Deliverance- Evil Friendship

[Eoin McLove]

Got tipped off to this album in the Amebix thread on ROD of all places. I was expecting dark hardcore stuff, not strange and uniquely dark, evil thrash/proto BM. An English band by all accounts but the album was recorded between France and England across several months in 88/89. Just fucking obscure madness. Truly unique sounding stuff... I'm loving it.

https://youtu.be/8AuaYMizJNw?si=diR9D1cOvYpTkKHm

[Mithrandir]

I thought this looked familiar! I was in a small old record shop in the middle of nowhere in this kinda creepy country town somewhere in New South Wales about 6 months ago and found this on the shelf! I thought it looked interesting so took a photo of it to listen to later but put it back because I was in a campervan and never got around to checking it out, Just listening to it on YouTube now it sounds really cool.

[Pentagrimes]

I vaguely remember this band from reading about them in Kerrang and the like as a nipper, but I tink that  might be the first time I've ever actually heard them.I seem to remember talk being they were kind of manufactured or something? I definitely remember there being ome fairly questionable artwork involving an underage girl.

[Eoin McLove]

The artwork is bizarre. Some of it is cool some of it is just awful  but at a glance it works and the logo is deadly.

I think there's almost nothing known about who the members are. There seems to be very little info anyway, but it's interesting to think they may have been manufactured. A total commercial flop if true seeing as they are even obscure in the underground   

I'll have to see if Mithrandir's lost copy finds its way to me 

[Mithrandir]

These guys have to be one of those 'Metalsploitation' bands, right?

Edit: Gotta read the previous messages before commenting 😅

[Eoin McLove]

Metalsploitation?!

I'm heading to NSW in a few weeks but just hitting Sydney and I'm guessing that's not the "creepy country town" you were referring to...

[Pentagrimes]

ye

Metalsploitation?!

see also Exorcist's "Nightmare Theatre"

[Mithrandir]

Maybe it's 'Metalploitation', that's what they were calling all those made up 80s bands on Metal Enterprises/Cobra records. Exorcist and the likes. .

And no unfortunately nowhere near Sydney, like a few hours away in the mountains, I'll try think of the name.

[Goosebumples]

What exactly is the story behind these made up bands? 

I wasn't around in the 80s so colour me intrigued/confused 

[Mithrandir]

Industry plant bands trying to take advantage of metal's popularity at the time. There's been discussion that Infernal Majesty were one of these bands too but never confirmed.

[Goosebumples]

Madness, I can't imagine many were particularly sucessful!

Deliverance photo on metallum does seem a bit daft/off, even for the time 

[Mithrandir]

The only one I think that were actually successful was Piledriver.

[Mithrandir]

I wasn't around in the 80s so colour me intrigued/confused 

And just for the records, neither was I   

[Eoin McLove]

I never heard about those bands being manufactured. Weird if true in this case as their sound is so unorthodox.

[Mithrandir]

I just went to link a good write up about it from The Corroseum it's shut down?!?