I finally listen to Possessed! 

Very cool to see you listening to us, Sis. Stay Brutal. ~Jeff/Possessed~

dont care what anyone says ........... If you love 80s Metal, You owe it to yourself to listen to Infernal Majesty-None shall Defy.

Don't listen to anybody who says different, But Possessed is and will always will be the first DEATH METAL band.

I remember when i bought this records as it came out,it had such an impact on me.

Death... METAAAAAL!

Larry Lalonde from Primus would not be my first guess as to who the OG Possessed guitarist is 🤘

Possessed Seven Churches is dark masterpiece !!! ❤that band and that album .

10:31 That happens when you let Mr. Becerra and their legions of demons enter your mind and your soul by listening to Possessed 😈 Kaiya I just love watching you discover the metal. Just love it! 🤘

Being 54 and spending my teen years within the SF Bay Area Thrash scene, I was fortunate to have seen the original POSSESSED lineup 10 times in 1985 going into 1986 (short time before the release of “Seven Churches” and before the release of the their second album “Beyond The Gates). The first time was seeing them open for headliners VENOM & SLAYER at The Kabuki Theater and shortly later seeing them open for SLAYER again at The Stone. “Seven Churches” hadn’t been released yet, but SLAYER’s “Hell Awaits” was fairly new as was VENOM’s “Possessed” album. My third time was seeing POSSESSED open for DEATH ANGEL at the Mabuhay Gardens with SACRILEGE BC opening. The notable thing about this was that POSSESSED and DEATH ANGEL often played shows together in the Thrash scene, considering both were the youngest bands in the scene (original DEATH ANGEL drummer Andy Galeon was still around 12 years old at this time and all of the other members of both bands were still in high school). Also this show was one of the few times, I saw them play in just regular Tshirt and jeans as opposed to their usual leather & spikes (VENOM/Kerry King Satanic gear). And then the next time I got to see POSSESSED perform was when my obscure Death/Thrash band BLACK DETHE opened for them and DEATH ANGEL (this time POSSESSED headlined) on September 7, 1985. We also were a high school aged band. I was the drummer. We also opened for DEATH in November of 1985 (via Chuck Schuldiner’s brief Bay Area lineup pre- “Scream Bloody Gore”). I never got to see POSSESSED live again after the release of their 2nd album “Beyond The Gates”, though I had seen them preview a few of those tracks live (“Tribulation” “Phantasm” and “March To Die”). I have some fond memories of the band (including personal interactions with them), plus Chuck from DEATH and the Bay Area thrash scene in general. Glad you checked them out. Hope you listened to the entire “Seven Churches” album which was their primary live setlist in the clubs before they eventually recorded those songs for their debut release.

Fuck yes! Great choice. Possessed is an amazing band and the founders of the Death Metal genre. They're still one of my all time favorite bands. You owe it to yourself to listen to every single thing they ever released. I still have the original vinyl releases. I can tell you the original print sounds just as awesome.

Jeff becerra is the great vocal and possessed Always ' be great

These dudes were barely out of high school when they made this album. I got into this in the late 90s. Still a favorite. Still essential 🤘🏾🤘🏾

great tunes still today IMO. I didn't get this until the early 90s. I already had the Beyond the Gates and Eyes of Horror releases, but couldn't find this one until a few years later.

I saw Possessed last week with Suicidal Tendencies. My buddy's band FROLIC opened up and Possessed vocalist Jeff Becerra went into the pit for them in his wheelchair. Awesome show. These songs are so much better live.

If you end up listening to the rest of the album, next to the last song Death Metal is a song called Fallen Angel, for me always been the highlight of Seven Churches more than the ones everyone else goes on about, total package, starts off with a chime bell that goes in with the opening riff then the riff charges forward and steamrolls through the song, pretty catchy riff at that, with some more wild ass solo, Killer Jam🤘😎⸸⛧⸸💀🤘

I'll be seeing these guys at Milwaukee Metal Fest 2024. May 18th. I had this Album in the 80s

It might be hard for some to believe that Larry went on to do Primus something totally different than possessed but it shows how good the music was I remember this album when it came out I liked the music wasn't to into the vocals but I was listening to Judas priest Dio Metallica when ride the lightning came out it was definitely different than anything I ever heard before but I was locked upon yardville and Philly was definitely metal a long time ago

Wow, you're going way back to the beginning with this one. Metal homework ftw.🤘

For me the true fathers of death metal.

Love Possessed! Seven Churches is an iconic record 🤘🤘

8:39 Mayhem was a few years after. Maybe you've since listened to them, but Bathory (from Sweden) influenced black metal a lot, was around at the same time and sounds very similar - especially to the second track you played!

You should definitely do Necrophagist's album "Epitaph" next. The instrumentation is some of the best in the history of the death metal genre.

7:42 On this song sounding "black metal". Fenriz, Darkthrone's frontman was making a compilation called "Fenriz Presents: The Best of Old-School Black Metal". He got in contact with members of Possessed to ask if he could put one of their songs in the compilation because how influencial the band is to black metal history. But they refused becaused they didn't wanted to be associated with black metal. Maybe they though it distanced them from the claim that they are the first death metal band. Either way, even Fenriz though Possessed sounded like black metal so it's not something farfetched.

Hell yes been waiting for this!

Excellent music goes great with horror films

I love that you’re the type of person to listen and understand the uniqueness of this heavier darker music. Specifically all of these heavier bands that are very dark and very insane with insane obnoxious guitar playing and obnoxious vocals to the point where it’s a little hard to understand what he’s saying. Because normally that’s the type of thing that a lot of people bitch about is oh my God I can’t understand what he saying well guess what understanding what the singer is saying is for normal people. Where’s the fun in that because that’s the thing these bands are not like everybody else they’re not normal people because that’s just not who they are and they don’t want to be normal. Basically what bands like possessed wants to do is challenge and shock people as much as they can to me those are all the things that makes them unique and I feel like you truly understand that. Because that’s the thing normal people would not understand or get it when it comes to heavier crazier bands like possessed.

What you should do next is listen to the 1984 demos of both MANTAS (pre-Death) and POSSESSED - and then comment on which one you think sounds more Death Metal. It's fascinating to compare both of them - comparing Seven Churches and Scream Bloody Gore is fascinating too but comparing those 1984 demos gives you a glimpse of the reason it's so tough to work out who the true pioneers of Death Metal were. It's kind of subjective because both sounded advanced in different ways.

Oh yes, Possessed! I remembered trying to get some friends to listen to them, but wouldn't take the bait lol

Ive waited a while for this.....

Kingz of Death metal bra bra 🤘🏾🔥

"Beyond the gates" EP is their best. Ah, the summer of my 20 jahre…

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 😃🤘

PLEASE LISTEN TO WITCHFINDER GENERAL

This was me in 1983.

Venom was early black metal also. 🤘🤘🤘

We did a show with them too here in ATX lol & YES bay area thrash pioneers 🤘🔥💯👌🔥🤘

Good Homework! Classics are classics.

Arguably, the first Death metal band.

Death were going to cover the song the Exorcist, but Chuck Schuldiner couldn't figure out how to play it correctly. Cannibal Corpse covered the Exorcist, but it sounds like they slowed it down, and it sounded like they only played part of the song

Morbid angel covenant

I was a victim(?) of the satanic panic. I'll try keep it short. I was a kid/teenager in the 80s & 90s. Grew up in a small rural town. So of course, being into punk & metal I sometimes got the usual insults & whatnot. But there was a judge who was related to my parents neighbors. He was a religious nutjob. He was always accusing me of the most ridiculous things; had cops harass me & violate my rights constantly (which I wasn't fully aware of at the time.) He once even told my mom that he was gonna put me in jail for 6 months because I was a "devil worshipper." He didn't do that, but I was accused of things I didn't do (some of which nobody did; never happened) & was always convicted when I had to go to court. Even with absolutely zero evidence against me, such as passing a breath test with ALL ZEROS & no other tests were done - or credible alibis to prove I was nowhere near whatever I was accused of; the list goes on - none of that mattered. I was always convicted no matter what.

Fantastic 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Can someone get me a PRIST please 🥺 hahaha hail to the Death metal

I have the original lp and it sounds pretty much the same. The production of this album was pretty good, which sadly wasn't really the case with Possessed's 2nd album.

Crazy

Get in touch girl if you want me to send you my 7 Churches vinyl. Got Beyond the Gates too but the gatefold cover went missing years ago. Got no record player so they're fairly useless to me.

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How old are you? And, what was your gateway band? I ask for context as your channel was reccomended to me 🤔

listen to cradle of filth it will scare you more with his low n high screeching vocals yer hair will stand i aint kidding

I remember i had that album back in the days, wonder what i did with it, hmm....that exorcist intro i remember. Great album. Do they still exist? The album is from 1985.

I never bought it that they were a death metal band. They were Bay Area thrash band heavily influenced by Venom who just happened to have a song called ‘Death Metal’.

Primus

Is this really your first time or clickbait? Like how did you never hear of possessed lol same with slayer like are you completely new to metal 😂

yippee

Fun fact: the guitarist, Larry LaLonde, later went on to create the intro song for South Park.

So much reverrrrrrrb

The Big 3: Possessed, Sepultura and Slayer.

If you like death metal is mandatory to listen Pestilence - Testimony of Ancients (full album)

One of the first thrash bands. 🤘

Crucial listening :) I would say, the band is beyond overrated, at least when it's labeled as "the creators of DM and the most revolutionary band of all time and nothing ever topped Seven Churches and OMGOMGOMG The Exorcist is the heaviest and most evil and most complex song ever written and everything else is poser shit!!" (I heard all of these claims). But they are important to listen in any metal journey.

Boy, that drummer is pretty off-beat sometimes... still pretty okay (to me).

Whaaaaaaat!!! Never listened to this band before ...it's the anthem for metal heads ...seven churches beyond the gates and the eyes of horror sick brutal pus ready to rot that brain aye 🤘 anyway any metal head should have this in their bimlack indeed 😋🤘 hails !!