Release Date: January 13, 2022
FFO: Slayer, S.O.D, Exciter
Location: Ottawa, Canada
From Ottawa Metal '80s - '90s by Randy Chase.
"When
I was 15-16, one of my first "bands" was the kind where you've got a
band logo drawn before you even have a song. We were called
Assassin--just me on drums and Darcy on guitar. He was the first
guitarist I ever knew who played real METAL guitar. Impressed the hell
out of me. We jammed only a few times, and that was all for Assassin.
All that remains is the logo (in a box somewhere). Darcy Rawlins went on
to form Fetus Aftermath in 1991. By the end of the 1990s, his band
released two demo tapes (1994, 1995) and an album called 'Everything
Disgusting And Vile' (1999). Here's a track from the first Fetus
Aftermath demo: http://goo.gl/ZZ1ACY. And a later (but still young) photo of Darcy from the Fetus Aftermath MySpace page ( https://myspace.com/
FETUS AFTERMATH: “THE ALTER” DEMO (1994)
“We
never had the grander look of things, or else we wouldn’t have called
the band what it was,” said Darcy Rawlins of his band, Fetus Aftermath,
on a recent radio interview with CKCU’s ‘Meltdown.’ Love it or hate it,
he added, you’ll remember it. After befriending Disciples of Power
during their stay in Ottawa around 1990, Darcy and Sean McArthur
followed them back to Edmonton, where Fetus Aftermath was, uh, born in
1991. Returning to Ottawa, Darcy found guitarist Ray Fortier, who in
turn recruited his drummer friend, Frank. A nice bonus about Frank was
that he already had a rehearsal space in the CHEZ-106 building (126 York
St.) --- the mecca of the thrash and death metal scene in Ottawa at the
time. In 1994, Fetus Aftermath recorded a demo at Rock’s Wonderland,
just around the corner from CHEZ. The three-song cassette, called ‘The
Alter’, was sold in Ottawa at Record Runner, but also distributed in
other cities, with a clever distribution tracking technique: white
labels for Ottawa, green for Montreal and red for Toronto. You can
stream the full 1994 demo on YouTube [https://bit.ly/2D9L39i] or download it directly from F.A.'s old Angelfire (!!) website: https://bit.ly/2RxoQLm
According to their 2018 Meltdown interview, Fetus Aftermath had
previously been to CKCU for an interview in 1994, to promote their demo.
The band was drunk and a bit unruly, apparently; a real handful for the
host: “We probably gave him a heart attack,” says Darcy in the recent
sober and gentlemanly interview with Dmitri on Feb. 19th last year.
You can listen to the full Fetus Aftermath interview, with music and talk about the old Ottawa metal scene of the ‘90s, here: https://cod.ckcufm.com/
All three songs on the 1994 demo were re-recorded for their 1999 CD album on Withdrawl Records, ‘Everything Disgusting And Vile.’ The 1999 line-up of Fetus Aftermath has reunited and will likely re- appear on the Ottawa scene in 2019
Check out the video!
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