deathrashed: Death Squad - Into the Crypt (1994)

Information

Artist – Death Squad

Album – Into the Crypt

Label – Independent

Released – 1994

Type – Full-length

Genre – Death/Thrash; Death Metal; Thrash Metal

Notes

Videos

Full Album

Recording

Recorded at Harrow Productions, Losser, The Netherlands, in May 1994.
Co-mixed and co-produced by Death Squad.

Identifiers

Matrix / Runout: DYNAMIC 40719 * CYBER MUSIC *1894* D.S.01 *1

Additional

Into the Crypt is a self-released six-track debut recorded in May 1994 at Harrow Productions in Losser, Netherlands, co-produced by the band and originally mastered by Bernard Bod. Sonically it occupies a heavily rhythm-forward position in the Dutch death/thrash hybrid tradition — raw but intelligible guitar tone, unusually prominent bass for the genre, restrained blast-beat usage, and an overwhelming emphasis on riff construction over technical display — placing it stylistically adjacent to Thanatos and late-era Messiah rather than the Florida or Gothenburg scenes. The 1994 lineup of Heuverhorst and Hemink (guitars), ten Broeke (bass), Brink (drums), and Wenneker (vocals) recorded what remained an almost entirely buried release until dual reissues by Dark Symphonies and The Crypt in 2016 brought it to wider underground attention, cementing its status as one of the most substantive overlooked artifacts of the early-90s Dutch extreme metal scene.

Tracklist

1. And Jesus Wept...(Intro) – 00:45

2. Crypt – 02:52 >

The dungeons opened
Confront me
The blaze burns my eyes
Forsake me.

Sworn secrecy
House of death.
Bound by promise
Approval of signature

See where Christ’s blood,
Is streaming in the firmament.

In remembrance
Praise of lust.
Trivial memories
Be wiped out.

Cold is the sight
Yet intense heat.
Visions now seen
Behold the fucking crypt.

A silence disturbed, breath the foul and
Dark air

Below the known lands
Welcomes me a place even worse than
Death.

Insane I have become
In this shit my life is done.
Repentance is just a word
Now, when my soul is deadly hurt

3. Beneath the Shades – 03:32 >

As the sunlight has dimmed
Appear, moons with thousand faces.
Beg gathered within my mind
I will summon the ancient ones

Encounter manifestations of the unholy
Lead its strays in their way.
Thou, gods of the darkside, awake
And perform on me, beneath the shades.

Rite of shades, be spoken
In your presence I shall reside.

Screen me through strange dimensions
Open the ways to secret knowledge
Show me the hidden oder in chaos
Make me known to the roots of life

Don’t resist, hear their voices when they
Speak

I speak now in tongues
The evil ones prevail.
Sodom, burnt down in wraith of God
I resist the scorching flames.

Process, thou ghost go death.

Stare over mountains of madness
Dark stars gloom in the bright sky.
See the silenced sheep far away
With the swallowing abyss inbetween.

See the echoes repeating
The haunted visions from the altar.
Immortality within reach
When you speak the rite of shades

4. Oxidized – 03:34 >

Ionizing the blood-corpuscles
Haemorrhage is the be liquidated,
Medieval odours unleashed
As the unquenchable fire digests

‘Subtley’ in perforating a corpse
Fire-enzymes, the now consume the
Pulp.
All eroded innards are exterminated
Sockdologer before a fried death.
Mouth-cavity swollen by gaseous pus.
The bubbling methanic fumes gather.
Soon I’ll be reduced to carbon-dioxides.

Sustain the chemical metamorphosis
A steril tomb of charred remains

Oxidized

Inflammation of the bursten red eyes
Unrestainable pressure on the
Tymphanitis

Analyse the physical substance
A thermodynamic increase of entropy.

Eating the mucous secretion as dessert
Complications grow worse a the flames
Devour.

5. The Days You Worshipped Me – 06:33 >

As the mist magnifies
The naive shelter of My mind.
The stable statue I once was
A distance is now inbetween

Staring at the present
Fully estranged from life
Dogmatic dignity assumed.
Ornaments of My church
Now are shattered
By great disbelief.

But I am your God
Cursed thou shall be.

My creation lost
Alienation it grew
The swelling of blackness.
The dying of a day
Isd the end of a world
Containing the death of a God.

See the morningstar in the sky
All My light is blackened.
When the dawn is rising
Fair becomes foul, and foul becomes fair.

Solemn I will withdraw
The abyss will swallow you.
Underestimation of Evil
Seduced by the Lord of Darkness.

My last chapter with mankind
How sad and depressed I am.
Melancholy, when I recall
The days you worshipped Me.

My Might has become paralyzed
By the denial of My existence.

The Satan I once created
Blamed Me for My mistakes.
Rebellion against My authority
You won’t be shone upon no more

6. The Indoctrinated Ones – 03:54 >

Sunday morning sets
The church bells they toll.
A cross in the sky
See the rainbow alight.

Converting the elected ones
Before judgement day arrives.
Awaiting for your God to come.

Mutual inspiration to pray
Insinuated appearance of love.

Die, the indoctrinated ones.

Below the beautiful surface
Blackened waters, hypocrisy.

Clerical opinions clash
Children can’t conceive.
The unity in Christ
Is now blast.

By holy verses tied
Distanced from any discussion.
Chains of freed made fly
Its key along with the truth.

Life’s crossroads
Denied weakness.
Obey biblical orders
Anachronistic practice.

No affection
Abolishing Holy Commands.
Be banished to eternity
You fucking preacher of benefit.

7. Bless Me When I Die – 04:18 >

Frozen tears
Face God’s throne
A world lost
Quest for home.
Passing by
No more fright.
Spill the blood
Leave the final sight.

The call not yet received
But the lord of death will come to take
Me.
A flash in black
Claws of death
Taking off
My mortal coil.
Final scream
Bloodstained dagger
Feel the relief
Approach the silence.

Flee the intense pain
Flee the suffering
Flee the suffocation
Fleet the decadence.

Bless me when I die.

Transcending, end mortality
Cross death’s doors, ritual of dying.
No reconciliation, but intense hate
Slow annihilation, world grows cold.

8. Crucifixion (Outro) – 00:34

Total length: 26:02