Also on To Live a Lie, in conjunction with 625 Thrashcore and De Rok, is Athrenody’s Crazed Development. It has a nice story behind it. Athrenody was a Bay Area grind/death band in the early ’90s, and recorded a demo in ‘93 sans vocalist. The tape kicked around for a while and gained notoriety, as did the band. However, Athrenody split up, and the demo passed seemingly into oblivion.
Max Ward and Matt Harvey (of Exhumed) both had copies of the demo. Recently, they got to talking about it. When Ward said that he’d release it on 625 if it had vocals, Harvey offered his services. The result: a fine posthumous release. After mastering, the demo now has modern oomph, with Harvey’s vocals added over a decade later. His low growls fall somewhere between Barney Greenway and David Vincent. The sound is akin to Terrorizer, straddling grindcore and death metal. 9 tracks, 16 minutes, all potent.
Crazed Development is available from To Live a Lie, De Rok, Very, and Interpunk.
Not bad. I wanted to like it a bit more than I actually do, but what an interesting and odd little backstory this one has, ha, ha! So weird!