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Jeff Becerra - vocals
Emilio Marquez - drums
Tony Campos - bass
Kelly Mclauchlin - guitar
Daniel Gonzalez - guitar
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Genre: Thrash Metal
Origin: United States
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Possessed started with Mike Torrao (guitar) and Mike Sus (drums) as a garage band in San Francisco's Bay Area. They formed in 1983, and were basically a garage band, with several lineup changes. Late in 1983, though, their singer Barry Fisk committed suicide, and they managed to get a new singer/bassist in Jeff Becerra.
Jeff was fronting a local commercial-style metal band before he quit to join Possessed. (Also involved in this band were future Possessed guitarist Larry Lalonde and the band's future manager, Debbie Abono.) Jeff and the two Mikes, along with second guitarist Brian Montana, started perfecting their own brand of metal which was the precursor to modern death metal - very fast, savage riffs, warp-speed drums, mile-a-second solos, and the raspy growl of the vocals later perfected by Chuck Schuldiner of Death. (In fact, Chuck's vocals on "Scream Bloody
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