BENEDICTION

Emerging in the late 1980s, the hard-drinking British death metal band Benediction assembled around an original lineup of vocalist Barney Greenaway, guitarists Peter Rewinski and Darren Brookes, bassist Paul Adams and drummer Ian Treacy. Their first LP, Subconscious Terror, appeared in 1990. Greenaway had already exited by the time of Grand Leveller in 1992 and would later surface in Napalm Death, with Karl Willetts taking over on vocals. Trancend the Rubicon arrived the following year in 1993, and Benediction issued Dreams You Dread in 1995. Following a three-year hiatus, the group returned with Grind Bastard.