Well, nothing new with this bootleg as it is just a re-issue of another bootleg titled "The first years" ! Well, all started with the CD out on 1991 on Turbo Records / JL USA called "The oath of black blood". This CD is supposedly a bootleg as Holocausto Vengeance never gave the permission to Turbo to release it. "The oath..." has been out of stock for a long time (the original Turbo version is still hard to find and expensive, but I think it's been re-issued recently). It featured the 1990 demo from this legendary band, "Demonomancy", plus 2 tracks taken from the 1991 EP "Dawn of Satan's Millennium". So in 1999 a bootleg called "The first years" was out on Metal Bastard / Aris recs., it was a re-issue of this sold-out unofficial album. It presented a different layout, with a picture of Holocausto on the front cover, and it came with a 4-page booklet. But "The first years" also went sold-out quickly, that's why this "Beast of damnation" CD came out recently, it ios EXACTLY the same music as on the 2 CDs mentioned above, the booklet is very similar to the one of "The first years" (same front cover and back cover...) but this time it's a 2-page booklet, one more time empty of any information regarding the musical content (even "the oath.." or "The 1st years" didn't mention where the tracks were taken from) : you have to guess by yourself that the recording on the CD is the demo + the EP tracks.

So, to be short : if you already have "The oath..." and/or "The first years", no need for you to buy this one unless you're a Holocausto maniac ; if you don't have any of the mentioned CD and if you like butal (grinding ?) black metal (BLASPHEMY...), you can get this bootleg.

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