Slayer XX Blood Fire Death Book + Morbid - Ancient Morb

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Slayer XX Blood Fire Death Book + Morbid - Ancient Morbidity LP + Huge Slayer & Jon Nodtveidt (Dissection) RARE! Slayer XX “Blood Fire Death” Hardbound Book + Morbid 12? EP

SLAYER XX is 100 pages of in-depth interviews, reviews, and sadistkly exekuted artwork and personal photos. Unlike previous issues, SLAYER XX is presented as a hardbound book and features cover art by Erik Danielsson (who also did the back cover of the book, the layout for the Morbid 12”, and contributed several written pieces to SLAYER XX). The magazine itself contains Interviews and articles with: WATAIN, MORBID, WHIPLASH (Tony Scaglione), BATHORY (several interviews and reviews in a somewhat big tribute feature), 666 (no), SADUS, KREATOR, SAVAGE THRUST, MEDIEVAL, INVIDIOUS, DEATHRASH, OBSCURITY, NOCTURNAL GRAVES, SADISTIK EXEKUTION, SUNNO)), GROTESQUE, MASTER’S HAMMER, DESTROYER 666, PAGAN ALTAR, STRID, JARBOE, FUNERAL MIST, NIFELHEIM, as well as other more or less familiar features. This issue also contains an A2 poster of Jon Nødtveidt with the actual cover for SLAYER XX on the reverse side. Finally, this issue also comes with a mini LP by Swedish legends MORBID. The mini LP is called “Ancient Morbidity.”

What follows is a statement from the band concerning the tracks on this “12 (From the interview in SLAYER XX BLOOD FIRE DEATH):
Tell us why those tracks was chosen for the “Ancient Morbidity” release? Is it important to know the exact origin of the tracks for instance?
- We wanted to offer something special to SLAYER MAGAZINE of course, so we dug deep into closets to get stuff that has never been released before – and pulled out some raw early stuff. “Tragic Dream” was a weird lullaby-esque track that Dead liked a lot, I think it was one of those things that Gehenna came up with when he was drunk and Dead then bugged him remember the riffs when he was sober. “Tragic Dream” was later on used as an intro to “Disgusting Semla”, but originally it was used as a beginning to “From the Dark”. The track “From the Dark” went through many many different arrangements, and all four guitarists contributed to it various ways. It proved very difficult to arrange, and one member even claim it should have been divided into three songs! This is an early recording, and as such it differs quite a lot from later versions. This version of “Wings of Funeral” predates the contributions later made by Napoleon Pukes, such as the guitar intro to the track that was added on “December Moon”. The live track “Necrodead” is taken from the very first gig (Ultrahuset April 26 1987), it is an encore version that never has been released and that will never be released anywhere else but through this SLAYER MAGAZINE release… The “12 is finished off with some true words spoken by the one and only Dead. It is taken from a SCAPEGOAT recording done by Dead and Gehenna - presumably in the bed room or something, (SCAPEGOAT later turned into MORBID) and is most likely recorded in ‘85.
The front cover is a slightly altered version of Dead’s suggestion for the cover of the reunion “7 that was planned to be recorded upon his return in ‘91. The back of the cover is Dead’s poster for the cancelled reunion gig, that Dead and I tried to pull together in ‘89. Both back and front have been skillfully retouched by Erik Danielsson. The insert has the original art work by Dead.

A side: 1. Tragic Dream/From the Dark
B side: 2. Wings of Funeral 3. Necrodead