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Fatal Agenda EARLY DEMOS 1998 -1999 "In The Beginning"

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Channel: Cat Damon · 2017 · Music

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Fatal Agenda's earliest board track recordings.  
(PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE LISTENING)

For practical purposes, this does not represent the current sound of Fatal Agenda today. This is how it began.
I ONLY  put this on here for the family and friends of the late guitarist Dean C. Jones.

This is the late 90's earliest version of the band Fatal Agenda.  This group of songs was recorded through a time period using an 8 track Tascam analog recorded and transferred to digital through a computer sometime in the mid-2000s.
Since I'm the only original member left of Fatal Agenda I decided to put together the early demos and recordings under one album title called "The Beginning" as I organize, copyright, and assemble my scrap pile of shit recordings. 

"The Beginning" ...

Caterson Damon- All Vocals
Dean C. Jones- Rhythm Guitar 
Jerod Edwardson- Drums

Mike Foster- Bass Guitar

* JD Steele- Lead Guitar  (JD formerly of my group Metal Storm was brought into Fatal Agenda to beef up the guitar sound.  He never played on any of the demos except for stronger rhythm guitar parts.  He remained with the group after I split for a moment, they cut a demo somewhere with a different singer and broke up for only a few months, JD and I reassembled Fatal Agenda shortly after however, JD didn't stick around long enough to appear on the first full-length album  "Hell on Earth" in 2006)

TRACKS...

00:00 Welcome To Hell (naturally one of mine that I brought to the group)

03:40   01 Black Dove   (This was an early song with me, Dean, and Jerod on the multi-track analog Tascam.  The song is about myself as a character at what I thought of myself to the people who saw me (Caterson Damon).  I always felt I had wings that I could use but didn’t know how to use them hence “I am a black dove”.

07:05    02 Starving  (Trying to shoot for a more Jim Morrison type of poet-styled song.  Expressing how many things in life some of us want and we never get.  It's also about consumption at a very large rate; meaning anything a person can get their hands on like money, food, power, sex...etc but always feeling like something is missing. )

10:37    03  Victim of Another Day (This is the first song to feature the drummer's cousin Mike on the bass so we could have a bass player live.   The song is about getting older and having to fit the mold’ of society (wake up, go to work, punch the clock...etc.  I always knew this life would not be for me and I was right.

13:35    04 A Hint Of Evil  (A witty tongue twister about a leather dominatrix who takes pleasure in humiliating men.  The girl on the audio track was lifted from one of our answer machines featuring Kari Yates, It has nothing to do with the song lyrics but Dean thought it was funny and went with it and so I did it.)

17:24    05 Project A”   (Some song written by the bass player that I did to make him happy. Something to do with aliens is all I can gather.  Kind of a shitty song but so isn't this era of Fatal Agenda.)

21:19   06 Sorcerer Of Fate  (quality not good) However I put it on here because It is the last song the late Fatal Agenda guitarist Dean C. Jones ever wrote/recorded with me. I had taken the audio from a live recording of it from a boombox with the purpose of writing lyrics for it and I never did thus it was left on the board of recordings for a decade unfinished and it will remain that way forever.  Enjoy the music, This is some of my best vocals here. )

26:13  07 Everyone (This song is literally nothing. I tried writing neutral songs with lyrics about nothing. At the time my satanic lyrics made the religious bass player unhappy so I just wrote the next one about nothing to make  'everyone' happy.

30:23 08 Alone   (shitty quality but I was proud of this song!  Dean was amazing and so was Jerod and I had written these lyrics about my late Grandfather

33:53  09 Frostbite ( I wrote this song about a story I heard from a man who survived nearly being frozen alive in sub-degree weather.  All of his fingers and toes turned purple and fell off.-6

39:36   10 Kate  (This goofy song has two stories.  Originally I wrote the lyrics for my 'strange crush' I had for the actress Kate Winslet way back then.

42:30  11 Paranoid (originally performed by Black Sabbath.)   We (Jerod, Dean, and myself) always like grooving on this song.  

44:56   12 Raven-Fist  (Really bad audio did my best with the sound from a tape demo, It's a comical song written about Dave Vogel and of course Jim Beam who would join the group as the bass player years later ironically.

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