Official
Demo Tapes
Here is a
complete listing of all the officially released Sacred Blade demoz.
Please note that none of these tapes are available for purchase,
but may be available through the underground tape network. Stay
tuned for information about the release of these recordings on
compact disc.
1982-
Demo 1982 (first official release)
Salem
(Ulmer/Rascan)
Crystal (Ulmer)
Hammerhead (Ulmer)
Playerz:
Jeff Ulmer - Vocalz, Lead Guitarz
Will Rascan - Rhythm Guitar
Tony Moser - Bass
Paul Davis - Drumz
Recorded over
two six hour sessions in the fall of 1982.
1983-
Demo 1983 (second official release)
The
Enlightenment/Master Of The Sun (Ulmer/Ulmer/Rascan)
The Alien (Ulmer/Rascan)
Moon (Ulmer)
Playerz:
Jeff Ulmer - Vocalz, Lead Guitarz
Will Rascan - Rhythm Guitar
Tony Moser - Bass
Paul Davis - Drumz
Recorded in
December 1982 and January 1983, this was the tape that brought the
band to worldwide attention, earning awards for "Best New Band"
and "Best Demo" from New Jersey's WMSC radio, and accolades
from the metal press. The Alien
would be remixed for the Metal Massacre IV compilation album, with
Jamez redoing the bass part, and different leadz from the '83 demo
as well, and appeared in December '83 as our first vinyl release.
There are no wordz to describe the feeling of holding your first
record in your handz.
1985-Released
as Demo 1985
Of
the Sun + Moon (Ulmer)
In Light of the Moon (Ulmer/Rascan)
Fieldz the Sunshrine (Ulmer/Rascan)
Legacy (Ulmer/Channing)
Playerz:
Jeff Ulmer - Vocalz, Lead Guitar
Will Rascan - Rhythm Guitar
Jamez Channing - Bass
Paul Davis - Drumz
We had initiated recording under a contract offer from Roadrunner
Recordz. After a visit from the company president, who flew in from
Amsterdam, we released these rough mixez from the first album sessions,
prior to our rerecording all the rhythm guitar trackz on the album.
This tape containz more guitar overdubbing than the final product,
all of which was eventually erased.
1986
- Released as "Of the Sun + Moon"/Black
Dragon Recordz
The
Shortest Song (Ulmer)
Ayltuthus I (Ulmer)
Of the Sun + Moon (Ulmer)
Fieldz the Sunshrine (Ulmer/Rascan)
Salem (Ulmer/Rascan)
The Reign of Night Rainz (Ulmer)
Legacy (Ulmer/Channing)
ÉTo Lunar Windz (Ulmer)
The Enlightenment (Ulmer)
Master of the Sun (Ulmer/Rascan)
The Pressing (Ulmer)
In Light of the Moon (Ulmer/Rascan)
Moon (Ulmer)
Playerz:
Jeff Ulmer - Lead + Rhythm Guitarz
Will Rascan - Rhythm Guitarz
Jamez Channing - Bass
Paul Davis - Drumz
After negotiating dealz with Roadrunner and Enigma Recordz, and
a year and a half of recording, we finally released our first album
on Black Dragon Recordz. By the actual release date in October '86
however, Will Rascan + Paul Davis were no longer in the band.
1986-87
- Only released to a few magazinez as the 1987 Demo
The
Transient (Ulmer)
Odyssey of Light (Ulmer)
Neckz in the Woodz (Ulmer)
Til Death Do Us Part (Ulmer/Rascan)
Playerz:
Jeff Ulmer - Guitarz, Vocalz, Bass
Jamez Channing - Bass
Ted Zawadzki - Electronic drumz
These tapez were started at my home in Richmond, + were the first
recorded at my new house in Delta on 8 track. Ted is playing electronic
drumz on this one. I never got around to finishing all the vocalz
due to changez in the arrangementz, but some of the solo trackz
were pretty cool.
1988 - Released as the 1988 Demo
I
C Eyez (Ulmer)
The Transient (Ulmer)
Til Death Do Us Part (Ulmer/Rascan)
Perpetual Movementz (Ulmer)
Playerz:
Jeff Ulmer - Guitarz, Vocalz, Keyboardz
Jamez Channing - Bass
Ted Zawadzki - Drumz
I was working along on this recording of the entire second album
when our manager informed me that we were scheduled to leave for
New York to meet with Epic Recordz a week later. In that week I
had to finish about thirty guitar trackz, all the vocalz + mixing.
When we arrived in New York, I played, for the first time ever,
a complete recording of the entire second album. These four trackz
were released as the '88 Demo.
1990 - Released as 1990 Advance Mix
I
C Eyez (Ulmer)*
Cathedral Forest (Ulmer)
Playerz:
Jeff Ulmer - Vocalz, Guitarz, Keyboardz
Jamez Channing - Bass*
Ted Zawadzki - Drumz
These were advance demoz from the new album, recorded at Fiasco
Bros. Studio in New Westminster. The sessionz were later scrapped
in favour of all new digital recordingz of the second album. Note
that the Reborn Classics bootleg stole the cover artwork.
Copyright in
all Sacred Blade compositions controlled by Barrier Plainz Pubishing,
a division of Sunshrine Productionz Incorporated. Unauthorised reproduction
is a violation of applicable laws.
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