Question: Combat Records was an American independent record label from New York City, the label was home to predominantly metal and punk rock acts including Possessed, an American death metal band, originally formed in what year?

Context articles: Leprosy (album)
George Fisher (musician)
Possessed (band)
Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Combat Records
Scream Bloody Gore
Epitaph Records
Swedish death metal
Incantation (band)
Pathology (band)

Leprosy is the second studio album by American death metal band Death, released on August 12, 1988 by Combat Records.
 Notably different in tone and quality from the 1987 debut, it is the first example of Scott Burns' work heard on many of the death metal and grindcore albums of that era.
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 It is the first album to feature drummer Bill Andrews and the only one to feature guitarist Rick Rozz.
George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher (born July 8, 1969) is an American extreme metal vocalist for the American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, the lesser-known melodic death metal band Paths of Possession, and the lesser-known extreme metal supergroup Serpentine Dominion.
 He recorded two albums with Florida's Monstrosity before leaving and joining Cannibal Corpse in late 1995, replacing vocalist Chris Barnes, who is now the vocalist for Six Feet Under.
 He also provided guest vocals for New York technical death metal band Suffocation on the songs "Reincremation" and "Mass Obliteration" from their debut album, "Effigy of the Forgotten", as well as guest vocals for California deathcore band Suicide Silence on the song "Control" from their fourth album, "You Can't Stop Me".
 Fisher also performed guest vocals on Job for a Cowboy's 2014 album "Sun Eater" on the song "The Synthetic Sea."
 As a death metal vocalist, Fisher employs the "death growl" extended vocal technique.
Possessed is an American death metal band, originally formed in 1983.
 Noted for their fast style of playing and Jeff Becerra's guttural vocals, they are routinely called the first band in the death metal genre.
 After breaking up in 1987, and briefly reforming from 1990 to 1993, the band reformed under original bassist/vocalist Jeff Becerra in 2007.
 To date, the band has released two studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums and two EPs.
Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
 is the debut studio album by the American thrash metal band Megadeth released on June 12, 1985 by the independent record label Combat Records.
 At the beginning of 1985, the band was given $8,000 by Combat to record and produce its debut album.
 After spending half of the album's budget on drugs, alcohol and food, the band was forced to fire their original producer and produce the album themselves.
 Despite the resulting poor production, the album was a well-received effort that obtained strong reviews in various music publications.
 "Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!"
 played an essential role in establishing thrash metal as an authentic subgenre of heavy metal music.
 It explores themes of death, violence, and occultism.
Combat Records was an American independent record label from New York City.
 The label was home to predominantly metal and punk rock acts including Megadeth, Circle Jerks, Nuclear Assault, OZ, Death, Dead Brain Cells, Possessed, Crumbsuckers, Agnostic Front, Agent Steel, Dark Angel, Heathen, Zoetrope and Exodus.
Scream Bloody Gore is the debut studio album by American death metal band Death, released on May 25, 1987 by Combat Records.
 It was considered "the first true death metal record".
 Chuck Schuldiner plays bass and guitar, wrote all the songs on the album and provided all the vocals.
 John Hand is noted on the cover as playing rhythm guitar, though this was incorrect and Hand was only in the band for a short period and was not on the recording.
 This is also the only Death album to feature drummer Chris Reifert, who had joined for the "Mutilation" demo.
Epitaph Records is a Hollywood-based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz.
 The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record label.
 Gurewitz took the name from a King Crimson song of the same name.
 Throughout the 1980s and 1990s most of the bands on Epitaph were punk and pop punk groups, while there are many post-hardcore and bands signed to the label as well.
 A large portion of the record label, known as Hellcat Records, is owned by Tim Armstrong, frontman of the punk rock band Rancid.
 Several sister-labels also exist, such as ANTI-, Burning Heart Records, Fat Possum Records, Hellcat Records and Heart & Skull Records that have signed other types of bands.
 The label has recently been added to the Forza Horizon franchise as a radio station.
Swedish death metal is a death metal music scene developed in Sweden.
 Many Swedish death metal bands are associated with the melodic death metal movement, thus giving Swedish death metal a different sound from other variations of death metal.
 Unlike American death metal groups, the first Swedish bands were rooted in punk rock.
 Although Norway is known for its quantity of black metal, Gothenburg in Sweden has a large melodic death metal scene, while Stockholm is known for its more raw death metal scene.
Incantation is an American death metal band that was formed by John McEntee and Paul Ledney in 1989.
 They are one of the leaders in the New York City death metal scene along with fellow bands Suffocation, Mortician and Immolation, even though the band is currently located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
 To date the band has released ten full-length records, two live records, four EPs, two singles, three splits, one DVD, and three demos.
 Their most recent album "Profane Nexus" was released through Relapse Records in August 2017.
 The band have maintained a significant cult following and underground popularity since the 90s, and are considered to be highly influential on a range of later death metal bands including Dead Congregation, Grave Miasma, and Portal, who are often described as 'cavernous death metal'.
 Incantation's music frequently draws on anti-Christian, Satanic and occult themes, and the band is notable for mixing widely varied tempos into their music, often playing slow, down-tuned passages similar to those performed by death-doom bands like Autopsy.
Pathology is an American death metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 2006 by drummer Dave Astor (previously with The Locust and Cattle Decapitation).
 The band were signed to Victory Records for an over three-year period, but now are currently signed to Sevared Records, an independent New York-based death metal label.
 They are often considered one of the major names currently in the "slamming brutal death metal" genre of metal.