Possessed | pt

Assim como a música extrema que eles criaram, o Possessed, de São Francisco, parecia amaldiçoado por forças malignas e sombrias durante sua problemática carreira. Formado pelo guitarrista Mike Torrao e pelo baterista Mike Sus em 1983, o grupo perderia o primeiro vocalista Barry Fisk, que cometeu suicídio, antes mesmo de sair da garagem. Mesmo assim, eles persistiram, e depois de recrutar o baixista/vocalista Jeff Becerra e o guitarrista Brian Montana, foi oferecida à banda uma faixa na compilação Metal Massacre 6, de Brian Slagel. O som selvagem do Possessed imediatamente se destacou da competição e eles chamaram a atenção da...

"One-man band Konrad Wert grew up in a Mennonite family, raised by preacher father and a piano player mother, which accounts for both the baptized-in-fire-soul and musical versatility heard in his gritty Old World music. Wert's mix of blues and vintage folk howls with a sense of explosive freedom and latent rage-not unlike an Amish kid emerging from the wilderness to discover America -that instills his simple guitar/fiddle/stomp-box arrangements with unusual passion. Having toured Europe on the strength of his self-titled LP for Italy's Shake Your Ass Records, Wert most recently abandoned Austin and retreated once again into the Colorado...

The Dispossessed were active in the Hartford area music scene from the summer of 1986 though 1987. The band's lone release during their lifetime, a twisted, gothic re-working of the Beatles' "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite," was released in the fall of 1987 on Dionysus Records. Their one LP, "Sister Mary," was originally released on bassist Keith Grave's Dagger Records in the summer of 1988, then was subsequently re-released in Europe on Di Di Records, along with a single of the songs "The Thin Men" and "The Moon at Midnight." Band members included Leigh Gregory on vocals, Jeremy...