BlackThorn

Cannibalistic Masturbation

Emanzipation

Horrorscope

Hot Rockin'

Merciless Thrash

Metal Power

Metallic beast

Nagual

Necroticism

Nice Noise

Obsequies

Septic Desecrator

The NRG mag

Trechoma

Udbrud

Unchained Energy

Underground Mag

Welcome to my eyes

Wonderful rhythms

Caustic

Geronimo

Iniquity

Iconoclasm

Illdisposed

Konkhra

Witchcraft

Eidetic

Invocator

Sacrificial

Detest

Pugnacity

EDITORIAL

Hello you dear readers of TRECHOMA magazine. Yep, I'm back with a bloody third issue. I'm all alone again, as Kent and I decided to part ways, the merger wasn't that cool as it could have been. So, now I'm held responsible for the happenings around here.

This issue has taken a while to be released, first of all due to the great response I've been getting since the release of #2. Keep that up! 2nd due to the problems between me and Kent. Third because I lost a friend during the finishing touches of this issue. My friend was only 19 years old when he passed in an accident. Therefor this issue is dedicated to him. And the last reason is that I've been working hard lately on getting a label on the rise, and I've finally succeeded. The first release on TRECHOMA Productions ApS will be the debut album of SACRIFICIAL. It'll be out sometime during Feb. or March 1993.

From now on I'll try to get TRECHOMA released on a more regular basis, and next issue will be out soon.

I would really like to hear your opinion on this issue, as the only way to progress is through critics, but please make your critics constructive. People thinking of writing me, please enclose 1 I.R.C. for the postage, as I'm getting a lot of mail these days, and I'm not a millionaire.

Last but not least, a big thank you to everyone - a thanxlist, but I couldn't find the space anywhere, and believe me, there's a lot of persons to thank out there. But it all will make it up to you.

Now sit back and enjoy this issue of sheer great reading.

Sincerely

Morten Nissen

This issue is dedicated to my longlasting friend Steen Carlsen, you were the greatest, brother!

Reflections and New Beginnings: TRECHOMA's Third Issue

# SACRIFICIAL

**BRUTAL**

PROGRESSIVE  
DEATH METAL

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**Debut CD out  
in feb/march  
1993**  
ON TRECHOMA PRODUCTIONS

Emerging Brutality: Progressive Death Metal's Debut Era

SACRIFICIAL

As Danish SACRIFICIAL has been having an important place in my life since I heard their "First Trial" demo and a few weeks after their "Tortured" demo is one helluva death metal demo, I had to interview them. I put down John (J), Kram (K), Lukas (L) & Mox (MX) on chairs and we had a serious talk. All 3 are answering.

Well, to make all readers familiar with you, start up with the basic band history?

K: It was me and Lukas that had been planning to start up a death metal band. In the summer of 1990 we began to write some riffs. Lukas was playing the drums and I the strings. But it became hard to keep on this way, so we got Klaus as the bass player. Lukas and Klaus knew people called Max and Uffe who were in a band called INSOMNIA. 

L: We talked with Max and Uffe, but they wouldn't play Death Metal, so we kept on writing riffs by ourselves. 

J: The first time he was in our rehearsal room, he had Esben Christiansen with him, we tried him on rhythm guitar. After the line-up completion we played a few shows with bands as: MACERATION, AGATHOCLES, and GROIN HERNIER HYSTERIA/ O.B.C., and we released a couple of rehearsal tapes (which we don't wanna talk about), and in the winter the same year, Esben got kicked out because of the lack of initiative. And we continued as a fiv... piece line-up, which made us in 1991. "Spas" and I then took over the spot that Esben had been filling. 

L: The line-up seemed stronger and ever before. The lyrics for the demo were written in the summer vacation, just before the demo was due to go for recording. Kram shows the joy of mixing this tape and especially he, Mox, & John has strong handshell with bands as: AGONIZE, BEEHIND, ARMAGEDDON, ZOMBREED, PANZERBJEDE, AGONIZED, SELECTICIDE. Insomnia lug over and in March 1992. The band for rehearsed a lot, sold out the demos, and never the before like met STENCH, ENTOMBED, EXHUMER and CHANNEL PAIN.

Why did you kick out Claus?

J: Claus had to leave due to personal problems. Basically he would rather play football and scratch the death metal band. 

K: Yeah, when he had stayed away from rehearsing for more than a month, we dropped an observation on him and kicking his ass. We contacted him and told him to afford that.

You also tune your instruments pretty low. Don't you think it's hard to get a decent sound out of them?

K: Yeah we do (HOHOHO) ... Well I think the beginning was the best. If you're to ogle a lot of feedback, it takes some time to control the sound. We have spent a lot of money to get the things innovative and good sound we have. Did you have but your eardrums have seen doom hear this thunder sound!

So you released a split 7" with a band called RAIMUI, are you satisfied with that?

MX: We don't share the case "It's noise only, but basically... well you guessed it. We use a song for at the time we put in rehearsals and played live. 

What can we expect of your new material?

K: Our new material will be a lot more thoughtful and technical but still heavy. 

L: You know, we've tried a lot of bands we like to discover for more things, new influences, such as of our own we've found.

How about a deal?

L: Of course, we'd like a deal. But we have a lot of time to see deal as we aren't insulted with. I like to fake an album with people, there will also put our names on. We'd like to make an album, but we're of course no judge, that single-handed.

Unveiling the Origins of Danish Death Metal: An Interview with Sacrificial

CAUSTIC is, due to 2 demo releases, not so known in the worldwide underground. But I think they have what is needed to make it around there, so here I bring you an interview with Carsten and Rune.

### - When did you form CAUSTIC?
Rune:
> "Me formed CAUSTIC during the summer '91 with the line-up that there is on the 'An Integral Sense' demo. (Carsten interjects) Rune and Søren (guitar and vocals) had been playing together, then I came in the band. We started rehearsals at April '91 and then we recorded the first demo, which actually came pretty sudden too, because we've always wanted to rehearse a lot, then go into a rehearsal room. Rune wanted a demo of some songs that he thought would sound good. I thought that we should wait till June, and then record an official demo. But the one that we did probably be out more 'satisfied' with our stuff. (Rune: Rune) but we got very impatient. Anyway, that was the first demo out. Which only was recorded on a cheap recorder. A friend of the recordings, we played a gig in our local club (Aktivitetsmuseum) as support act for GOREFEST and REVENANT and had to find a second guitarist, and then we recorded Rolf. Rolf had always talked about that band. Therefore we knew that he was interested. Actually after he entered the band, we got even more serious. Rolf had a lot of new ideas, so we picked up doing new recordings, we'd all actually developed and become. Sure, we could have recorded in about a demo 4 months earlier, but we felt we had developed and not sounded the most proud to be rented this great studio 'Noise Shop' in Denmark. It was worth the effort, I think. It took us a year then went to Stockholm for the recordings, and when we played the demo at last, we got asked forth by this, so when the weekend, then suddenly got [unintelligible] opportunity."

### - Are you satisfied with your new demo?
> "Sure, of course. There is some small things here and there, that we'd like to change."

### - Where is the difference between the 2 demos?
> "We have been developing 110% both in our abilities as musicians, but most important, in our ability to structure. The new songs have a more complicated structure and therefore feels like a lot more. We've had the new sound, and it's this: we have found ourselves in a state we hadn't been for the first record. There are lots of changes, at least more than on the first demo."

### - Do you hope for getting signed on this demo?
> "Yeah, we hope we do. But there should be an opportunity that it could happen."

### - Would you be ready to get a full album out?
> "I don't know. It wouldn't be so far-fetched, and also at the same time be hard work. You have to meet a lot of deadlines and deadlines are so fragile that was a lot more people there, and things done. We haven't been working on anything else, so for at least 3 months. None of us are too fond to lengthen this. To make too much will ruin the atmosphere. But we're trying anyways. It doesn't sound different and change the music, therefore. We don't plan to use live musicians, I think."

### - Tell about your new demo?
> "There's 6 tracks on it and an outro with a cello. It is recorded on 16 tracks which means that it has a good sound. The tracks are more advanced than the first, and we've been able to use acoustic elements and before, Carsten has had his special little part since he's being a composer.Arthur has been part of the band, and have helped us out. The Elephant he is not a member. It's a much larger and harder thing. It feels hard. BIG mix for nothing. We like 'Damnation' that has an absolutely hard core to be nothing."

### - How do you think the underground will receive your new demo?
> "I don't know. It's so much better than the first one. The people that haven't heard the first one will probably be pretty surprised cuz we're 110% better. That was all I could put out these six weeks, and I hope, when it's put to extended the deals are all okay. Ask me when this band is 100% loss. I hope there are many people that don't regret it and ask you lose interesting stuff happening."

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**NECROPHILIAC**
"Chadpula, Citadel of Mirrors" (Adv. to LP, Browned)

This band presents some pretty special way of talking. Of these gothic parts. Here and underneath all passion and unusual touch. The structure makes you understand why it's the same words. (Laughs) actually about anything else. Sometimes you find structures that is hard to define and also very different. Take a long time to produce repetitious growing sound and nice track in the dark, which makes it different. Nice mark is appears like a very special band, right plays. I mean very little about these styles, they're great, but it's very unique. It doesn't hurt something you like. The album is overall very good. Also it, but not one part, in songs or sound has no span but, gives some ideas or vibes to wide, where each track has special quirks and this T-shirts did the rest. In other areas, it's not the same, because new ideas can change the album's find a strange web of intertwining touches. But it's very good on the whole tied around overall album."

Interview with CAUSTIC: Exploring Their Journey and Early Demos

CAUSTIC  
"?"  
(Demo 1992)  
  
Here's the brand new demo release of Danish CAUSTIC. Since their first effort they've recruited Rolf on 2nd guitar. That change has done a lot to the sound of CAUSTIC, it has been more fulfilling.  
The band still plays doom death metal, a style that really is their homeground. Søren (Vocals) has thrown away all influences on vocals, and is singing with his own total brutal voice.  
The music is filled with different moods and a lot of good harmonies on the guitars. The special moods is mostly created by all the acoustic guitar parts, but also the blues-like leads does some of...

Caustic: A New Dimension in Doom Death Metal

DETEST  
**"Deathbreed"**  
(Demo 1992)  

I have been waiting this demo  
since I saw em perform in the  
spring of '92.  
DETEST is high-quality death metal  
with no grind parts. They do some  
fast solos, and the vocals  
shreds... they're all good  
musicians!  
The sound of the tape really gets  
into my ears, cuz it's so dark and  
dirty.  
Get this brilliant death metal for  
only 40 dkr, 8 USD or 11 DM  
(remember to enclose IRC for sure  
reply) at:  
John Petersen/ B.N.V. 72-6. door  
nc. 4/ 2605 Brøndby/ Denmark.  

CH

Deathbreed: A High-Quality Death Metal Demo from 1992

EIDETIC  
"Promotape '92"  
(same)  

This is the band in which I did the singing for a while, but due to personal problems and some misunderstandings I left the band. On their highly beloved "Mirror Passway" demo, the band played a mixture between WATCHTOWER and VOIVOD but when Dan Andersen was kicked out, the style changed drastically into ordinary progressive metal ala DREAM THEATER and FATES WARNING. The music is very good and it's wellplayed, but it means a change of EIDETIC style. In the same kind of style the band has lost some of it's aggressiveness (nothing), but I hope you enjoy it anyway. Before you couldn't label them into a specific direction, but now it's ordinary progressive stuff as heard a lot of times before. Anyway I'd like to stress this a lot, and if you are into music in the vein of the above mentioned bands, write for more info and send a blank tape and I.R.C.'s to:  
EIDETIC, Peter Larsen, Sølvangen 16/ 6715 Esbjerg N/ Denmark.

EIDETIC: Transition and Evolution in Progressive Metal

GERONIMO  
"A Journey Into Oblivion"  
(Demo 1991/92)

The Danish hard-coreists has gone dark. GERONIMO has singlehanded created a new style of metal... DARK METAL.  
The music is some highly varied death metal with some "dark" parts. The vocals are more or less in the hardcore vein, just a bit deeper, at times growling. And 
that ¾ mix of growls and hate singing does some of the dark stuff to the music. This really one of the good tests from DK, along with CAUSTIC, SACRIFICIAL, AGONIZE, KONKHRA etc. and now GERONIMO, Denmark has created a total cool scene.  
This demo contains 5 tracks with a really good production and cover. Attention, go now and spend all your dark money on this tape... it can be yours for 5 USD Europe and 6 USD elsewhere.

GERONIMO, Molleskoven 42, 9260 Gistrup, Denmark.

Unveiling Denmark's Dark Metal Pioneers: GERONIMO

ICONOCLASM  
"Obscurity"  
(Demo 1992)

Here's a new hope from Denmark. ICONOCLASM is quite a young band, but they have been around a while under the monicker GENOCIDE. Luckily they changed it to the above written name.  
Heavy death metal is what they deliver on this 3 track demo. The production makes this sound extra dark and brutal, and that sound actually fits the band a lot.  
ICONOCLASM are of course not the most experienced bunch of musicians, and of course this isn't the perfect demo release, but it's a good debut release. As mentioned above, they aren't the best on their instruments, and they have to work a lot on their riffs to make more boring riffs disappear. Now, there are a lot of boring parts; like doing a riff for too long and so and so, but those music tech things will come.  
The music is still very listenable and is getting on track. And I bet the next time when they have been practicing a bit more, their next demo will secure them a deal. We will see.  
Check it out if you really have to check out new demo bands, and if you do, it is a good, and little bit braver step.  
EVERYBODY should know about ICONOCLASM.  
Søren Møller, Kastaniealunden 31/6705 Esbjerg Ø/Denmark

A Promising Debut: ICONOCLASM's Dark and Brutal Sound

ILLDISPOSED  
"The Winter of Our Dis..."  
(Demo 1992)

The Danish scene finally seems to grow strongly these days. ILLDISPOSED is a total newcomer band. Most Danish bands are in my opinion quality bands. And I'm not trying to sound patriotic in any way, cuz I can already mention bands as SACRIFICIAL, AGONIZE, CAUSTIC, ICONOCLASM, INVOCATOR. ILLDISPOSED is a brutal death metal outlet with very powerful riffs and good breaks. Some few

Rising Tides: The Emergence of ILLDISPOSED in Denmark's Metal Scene

INIQUITY  
"Entering Deception"  
(Demo 1992)  

A new death/thrash act from little Denmark. The cover is done in two colours and the art on it is made by Paw Nielsen. All in all a nice presentation of the band. Unfortunately they haven't spend much money on getting a decent sound.  
It's really crazy that a band of this calibre didn't spend money on a studio! This sound actually sucks and they know it themselves. I normally judge bands on their music and not only based on the pure sound, but in this case the thin guitar & bass have treble rough, fuzzy drum-sound. Not familiar with the numerous new drummer guys so obviously the former drummer is the one responsible for it. Straight 80s cals tape. Mostly uptight doses some nice things, but the breaks sound really abrupt. The bass can't even be heard, but I wish they'd put it in some raw thrash rhythm guitar. Anyway I for wish they'll enter a studio rather than the heart of the best said band has to offer. As said before, the sound and production destroys a mere resemblance of the tape.  
Don't know any price, but why not write and ask? Remember to enclose an IRC.  
INIQUITY [Brian Petrowsky/ Ejbovej 65,1/ 4632 Bjaverskov/ Denmark].  

KB  

Echoes of Untapped Potential: A Raw Danish Thrash Demo

INVOCATOR  
"Promotape '92"  
(Same)

Now here's some quality stuff from Danish INVOCATOR. Those of you who have heard "Excursion Demise" only knows INVOCATOR for their old deathrash style. Now, in 1992, they deliver the new and improved INVOCATOR. Jakob Schultz has left the band and Carsten Perger-Hansen took over his place. Per Jacobsen is now handling the bass and I can easily say that INVOCATOR is stronger than ever. This tape has so much deathrash, more mid-paced slow stuff, technical and advanced in many ways. This is one of the best bands in Scandinavia. Their leads are much more approached and just fast and aggressive. The final cut "Persistance in a Lullaby" just kills me. The new style of INVOCATOR is just more death and it is heavier with a more death metal feel. Check for this and later stuff from the masters. I bet will rip off your ears.  
INVOCATOR % Kongegade 84 / 6700 Esbjerg/Denmark.

MN

Revamped Aggression: Invocator's 1992 Promotape Transformation

# KONKHRA "STRANDED"

(PRL CD 7913002)

DANISH DEATH THRASH ASSAULT. A PROMOTIONAL "FUCK YOU" RELEASE, LIMITED TO 3000 COPIES. FOR DIE-HARD FANS ONLY!

PROGRESS

Campus press and recording industries probably seems unfamiliar to all of you, but if I say PROGRESS TATTOO magazine, I bet you all nod and smile.

Anyway, as PROGRESS is doing every farther progress, they have now released their **4th CD** compilation CD called **"Fuck You, We're From Denmark"** a guided tour through the Danish underground. In the past year this label has released: KONKURA **"Stranded"**, MACERATION **"A Serenade of Agony"** and DOUBT. The latest issue of PROGRESS has been released on the 1st of December, and it's more heavy mothafucka, with more metal, more hardcore, more noise, more music, and more info. The label is working seriously on a distribution contract with SPV, so you will be able to get their releases all over Europe. Otherwise you should contact them at:

**PROGRESS**  
Vesterbro 110.1  
5000 Odense C  
Denmark

Exploring the Danish Underground with PROGRESS TATTOO Magazine

![KONKHRA - STRANDED](https://example.com/image.jpg)

**KONKHRA**  
*"Stranded"*  
(Progress Red Labels)  

"Malgrowth" did quite well, and it was an average demo. Here’s the first CD release from KONKHRA, and it is really kicking ass. Super fast death metal with MORBID ANGEL influences. This 6 track CD is well worth your money, cuz it's really good.  
I must admit that I found their demo rather boring. Now I know that it was the sound that did it, cuz this release really has the punch that death metal productions need!  
KONKHRA does some good riff changing and tempo changes, and they include a blasting song collection though mostly slow. What one of the singers follows makes a voice really sound like someone very monstrous, because he in general really tries to be a deep growling motherfucker, the way most of them are. But who heard that...?  
Anyway, "Stranded" is for YOU!  

MN

Stranded: A High-Octane Debut from KONKHRA

**PUGNACITY**  
"People Live Their Lives"  
(Demo 1992)

First official demo from this Danish thrash act. I was quite excited to hear them, cuz I've always known about them without hearing them. Well it would be a lie if I told you that I wasn't surprised. My first impression was that these dudes would develop into one of the best music from Denmark. After you've heard this demo a couple of times, it gets more and more boring. The sound is quite good, but the guitar has a weak and odd effect, which belongs somewhere else, in addition to that there's smashing bass. The guitarist has some good ideas throughout the songs, but they have bad losing parts, and they're your sound wrong tone, but I guess they suck some of the riffs they do. Cool! They've just need some more tightness and they also have bad loose riffs on the next well, then they fade into one of those ridiculous riffs which absolutely takes power and seeks a lot of aggressiveness, and more power! It costs 7 USD.  
PUGNACITY Simon Friberg/Ravneg 5/8410 Rønde/Denmark. 

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