Homicide – Black Crusade (Demo 1998)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Intro 03:05
2. Eternal Grave 04:38
3. Black Crusade 04:50
4. Raped By The Cross 04:49
5. Unique Power 03:08

Homicide was formed in the winter of 1996 by Shocker (guitars), M. (bass), Matarru (vocals) and Doomhammer (drums).
Their first songs that they composed incorporated some rough riffs

and black/thrash influences but set the foundations for further songwriting.
That line-up changed in august of 1997 when Mentor (guitars, ex-Zarathustra, ex-Dark Before Dawn) joined Homicide.
The existing songs were revised to include the second guitar.
With further songs created like "Black Crusade", "Raped By The Cross" and "Unique Power"

there was enough material to produce a demo tape.
"Black Crusade" was recorded and mixed by Mersus (Zarathustra, ex-Gospel Of The Horns, ex-Deströyer 666) in May of 1998.
Songwriting was continued and songs like "When Steel Gets Red", "Soulpath" and "Slaughter“s Legacy" were created.
In March of 1999 line-up changed again when Doomhammer left the band and was replaced by Mersus.
Meanwhile the band had some few gigs with Pentacle and Desaster.
Their debut "Slaughter`s Legacy" was recorded in January/February of 2000 in Milkmachine Studio 

and released in September through Undercover Records.
After a gig in May M. left the band and his sit on bass was taken by Necriz (ex-Zarathustra).
In January 2002 one more time a member left the band,

in this case Matarru finished his relation with Homicide and Necriz took over the vocals.
Their sophomore album entitled "Dale Of Lost Souls" was finally released in 2004

and published once more on the German label Undercover Records.

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