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Know Death opened for Motörhead on their 1994 Bastards tour - and if they’re good enough for Lemmy, they’re good enough for your non-Lemmy ears too.

Check out the Embalmer Records reissue of Know Death’s 1993 demo Buried Alive NOW on all streaming services and Bandcamp! It’s got a whole live show as bonus tracks. Not this show, but still. It’s way good.

The live album you’re hearing on our reissue of Know Death’s 1993 demo Buried Alive has a really interesting story behind it!

The show was called Pick Your Knows, where fans were tasked with voting on which songs Know Death would record for their Buried Alive demo. What you’re seeing above is the actual ballot the band gave out prior to the show. Fans would check off the songs they liked, Know Death tallied ‘em up, and ultimately recorded the four fan favorites for their demo. Unfortunately the first song “Hagetha Wants Blood” couldn’t be salvaged from the original tape, as roughly the first half was totally cut off.

I also thought it was cool that the fans didn’t just vote for the first four songs they heard – clearly they were into it! I’m thrilled the band decided to include the show as a part of this re-release – it’s never been released in any format before, and people need to hear it! As great as the show sounds (and as great as the band played), I think the real star is the announcer between songs. Dude’s got no filter.

A bit of trivia - all three bands I'm currently working with have never been available digitally, and have never been reissued in any capacity. All three only released one (awesome) demo each an then faded away.

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