD (1995)
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/2692597 ... y-Dominion
Mentioned by someone who made artwork for them: https://www.deviantart.com/mkultra-00/a ... -727414152
Newspaper article: https://newspaperarchive.com/colorado-s ... 995-p-100/ (need to sign up to view)

Added. - Submission


Needs research. - Meadow
Location: Belgium
Listed genre: Progressive Metal (early - one release also has a Thrash tag); Rock (later)
Band members: Sam Claeys, Jurgen Timmerman, Stefaan Bante (later played in Locus Control, or Locus of Control)
Discography: 2 tapes in the '90s, 1999 compilation appearances (and a tape, probably not part of their official discography, listed on Discogs with those tracks. Did a CD-R in 2009 that is probably not metal anymore. May have actually found those songs online before and decided not to list them here because they were so far from metal, but the tapes from 1996 and '98 may have potential for site addition.)
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4814949-Meadow-11
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4814949-Meadow-11

Needs research. - Raraborn
Location: Poland
Listed genre: Progressive Metal/Hardcore
Discography: Demo 1997 (cassette)
https://www.discogs.com/artist/12917390-Raraborn
(one member known is still active in the music business)

(all 4 added to the list)

Needs research. - Killer Tiger
Location: Brazil
Listed genre: Black Metal/Punk
Discography: "My Death" (2018) (CD)
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7884483-Killer-Tiger

(added to the list)

Needs research. - Атлас
Location: Leningrad, USSR
Listed genre: Heavy Metal, Prog/Hard Rock
Discography: https://gruppasssr.ru/Z/zemlyanedisk.html
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/ru/artist/31305 ... B0%D1%81-2

https://gruppasssr.ru/Z/zemlyane.html
https://vk.com/music/playlist/-175917432_82

I want to say right away that their album from 2011 is, alas, dull. I have all their early demo tapes and they sound a much heavier.

Closest equivalent to their original style - is Сirith Ungol with their 1979 Demo.

(added to the list)

Being added. - Valhalla


Being added. - Маркиза (a.k.a. Markiza)

Needs research. - Halterus
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania
Genre: Heavy/Thrash Metal with Glam Rock influences
Band members: Ąžuolas Orantas (drums), Kristijonas Jurgelevičius (guitar) Ugnius Skirgaila (guitar), Vincentas Saladis (bass)
Discography: Follow the Metal (single, 2016) & Gates of Hades (single, 2020)
https://soundcloud.com/user-898205154/follow-the-metal (Follow the Metal)
https://soundcloud.com/ugnius-skirgaila ... s-of-hades (Gates of Hades)

Needs research. - Raskladuškė
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania
Genre: Thrash Metal
Band members: unknown
Discography: untitled demo (2018), Važiuojam (EP, 2020)

https://fb.watch/kfyOGgoJMz/ (demo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjgwvdEgWg (EP)

(added both to the list)

Did some bidding here but lost in the end.

Ah, well - thanks anyway. They'll probably turn up again someday, or maybe someone will be nice enough to put the music on YouTube or the HMR forum.

The band appears on this sampler:
http://www.discogs.com/release/6091192- ... Zampler-CD
Those are probably the same two demo songs.

Frost and Fury also appears on the same compilation...
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/F ... Fury/56759
...and they share two members with Dark Covenant: Joel Bagley and Greg Ponder.

https://www.realrocks.ru/dissident/

The bassist got in connect in yesteryear, and confirmed that the band no longer exists.

It's pretty obvious, that they broke up back in 2003.

The demos were distributed on regular сd-r, obviously only in a few copies, I think.

Nice, Antioch. I just realized that one of the Missouri members was wrongly listed on the Canadian band's page on M.A., so have corrected it. Yes, pretty likely those are the same two songs, and definitely the same band considering the other ties.


About Dissident - yes, I figured they broke up long ago. It's amazing their site is still in tact with the songs still downloadable. The question is, if anyone can speak with them, if their demo was released physically 20 years ago (just need a little bit more detail about the CD-R's, if that's what format they came out on - if 10 or more were released, and just to close friends and labels, or given out or sold? It gets difficult to research this sometimes, but often former members can help to fill in those gaps in information. Providing a simple screenshot of the member mentioning it along with a submission is often enough that they can be added. Sadly, most submitters don't like to do that kind of research, and it's a big reason why the mountainous list of bands for potential addition continues to grow at the pace that it does.)

From the whole context, I think they recorded a few copies of the homemade CDs as a kind of promo to give to rock club and radio representatives (in hope of getting them interested), but it doesn't look like they actually distributed them, their entire "official" release limited to the internet.

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Add.

Just now I noticed that the site says that their last concert will be November 1, 2003.

Okay. That's the idea that I got as well from their bio. It would be great to confirm it with one of their members, though. They're a very good band, especially for the time that they were around. When it's absolutely clear that they didn't have a release, we can cross them off the list.

- Thanks. I appreciate that you're checking into this band. I've made this clear several other times before, but any band that I post about in here (and I think a few other people feel the same way about their posts and initial findings that they add in here as well), you're welcome to complete the research and submit them to the site. The way I see it we're not in competition here, just on the same side as people that use a shared database of information, and progress (accuracy/completeness for our own interests and uses and those of others) could be better made by working together, gathering a little piece and bringing it to the "table", and someone else might be able to add or find something from there.

Needs research. - Malice in Wonderland
Location: Finland
Listed genre: Melodic Death/Black Metal
Band members: Jani Raatikainen (bass), Haba (drums), Kimmo Perkkiö (vocals, guitars)
Discography: Malice in Wonderland (1995)

https://www.discogs.com/release/1604310 ... Wonderland

Needs research. - Forbidden Forecast
Location: Finland
Listed genre: Power Metal
Band members: unknown
Discography: At the Gates of Moria (2002)

https://www.discogs.com/release/1020017 ... s-Of-Moria

(both added to the list)

Regarding Malice in Wonderland - possible that this was one of their members (same name, role, country) - https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... %B6/332491


Regarding Forbidden Forecast:
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Hannes_Horma
- Forbidden Forecast discography (that includes Hannes) -
"Tales of Tragedy" EP (2002, self-released)
"At the Gates of Moria" EP (2002, self-released)
"No Tomorrow" EP (2002, self-released)
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... rta/343221 - Lead Vocals
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... orma/33074 - Guitars, Vocals
Ville Rantanen - Guitars
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... droos/8493 - Keyboards
Jari-Pekka Halttunen - Bass
Marko Vilpas - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/hannes.horma - recommend contacting Hannes here.

Needs research. - Mephitis
Location: Netherlands
Listed genre: Grindcore
Band members: Edwin Jager (drums, vocals), Martin J.A. Lambeek (vocals, drums, guitars)
Info here: https://poparchiefgroningen.nl/zoeken?m ... miview=ldt
Discography: "Mezmerized Noise" demo '90 (spelling is correct) Cover: https://imgur.com/7J5woI7
(a little bit of discussion about it here: https://www.grind-core.nl/search.php?ke ... mit=Search )

Needs research. - BOB
Location: Friesland, Netherlands (village of Drogeham)
Genre: Metal (?)
Band members: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... een/949961 (vocals), Erik (drums), Folkert (bass), Theo (guitars, piano).
Discography: "Turn Your Back to the World" cassette (cover: https://imgur.com/cOc6AEG ) - track listing: Turn Your Back to the World/ Religion/ No Return/ War/ Suicide. May have also released "Retakes Power" (from a Google search result that turns up something that is now an expired page), but not certain about that.

Needs research. - LHE (Loes Haasdijk Ensemble)
Location: Netherlands
Genre: ?
Discography: "Guilt" cassette (probably early '90s. Cover: https://imgur.com/PQ4DMrX )
- nothing else known yet.

Needs research. - Sick Joke
Location: Netherlands
Genre: Metal (?), Crossover (?)
Discography: - Demo tape (1993) https://imgur.com/AIMhmjG
https://imgur.com/a/vCC3OAw
- "Sick... Sicker... Sickest!" demo (1994, cassette) https://imgur.com/z7NHE3H
https://imgur.com/a/0ATFIg6

Needs research. - Groggy's Crawl
Location: Netherlands
Genre: Metal (?)
Discography: Demo tape (early '90s? Track listing: Never Know/ Lucy/ Crawlin' Son/ White Witch)
Cover: https://imgur.com/WqmonQB

Hardcore, probably. - LoveBite

Needs research. - Pale
Location: Netherlands
Genre: ? - nothing known. It's from a collection of primarily metal that was picked up in the early '90s.
https://imgur.com/fSkjqlp

(all of these are added to the list)

These two, if I remember, were once brought to the site, but were skipped because they were not metal:



(edit: Added band names to the post so that they'd come up in search function. Both are blacklisted.)

From Malta

Note: it's virtually impossible to get even some basic information about the bands listed below

Needs research. - Strat Kast (aka Stratkast)
Location: Malta
Listed genre: Heavy Metal
Discography: "Heavy Metal Explosion" Demo 198x, a possible split 7" with Jenny Borg

(later changed name to Stratkast Desaster). Active in the very early 80's. With Joe Mizzi who played in a lot of band in Malta (B3, Eternal Journey) as well as in Germany (High'n'Dry, Ruscut) before going on a solo career and recording 3 CD which are virtually impossible to find except for some photos of the covers

https://imgur.com/GRGOWMD
https://imgur.com/5X6LEQ7
https://imgur.com/MLp044i
https://imgur.com/qw27Es0
https://imgur.com/z9gcFYW


Needs research. - Valdacry
Location: Malta
Listed genre: Heavy Metal / Hard Rock
Discography: "To Break the Ice" Demo 198x

Formerly known as Triton (late 70s?) then Overdose. Later some members founded Stratakast

https://imgur.com/PwrRynT
https://imgur.com/Kb4yONx


According to my data, there was also Acid (1981-1994) who released a 10-tracks tape in 1994 and had two songs (Electric Lady, Rock City Limits) on "Watching The Music" Compilation CD 1992 + two video appearances (Rock you all, Shout it) at Mill-Garax/TVM Program Video in late 80's. But I don't know if they are properly metal or hard rock.

http://www.m3p.com.mt/wiki/Acid
http://www.m3p.com.mt/wiki/Watching_The_Music
https://imgur.com/jH9jHDe
https://imgur.com/UwJce4G
https://imgur.com/KwsdKbC
https://imgur.com/DZ2fQFG


And there was also Nightwing who appeared on the "Eruption" Compilation CD in 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqcj9hA ... OB&index=4


And other bands such as Exorcist, Kraken, Ivory Cross, Epycure, Orbus Vitae, Centaur, Coven, Cry, Dark Medallion, Dark Sanctuary, Dilapitated (there is a live at Domus Zebbug recorded in 1993), Entract, Fatal Aggression, Hellequin, In Memoriam (pre-Norm Rejection), Insanity (with a Demo 1995), Lithomancy (from 1990), Lords of Misrule, Mortuary (1988-1991), Mystic Pearl, Necrofist (with at least 1 rehearsal track recorded in 1991), Necrosis, Nightwing, Obscurity, Overdose, Segregation, Sphinx (from 1983), Substraction, Subverts (with a demo with 2 songs, "Break the chains" "Theatre of the absurd" recorded in 1989), Tamarisk, Thera
and possibly others... but the few information (just photos: every attempt to get more info faded into nothingness) which were available on FB seem to have been removed or the group closed to external people.


(this whole post was added to the list under 'Maltese bands')

As for Маркиза I found this interesting post. It seems it says "Through the pages of the magazine "Worker".
Cassette inserts.": it could be the same situation as for Adem (Ukraine), where you could find the tape artwork of their two releases inside some rock magazines and cut them to make a proper cover

https://vk.com/wall-78514703_39093
https://vk.com/wall-37521370_104550


Anyway, here you can listen to her early recordings:

http://metalrus.ru/groups/50/post-view/23697
http://metalrus.ru/groups/50/post-view/23202


On this VK hroup it seems there are many other tape covers published in old soviet/early russian magazines with the same procedure: cut and make your own cover:
Need to check them all

https://vk.com/metalattack80?w=wall-174870452_1329

Thanks for that information. Have just removed the blacklisting, because I think it would be a good idea to give this a thorough listen and for a consensus to be drawn from a few listeners. They can be submitted if you want to do so. The YouTube link has what I believe to be a passable heavy metal/hard rock album, if it is indeed part of their discography.

They made more records in the earlier period and it's was basically a Soviet HellHammer. Ultra-quality material by the standards of that time.

Yeah, that band sounds really good. Hoping that one day they can get added to the site.

Logo looks metal, but it's rock. - The Remains


Needs research. - Hostage
Location: Detroit, Michigan, US
Genre: Heavy Metal
Band members: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ins/248650
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... tes/992541
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... lem/233399
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... aty/233407
Logo/photo on a flyer: https://imgur.com/TIwVxOT
- active around 1985/'86. Not sure if they released a demo. 3 of the members are on FB. Will ask sometime soon (or someone else can if they'd like to).

Needs research. - RedTear
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Genre: Metal (?)
Band members: Dave Skog - Bass, Darrin Bradford - Drums, Chris Keating - Vocals, Jeff Howey - Guitar (none seem to be on the site)
Logo/photo from a flyer: https://imgur.com/93MrTqf
Discography unknown.

Needs research. - Marshall Law
Location: Detroit (or nearby), Michigan, US
Genre: Heavy Metal
Band members: (see trivia section) - https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ell/658730
Live footage: https://www.facebook.com/bob.tyrrell.7/ ... 3bvYhrzN6l
(have sent a message to one of their former members)


(all 4 added to the list)

Needs research. - Corrosion
Location: Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Listed genre: Death Metal
Band members: Akis S. (drums), Manolis A. (guitars), George M. (bass, vocals)
Discography: Promo tape 1996 (track listing: Elegy/ Corrosion)
eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/225562149759
Backup image: https://imgur.com/jFtJV2i

Needs research. - Viscaxeration
Location: Ohio, US
Genre: "Goregrind", according to Geocities page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090902184 ... axeration/ (note that website is missing the letter 'c' in the name. Maybe they added that to the name later and were originally Visaxeration? Only the home screen works here, which features the logo and the message:
"Long awaited MCD coming late Feb 2004 on Foreversick Recordings."
Discography: "Internal Fixation" demo 07/02 (July '02) (cassette, limited to 50 hand-numbered copies. Track listing: Transluscent Cadaver/ Escaping the Deranged)
eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/225562143228
Backup image: https://imgur.com/wl8lvf7

Needs research. - Дубль-5 (a.k.a. Dubl-5)
Location: USSR (Riga, Latvia)
Genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
Discography: Two live tapes from 1985, one from 1989, plus appearance on the reel compilation from the Riga rock club.

Gennadiy Solovyov - vocals
Dmitriy Tilin - guitar
Yuriy Maksimov - guitar
??? - bass
??? - drums

https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 44&t=36408
https://rockclubriga.bandcamp.com/album/1985-87

a very forgotten group, it was difficult to collect even these crumbs of information

(added to the list)

Being added. - Legion

Not released outside of streaming - confirmed with a band member. - Burn the Dead


Needs research. - Reverse Order
Location: Chico, California, US
Genre: Metalcore/Death Metal (or something similar)
Active at least from 2001-2011.
Known members: Moleek Busby, Erik Penrod, Oscar Contreras-Bass, John Esau "Blades" (RIP)--Drums, Norm Ticker (original vocalist), Gray Harris--Vocals/Bass. None of them appear to be on the site.
https://www.reverbnation.com/reverseorder
https://soundcloud.com/moleek-busby/surface
https://soundcloud.com/moleek-busby/human-pattern
https://www.youtube.com/@bondservnt/sea ... se%20order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38x0i0JVHiE
- likely released a CD, but so far haven't found details about it.

(all 3 added to the list)

Needs research. - Гулливер (Gulliver)
Location: USSR (Moscow)
Genre: Pop Rock (early), Melodic Heavy Metal, Prog Rock, Hard Rock (mid), Pop Rock (later)
Discography: https://gruppasssr.ru/G/gulliverdisk.html + released one more album, Гнездо Наркоманов, in 1986 (i have it and this is also boring pop rock)

https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vi ... 12#p240312

Another band that has drained its potential. Theirs especially the 2nd, and also 3rd record, if you like bands like early Saxon, and Apocalypse from London then you will like these. But then they started to play dull pop rock, maybe they decided to earn some extra money from the commercial sound... I don't know the exact details. Ultimately, somewhere towards the end of 1986, the group ceased to exist.

Needs research. - Урфин Джюс
Location: USSR (Sverdlovsk)
Genre: Prog Rock
Discography: https://www.discogs.com/ru/artist/13307 ... 1%8E%D1%81

This is a somewhat atypical example as it is basically the same dish as Rush. However, there is a clear flirtation with heavy metal on the first album (Sir Lord Baltimore / Judas Priest style), so I'll leave that up to you.

Needs research. - Heresy Bell
- Celestial Tapes announces that they will release this on tape soon. One to check back on later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGVVyWhMC4
https://www.instagram.com/p/B38_BpyAzrC/?img_index=1

Needs research. - Objurgate
Location: US
Genre: Death Metal
Band member: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/JBS/23198
- Demo with what looks like a cassette j-card put on YouTube. Not sure if it's been released yet (couldn't find anything after searching for a minute). Can be submitted whenever it's available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moizZRGThy0

(both added to the list)

There are at least 6 rehearsal songs recorded in 1987:

http://metalrus.ru/groups/1868/post-view/27174