The cassette we self-produced in 1986 wasn’t exactly a demo, we considered it our first record (not as in “vinyl” but as in “recording”). If you go by the Wikipedia definition, a demonstration recording is an approximation of ideas which, by way of limited funds, experience and general knowledge, this certainly was. However, we weren’t interested in a “limited circulation”. We sold the tape for a few bucks to be consumed by the general public, the wider the range of our audience the better. It wasn’t easy up there in Humboldt trying to reach a wider audience with amateurishly played thrash metal especially if you threw in the occasional Monkees or Run DMC song. But I guess you have to call that first recording a demo. So the new, professionally recorded and produced album, mixed by wizards, digitally enhanced by 1s and 0s, distributed worldwide by petrol and post offices adds the qualification of “demo”. The second precedes the first. Hysteron proteron of sorts. Let’s just call it an approximation of my adolescence.