METALLIAN - Ripping Corpse

April 17th, Anno 23

Dreaming With The Dead - 1991 - Kraze/Under One Flag

Members

Vocals

The Beast>>Scott Ruth>>The Beast, The Conspiracy Chronicles

Guitar

The Beast>>SHAUNE KELLEY>>The Beast, Hate Eternal, Hydrocephalic, Flesh Consumed - Erik Rutan>>Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, Alas, Cannibal Corpse

Bass

Dave Bizzigotti>>Cursed, Unknown Cure, Speed, Kill, Hate, A Pale Horse Named Death, Helmer

Drum

Dirge>>BRANDON THOMAS>>Dirge, The Dying Light, Burnt By The Sun

History & Biography

Concurrent The Beast members singer Ruth and guitarist Kelley had founded the band in March 1987. Early deathrash band Ripping Corpse was based out of New Jersey and was active between 1987 and 1993. At that point guitarist Erik Rutan had joined Morbid Angel and bassist Scott Hornick would leave too, but several members quickly regrouped in Dim Mak. Guitarist Shaune Kelley and Rutan would briefly reunite in Hate Eternal years later.

Kreator’s Pleasure To Kill album contained a song called Ripping Corpse. The two initial members had conceived of Ripping Corpse as a side-project to play Kreator cover versions at first before progressing to make an original band. Death Warmed Over was the 1987 demo and was taped when the band was two months old. The act played its first gig with The Worst and Blitspere. Splattered Remains was the 1988 demo. The act played with bands like Bloodfeast, Deceased and Immolation. The song The Unblessed appeared on the New Renaissance Records’ Satan's Revenge Part II compilation. The label had obtained the rights for another song for another compilation, but that one was AWOL. The 1990 Demo 3 a.k.a. Glorious Depravity featured Erik Rutan now. A band called Glorious Depravity came out of New York in 2017 incidentally.

Canadian label Maze/Kraze and Under One Flag/Music For Nations released the group’s sole record in the middle of 1991. Maze had signed the band for five albums. The group had rejected an Earache contract. The band wrote about horror, social issues, against conservatism and yet there were tracks about necrophilia (Kraze had excluded the track Exhumation Day from the album for this purpose) and a song called Deeper Demons about porn star Colleen Marie Applegate a.ka. Shauna Grant who had committed suicide.

The group witnessed someone getting stabbed at its concert at this point. A demo called Industry, with bassist Scott Hornick, was just that and meant to garner a deal, but the act fell apart after recording more music that went unreleased.

Shaun, Scott and Brandon were Dim Mak as of 1996. Erik Rutan recorded Dim Mak’s early albums. If the band’s logo is reminiscent of Carcass’ it may be because Ripping Corpse bordered on grindcore sometimes.

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