HELLHAMMER Controversy Over 'Demon Entrails' Artwork!

throneofmight · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 1771 Location: Costa Rica

With the release of "Demon Entrails" on February 26 in the U.S. the days of numerous sub-standard bootlegs of the classic HELLHAMMER demos "Death Fiend", "Triumph of Death" and "Satanic Rites" are finally over! However, the new versions did not come without its fair share of controversy as Tom Gabriel Fischer states: "25 years after the recording sessions for HELLHAMMER's legendary demos, HELLHAMMER is still as controversial as ever. The print shop supplying our German vinyl manufacturer refused to print the gatefold sleeve, as well as the inner sleeves of the triple vinyl of the 'Demon Entrails' release, due to the satanic content. The print shop in question is the only one in Germany able to print the special kind of gatefold sleeve required by the format used for 'Demon Entrails'. As a result of this unexpected circumstance, the gatefold sleeve and inner sleeves are now printed in the UK."

"Demon Entrails" has been specially re-mastered from copies of the original master tapes under the supervision of Fischer, and the demos now represent HELLHAMMER exactly as the band sounded when recording these songs in June and December of 1983. Drawing from a wealth of previously unknown historical liner-notes material and artwork as well as plenty of unreleased HELLHAMMER photos from 1982 to 1984, "Demon Entrails" features all lyrics and essays detailing the individual demo recording sessions.

"Demon Entrails" will also be available as an opulent oversized double CD media-book packaging and as a gatefold triple vinyl album. Both versions will feature a lavish booklet and a poster. These versions will not be available in stores and the only place to order them would be directly through www.cmdistro.com.

The bare-bones, lower-price CD version will be the only version made available to retail stores.

Fischer recently discussed the difficulties he and bassist Martin Ain have had in coming to terms with the legacy of HELLHAMMER. Speaking to the UK's Zero Tolerance magazine about "Demon Entrails", the Swiss guitarist/ vocalist said: "It took many years, and for us to grow into older men, for us to actually be able to analyze HELLHAMMER properly and look at this band in the context that it deserves... The fact of the matter is that it took me years to feel at ease with some of the things that we wrote back then. The situation at the time was horrible. [My] youth defies description — there are things that happened then that I haven't told anybody, not even my ex-wife of 16 years. But I'm now 43 years old and it's taken that long for me to feel comfortable publicly talking about that. It was horrible at the time and my situation, and Martin's rather similar situation, led us to do some radical music and radical lyrics. And later when we became adults it was rather difficult for us to live with that legacy because we had yelled that desperation out of our bodies and become professional musicians. Then the press started to cover our work and then we were faced with the fact that everybody talked about this image and these lyrics. That wasn't very easy for us to accept and it took a long time for me to look at it, as I do now, as a period in my life that was very important to me and to be at ease with that. Now I have put all these lyrics in the reissue and commented on them and even though some of them are nothing to be proud about, I'm proud of HELLHAMMER as a whole. This was my reality, this was my life."

Here is the tracklisting information for the CD formats of the release:

HELLHAMMER - "Demon Entrails" 2-CD track listing:

CD 1: "Satanic Rites" Demo, December 2/3/4/7, 1983 (45:57)

01. Intro (0:5 Cool

02. Messiah (4:1 Cool

03. The Third Of The Storms (Evoked Damnation) (3:02)
04. Buried And Forgotten (6:01)
05. Maniac [re-recorded version] (3:46)
06. Eurynomos (3:10)
07. Triumph Of Death [re-recorded version] (6:5 Cool

08. Revelations Of Doom (3:03)
09. Reaper [re-recorded version] (2:2 Cool

10. Satanic Rites (7:1 Cool

11. Crucifixion [re-recorded version] (2:45)
12. Outro (2:01)

CD 2: "Death Fiend & Triumph Of Death" Demos, June 10/11, 1983 (56:1 Cool

01. Crucifixion (3:04)
02. Maniac (4:01)
03. (Execution) When Hell's Near (2:3 Cool

04. Decapitator (2:07)
05. Blood Insanity (4:22)
06. Power Of Satan (4:11)
07. Reaper (2:06)
08. Death Fiend (2:35)
09. Triumph Of Death (5:15)
10. Metallic Storm (2:19)
11. Ready For Slaughter (3:36)
12. Dark Warriors (3:03)
13. Hammerhead (2:4 Cool

14. Angel Of Destruction (2:5 Cool

15. Bloody Pussies (4:59)
16. Chainsaw (3:5 Cool

17. Sweet Torment (2:09)

To check out the artwork and some rare HELLHAMMER photos as well as discover more info on this release, visit www.hellhammer.org.

***taken from http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/***
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Guest · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:32 am Post subject:

Nice of them to advertise you can preorder it but then it can't be found on any of the CM sites.....

Anyone want to take a bet how quickly this one turns into an Ebay feeding frenzy?

NWN PROD · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 13594 Location: SF Bay Area

What is this re-recording thing? I didn't read the other thread too carefully so summarize for me.
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throneofmight · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 1771 Location: Costa Rica

mmm i was aking myself the exact same question...i don't think these are brandnew rerecorded versions of the songs...at least I hope not Shocked

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huja · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 1084 Location: indiana

i was looking on the CM site they have one hellhammer 2cd for $10 but it's sold out already? i guess it's the "bare bones" edition.

cannibal_riot · Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 315 Location: Trashview Terrace

Demon Entrails is already on eBay as a pre-order:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140199354173&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=004

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Werewolf · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 3073 Location: IsraHell

The Demon Entrails' version of the song BLOOD INSANITY is available on theofficial Hellhammer's MySpace!

Hellhammer · Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 766

Or at mine together with 3 other joyous melodies.

http://www.putfile.com/hellhammer666

NWN PROD · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 13594 Location: SF Bay Area

love that cover art
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Ancient_Tyranny · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 787 Location: Stormarn

German based EMP (link on the century media site = shop) has it also for preorders already, something about 27,00 Euros + postage

Thorgrim · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 299 Location: Netherlands

Blood Of Von · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 812

Just pre-ordered the 3LP version through EMP!
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Hellfire Commando · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2065 Location: Montréal

For some reason, I can only see the "US-version" of the CD on the CM store. Is that because the LP's and digipack are europe only? I am not even sure if that German pre-order ebay thing will deliver in Canada...