This demo by EXODUS came out in 1984, around the same time when MEGADETH released the “Hook in Mouth” tape. When trying to verify the title through a little Google research, I found different demos with different tracklists and none seems to be matching with this. Well, since I had this since 1984 and seem to remember it was called “A Lesson in Violence”, I’ll stick to this until somebody has more info. John Scharpen maybe?
I remember receiving both of them demos onto one tape and immediately disliking MEGADETH. What a pretentious band. But EXODUS blew me miles and miles away right after the first seconds the merciless riffing sets in. To this day, this is the best, Thrash Metal ever had to offer and if the “Bonded by Blood” LP only had a little more of the rawness of this demo, I’d convert to any religion you want. It’s a great LP, but the brutality of these four tracks are in a different league. Listen to the vocal mania in “Exodus” – seriously, what were these guys throwing in when they recorded this? So incredibly mean and nasty! Finally you get the chance to hear this in the best possible original sound.
The two pictures below were taken in Spring 1985, on the band’s first European tour, in Zürich, Switzerland. Before the show, we met the band in a local record shop where I interviewed the guys for my fanzine. I’m the sexy guy with the long blong hair, the leather jacket, the Cirith Ungol t-shirt and the killer “Megawimp” poster in his hands. How the autograph got on this photo, I don’t remember. I just found this among hundreds of more great pix in some old boxes in the basement and was so excited to see them, I thought I have to start sharing some of these pix. Some of the other folkson this shot include Edi and Tölpel, two old buddies who are still around.
On the other photo, we see Rick Hunolt on one of Thomas Mölch’s great photographs (he doesn’t want to share his great and precious collection of photos unfortunately, being the wanker he is), taken the night of the gig. The concert was not from this world. One 60 minutes long orgy of sweat and some blood. Insane! The opening band was “Bloody Six”, a horrible swiss band we all hated so much that Dinosaur (ex-Hellhammer / Celtic Frost roadie) brought eggs and hit the guys right in the face with those. Dinosaur was quite a character, that you can believe me, especially during the Hellhammer days, when he rode a massive black painted bike, with big horns on his helmet and a Samurai sword on his back.
Anybody has the obscure “Hardcore Metal” Live Bootleg LP by EXODUS for sale? For those of you who don’t know: It was released very early (84? 85?) by the same guy who previously produced the first ever SLAYER vinyl bootleg, the infamous “Fuck the Slayer” LP (which I desperately want to have back! If you have, please get in touch. I’ll pay what it’s worth). And were these bootlegs made? Yes, in tiny Switzerland, in a twon called Winterthur. Sometimes I think there was a whole lot of action going on here in the past.
Ready to thrash your apartment?
Strike of the Beast.mp3
Exodus.mp3
And then there were none.mp3
Bonded by Blood.mp3
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Oh yes, this is it!! BBB is the best album ever released, pure violence on vinyl and now this! An eraly sunday morning with Exodus in my earphones, I can´t imagine how great this day will ever be.
Thanks ALOT!
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and I kinda like the new recording of the album as well, even thogh Baloff was Exodus I think that it´s a pretty good tribute to him and the face that Hells Breath is on the album makes it good.
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How AGGRESIVE! Totally love you for this!
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According to the metal archives, this is an outake from the bonded by blood sessions. The funny thing is that they only have two songs on it: a lesson in violence and exodus. It seems that the original title for the album was a lesson in violence.
The archives show no record of anything ressembling this besides the aforementionned demo.Anyway, thanks agreat deal for this mate! In my humble opinion, Exodus should have made it instead of Metallica. I mean, strike of the beast!!!
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If it weren’t for Metallica, this band would not have been a boring metal band. Metallica started this genre of “metal.” This is really good!!! Thanks.
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Excellent Thrash…I never listened to Exodus after Fabulous Disaster (and even that album is a letdown compared to BBB,) but this one is fantastic. Thanks as usual, Erich.
I’ve heard that the “And Then There Were 300″ Bootleg is worth tracking down as well…Can anyone confirm this?
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AWESOME!!!!! And you look(ed) fucking true with your leather jacket and the CU shirt.
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“I’ve heard that the “And Then There Were 300″ Bootleg is worth tracking down as well…Can anyone confirm this?”
That one is better than Hardcore Metal.
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Jesus FUCKING Christ Erich…I always assumed you never had long hair! Lookin’ METAL!!!
Oh, and good demo too.
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Erich looks like a living god!!
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as much as I LOVE your blog as much I envy your past life. you’ve really been everywhere. a true legend
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Good one Erich!!! Hahahahahahaha…..I can’t stop laughing…that is great!!
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I remember that Bonded by Blood was originally going to be titled A Lesson in Violence, and I think I remember that there was an advance copy (with a different mix?) floating around on the tape trader circuit. Beyond that, I’m not sure.
Despite the fact that they’re still around, Exodus didn’t survive Baloff’s passing. All we have are memories…
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Huuuuhyeah!!!! Totalthrashinghelllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m blown away by the awesomness of this stuff. GREAT POST!!! and thanxxx again for sharing such great music.
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Fantastic erich! awesome picture and you once said me you had lost them long time ago!!!! just to add, there was a brazilian bootleg called “live in san francisco” released in 1985 with a ugly yellow cover and terrible sound, a rare one nowadays and i need to have it again too!
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Good to hear from you, Marcelo! The bootleg you mentioned, did the front cover (I think it was a piece of paper glued on a white sleeve) show a really bad science-fiction type drawing with dayglo yellow or something? That’s the one I’m talking about. Ar you sure it was made in Brazil as early as 85? That would be fantastic. We were the first real globalization activistis
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I really need to buy the Slay team shirt from the bands homepage soon.
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No Erich, really professionally printed cover, but the drawing you describe is correct! something like death in a corn field. i am sure it is a brazilian one cause i had it in 1985!!!! and also cause there is written on the back cover “O Melhor de Exodus” (the best of exodus) but in fact it was a live recording! the same guy also did VENOM 7th date of hell Lp with a blue cover and band pic on the center of the LP!!!
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Hi , Erich . I’ve heard from Giulio the bastard . He told me that he’ll give his right arm to do the final FEAR OF GOD discography on 2cd digipack .
p.s.:NERORGASMO cd will be out in 2009 .
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Oh God no…not a Fear of God discography. Please…for all that is evil, don’t do it.
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still have my tix stub… sat june 14, 1986 9:30 pm… anthrax & exodus @ the ritz in nyc. remember sneaking up into the balcony & watching from the railing.
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Excellent demo! But Megadeth pretentious?! Mustaine must’ve been reading too much Kafka, eh?
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I was lucky to have seen these guys a number of times from 1985-88. I recall when Paul was booted from the band how devastated many of us were. He was a true hero. He put on punk shows, metal shows, employed some of us as security, was a regular at the farm,etc. When he left Exodus I vowed to never listen to anything the band put out afterward.
This shit makes me wish I still had long hair
Nate
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Steve, are you having Kafka issues?
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This is the best I ever heard them sound. When I saw them with Venom and Slayer in 1985(?) I thought they were the weekest of the three. This recording really sheds new light on the band, but demos have a way of doing that sometimes and I’m definately not a metal expert.
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Thanks for this Erich. I have an old demo laying around here that I got from Ron Quintana back in the day labeled “Exodus Turk Street Demos” but the track list doesn’t match up with any track list I have found online. Maybe I will post it up to the blog and see if anyone knows what it is.
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Turk Street with good sound would be great to have, to bad that all the songs don´t have vocals on them.
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and how about staying i SF with some Anvil Chorus now?
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i think megadeth isn’t pretentious, they just SUCK.
plain and simple.
I tried, dude, I tried……..
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Venom fucking rules…the rest is poseur, fake devil music.
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matt wrote:
i think megadeth isn’t pretentious, they just SUCK.
plain and simple.
I tried, dude, I tried……..
I think the same about Kafka!
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I don’t think it’s Rick Hunolt on the second pic. Isn’t that the guy from Nasty Savage?
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Danny: This could absolutely be! I’ll have to take a deeper look into the remainings of my photo collection.
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Wow!
I love Exodus! I remember my early days into metal and the guy who made me a gift that now is one of my favourites: bonden by blood!!
thanks for this one and cheers from a Tessiner living in Zürich eheheh!
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I love this demo very much but think it is much more pretentious than Megadeth’s Hook in mouth demo! Please post the Nasty Cabbage demo!
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Definitely not Rick Hunolt on the right! But I’ll take your word about the long-haired rager on the left.
When I met Gary Holt four-five years ago, he was with Todd Gordon, the guy who ran Torrid Records. He had an image on his cell phone of the original Bonded By Blood LP cover, which was a hilariously bad color drawing of a nighttime scene with a long winding yellow road leading back to something…blurry and nasty. Probably the silhouettes of Exodus. The year-long delay of Bonded by Blood cost Exodus their rightful early launch into the thrash metal fray, but at least they won the classic twin babies album art for their troubles.
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Thanks Ian!
Greetings from Martin Ain – spoke to him about you yesterday. I’ll talk him into buying two copies of your whole backcatalogue with me. Must have these books finally.
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Greetings from Portugal!!!
I have the Exodus LP bootleg ” Hardcore Metal live Ruthie`s `84″ (The Amazing Kornyphone Rebirth Label, 1st edition, lim. 100, different layout) but there´s other 2 versions, including one from Brasil only intituled “live”. I collect all Exodus boots from the 80s!! Cheers, HC
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Thanks Hugo – that’s exactly the one I meant. It was made in Switzerland, by the same guy who was also responsible for the legendary “Fuck the Slayer” bootleg – and if I’m not mistaken, a yellow vinyl Iron Maiden / Judas Priest split LP. Wish I hadn’t sold all these pearls …
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Hi, here´s the Exodus boot cover, the 1st press and also a brasilian boot, i don´t know the year.
http://mygalleryofrockandmetal.blogspot.com/2009/04/exodus-hardcore-metal.html
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc280/cyrcka/SDC12732.jpg
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc280/cyrcka/SDC12733.jpg
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Sorry Hugo, but this is NOT the first press. Maybe the first brazilian press, but not the first ever EXODUS bootleg.
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No?
“Hardcore Metal” LP had only 3 pressings:
1 – The Amazing Kornyphone Rebirth Label
2 – Serious Music label (in red multi coloured vinyl)
3 – colored cover, white labels (don´t know the label): http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc280/cyrcka/4893346470.jpg
could you tell which one is?
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All I can say is that it’s the third one that I bought in late 84 or early 85. I’ve never seen the other ones before. The paper was glued on a plain white sleeve and the sound quality I remember to be very poor.
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the last one is the one that I bought and sold, I think there were both black and multicolor vinyl avaliable on that one. I had the black and the sound wasn´t that bad if I can recall right.
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Maybe you´re right about the 1st press, because the labels are white and so the Slayer 1st boot was. But the rarest of all is the one with the band picture on TAKR label. The brasilian boot it is even more rare (but not the same gig)!!! And all have a very poor sound.
I have contacted my friend Steffen from hho-records.de, because is got all 3 editions to sell, and i am waiting a response.
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hugo, I’d be very interested in buying a copy of the first bootleg (and “fuck the Slayer” too, at that). Please let me know if you can help. I regret it so much I had sold these some 20 years ago.
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hello,
i will sell my copy of the first bootleg in multicoloured vinyl. any interests? please mail me at parallel-twin@gmx.net
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Hi,
according to some sellers that i know, all say the same:
the Amazing K. label press was the 1st one, it has a printed label and the other one with the “demon cover” came later! There are some different vinyl colours (I know a black, a green, red multicolor) and maybe 1 or 2 colours more!
Cheers
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Thanks Hugo. Well, I don’t know which is true. I could only repeat myself. Maybe things will clear up on this too.
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well now I looked at the Amazing K cover and it has Zetro on the cover with a Soothsayer t-shirt on. He didn´t join the band until 86 and the Soothsayer demo wasn´t out until 87 so my guess is that the demoncover version is the first.. Amazing demo by the way.
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Par: i think you´re right. I hadn´t seen that detail!! And also the labels are white like the “fuck the Slayer†bootleg LP. Mystery solved !!!!!!!
I think they all say that the 1st is the one with band cover because it is the rarest of all, very hard to find!! I have 6 bootlegs LPs from Exodus, 2 of them were released last year. I don´t know if there is more.
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Pär: I love you! Very good work you delivered here, man. Gold medal in metal mystery solving!!!!
I keep insinsting on this, Hugo (now more than ever): The demon cover, white label one is the first press.
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I have the first pressing (with the glued frontcover), look :
http://www.geuggis.com/images/EXODUS-hardcoremetal.jpg
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…. BTW, Admin, if you still badly needs it just leave me a mail …
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It rulz this demo!
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wow. oldschool thrash metal at it’s best. thanks man. i don’t know when the fuck i downloaded it but i just forgot to comment. so.awesome. and your rips are just perfect as always. never heard of this demo before and when i searched around on google i couldn’t find much so i’m taking your word for it about this demo. i’ve always liked megadeth. but hey it’s your opinion. i really love the old metal demos you post. i think that’s my favorite followed by the other metal hc and punk records you post. but i’ve always loved demos. thanks again.
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http://tatmanmusic.tripod.com/id1.html
This is a bootleg download site where you can get “Fuck The Slayer” the production is rotten but it’s great to have!
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