{"id":3057,"date":"1986-04-01T00:00:21","date_gmt":"1986-04-01T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2012-06-10T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T01:01:00","slug":"demo-review-hellhound-submit-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-hellhound-submit-or-die\/","title":{"rendered":"HELLHOUND – Submit Or Die (1985) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

HELLHOUND<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nSubmit Or Die (1985)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A five-piece unit from Sunnyvale, California, Hellhound sound pretty heavy. They\u2019ve been around since 1981 and until last year made a living playing Venom, Slayer<\/a>, Angelwitch and Iron Maiden covers. Since the addition of vocalist Mike Walish though, they\u2019ve blossomed out into an original, heavy duty act.<\/p>\n

Hellhound deliberately stay away from the juvenile \u201csex, drugs and rock\u2019n\u2019roll\u201d lyrics and write more about everyday life. They write about actual events in the history of this fair planet as well as in their own life, and they also steer clear of writing about nuclear war and Satanism.<\/p>\n

If you can imagine what Queensr\u00ffche were doing at the beginning of their career, mixed with lethal doses of Fates Warning, Omen, Jag Panzer etc., then you\u2019ve got where Hellhound are at. They\u2019re not perfect, but they\u2019ve certainly got the edge above many a signed act.<\/p>\n

The six-track demo is impressive in its heavy approach and, at times, such as on the killer \u2018Flee The Bomb\u2019 (which isn\u2019t about nuclear war) and the exceptionally heavy\u2019n\u2019fast \u2018Killing Spree\u2019, they just simply swamp you with a wall of sound. By the way, \u2018Killing Spree\u2019 is all about the Southern California McDonald\u2019s massacre.<\/p>\n

The band, whose line-up boasts Steve Pelletier (drums), Rich Pelletier (bass), Robert Kolowitz (guitar), Bob Edwards (guitar) and the aforementioned Walish, are due to release a second demo shortly. The Submit Or Die<\/em> demo reviewed here was recorded at a 16-track studio, so they have the means to produce another solid piece of product I should think. Watch out for \u2019em.<\/p>\n

Dave Reynolds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 17 (1986)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HELLHOUND Submit Or Die (1985) A five-piece unit from Sunnyvale, California, Hellhound sound pretty heavy. They\u2019ve been around since 1981 and until last year made a living playing Venom, Slayer, Angelwitch and Iron Maiden covers. Since the addition of vocalist Mike Walish though, they\u2019ve blossomed out into an original, heavy duty act. Hellhound deliberately stay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-hellhound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5863,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}