LORD FOUL - Demo Collection 1993-1994 Reissue
Nuclear War Now! Productions
The first time I saw the name LORD FOUL mentioned was in an article about obscure USBM on a website which catered to collector scum and eventually hiptards. This was over a decade ago but with a name like LORD FOUL you remember it. Basically LORD FOUL was a one man black metal act from Louisville, Kentucky which started out in 1993.
The one man behind this project went by the name of Roach. The guy was also in a death/grind band but got into the whole second wave of black metal coming out of Europe at the time. LORD FOUL would go onto record two lo-fi demos. The first was Killing Raping Burning from 1993 and the second one The Devil's Advocate came out in 1994. LORD FOUL kinda died after that from no one caring about em.
So fast forward to the year 2001. Germany's NARGAROTH puts out their second album Black Metal Ist Krieg. And along with a few other covers on there is their version of LORD FOUL's “I Burn for You” from the first demo. Now I'm sure it took a few years until the world wide web got big for people online asking about this LORD FOUL band. In fact Roach didn't even know people were interested in the band until years later.
So in 2009 both LORD FOUL demos were put on a compilation CD release which came out on Forever Plagued Records. It would later be released on vinyl for the collector scum a few years afterward. This was the time I learned about LORD FOUL. But it wasn't until now that I've heard the original material thanks to Nuclear War Now's reissue of the demo compilation.
So aside from the great cover photo of "The Man" or "The Ghoul" played by the producer, directer and actor Herk Harvey in one of my favorite horror movies of all time aka: 1962's Carnival of Souls. Ah this is very lo-fi bed room / basement style black metal from the early 90's. Musically it's down right sloppy but Roach's vocals are good and the inbetween song movie samples are cool. If you wanna know some history then here you go.
LISTEN HERE:
https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/demo-collection-1993-1994
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