It is very cool brother that someone in their twenties is in to tunes I got into in High school in the North Bay! from what I can tell Kaiya is 100%^ leget as this is only the 2nd video of hers I've seen. The first being her excellant video on the Santanic Panic! \m/
Hey man. Very cool of you to drop by and comment. \m/ I've been into this album ever since it came out, along with the releases that followed. My only regret is that I never got to see Possessed live. You guys did a show in Rochester during the Beyond the Gates tour but I didn't hear about it until a month or two afterwards.
I was born 1972 and I started to listen punk and heavy rock/metal around '80. One of the first REAL metal bands were Possessed and album Seven Churches. Others were Venom and Metallica. My first impression of Possessed was "this is dark, wicked and scary...". I've always thought Possessed is the first step to black metal. I've never ever heard anything as impressive as Possessed was/is. Every satanic black metal band after them have sound jokes, fake. Like I said before, in the sound and structure of Possessed is something genuine wicked, some weird evil, like some doom right under the surface, so you can feel and hear it, but you can't see it. I've always loved them, and always will. They're unique.
Being 54 and spending my teen years within the SF Bay Area Thrash scene, I was fortunate to have seen the original POSSESSED lineup 10 times in 1985 going into 1986 (short time before the release of “Seven Churches” and before the release of the their second album “Beyond The Gates). The first time was seeing them open for headliners VENOM & SLAYER at The Kabuki Theater and shortly later seeing them open for SLAYER again at The Stone. “Seven Churches” hadn’t been released yet, but SLAYER’s “Hell Awaits” was fairly new as was VENOM’s “Possessed” album. My third time was seeing POSSESSED open for DEATH ANGEL at the Mabuhay Gardens with SACRILEGE BC opening. The notable thing about this was that POSSESSED and DEATH ANGEL often played shows together in the Thrash scene, considering both were the youngest bands in the scene (original DEATH ANGEL drummer Andy Galeon was still around 12 years old at this time and all of the other members of both bands were still in high school). Also this show was one of the few times, I saw them play in just regular Tshirt and jeans as opposed to their usual leather & spikes (VENOM/Kerry King Satanic gear). And then the next time I got to see POSSESSED perform was when my obscure Death/Thrash band BLACK DETHE opened for them and DEATH ANGEL (this time POSSESSED headlined) on September 7, 1985. We also were a high school aged band. I was the drummer. We also opened for DEATH in November of 1985 (via Chuck Schuldiner’s brief Bay Area lineup pre- “Scream Bloody Gore”). I never got to see POSSESSED live again after the release of their 2nd album “Beyond The Gates”, though I had seen them preview a few of those tracks live (“Tribulation” “Phantasm” and “March To Die”). I have some fond memories of the band (including personal interactions with them), plus Chuck from DEATH and the Bay Area thrash scene in general. Glad you checked them out. Hope you listened to the entire “Seven Churches” album which was their primary live setlist in the clubs before they eventually recorded those songs for their debut release.
@@dantredogborsa7048 Thanks! Not sure if Chuck and POSSESSED were close. Jeff Becerra would have to confirm that. However, I can confirm that Chuck was briefly staying at the house of a mutual friend named Krystal Mahoney who worked for POSSESSED and their manager Debbie Abono.
@@JeffBecerra1 Thanks for the answer, Jeff! To my ears Chuck was very inspired by your vocals. I'm from Belo Horizonte, the city were Sepultura was borned, and the old school guys told me Max used to be called "Max Possessed Cavalera" 'cause he was a big fan of your vocals too.
It might be hard for some to believe that Larry went on to do Primus something totally different than possessed but it shows how good the music was I remember this album when it came out I liked the music wasn't to into the vocals but I was listening to Judas priest Dio Metallica when ride the lightning came out it was definitely different than anything I ever heard before but I was locked upon yardville and Philly was definitely metal a long time ago
8:39 Mayhem was a few years after. Maybe you've since listened to them, but Bathory (from Sweden) influenced black metal a lot, was around at the same time and sounds very similar - especially to the second track you played!
Yep. Even predates the band, Death. Those Death/Mantas demos don't really count. Seven Churches was the first full length Death metal album. Even Chuck acknowledged that.
the whole "demo" debate actually is not that easy (and not just vs death but also other bands, and im the biggest seven churches admirer around..) but yes this is the first dm full record released
7:42 On this song sounding "black metal". Fenriz, Darkthrone's frontman was making a compilation called "Fenriz Presents: The Best of Old-School Black Metal". He got in contact with members of Possessed to ask if he could put one of their songs in the compilation because how influencial the band is to black metal history. But they refused becaused they didn't wanted to be associated with black metal. Maybe they though it distanced them from the claim that they are the first death metal band. Either way, even Fenriz though Possessed sounded like black metal so it's not something farfetched.
Fuck yes! Great choice. Possessed is an amazing band and the founders of the Death Metal genre. They're still one of my all time favorite bands. You owe it to yourself to listen to every single thing they ever released. I still have the original vinyl releases. I can tell you the original print sounds just as awesome.
10:31 That happens when you let Mr. Becerra and their legions of demons enter your mind and your soul by listening to Possessed 😈 Kaiya I just love watching you discover the metal. Just love it! 🤘
great tunes still today IMO. I didn't get this until the early 90s. I already had the Beyond the Gates and Eyes of Horror releases, but couldn't find this one until a few years later.
What you should do next is listen to the 1984 demos of both MANTAS (pre-Death) and POSSESSED - and then comment on which one you think sounds more Death Metal. It's fascinating to compare both of them - comparing Seven Churches and Scream Bloody Gore is fascinating too but comparing those 1984 demos gives you a glimpse of the reason it's so tough to work out who the true pioneers of Death Metal were. It's kind of subjective because both sounded advanced in different ways.
Yes. This debate over Seven Churches and SBG is bullshit. The demos is where you should be looking at, and Necrophagia and Sepultura should be in the conversation too. IMO hands down Death's Infernal Death from 1985 is the first full-fledged death metal ever recorded.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 I agree about Sepultura and Necrophagia. Sepultura at least I know they had already heard Possessed and the Death demos before recording Bestial Devastation. Max corresponded by letter and tape traded with most of the top names in the 80's extreme metal, even with early Morbid Angel.
@@dantredogborsa7048 yeah, Max used to wear Morbid Angel merch as early as 86/87. I was not aware that Sepultura knew Possessed and Death back in 85 though, but they did know Kreator and obviously Slayer. They (Sepultura) sounded WAY more evil (heavy on minor/dissonant chord progressions) than Possessed, whom to me was a (great) Bay Area thrash band overall.
If you end up listening to the rest of the album, next to the last song Death Metal is a song called Fallen Angel, for me always been the highlight of Seven Churches more than the ones everyone else goes on about, total package, starts off with a chime bell that goes in with the opening riff then the riff charges forward and steamrolls through the song, pretty catchy riff at that, with some more wild ass solo, Killer Jam🤘😎⸸⛧⸸💀🤘
I saw Possessed last week with Suicidal Tendencies. My buddy's band FROLIC opened up and Possessed vocalist Jeff Becerra went into the pit for them in his wheelchair. Awesome show. These songs are so much better live.
I love that you’re the type of person to listen and understand the uniqueness of this heavier darker music. Specifically all of these heavier bands that are very dark and very insane with insane obnoxious guitar playing and obnoxious vocals to the point where it’s a little hard to understand what he’s saying. Because normally that’s the type of thing that a lot of people bitch about is oh my God I can’t understand what he saying well guess what understanding what the singer is saying is for normal people. Where’s the fun in that because that’s the thing these bands are not like everybody else they’re not normal people because that’s just not who they are and they don’t want to be normal. Basically what bands like possessed wants to do is challenge and shock people as much as they can to me those are all the things that makes them unique and I feel like you truly understand that. Because that’s the thing normal people would not understand or get it when it comes to heavier crazier bands like possessed.
Death were going to cover the song the Exorcist, but Chuck Schuldiner couldn't figure out how to play it correctly. Cannibal Corpse covered the Exorcist, but it sounds like they slowed it down, and it sounded like they only played part of the song
@pjket4229 True, but Gene Hoglan plays the guitar ( and he has also admitted that he was unable to figure out all the parts) . If you can perform the Exorcist in it's entirety, then you are truly a musical genius. If some of the best musicians in Death Metal have tried, but failed, Possessed was at a higher level than people give them credit for
@pjket4229 The 2 biggest Death Metal bands in the scene, both failed at covering the Exorcist 100%. That's okay though they both succeeded beyond what Anthrax , Ozzy Osbourne solo , and Black Sabbath themselves on their reunion, did to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Apparently no one is capable of playing all the little sections
I was a victim(?) of the satanic panic. I'll try keep it short. I was a kid/teenager in the 80s & 90s. Grew up in a small rural town. So of course, being into punk & metal I sometimes got the usual insults & whatnot. But there was a judge who was related to my parents neighbors. He was a religious nutjob. He was always accusing me of the most ridiculous things; had cops harass me & violate my rights constantly (which I wasn't fully aware of at the time.) He once even told my mom that he was gonna put me in jail for 6 months because I was a "devil worshipper." He didn't do that, but I was accused of things I didn't do (some of which nobody did; never happened) & was always convicted when I had to go to court. Even with absolutely zero evidence against me, such as passing a breath test with ALL ZEROS & no other tests were done - or credible alibis to prove I was nowhere near whatever I was accused of; the list goes on - none of that mattered. I was always convicted no matter what.
I have the original lp and it sounds pretty much the same. The production of this album was pretty good, which sadly wasn't really the case with Possessed's 2nd album.
I remember i had that album back in the days, wonder what i did with it, hmm....that exorcist intro i remember. Great album. Do they still exist? The album is from 1985.
Get in touch girl if you want me to send you my 7 Churches vinyl. Got Beyond the Gates too but the gatefold cover went missing years ago. Got no record player so they're fairly useless to me.
I never bought it that they were a death metal band. They were Bay Area thrash band heavily influenced by Venom who just happened to have a song called ‘Death Metal’.
When I first heard them in 1985 they sounded so different from bands like Slayer or Exodus that to me it definitely seemed like something new, not just pure thrash metal. If you consider that death metal didn't suddenly just pop up but that it evolved from thrash and early black metal (and also that death metal continued to change and become more diversified over the following years) then I think it's appropriate to call Possessed (and other pioneering bands like Master) death metal. But this is just my personal view.
@@frankj10000 exactly, the gap between this and say bonded by blood, even simply by the way the songs are structured, is bigger than the gap between this and deaths debut for example, this is how to mark a genre defining moment, metal hipsters and fanbois like to postpone eveything because something that came out later is more brutal or whatever and call everything prior "proto" just a bunch of fools this is the first dm record and nothing will change this fact.
Crucial listening :) I would say, the band is beyond overrated, at least when it's labeled as "the creators of DM and the most revolutionary band of all time and nothing ever topped Seven Churches and OMGOMGOMG The Exorcist is the heaviest and most evil and most complex song ever written and everything else is poser shit!!" (I heard all of these claims). But they are important to listen in any metal journey.
one could state that about the general output of the band maybe, but this record is truly epic, one of the best across any genre. metal hipsters like to postpone and heavily sub genre music and categorize everything, but this is the first dm record and there is nothing that will ever change that.
@@MerseYattle Don't get me wrong, I love the album. But way too often, I saw that out of proportions glorification... the same thing with Venom btw, as a band.
@@squashedeyeball dunno for me the perfect blend, i also like venoms debut (for what it is) its nice to be contrarian, and most records dont stand the test of time, but this one does :p
Whaaaaaaat!!! Never listened to this band before ...it's the anthem for metal heads ...seven churches beyond the gates and the eyes of horror sick brutal pus ready to rot that brain aye 🤘 anyway any metal head should have this in their bimlack indeed 😋🤘 hails !!
Very cool to see you listening to us, Sis. Stay Brutal. ~Jeff/Possessed~
Motherfuckin Jeff Becerra! Thanks for all you did and still do. I jam Possessed songs on the regular to this day.
It is very cool brother that someone in their twenties is in to tunes I got into in High school in the North Bay! from what I can tell Kaiya is 100%^ leget as this is only the 2nd video of hers I've seen. The first being her excellant video on the Santanic Panic! \m/
Hey man. Very cool of you to drop by and comment. \m/ I've been into this album ever since it came out, along with the releases that followed. My only regret is that I never got to see Possessed live. You guys did a show in Rochester during the Beyond the Gates tour but I didn't hear about it until a month or two afterwards.
Love you homeboy. Bay Area pride!
I was born 1972 and I started to listen punk and heavy rock/metal around '80. One of the first REAL metal bands were Possessed and album Seven Churches. Others were Venom and Metallica. My first impression of Possessed was "this is dark, wicked and scary...". I've always thought Possessed is the first step to black metal. I've never ever heard anything as impressive as Possessed was/is. Every satanic black metal band after them have sound jokes, fake. Like I said before, in the sound and structure of Possessed is something genuine wicked, some weird evil, like some doom right under the surface, so you can feel and hear it, but you can't see it. I've always loved them, and always will. They're unique.
Death... METAAAAAL!
I remember when i bought this records as it came out,it had such an impact on me.
dont care what anyone says ........... If you love 80s Metal, You owe it to yourself to listen to Infernal Majesty-None shall Defy.
Great album. 🤘🤘🎸
YESSSSS I felt like the only one who listens to that for forever
@@dixienormous5396None Shall Defy sounds a lot like Slayer - Hell Awaits, but without the overuse of dive bomb noisy guitar solos
@@dixienormous5396None Shall Defy sounds a lot like Slayer - Hell Awaits, but without the overuse of dive bomb noisy guitar solos
Another hidden gem.
Possessed Seven Churches is dark masterpiece !!! ❤that band and that album .
Being 54 and spending my teen years within the SF Bay Area Thrash scene, I was fortunate to have seen the original POSSESSED lineup 10 times in 1985 going into 1986 (short time before the release of “Seven Churches” and before the release of the their second album “Beyond The Gates).
The first time was seeing them open for headliners VENOM & SLAYER at The Kabuki Theater and shortly later seeing them open for SLAYER again at The Stone. “Seven Churches” hadn’t been released yet, but SLAYER’s “Hell Awaits” was fairly new as was VENOM’s “Possessed” album.
My third time was seeing POSSESSED open for DEATH ANGEL at the Mabuhay Gardens with SACRILEGE BC opening. The notable thing about this was that POSSESSED and DEATH ANGEL often played shows together in the Thrash scene, considering both were the youngest bands in the scene (original DEATH ANGEL drummer Andy Galeon was still around 12 years old at this time and all of the other members of both bands were still in high school). Also this show was one of the few times, I saw them play in just regular Tshirt and jeans as opposed to their usual leather & spikes (VENOM/Kerry King Satanic gear).
And then the next time I got to see POSSESSED perform was when my obscure Death/Thrash band BLACK DETHE opened for them and DEATH ANGEL (this time POSSESSED headlined) on September 7, 1985. We also were a high school aged band. I was the drummer. We also opened for DEATH in November of 1985 (via Chuck Schuldiner’s brief Bay Area lineup pre- “Scream Bloody Gore”).
I never got to see POSSESSED live again after the release of their 2nd album “Beyond The Gates”, though I had seen them preview a few of those tracks live (“Tribulation” “Phantasm” and “March To Die”).
I have some fond memories of the band (including personal interactions with them), plus Chuck from DEATH and the Bay Area thrash scene in general.
Glad you checked them out. Hope you listened to the entire “Seven Churches” album which was their primary live setlist in the clubs before they eventually recorded those songs for their debut release.
Wow, this is an awesome story.
I'm curious to know more about Chuck's relationship with Possessed. Were they close?
@@dantredogborsa7048 Thanks! Not sure if Chuck and POSSESSED were close. Jeff Becerra would have to confirm that.
However, I can confirm that Chuck was briefly staying at the house of a mutual friend named Krystal Mahoney who worked for POSSESSED and their manager Debbie Abono.
@@terrencekelsey3733 Thanks!
Interesting! I suspect they had mutual admiration and influenced each other.
@@dantredogborsa7048Yes, Chuck and I were friends. He moved to the Possessed club house to be closer to us before SBG
@@JeffBecerra1 Thanks for the answer, Jeff! To my ears Chuck was very inspired by your vocals. I'm from Belo Horizonte, the city were Sepultura was borned, and the old school guys told me Max used to be called "Max Possessed Cavalera" 'cause he was a big fan of your vocals too.
Larry Lalonde from Primus would not be my first guess as to who the OG Possessed guitarist is 🤘
Don’t forget Mike torrarro too!
It might be hard for some to believe that Larry went on to do Primus something totally different than possessed but it shows how good the music was I remember this album when it came out I liked the music wasn't to into the vocals but I was listening to Judas priest Dio Metallica when ride the lightning came out it was definitely different than anything I ever heard before but I was locked upon yardville and Philly was definitely metal a long time ago
8:39 Mayhem was a few years after. Maybe you've since listened to them, but Bathory (from Sweden) influenced black metal a lot, was around at the same time and sounds very similar - especially to the second track you played!
Many south amercian bands influenced the back then true scene in Norway as well, such bands like Parabellum or Mystifier or Sarcofago!
Don't listen to anybody who says different, But Possessed is and will always will be the first DEATH METAL band.
Bullshit. Possessed is a thrash metal band, from the Bay Area thrash metal scene.
Yep. Even predates the band, Death. Those Death/Mantas demos don't really count. Seven Churches was the first full length Death metal album. Even Chuck acknowledged that.
the whole "demo" debate actually is not that easy (and not just vs death but also other bands, and im the biggest seven churches admirer around..) but yes this is the first dm full record released
7:42 On this song sounding "black metal". Fenriz, Darkthrone's frontman was making a compilation called "Fenriz Presents: The Best of Old-School Black Metal".
He got in contact with members of Possessed to ask if he could put one of their songs in the compilation because how influencial the band is to black metal history. But they refused becaused they didn't wanted to be associated with black metal. Maybe they though it distanced them from the claim that they are the first death metal band.
Either way, even Fenriz though Possessed sounded like black metal so it's not something farfetched.
Fuck yes! Great choice. Possessed is an amazing band and the founders of the Death Metal genre. They're still one of my all time favorite bands. You owe it to yourself to listen to every single thing they ever released. I still have the original vinyl releases. I can tell you the original print sounds just as awesome.
For me the true fathers of death metal.
Jeff becerra is the great vocal and possessed Always ' be great
10:31 That happens when you let Mr. Becerra and their legions of demons enter your mind and your soul by listening to Possessed 😈 Kaiya I just love watching you discover the metal. Just love it! 🤘
great tunes still today IMO. I didn't get this until the early 90s. I already had the Beyond the Gates and Eyes of Horror releases, but couldn't find this one until a few years later.
These dudes were barely out of high school when they made this album. I got into this in the late 90s. Still a favorite. Still essential 🤘🏾🤘🏾
I'll be seeing these guys at Milwaukee Metal Fest 2024. May 18th. I had this Album in the 80s
Ive waited a while for this.....
Love Possessed! Seven Churches is an iconic record 🤘🤘
What you should do next is listen to the 1984 demos of both MANTAS (pre-Death) and POSSESSED - and then comment on which one you think sounds more Death Metal.
It's fascinating to compare both of them - comparing Seven Churches and Scream Bloody Gore is fascinating too but comparing those 1984 demos gives you a glimpse of the reason it's so tough to work out who the true pioneers of Death Metal were.
It's kind of subjective because both sounded advanced in different ways.
By the demos I would say Death sounds more death metal, BUT... the thing is: Death recorded it already influenced by the Possessed 84 demo, so...
Yes. This debate over Seven Churches and SBG is bullshit. The demos is where you should be looking at, and Necrophagia and Sepultura should be in the conversation too.
IMO hands down Death's Infernal Death from 1985 is the first full-fledged death metal ever recorded.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 I agree about Sepultura and Necrophagia. Sepultura at least I know they had already heard Possessed and the Death demos before recording Bestial Devastation. Max corresponded by letter and tape traded with most of the top names in the 80's extreme metal, even with early Morbid Angel.
@@dantredogborsa7048 yeah, Max used to wear Morbid Angel merch as early as 86/87. I was not aware that Sepultura knew Possessed and Death back in 85 though, but they did know Kreator and obviously Slayer. They (Sepultura) sounded WAY more evil (heavy on minor/dissonant chord progressions) than Possessed, whom to me was a (great) Bay Area thrash band overall.
@@dantredogborsa7048 Ah, and most importantly, they knew Hellhammer, which is probably where the evil sound comes from.
If you end up listening to the rest of the album, next to the last song Death Metal is a song called Fallen Angel, for me always been the highlight of Seven Churches more than the ones everyone else goes on about, total package, starts off with a chime bell that goes in with the opening riff then the riff charges forward and steamrolls through the song, pretty catchy riff at that, with some more wild ass solo, Killer Jam🤘😎⸸⛧⸸💀🤘
Hell yes been waiting for this!
This was me in 1983.
I saw Possessed last week with Suicidal Tendencies. My buddy's band FROLIC opened up and Possessed vocalist Jeff Becerra went into the pit for them in his wheelchair. Awesome show. These songs are so much better live.
Fuck yeah!!!
Wow, you're going way back to the beginning with this one. Metal homework ftw.🤘
I love that you’re the type of person to listen and understand the uniqueness of this heavier darker music. Specifically all of these heavier bands that are very dark and very insane with insane obnoxious guitar playing and obnoxious vocals to the point where it’s a little hard to understand what he’s saying. Because normally that’s the type of thing that a lot of people bitch about is oh my God I can’t understand what he saying well guess what understanding what the singer is saying is for normal people. Where’s the fun in that because that’s the thing these bands are not like everybody else they’re not normal people because that’s just not who they are and they don’t want to be normal. Basically what bands like possessed wants to do is challenge and shock people as much as they can to me those are all the things that makes them unique and I feel like you truly understand that. Because that’s the thing normal people would not understand or get it when it comes to heavier crazier bands like possessed.
Excellent music goes great with horror films
You should definitely do Necrophagist's album "Epitaph" next. The instrumentation is some of the best in the history of the death metal genre.
PLEASE LISTEN TO WITCHFINDER GENERAL
Oh yes, Possessed! I remembered trying to get some friends to listen to them, but wouldn't take the bait lol
Kingz of Death metal bra bra 🤘🏾🔥
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 😃🤘
"Beyond the gates" EP is their best. Ah, the summer of my 20 jahre…
Good Homework! Classics are classics.
Arguably, the first Death metal band.
Venom was early black metal also. 🤘🤘🤘
Death were going to cover the song the Exorcist, but Chuck Schuldiner couldn't figure out how to play it correctly. Cannibal Corpse covered the Exorcist, but it sounds like they slowed it down, and it sounded like they only played part of the song
@pjket4229 True, but Gene Hoglan plays the guitar ( and he has also admitted that he was unable to figure out all the parts) . If you can perform the Exorcist in it's entirety, then you are truly a musical genius. If some of the best musicians in Death Metal have tried, but failed, Possessed was at a higher level than people give them credit for
@pjket4229 The 2 biggest Death Metal bands in the scene, both failed at covering the Exorcist 100%. That's okay though they both succeeded beyond what Anthrax , Ozzy Osbourne solo , and Black Sabbath themselves on their reunion, did to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Apparently no one is capable of playing all the little sections
Fantastic 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Morbid angel covenant
We did a show with them too here in ATX lol & YES bay area thrash pioneers 🤘🔥💯👌🔥🤘
Can someone get me a PRIST please 🥺 hahaha hail to the Death metal
I was a victim(?) of the satanic panic. I'll try keep it short. I was a kid/teenager in the 80s & 90s. Grew up in a small rural town. So of course, being into punk & metal I sometimes got the usual insults & whatnot. But there was a judge who was related to my parents neighbors. He was a religious nutjob. He was always accusing me of the most ridiculous things; had cops harass me & violate my rights constantly (which I wasn't fully aware of at the time.) He once even told my mom that he was gonna put me in jail for 6 months because I was a "devil worshipper." He didn't do that, but I was accused of things I didn't do (some of which nobody did; never happened) & was always convicted when I had to go to court.
Even with absolutely zero evidence against me, such as passing a breath test with ALL ZEROS & no other tests were done - or credible alibis to prove I was nowhere near whatever I was accused of; the list goes on - none of that mattered. I was always convicted no matter what.
Fake news
Crazy
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listen to cradle of filth it will scare you more with his low n high screeching vocals yer hair will stand i aint kidding
I have the original lp and it sounds pretty much the same. The production of this album was pretty good, which sadly wasn't really the case with Possessed's 2nd album.
yippee
I remember i had that album back in the days, wonder what i did with it, hmm....that exorcist intro i remember. Great album. Do they still exist?
The album is from 1985.
Yes, Jeff Beccera is still running the band and even doing shows.
How old are you? And, what was your gateway band? I ask for context as your channel was reccomended to me 🤔
Primus
Get in touch girl if you want me to send you my 7 Churches vinyl. Got Beyond the Gates too but the gatefold cover went missing years ago. Got no record player so they're fairly useless to me.
Fun fact: the guitarist, Larry LaLonde, later went on to create the intro song for South Park.
Not true
Not true
Is this really your first time or clickbait? Like how did you never hear of possessed lol same with slayer like are you completely new to metal 😂
Yes actually! My channel is all about me discovering and listening to metal for the first time. Almost 2 years into the journey now!
@@imaKaiya that’s what I figured lol just bc those bands are extremely mainstream but hey atleast you’re checking out some of the classics 🤘
I never bought it that they were a death metal band. They were Bay Area thrash band heavily influenced by Venom who just happened to have a song called ‘Death Metal’.
When I first heard them in 1985 they sounded so different from bands like Slayer or Exodus that to me it definitely seemed like something new, not just pure thrash metal. If you consider that death metal didn't suddenly just pop up but that it evolved from thrash and early black metal (and also that death metal continued to change and become more diversified over the following years) then I think it's appropriate to call Possessed (and other pioneering bands like Master) death metal. But this is just my personal view.
@@frankj10000
exactly, the gap between this and say bonded by blood, even simply by the way the songs are structured, is bigger than the gap between this and deaths debut for example, this is how to mark a genre defining moment, metal hipsters and fanbois like to postpone eveything because something that came out later is more brutal or whatever and call everything prior "proto"
just a bunch of fools
this is the first dm record and nothing will change this fact.
So much reverrrrrrrb
The Big 3: Possessed, Sepultura and Slayer.
If you like death metal is mandatory to listen Pestilence - Testimony of Ancients (full album)
One of the first thrash bands. 🤘
Crucial listening :)
I would say, the band is beyond overrated, at least when it's labeled as "the creators of DM and the most revolutionary band of all time and nothing ever topped Seven Churches and OMGOMGOMG The Exorcist is the heaviest and most evil and most complex song ever written and everything else is poser shit!!" (I heard all of these claims).
But they are important to listen in any metal journey.
one could state that about the general output of the band maybe, but this record is truly epic, one of the best across any genre.
metal hipsters like to postpone and heavily sub genre music and categorize everything, but this is the first dm record and there is nothing that will ever change that.
@@MerseYattle Don't get me wrong, I love the album. But way too often, I saw that out of proportions glorification... the same thing with Venom btw, as a band.
@@squashedeyeball
dunno for me the perfect blend, i also like venoms debut (for what it is)
its nice to be contrarian, and most records dont stand the test of time, but this one does :p
Boy, that drummer is pretty off-beat sometimes... still pretty okay (to me).
You know know nothing
Whaaaaaaat!!! Never listened to this band before ...it's the anthem for metal heads ...seven churches beyond the gates and the eyes of horror sick brutal pus ready to rot that brain aye 🤘 anyway any metal head should have this in their bimlack indeed 😋🤘 hails !!