DELIVERANCE - GREETING OF DEATH (CD) 2019 Retroactive Records

Includes Speckled Bird Includes California Metal songs Attack and A Space Called You Metallica had No Life Til Leather...an iconic demo that catapulted the band into unforeseen glory and status. Deliverance’s Greeting of Death demo (1986) did the same thing for the most heralded Christian thrash act of all-time. Frontman, Jimmy Brown asked his girlfriend to draw up a cover of a Grim Reaper waving “Hi!” Inspired by a Chic Tract he had seen and she drew it, and used rub on letters from a stationary store. Jimmy made all the dubs from a tape deck that belonged to his sister. Three tape decks later, he had ordered 5,000 copies within a year’s time. The demo gained a life of its own! People everywhere knew it! People would sing Speckled Bird (exclusive to this demo) when the band would go to shows and people at the shows were singing along with the songs from the demo! Greeting of Death was a very special moment in time, captured on cellophane magnetic tape and it propelled Deliverance