The have/want ratio on Discogs for Demo #1 is at 16:67. Understandably, these conditions have fostered something of a demand for the physical product. Thirteen years later, it still sounds fresh. So, yeah, this has all of the cult-shit trappings, doesn’t it? Mystery! Intrigue! And, because I can’t buy this and don’t want to mine Ethereum for some sketchy file sharing site, scarcity! Add in that Demo #1 currently carries a sterling 95% rating on Encyclopaedia Metallum based on four reviews. What the heck happened? How and why was the weird sucked out? What’s that story?

Not one bit, the objective absurdity of brutal death metal tropes aside. But, and this is the strange bit, it isn’t weird. I like it just fine, it’s better than 90% of what hits Slam Worldwide. It’s pretty OK, reminding me of one-time labelmate Vomit Remnants in that it reminds me of a heavier Dying Fetus. Unlike their predecessor, Blunt Force Trauma managed to release a full-length, 2012’s Vengeance For Nothing on the reliable Macabre Mementos Records. (Blunt Force Trauma’s Twitter didn’t respond to my requests for comment.) They formed in 2006, the same year Jenovavirus split. Like Jenovavirus, Blunt Force Trauma is a trio, though it’s unclear who assumed which pseudonym in the prior project. (I can’t find a source for this via Google or Internet Archive.) It also notes that after the fracture, members would resurface in Blunt Force Trauma. Jenovavirus’ Encyclopaedia Metallum page states that 13 additional songs were demoed, presumably for its aforementioned full-length, but the group broke up before laying down final versions. Legendary metal bands have been made legendary with less. So, in order to reconstruct the rest of this story, know that I’ll be using internet-bullshit as mortar. “Every now and then somebody contacts me to ask about them and what happened,” Dani Revenge emailed to me. But then Jenovavirus went dark and dropped contact with the label. This got the attention of Germany’s Revenge Productions which distributed the demo and planned to put out the band’s debut full-length.

Here’s what I know, and this is going to go threadbare real quick: Jenovavirus produced an unknown number of Demo #1 CDrs in 2006. We’ll get to that in a second, but let’s back up. Where can I buy this? I need to own this.Īh, but there’s the issue: I can’t buy this.

The Wormed-y cybernetic wooshes? The overflowing Noah’s Ark of atypical vocal tics? The beastly slams that are a siren’s call to all degenerates? I’m hooked.

Doug hipped me to this Japanese three-piece earlier this month, knowing its outré take on slamming brutal death metal would blow my brain to bits.

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