40 Years of Chaos · EP.03 — Demo 4, 1993

July 1993. Eight tracks, a self-produced cassette, Falconara, a Tascam Porta One. Side A held Revenge, Pleasure Dome, Worse than Death and Say Your Prayers. Side B held Night Drive, The Girl, The Child Within and Kids War.

The credits list Giovanni Rovatti on guitars and lead vocal, Francesco Olivi on lead guitar, Mauro Pacetti on bass and screams, Corrado Di Noto on drums, with V. Pertosa as special guest on lead guitar for Worse than Death. Recording and mixing were handled by Giovanni Rovatti himself on the Porta One. Two of these tracks, Pleasure Dome and Night Drive, would resurface years later on Icon of Sin.

The title was the point. The first demo under the new name was numbered four because the three preceding works, Near the Graveyard in 1988, Sons of Rhan in 1989 and Into the Crypta in 1991, had been released as Hydra. This was the fourth demo of the same collective body of writing. As Mauro put it, changing name didn't mean throwing everything away: not a reset, but a mutation. The tape travelled on a photocopied flyer stamped AYDRA THRASH METAL MANIAC, 7,000 lire plus shipping, care of G. Rovatti.