Merauder are a hardcore band from New York founded in 1990 and integral in helping integrate a heavy metallic sound into the hardcore scene. While the band is known best for their debut album Master Killer, they were working on the songs with different lineups for years before its release. In 1993, the group, which featured a singer by the name of Minus at the time, released a demo with some of those songs that would later be featured on Master Killer, "Life Is Pain" and "Besiege The Masses" as well as "Final War" which would end up on Five Deadly Venoms in 1999. This is an early piece of Merauder history, a roadmap to where they would go just a year later. This orignal Merauder 1993 demo tape is in VG+ condtion.