Possessed - Burning In Hell

Artist: Possessed Song: Burning In Hell Album: Seven Churches (1985) Genre/ Style: Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Groove Metal, Death metal, Blackened Death Metal, Extreme Metal Label: Relativity/Combat Records, Roadrunner Records Producer:Randy Burns Randy Burns : Producer Barry Kobrin : Executive Producer Donald J. Munz : Design, Layout Released: October 16, 1985 Recorded: March 30 – April 5, 1985 All lyrics are written by Jeff Becerra Possessed: Jeff Becerra : Vocals, Bass Mike Torrao : Guitars Larry LaLonde : Guitars Mike Sus : Drums Randy Burns − keyboard Website: possessedofficial.com Seven Churches is the debut album by American death metal band Possessed. The title of the album refers to the Seven Churches of Asia mentioned in the Book of Revelation. "The Exorcist" begins with producer Randy Burns' version of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, arranged and performed as it was in the 1973 horror film of the same name. Seven Churches is widely regarded as the first death metal album to exist, and About.com named it one of the ten essential albums of the genre. While Florida's Death had released more albums and is also cited as an enduring death metal progenitor, Seven Churches predates the latter band's debut album Scream Bloody Gore by two years. The book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore credited bassist/vocalist Jeff Becerra as initially creating the term in 1983. Seven Churches has been interchangeably described as "connecting the dots between thrash metal and death metal", being "monumental" in developing the death metal style, and as being the "first death metal album", the latter attributed to interviews with (or literature by) musicians including Kam Lee (ex-Mantas/Death, ex-Massacre), the late Ronnie James Dio (ex-Dio, ex-Black Sabbath) and Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield). Former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris said his introduction to metal was Possessed's Seven Churches album, a personal recommendation to him by then-guitarist Justin Broadrick. In its July 1986 review of Seven Churches, SPIN described the album as belonging to the "sub-mutated genre of death-metal" and being a "full-on Japanese-commuter-train-without-brakes of what this genre should sound like...bassist/vocalist Jeff Becerra regurgitates what have to be the most Stygian vocal utterances to date." British extreme metal record label Earache Records stated that "....the likes of Trey Azagthoth and Morbid Angel based what they were doing in their formative years on the Possessed blueprint laid down on the legendary Seven Churches recording. Possessed arguably did more to further the cause of 'Death Metal' than any of the early acts on the scene back in the mid-late 80's." "The Exorcist" is covered on the Cannibal Corpse's 1993 EP Hammer Smashed Face, on Cavalera Conspiracy's 2008 album Inflikted, and on Death's 2011 reissue of their 1993 album Individual Thought Patterns. Lyrics: Death has beckoned you to hell You can't escape my evil spell Past the gates, evil fate Into the depths cast to burn Unseen terror life of doom Tragic, black magic Sorrow in your afterlife Victim of your sins tonight My grasp will last Nightmares of eternity Forgotten souls and tyranny You lived, now die No life no death no future here Infinite horror screams of fear Your flesh, decayed Run and hide there's no relief Pounding hearts is full of grief Screams, dreams No one hears you scream at night Demons own your soul with might Illusions, delusions Roasted in the flames of hell Beware the cast the evil spell Burning, yearning Dreams become reality You can't outlive infinity Burning in Hell Prowling through the night Like a bad dream Stalking out your prey Hear the victims scream Driven by the vision Ruling your domain Lurking in the shadows Driving you insane Know that you're not crazy Nothing you remember Mind is so blank And your thoughts become a hinder Know there's something evil Hiding in your mind Waiting for the moment To sneak up from behind Death has beckoned you to hell You can't escape my evil spell Past the gates, evil fate Into the depths cast to burn Unseen terror life of doom Tragic, black magic Sorrow in your afterlife Victim of your sins tonight My grasp will last Nightmares of eternity Forgotten souls and tyranny You lived, now die No life no death no future here Infinite horror screams of fear Your flesh, decayed Run and hide there's no relief Pounding hearts is full of grief Burning in Hell