# MENTAL DECAY

OOHHH, it’s great to see that the danish underground is developing! This time it’s a band called MENTAL DECAY. They were formed in 85 under the name CRONOS which played old FROST/POSSESSED inspired thrash. But there was no advance and after a concert in autumn 86 CRONOS went to dissolution. Then in February 87 the band was reformed. The line-up was and is now: Allan-guitar Kim-vocals, Henrik-guitar, Steff-drums and Lars-bass. Then in October 87 they went into the studio where they recorded their ‘Demo 1’. It’s a 5 track demo and the trax are all quite good made. The music is average thrash like SLAYER, KREATOR etc but also a little DEATH ANGEL can be heard. Unfortunately the guitar sound is very bad and the trax are all too much alike each other but if I should pick up a fave track it must be ‘Endless Destruction’. Well the demo is what you might call average and it belongs to your demo collection if you haven’t already got it. OK, here’s an interview with Allan & Kim:

## HOW DID THE DIFFERENT MEMBERS GET TOGETHER?
Henrik, Steff and me played in CRONOS and we knew Lars who knew Kim who we tried as a singer and we liked him so he joined.

## ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE DEMO?
Yes, but it’s quite satisfied with the sound. The bass drum are too low and the production is not as strong standard but we’re quite satisfied. We’ve only had 100 copies in only a month.

## WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DRINK?
I think most of us like beer best. I like Vodka, Pernod and Rum but I hate Tequila: It makes me puke!!

## HAVE YOU GOT ANY FAVE TRAX ON THE DEMO?
Yeah, I think ‘Eat The Posers Guts’, ‘Endless Destruction’ and ‘The Final Scar’ are the best.

## WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE DANISH HARDCORE/THRASH SCENE?
It’s slowly getting better but it’s still far too small. Fortunately there’s beginning to come more bands. Once there was only ARTILLERY but now there are bands as INVOCATOR, HELLRAISER & others so it’s a step forward. There is also more thrash concerts now and for that we can thank ROCK UGLE! Let’s hope it keeps going this way.

## ANY LAST WORDS?
I will wish you ‘W.R.‘ good luck. And I will also wish good luck to other danish bands for the future. Especially INVOCATOR and HELLRAISER. Go out and buy our demo if you can we only sell it S/45dkr. 4/12 DM to us. Thrash still death and die yourself!!! See ya on our hanahaha!

Thanks to Allan for this interview. I wish MENTAL DECAY good luck to the future and I think they’ll go far if they go on this way as one of the craziest danish bands. They can be contacted by this address: Lars, Bredholtvej 14, 7650 Hvidovre, Denmark

– By Paw & Jacob –

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Mental Decay

Demo 1

Eat the posers’ guts

Demo 1 (1987)

Wonderful rhythms # 1 page 21

Wonderful rhythms # 1 page 21

Mental Decay Videos

MENTAL DECAY - The final scar teaser

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