Possessed

Just like the extreme music they created, San Francisco’s Possessed seemed cursed by dark and bad forces throughout their troubled career. Produced by guitarist Mike Torrao and drummer Mike Sus in 1983, the group would get rid of first vocalist Barry Fisk to suicide before also graduating away from their garage music group position. They persisted though, and after recruiting vocalist/bassist Jeff Becerra and guitarist Brian Montana, the music group was provided a slot machine on Brian Slagel’s Steel Massacre 6 compilation. Possessed’s savage sound instantly stood out off their competition and drew the eye of Combat Information, with whom they agreed upon in 1985 after changing Montana with guitarist Larry LaLonde. Issued afterwards that calendar year, the brutal Seven Churches was probably the first accurate death metal recording and arranged the stage for the genre’s breakaway from thrash. Their second work, Beyond the Gates, premiered, fittingly plenty of, on Halloween 1986, but didn’t possess the same effect as its forerunner. After documenting the five-track EP The Eye of Horror the next year (made by LaLonde’s acoustic guitar instructor Joe Satriani), the music group decided to contact it quits. 2 yrs later on, frontman Becerra was shot throughout a mugging and remaining paralyzed from your waistline down. LaLonde would continue to an extended profession with quirky trio Primus and Torrao proceeded to go so far as documenting some demos with a fresh Possessed lineup before dismantling the group once more. A compilation known as Victims of Loss of life premiered in 1993.