Occult-The_Enemy_Within-Reissue-2005-JUST

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░ ▓████▓¦ ░ Artist.......: Occult Ì▓▀▀

▓ Ì█████▓█ Album........: The Enemy Within ▀ ░

▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Metal ░▓ ¦

▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░Ì▓

▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: Karmageddon ░▓░ █▓¦

Ì█▓▓ ▀▓ Catnr........: Karma079 ░▓▓▓ Ì█▓▓

▓█▓¦ URL..........: http://www.occult.nu ▓░ ███▓▓[z0o]░

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░▓▓░ Ì█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 39:10 min ░▓▓ Ì███████▓▓¦ ░

░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 12-02-2005 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░

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▓████▓¦ 01. souls 03:25 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 02. inquisition of the holy 03:28 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 03. crossing the boundaries (of life and death) 02:22 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 04. selfbetrayed 03:38 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 05. twisted words (my darkest emotions) 03:28 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 06. through dark and light i dwell 03:52 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 07. one way out 03:30 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 08. positive relations 03:41 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 09. eyes of blood 03:59 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 10. until the battle 02:42 ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 11. delusions 05:05 ▓¦

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▓████▓¦ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓¦

▓████▓¦ ▓¦

▓████▓¦ It was 1990 when the bowels of the underground ▓¦

▓████▓¦ spewed forth Black Thrash Metal outfit Occult. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Sephiroth, an underground Black Metal maniac and at ▓¦

▓████▓¦ the time also the drummer of Dutch Black Metal ▓¦

▓████▓¦ pioneers Bestial Summoning, conceived Occult to ▓¦

▓████▓¦ express his apocalyptic and suicidal emotions. This ▓¦

▓████▓¦ was way before the retro-thrash revival, which ▓¦

▓████▓¦ plagues the metal scene since the mid-nineties. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ However nothing materialized until 1992, when ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Occult had written their first songs and done their ▓¦

▓████▓¦ first live performance at the Black Flame Festival ▓¦

▓████▓¦ in Elsloo. The recording of this show resulted in a ▓¦

▓████▓¦ live-promo tape. Besides their own songs Occult ▓¦

▓████▓¦ also covered classic songs of Acheron ("Thou Art ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Lord"), Sathanas ("Jaws of Satan") and Samael ("The ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Dark"). The line-up at this time was Sephiroth ▓¦

▓████▓¦ handling the vocal duties, Leon on guitars and Erik ▓¦

▓████▓¦ on drums. During live performances of the band the ▓¦

▓████▓¦ corpse painted Sephiroth was a raging maniac on ▓¦

▓████▓¦ stage. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ ▓¦

▓████▓¦ In 1993 Occult recorded their first studio-demo, ▓¦

▓████▓¦ which contained four tracks. The demo led to a ▓¦

▓████▓¦ two-album deal with Foundation 2000 Records, a ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Dutch label, which had released the first albums ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Sempiternal Deathreign, Gorefest and The Gathering. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ A bass player, Sjors, had been added to the line-up ▓¦

▓████▓¦ in the meantime. The first album of Occult, ▓¦

▓████▓¦ released in 1994, was titled "Prepare to Meet Thy ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Doom", which was a slab of Black Thrash Metal ▓¦

▓████▓¦ combining thrash riffs with some Scandinavian ▓¦

▓████▓¦ minimalism like in "Leader in War". Rachel was ▓¦

▓████▓¦ added to the line up after the album, which ▓¦

▓████▓¦ resulted in two singers fronting the band: a male ▓¦

▓████▓¦ black screamer and a female growler. Then Occult ▓¦

▓████▓¦ joined "The Sons of Northern Darkness" tour of ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Immortal and Marduk in mid-1994 for some shows in ▓¦

▓████▓¦ The Netherlands, Belgium, England, France and ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Germany. Also gigs with Cradle of Filth, Ancient ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Rites and Desasater followed. Later a second guitar ▓¦

▓████▓¦ player called Richard also joined the band. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ ▓¦

▓████▓¦ The second album "The Enemy Within" was recorded in ▓¦

▓████▓¦ 1995 at the Music Lab Studios in Berlin and ▓¦

▓████▓¦ produced by Harris Johns, who was also responsible ▓¦

▓████▓¦ for the cult albums "Pleasure to Kill" of Kreator, ▓¦

▓████▓¦ "Persecution Mania" of Sodom, "Consuming Impulse" ▓¦

▓████▓¦ of Pestilence as well as other classics of VoiVod, ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Tankard, Exumer, Assassin and Immolation. The album ▓¦

▓████▓¦ displayed more mature composing as well as a more ▓¦

▓████▓¦ deathlike sound due to Rachel's deep death grunts. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ The songs of the band could be described as a ▓¦

▓████▓¦ mixture of Kreator, Slayer, and Pestilence ▓¦

▓████▓¦ ("Malleus Maleficarum"-era) with a slight Bay ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Area-touch. Many gigs and festivals were done by ▓¦

▓████▓¦ the band, which established their reputation as a ▓¦

▓████▓¦ real powerful heavy live band. One of the ▓¦

▓████▓¦ highlights in the existence of Occult was playing ▓¦

▓████▓¦ at Dynamo Open Air Festival in 1997, where they ▓¦

▓████▓¦ shared the Black Stage with bands like Satyricon ▓¦

▓████▓¦ and Dimmu Borgir in front of 16,000 people. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ ▓¦

▓████▓¦ However after recording the two albums for ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Foundation 2000 Occult decided to find a new record ▓¦

▓████▓¦ label since they were not satisfied the way ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Foundation 2000 handled their business. In 1998 a ▓¦

▓████▓¦ four-track promo-CD was recorded at Harrow Studios ▓¦

▓████▓¦ (Asphyx, Pentacle, Soulburn and later Melechesh). ▓¦

▓████▓¦ This resulted in an immediate deal with Massacre ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Records for the release of their third album. "Of ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Flesh and Blood" was recorded at Realsound Studios ▓¦

▓████▓¦ in Germany (Sodom, Gorefest, Enthroned). The album ▓¦

▓████▓¦ was a more varied and technical effort with a ▓¦

▓████▓¦ heavier sound than the previous one. After this ▓¦

▓████▓¦ album was released, some major line-up changes ▓¦

▓████▓¦ occurred. Twan took over the bass duties. At the ▓¦

▓████▓¦ same time the members of the band were very ▓¦

▓████▓¦ dissatisfied the musical direction guitarist Leon, ▓¦

▓████▓¦ who had a dominant role in the song writing ▓¦

▓████▓¦ process, was heading to. The other members wanted a ▓¦

▓████▓¦ more brutal in-your-face approach instead of an ▓¦

▓████▓¦ over-emphasis of technical, melodic intricacies. So ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Leon was fired and Richard took over the song ▓¦

▓████▓¦ writing leading the band back towards total thrash ▓¦

▓████▓¦ domination. In 1999 Occult was asked to join the ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Christmas Tour in 1999 with the Death Metal gods ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Morbid Angel, Gorgoroth, God Dethroned, Krisiun and ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Amon Amarth. The band managed to convince the ▓¦

▓████▓¦ audience with their powerful all-out thrash attack ▓¦

▓████▓¦ during this successful European tour. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ ▓¦

▓████▓¦ However months later Massacre Records kicked out ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Occult because of what seemed to be a major ▓¦

▓████▓¦ reorganization. After recording a new four-track ▓¦

▓████▓¦ promo-CD at Dreamworld Studios, owned by their ▓¦

▓████▓¦ sound engineer, the band got signed to Painkiller ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Records for their fourth effort "Rage to Revenge". ▓¦

▓████▓¦ This album has proven to be the strongest record of ▓¦

▓████▓¦ the band ever. The sound is more brutal and heavy. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ The songs are more primitive, loaded with classic ▓¦

▓████▓¦ aggressive riffs in the '80s style, which bring to ▓¦

▓████▓¦ mind the old gods Slayer, Kreator, Protector and ▓¦

▓████▓¦ the resurrected Necrodeath. No melodic sissy crap ▓¦

▓████▓¦ but pure metal for banging. Just after the ▓¦

▓████▓¦ recording of this record Occult said goodbye to ▓¦

▓████▓¦ Rachel after seven years of service, since she had ▓¦

▓████▓¦ also become the lead singer of Sinister and it ▓¦

▓████▓¦ turned out to be impossible combining both bands. ▓¦

▓████▓¦ However reducing Occult to a four piece has turned ▓¦

▓████▓¦ out to be a blessing, which is also recognized by ▓¦

▓████▓¦ press and audience at the gigs. Live performances ▓¦

▓████▓¦ have become way more aggressive and intense than ▓¦

▓████▓¦ before. Occult has proven to belong to the true ▓¦

▓████▓¦ warriors devoted to and capable of delivering pure ▓¦

▓████▓¦ traditional Thrash and will not stray from their ▓¦

▓████▓¦ path. All hail devastating Thrash Metal! ▓¦

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