Death Strike-Fuckin' Death 2011 Reissue

Dark Descent
2011

All one needs to know about Death Strike is the fact that they featured one of the most important names in all of death metal and that is the one and only Paul Speckmann. Formed out of the ashes of War Cry (who appeared on Metal Massacre IV) the band Death Strike was Paul Speckmann's stepping stone to the almighty band Master and also one of the earliest death metal bands. Formed in 1984 the band released a four song demo featuring music born of Motorhead, Hellhammer and Venom before calling it a day a year later. Fuckin' Death was eventually re-released in 1991 on CD and vinyl with additional tracks on Nuclear Blast Records. This newest CD reissue contains the original eight tracks offered by the 1991 Nuclear Blast edition along with four additional never-before-released rehearsal tracks. The CD comes with a eight-page booklet featuring the intended original gold pan tone color cover. Also, Olivier "Zoltar" Badin from Terrorizer Magazine provides a foreword and the booklet contains liner notes from Paul Speckmann as well as new scans/photos. While the added material is a mixed bag the original four tracks are just killer. Fast and furious these early recordings show the birthing pains of a new genre of metal. Born out of the blood of punk and hardcore the music is sloppy and sinister showing off what would become the ugly beast known as death metal. As for the other music there are doom moments and there are death tinged thrash songs. Those original four tracks are where it is and worth the price of admission alone though!