The hard-drinking British death metal band Benediction formed during the late 1980s; originally comprised of vocalist Barney Greenaway, guitarists Peter Rewinski and Darren Brookes, bassist Paul Adams and drummer Ian Treacy, they made their LP debut in 1990 with Subconscious Terror. By 1992's Grand Leveller, Greenaway had left the band, later surfacing in Napalm Death; his replacement was vocalist Karl Willetts. Trancend the Rubicon followed in 1993, and in 1995 Benediction issued Dreams You Dread. After a three-year hiatus, they returned with Grind Bastard.

CURRENT LINE-UP:

Darren Brookes : Guitars (1988-)
Peter Rew : Guitars (1988-)
Frank Healy : Bass (1991-) (Cerebral Fix)
Dave Hunt : Vocals (1998-) (Anaal Nathrakh, Mistress)
Nicholas Howard Barker : Drums (2005-) (Dimmu Borgir, Old Man's Child, Lockup, Brujeria, Monolith, Cradle of Filth, Driven By Suffering, Catalepsy, Testament)

 

FORMER MEMBERS:

Vocals:
Barney Greenway (1988-1991) (Colostomy, Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror)
Dave Ingram (1991-1998) (Atobic, Bolt Thrower, Warlord)

Bass:
Paul Adams (1988-1991) (Absolution)

Drums:
Ian Treacy (1988-1993) (Meathook Seed)
Paul Brookes (1994) (Sacrilege, Marshall Law)
Neil Hutton (1994-2005) (Stampin' Ground, Warlord)

 

The Dreams You Dread (Demo 1990)

1.)Experimental Stage

2.)Subconscious Terror

3.)Artifacted Irreligion

4.)Bonesaw

Subconscious Terror (1990)

1.)Intro: Portal To Your Phobias

2.)Subconscious Terror

3.)Artefacted Irreligion

4.)Grizzled Finale

5.)Eternal Eclipse

6.)Experimental Stage

7.)Suspended Animation

8.)Divine Ultimatum

9.)Spit Forth The Dead

10.)Confess All Goodness

Grand Leveller (1991)

1.)Vision In The Shroud

2.)Graveworm

3.)Jumping At Shadows

4.)Opulence Of The Absolute

5.)Child Of Sin

6.)Undirected Aggression

7.)Born In A Fever

8.)The Grand Leveller

9.)Senile Dementia

10.)Return To The Eve

Return To The Eve (Single 1991)

1.)Return To The Eve

2.)The Grand Leveller

3.)Senile Dementia

Experimental Stage (Single 1992)

1.)Experimental Stage (Re-recorded version)

2.)The Grand Leveller

3.)Senile Dementia

Dark Is The Season (EP 1992)

1.)Foetus Noose

2.)Forged In Fire

3.)Dark Is The Season

4.)Jumping At Shadows

5.)Experimental Stage

Transcend The Rubicon (1993)

1.)Unfound Mortality

2.)Nightfear

3.)Paradox Alley

4.)I Bow To None

5.)Painted Skulls

6.)Violation Domain

7.)Face Without Soul

8.)Bleakhouse

9.)Blood From Stone

10.)Wrong Side Of The Grave

11.)Artefacted/Spit Forth

12.)Saneless Theroy (Live)

13.)Deadfall (Live)

Notes: Tracks 12 and 13 are bonus tracks on a more recent re-release of the album.

The Grotesque/Ashen Epitaph (EP 1994)

1.)The Grotesque

2.)Ashen Epitaph

3.)Violation Domain (Live)

4.)Subconscious Terror (Live)

5.)Visions In The Shroud (Live)

The Dreams You Dread (1995)

1.)Down On Whores (Leave Them All For Dead)

2.)Certified...?

3.)Soulstream

4.)Where Flies Are Born

5.)Answer To Me

6.)Griefgiver

7.)Denial

8.)Negative Growth

9.)Path Of The Serpent

10.)Saneless Theroy

11.)The Dreams You Dread

Grind Bastard (1998)

1.)Deadfall

2.)Agonised

3.)West Of Hell

4.)Magnificat

5.)Nervebomb

6.)Electric Eye

7.)Grind Bastard

8.)Shadow World

9.)The Bodiless

10.)Carcinoma Angel

11.)We The Freed

12.)Destroyer

13.)I

Notes: "Electric Eye" is a Judas Priest cover and "Destroyer" is a Twisted Sister cover.

Organized Chaos (2001)

1.)Suicide Rebellion

2.)Stigmata

3.)Suffering Feeds Me

4.)Diary Of A Killer

5.)The Temple Of Set

6.)Nothing On The Inside

7.)Easy Way To Die

8.)Don't Look In The Mirror

9.)This Graveyard Earth

10.)Charon

11.)I Am The Disease

12.)Organized Chaos