Buried Beneath "The Last Rays Of The Moon" CD 1998

Yes, there was a Buried Beneath CD released, but it was 3 years after the band had split up. This CD came out the same year that the debut Night Conquers Day CD came out: 1998. It was released by a co-operation of 2 labels who were really into Buried Beneath: Majestic Union Records in Germany and Dark Trinity Productions in England. The whole thing came about in a strange way.....

Back in 1995 I had erased Eric's vocals off of 2 songs ("Spectrum Of Impurity" and "Into A Depressive Shade Of Crimson") and recorded my vocals onto them for a new promo (The 1995 promo). In some spare time in early 1997 I recorded my vocals over a few other songs from the 2nd and 3rd demo's. I also added in keyboard parts that I'd wanted to add but didn't before because the other guys in the band weren't into it. I picked my favorite tracks and ones I wrote. It was Majestic Union Records who first approached me about releasing a CD of Buried Beneath material, and I told him how I had recorded my voice over some songs and enhanced some older songs with atmospheric keyboards. He paid for me to then take the reels and go to a pro studio to mix and master the whole thing. And to my ears this CD represents the best Buried Beneath could sound. On one track I left original vocalist Jason's vocals on it ("Make Them Die Slowly"). He has the deep grunting style like Cannibal Corpse. But I added a lil reverb and echo and it makes it sound more evil. He reminds me a bit of the Seance (swe) vocals on the debut CD "Fornever Laid To Rest". Anyways, this CD was just a collection of "fixed" demo songs that had my vocals and some added keyboards. But there is one bonus on this CD. The last song was actually recorded at the same time as the debut Night Conquers Day CD sessions. We never used it for the debut CD because it was really a Buried Beneath song, the last song written as Buried Beneath, and it wasn't going to fit on the CD so since it wasn't going onto the NCD album I included it on this CD as a bonus track. On just that song I perform the drums, guitars, keys, and vocals while Tim does the bass. Fucking confusing, isn't it?

"The Last Rays Of The Moon" 1998 CD

1.	Reveal the Legacy (Intro)
2.	A Fate Worse Than Death
3.	Remember Salem
4.	Make Them Die Slowly
5.	Wallowing in Misery
6.	Forgotten Not the Natural Splendour
7.	Gothic Sorrow (Intro)
8.	Into a Depressive Shade of Crimson
9.	Spectrum of Impurity
10.	In Fields of Green I Wander...

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Tracks 1 - 4 from demo '93 "Vivisect The Virgin Mary".
Tracks 5 - 9 from demo '94 "...And This Too Shall Pass Away".
Track 10 is the last written Buried Beneath track, recorded in '96 during the sessions for the Night Conquers Day debut album.
All original vocals (except on track 4) were deleted and re-recorded by Mikael from '95 to '97.
Line-ups:
Mikael: All Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards (and Drums on track 10)
Tim Miller: Bass
Shane Kendall: Drums (except track 10)
Jason Vandemark: Vocals on track 4

"The Last Rays of the Moon" was originally supposed to be the title of a 7" EP to be released in 1995 by a Slovakian label, which never came out because the label ripped us off.
CD co-released by Dark Trinity Productions (UK) and Majestic Union (Germany), 1000 copies made (not numbered though).
What's cool about the whole CD booklet is that I made the design the old cut and paste way and sent the originals to the labels layout people who then photographed it and each page of the booklet has various old Bio Sheet drawings done by various underground artists for us back in '92-'94. Plus old band pics, lyrics, logos, seals and a one page diatribe about the CD itself. 

This CD was the final requiem of Buried Beneath.
1992-1995. R.I.P.