FROM THE DEPTHS Vinyl (1996)

Mid-nineties American death/black metal existed in a particular pocket of ugliness that the mainstream never touched, and From The Depths lived there rent-free. This 1996 pressing is the kind of record that circulated on photocopied flyers and tape trades, the kind serious collectors still hunt.

Raw, punishing, and deliberately outside the polished death metal corridor that was going major at the time, From The Depths leaned into the black metal crossover when most US acts were heading the other direction. If you know, you know. If you don't, this is a solid place to start an education in the grimmer corners of American extreme metal.

Standard black vinyl, 1996 pressing. Handle with the respect you'd give anything this old and this uncompromising.

Fans of: Acheron, Drawn and Quartered, early Incantation