Death Metal is a 1984 split album by the bands Helloween, Hellhammer, Running Wild, and Dark Avenger. It contains the only recorded material by the German group Dark Avenger.

Death Metal
Compilation album by Helloween, Hellhammer, Running Wild, and Dark Avenger
Released	May 1984
Recorded	February–March 1984 at Caet Studio, Berlin
Genre	Death metal black metal thrash metal speed metal
Length	32:29
Label	Noise

The album offers a snapshot of the Central European metal scene during the end of the early 1980s. At that time, Running Wild had yet to develop their "pirate metal" schtick and considered themselves a black metal band. Helloween were more of a thrashy speed metal act rather than the melodic power metal vehicle into which they would soon develop. Hellhammer were the darker and heavier band of the foursome and would later evolve into the group Celtic Frost.

Running Wild's songs appear as Japanese bonus tracks on their 1995 album, Masquerade; Helloween's tracks appear on the second disc of the 2006 remastered and expanded edition of their 1985 album, Walls of Jericho; and Hellhammer's tracks appear on the 1990 re-issue of their 1984 EP, Apocalyptic Raids.[1]

Track listing

Credits

Running Wild

• Rock 'n' Rolf Kasparek – vocals, guitars
• Gerald "Preacher" Warnecke – guitars
• Stephan Boriss – bass
• Wolfgang "Hasche" Hagemann – drums

Hellhammer

• Tom "Satanic Slaughter" Warrior – vocals, guitars
• Martin "Slayed Necros" Ain – bass
• Bruce "Denial Fiend" Day – drums

Dark Avenger

• Siegfried Kohmann – vocals
• Bernd Piontek – guitars
• Claus Johannson – guitars
• Uwe Neff – bass
• Andreas Breindl – drums

Helloween

• Kai Hansen – vocals, guitars
• Michael Weikath – guitars
• Markus Grosskopf – bass
• Ingo Schwichtenberg – drums

References

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