Endarker - Among The Shadows [compilation] (2016), Old School Black/Thrash/Speed Metal Options

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*Artist: Endarker

*Album: Among The Shadows [compilation]

*Year: 2016
*Genre: Old School Black/Thrash/Speed Metal
*Country: Sweden (IMG:http://metalarea.org/forum/style_images/flags/Sweden.png)
*Format: mp3@CBR320kbps
*Size: 108MB

Tracklist:
01. Intro 00:56
02. Among the Shadows 02:51
03. Darkness 03:59
04. Vivid Imagination 03:59
05. Terrible Innocence 04:35
06. Sings of Hatred 03:15
07. Darkness (demo) 04:57
08. Slaughtered 04:36
09. To Die 03:25
10. Damned in Hell 03:57
11. Do You Know the People? 05:17
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Total playing time: 41:47

Extended info

Old school thrash speed metal band from sweden formed in 1986 by Magnus Devo Andersson and Peter Härje.

Magnus Devo Andersson - Bass, Drums, Vocals (Marduk, Overflash, Cardinal Sin, ex-Allegiance, ex-Pain, ex-Atom & Evil, ex-Sargatanas Reign, ex-Dear Mutant)
Necrotech - Drums
Peter Härje - Guitars, Vocals
Dan Swanö - Mixing, Producer, Recording
Tracks 1-4 recorded and mixed at Hellspawn Studios (Unisound) in 1993.
Mastered at the Endarker Studio, Sweden in 2013.
Tracks 5-7: Rehearsal demo 1992
Track 8: Rehearsal demo 1987
Tracks 9-11: Rehearsal demo 1986

This time an anthology of works by Endarker, a gnarly blackened thrash act which is likely best known as the haven of Magnus Devo Andersson, who most would best recognize as having played bass with Marduk on numerous occasions, including their recent, well-received opuses Serpent Sermon and Frontschwein. Among the Shadows is a mix of studio and rehearsal material, and as far as I know it's the complete work of the group all in one place, targeted primarily towards the collector and diehard of the particular scene, but not too shabby for the rest of us either...to a point.

ENDARKER – Among the Shadows CD
Magnus “Devo” Andersson is a well-known figure in extreme metal (MARDUK, CARDINAL SIN, OVERFLASH etc.)
and also the owner/mastermind behind Endarker Studios in Norrköping
(a place regularly visited by recording artists from all over the globe).
One of Devo’s more obscure bands/projects was ENDARKER, an entity active intermittently between 1986 and 1993.
The band name was later re-used for the de-christening of the studio.
Besides Devo, the band also included Necrotech and Peter Härje.
Influences were BATHORY, VENOM, VOIVOD, HELLHAMMER/ CELTIC FROST, SLAYER. POSSESSED.
- “There were basically THE extreme metal bands out there you could be influenced by back in 1985,
so these were our obvious choice”, as Devo puts it.
After years of dwelling in hibernation,
the material is now available to the public for the first time ever.
The four older tracks (recorded in1986-1987)
have the classic feeling found on old Swedish recordings from, for instance,
OBSCURITY, MEFISTO and caveman-old BATHORY.
The later Endarker material was mainly put to tape in Dan Swanö’s Unisound studio in 1993.
The material on offer here shows classic influences from CELTIC FROST’s “Morbid Tales”, and
BATHORY’s “Under the Sign of the Black Mark” and “Blood Fire Death”. “Among the Shadows”
can be described as a symbiosis between a historic lesson, “true cult” and high quality!

The studio tracks were recorded over 20 years ago, but mastered in 2013, so this definitely sounds a lot brighter and 'put together' than I might have expected, with great guitar grooves and climactic dynamics that spare much of the material from the critical fire, if not the underworld's own.
It's almost like an uglier rendition of Hellhammer, or War and Pain-era Voivod, with a more steel-like thrashing edge, but plenty of gruesome vocals, in no small part due to the robotic or garbled effects used to twist them.

Technical info

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Input File: 06. Sings of Hatred.mp3
Channels : 2
Sample Rate : 44100
Precision : 16-bit
Duration : 00:03:15.23 = 8609819 samples = 14642.5 CDDA sectors
File Size : 8.42M
Bit Rate : 345k
Sample Encoding: MPEG audio (layer I, II or III)
Comments :
Title=Sings of Hatred
Artist=Endarker
Album=Among the Shadows
Tracknumber=6/11
Year=2016

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