Embalmer Records Unearths Rare Metal Gems

Embalmer Records

Greg Kennelty, from Flemington in Hunterdon County, is something of an archeologist. He extracts rare metallic artifacts from the dustbin of time, polishes them off, and releases them on his new Embalmer Records label. As he says, “one of my biggest fears for the music world is losing pieces of history. Tapes degrade over time. Physical media gets lost over the course of decades. YouTube uploads get taken down or entire channels deleted. And once that last tape breaks, or the last upload goes away, we’ve lost something forever. I don’t want that to happen. The focus of Embalmer Records is to bring demos and releases that are hardly found anywhere to a wider audience. This means having them on streaming services, Bandcamp, and, of course re-pressed on tape and CD. I want these great bands to be enjoyed by a new audience and preserved for fans to easily discover. There’s a lot of great metal out there—and there’s a lot more great metal that you’ve probably never heard.” To that end, the first release of Kennelty’s Embalmer label will be the 1993 Buried Alive demo by a band called Know Death from Kentucky, described as “swamp stomp death metal.” Buried Alive has four studio creations with an unreleased ’92 show, all newly remastered in Sweden. To stream the first single, “Judgement Day”:  https://linktr.ee/KnowDeath. To pre-order:  https://knowdeath.bandcamp.com/album/buried-alive.


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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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