Deliverance - Devil's Meat (1987)

From some dark vault the UK's Deliverance emerged with their dingy basement metal sound which, if you can still track it down today, is about as cult as it gets, finding a niche somewhere between genuine coffin-rock and basement doom. Read any review of this obscure band and you'll hear of a genuine interest, to the extent that many fans and admirers truly believe that such an act were genuinely scary in their approach. 'Devil's Meat' is a strange record, one that brings back the halcyon days of satanic metal, whether it's played for real is a question that remains unanswered, but this is spooky stuff, bathed in an imagery most 16-year olds would've craved back in the '80s.

Legend has it that the guys behind this creepy, graveyard sound were in fact a bunch of geeky-student types, you only have to read the odd thanks list when they speak of their gratitude to their 'PCs', to determine as to whether this is the real deal, but whatever the case, Deliverance are simply a strange bunch who churned out a very short yet mystical career, that any true metal head should seek out. Unfortunately, the bands records are not exactly easy to find, and are best purchased on vinyl, just check out the sleeve of this record for pure heavy metal Armageddon!



8/10