Cyclone: 1985 demo available for download
The 1985 "In the Grip of Evil" demo cassette by Belgium's Cyclone has been made available for download at the Bang! Bang! metal demo blog. According to the blog post, "This three-song gem bears plenty of resemblance to Razor and 'Show No Mercy'-era Slayer, and landed the band a deal with Roadrunner Records, who released Cyclone's speed metal cult classic 'Brutal Destruction' the following year.
"At some point the band befriended a young Christian Olde Wolbers (Fear Factory guitarist who once toured in Korn) and taught him the ways of well-brewed Belgian metal. 'The guys who taught me were the guys from Cyclone,' he told Lords of Metal. 'Those guys were from an older generation then I was. They where The band from Belgium, you know.'"
Bang! Bang!, the weblog of Ian Christe (author of "Sound of the Beast" and host on Sirius Satellite Radio's Hard Attack), is dedicated to "celebrating the tradition of freely-traded heavy metal demo cassettes and preserving the pioneer spirit of the underground, one magnetic particle at a time."