Finally re-issued again, from one of the True Innovators of Grindcore/Death Metal! Classic material from Xysma covering 1989 up to 1993, essential Underground Madness! Remastered 2-CD compilation containing all material that Xysma released before signing to Spinefarm Records. Mastered at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki 6/9/2004.

Their lone style was a mix of many things. The vocals on “Fata Morgana” are very Carcass-like obviously using pitch shifters to warp and bend the vocal tracks to the full extremities of the imagination. The lows are inhumanly low, almost vomit inducing and gurgling . They add to the sickness this band wants to portray in every second of their songs. The mid and high range vocals don’t ever seem to be sung unless they are used as a highlight of sorts with the ultra low ones delivered in complete synchronicity together. The guitars and bass on this almost seem to be tuned down to an ultra heavy B. Their sound often has aspects of that all too familiar and amazing “Swedish sound”. Trust me that’s not a bad thing here it’s just how it sounds. “First & Magickal”

Xysma: the great unrecognized treasure of Finland’s underground past. They were putting out filthy proto-deathgrind demos before Abhorrence had even formed, and were making pop death n’ roll a year later. This second full length, “First & Magical”, sounds like Reek of Putrefaction-era Carcass performing Wolverine Blues except with way catchier, poppier, tendancies.

The band themselves state in the album sleeve that they were influenced by the Beach Boys, and against all odds, it’s believable, and it works.

For Fans of: Carcass, Exhumed, Impetigo, Pungent Stench, Napalm Death, Entombed.

CD 1: Xysma I
1. Why Am I I?
2. On The Hill Of Desecration
3. Uranus Falls
4. Aspirations: (I) Reflections Of Eternity
5. Aspirations: (II) First Sunbeams Of The
New Beginning
6. Untitled
7. Above The Horizon
8. Importance Of The Dimensionless
Mirage
9. Until I Reach The Unattainable
10. There’s Only One Sun
11. Written Into The Sky
12. Outro
13. One More Time
14. Souls Are Stolen
15. Uranus Falls Again
16. Turning
17. You Can Call Everything In A
Question
18. My Mind Like A Heron
19. Clouds Give Me Consolation
20. Can’t Imagine Your Death
21. Symbol
22. It’s My Sound

CD 2: Xysma II
1. Intro
2. Pulsating Cerebral Slime
3. Pulverized Necrobrains
4. Gripping Slaughter
5. Festering Sore
6. Procreated From Blood
7. Sudden Impulse
8. Unanaesthetic Genitoplasty
9. Fetid Gurgitation
10. Fleshaw
11. Pathologists Perversitys
12. Priests Fomented In Excrements
13. Charred Limbs
14. Drown Oneself
15. Burbed Rectum
16. Phrenetic Chainsaw Suicide
17. Evisceration
18. Vacant Mind
19. Deceiver (Napalm Death cover)
20. On The Hill Of Desecration 7”
21. Entangled In Shreds 7” (Live)
22. Embodiment Of Morbidity 7”
23. Foetal Mush
24. Paradise Of Steaming Cadavers
25. Entangled In Shreds
26. Mild Stench Of Rot
27. Dismemberment In Trance
28. Cranial Cradle