Blood - "Spasmo Paralytic Dreams" Demo 1988

Killer title! My graphic mind summons atrocities like a morph between the ending of Altered States, the more gelatinous moments of From Beyond, and the goddamn Snakeman from Dreamscape. Casual daymares aside, this is the second-to-last demo before the Wild Rags LP. I still haven't heard the preceding FOUR demos, but I'm already assuming they're just as atrociously recorded (mundane boombox rehearsals with possible channel-splitting...that doesn't mean a nigga still isn't curious :p). Blood's debut LP was unapologetically untalented, yet cleverly resourceful, thrashy grindcore. "Spasmo Paralytic Dreams" however is way more thrash than grind, with a typical teenaged death metal backbone (it's actually neanderthalic as fuck, a factor in their overall appeal to me). There's still no denying the energy in the tracks, it's immediately evident and utterly electric. Maybe that's what caught Richard's ear to sign them, not the sophomoric riffs. An essential curiosity from history's most shining 3rd-tier death/grind band! The nerds will know what's up when I say Dogmatize is on here ;)