Demolition Hammer

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Demolition Hammer were a thrash/death metal band hailing from the Bronx New York who have seemingly been forgotten amongst the metal community. After two demo tapes, they finally got picked up by Century Media records after Robert Kampf (from Century Media) was in America for the Foundations Forum and came to watch both Demolition Hammer and Prime Evil rehearse. The original line-up consisted of Steve Reynolds, James Reilly, Derek Sykes and Vincent Civitano, more commonly known as Vinny Daze. The band's first two albums, 1990's Tortured Existence and 1992's Epidemic of Violence, illustrate the band's guitar riff-laden, full-fledged brutal thrash approach.

After both records, Reynolds and Sykes decided that they wanted to slow down the music slightly, which lead to the departure of both Daze and Reilly. After this, Reynolds and Sykes recruited drummer Alex Marquez, who is best known for playing in the bands Malevolent Creation and Solstice, and recorded 1994's Time Bomb as a trio, going for a direction similar to that of Pantera.

Time Bomb was the proverbial swan song for the band, and they have since faded into obscurity. All three albums have sadly been out of print and seemingly forgotten for quite some time, and drummer Vinny Daze died from an undiagnosed genetic heart condition on March 11, 1996.

[edit] Discography

• Skull Fracturing Nightmare (demo, 1988)
• Necrology (demo, 1989)
• Tortured Existence (1991)
• Epidemic of Violence (1992)
• Time Bomb (1994)

[edit] Members

• Steve Reynolds - Bass, Vocals
• Derek Sykes - Guitar
• James Reilly - Guitar
• Alex Marquez - Drums
• Dennis Munoz - Guitar on Time Bomb
• Vinny Daze - Drums R.I.P. (died March 11, 1996)
• John Salerno - Drums