Wooden Stake has unearthed its diabolical past with this collection of all the early demo and EP material! You get over 70 minutes of their original, dark, heart-impaling Doom Metal featuring all of the songs from the following out-of-print releases: 'Black Caped Carnivore' 7? EP, 'Invoke the Ageless Witch' 7? EP, split 7? EP w/Druid Lord, split CD w/Blizaro, 'Vampire Plague Exorcism' demo, as well as a brand new song ("Night of the Banshee") recorded exclusively for this release! The band have always striked as sounding like early Obituary meets Jex Thoth with a side order of Hellhammer. It is primitive, ritualistic and sometimes pretty rough around the edges but that gives the band a certain charm. Obsessed with ghoulish horror films, the occult and sabbathian lumbering riffs, Wooden Stake could easily be passed off as another Acid Witch, Hooded Menace kind of band but they sound nothing like those bands at all. Their releases are almost worth buying just for the voice of Vanessa Nocera alone. She has such a diverse vocal approach that is easily up there with any of the doom-metal front-men/vocalists in the world today. Wooden Stake are a classic "cult-band" in every extreme. Everything from the artwork down to the raw, primitive production screams underground metal but it is the doom metal/black metal/old-school death metal blend that is really addictive here.