The story behind REANIMATIONS:

As you can see, this is not a new full length album by AVULSED... so what's this?? It's not an album because it only has 3 AVULSED songs, it's not a mini CD because it has 15 songs, it' not a compilation CD because it has new songs, covers, AVULSED covers... We must admit this is a pretty weird CD but at the same time it's something original, don't you think so?? A perfect apetizer between one album and another!!
This CD came out like an accidental consequence from our original idea that was doing a double CD. One with live songs and other with only cover songs. We were going to cover like 15 songs from many varied styles and in fact we were already working on it, but seeing that this would take most of time from the composition process of new songs for a new album, we decided to skip that idea. At the same time, we got interest from Relapse Records to be a part of some split 7"EP series and they told us to do two new songs for that, so... we immediately started to work on it, but after some months, it looked like that label skipped that idea too and we found ourselves with two new songs, a bunch of covers (the three ones you have here plus some others from DESTRUCTION, DEATH, KING DIAMOND, D.R.I....), so we decided to do a mini CD with our two new songs, a remake of a very old song from our first demo "92 and three cover songs that would represent the three most influential styles in our music: Death, Thrash & Heavy Metal.
While we were working on this project, we received a video-dip that some french guys did for us (totally for free!!) with images that they recorded during our show in Paris at La Locomotive in June 2005. It was very cool, so we decided to include it on the CD as well but... since we had space left on the disc, we thought that perhaps it would be cool to let other bands to cover our own songs offering a different perspective of our music. We asked about it in our website and the response was overwhelming!! We just wanted to put one or two covers, but there soon many bands that we ended up including 9 covers!! We had to refuse some bands (sorry guys!!) because there would be too many...
So... enjoy this CD full of "reanimations" done both by AVULSED and other 9 cool bands from very different styles and coming from such different parts of the world!! Watch out for our upcoming full length album and see you on stage!!
AVULSED, March 2006

AVULSED was born in January 1992 as a trio when Dave Rotten (Vocals), Toni (Drums) and Lucky (Bass) decided to form a Death Metal band in spite of their total lack of experience. Three months later the 1st Guitarist called Luisma joined the band and in September of the same year, the band recorded its first demo entitled "Embalmed In Blood" with only two songs. One month later, a 2nd guitarist entered the band and his name is Jose "Cabra". This was the very first important step for the band, as "Cabra"was the only one who was able to handle his instrument in a proper way.
 

In April '93 was the time to play the 1st shows for the band and it was supporting CANCER when the band lost its virginity on stage. A week later, the second demo "Deformed Beyond Belief was recorded containing five songs and a huge development compared to the previous effort. In June, two new songs were recorded for a compilation CD/LP/MC called "Dead Flesh" featuring two unreleased tracks from five Spanish acts. In September, a Greek label offered the band to release their 2nd demo as a Split 12"LP with also Greek ACID DEATH. This came out in January '94.
 

But prior to that, in December '93, the band entered the studios again to record their 1'EP for German M.M.I. Rec. entitled "Carnivoracity". This was the very last recording for Toni who was replaced by Furni (ex-INTOXICATlON). Later, in June '94, Luisma was kicked out of the band due to his egocentric attitude and mainly because he was a pathetic guitar player. His place was immediately taken over by Juancar (ex-SACROPHOBIA) who is a great guitarist and has the same level as "Cabra". Now with a new drummer and two competent guitarists, the band is able to write much better stuff with hardly any limitations. In March 1995 the band decided to enter the studios again to record a two-song promo-tape to let people hear how the new stuff was going to sound like. Reactions were enthusiastic and even a video-clip was filmed with the song "Powdered Flesh". In June of the same year, the "Carnivoracity" EP was re-released by Repulse Records as a Mini-CD format with 8 live bonus tracks.

Italian label Cryptic Soul Prod, offered the band to take part in a small Italian Tour along with VADER & DERANGED in January '96 and also put the band on Tour through Europe with SINISTER right after that. After the tour, the band finished the last songs for the recording of their very 1st full-length album "Eminence In Putrescence" on Repulse Records. It was recorded in May and the 1st mix was done in June by a Dutch engineer, but the result wasn't satisfactory, so the band decided to do a 2nd mixing by themselves in September. The album came out in November, but one month before that, the original bassplayer was forced to leave the band due to personal reasons and a replacement was found two months later on Ivan, which by the way, is a much better musician!!

1997 was the time for a 2nd European tour, this time with all-label-mates INCANTATION, DEEDS OF FLESH & ADRAMELECH. The tour was called REPULSIVE TOUR '97. One month before that, AVULSED opened for CRADLE OF FILTH, which meant the biggest live-audience for the band at the moment and in the best place of Madrid. After the tour, the band got the chance to make some special re-mixes of some of the album tracks. This was destined to be the "Cybergore", a self-financed experiment (with the help of Repulse Rec.) where the band mixes Techno with Death Metal. This CD finally saw the light in March '98....
 

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