Charnel House - Prophesies of Terror (1991)

This is really, really bad. I've reviewed a lot of bad demos over the last couple of months. But this one might be the worst yet. The riffs are generic, the vocalist sucks, the playing is sloppy and the songs are boring. But what makes this demo so awful are the guitar solos. They are simply incompetent. The guy has no idea how to put together a solo, cutting in and out behind the background music. And when he does play, he misses notes. Finally, his tone is possibly the weakest solo tone I've ever heard. Simply dreadful, and painful to listen to. What makes this even more amazing is that it's from 1991. This could be excused if it was from 1985, but six years later there's no excuse.

FWIW, the band apparently went on to a reasonable career, eventually releasing a full-length album 10 years later. So they deserve some credit for sticking to it, because this demo is horrible.