Eternity – One Minute to Destruction

Eternity
One Minute to Destruction
1992 (no label)
Missouri, USA

Chris Brown – Bass guitar
Jeff Grady – Guitars
Kelly Matthews – Drums, vocals

Side 1:

1. Destructive Times
2. Play the Game
3. Stature of Sorrow
4. Tribulation
5. Open the Door
6. Last Rights
7. Your Time Hath Come

Side 2:

1. He is Resurrected
2. Demons Breath
3. The Fire Below
4. Eternal Gift
5. Prelude to Apocalypse

This tape starts off with an almost thrash metal song that seems to pull back just shy of moshing out. But then they go for a commercial metal sound on the second song. The rest of the tape is kind of riding a line between thrash , power, traditional, and commercial metal (which is really what a lot of thrash bands were doing in the early 90s). “He is Resurrected” really does cross the line into thrash, though. Then the next song (“Demon’s Breath”) has a riff that is very reminiscent of “Sex Type Thing” by Stone Temple Pilots (except in a metal form).  They had two more demos after this in 1993 (Denounced and Follow Me), before changing vocalists and band name to Lordchain in 1996. Grady and Matthews also went on to form Step Cousin in 2000.

Missing: Full scan of j-card and tape