PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED / UNCIRCULATED DEMO. Recorded 1983 on cassette 4 track featuring the original versions of what would become both Kilslug and/or Groinoids tracks.
January 2018 mix by Black Operations at Big Daddy's request. No new mixing of individual instrument tracks, only minimal new mixing of vocal level and stereo enhancement to the original 'left speaker : vocals / right speaker : instruments' rough mix of master copy. No additional effects used barring minimal bass & treble work to the original instruments rough mix and minimal reverb added to the new vocals mix.
Big Daddy : drums
Cheez : bass
Mongoloid : guitar
Billy Gallagher : vocals
Morticia Morgue existed briefly from 1982-83 having formed around the time The Sickness (Big Daddy, Larry Lifeless) split up and The Groinoids (Big Daddy, Cheez, Mongoloid, Rico Petroleum) was being dissolved. Basically, Cheez and Mongoloid formed Morticia Morgue and Rico Petroleum and Larry Lifeless formed Kilslug. Big Daddy soon followed joining both Morticia Morgue on drums (replacing original drummer Sluggo) and Kilslug on bass.
Only mentioned by name in one early Kilslug interview, Morticia Morgue are unknown outside of Kilslug's initial circle having only played 2 or 3 local gigs and never releasing their only recording, a roughly mixed demo recorded on cassette 4 track at their rehearsal space, convincing Billy Gallagher, a friend there at the time who'd never been in a band before or since, to do vocals. Larry Kelley also played guitar briefly.
After Kilslug had some line-up changes with Big Daddy moving from bass onto drums, Cheez and Mongoloid also joined on bass and guitar respectively to combine the two bands and form what became the classic album line-up of Kilslug (Larry Lifeless, Rico Petroleum, Mongoloid, Cheez, Big Daddy) with most of Morticia Morgue's material also becoming Kilslug tracks and shape the innovative sound and style Kilslug would become known for and after the band imploded would be continued by a reformed Groinoids, Upsidedown Cross, Ointment, Adolf Satan and other related bands before eventually coming full circle back to Kilslug.
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