Disavowed and the nocturnal silence

Dutch death-metal band Disavowed was formed in September 1994 under the name Nocturnal Silence. They immediately started writing their own material. After several shows their first demo ’Into the abcess’ was recorded in 1995 of which, despite the poor soundquality, some 150 were sold. Having built up a worthy reputation in their region they recorded a second demo with a better production,...

30/05/2001

Sceptic is proud of the Polish pope

The band formed in 1994 as TORMENTOR with the line-up of Dariusz Styczen’ (g), Jacek Hiro (g) and Maciek Zie&Mac254;ba (dr). A year later the name was changed to SCEPTIC and some personnel changes occurred. Jacek Mroz&Mac250;ek became a new guitar player replacing Dariusz Styczen’ while the vocal position was taken by Arek Stawiarski. It was this line-up that recorded the band’s...

28/05/2001

What does S.M.E.S. mean?

S.M.E.S. is a one man project from Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The music is a pleasure to listen especially when you realize everything is done at home and alone. He enjoys what he is doing and started way back in 1999. Till now he recorded the following items: 1999 -’Humans were the first plague’ demo 1 2000 -’I dont give...’ demo 2 2000...

22/05/2001

Veneral Disease kicks ass on stage

Veneral Disease was formed in early 1994 by Stefan, Ingo and Torsten. For all of them it was a very new experience to play music but one thing was completely set: The kind of music should be Death Metal.. And so Timo joined the band 1994 as a Vocalist. After countless hours of practising the decision was made to get a second...

22/05/2001

Corpsefucking Art interview

The band was formed in Rome in 1994. With the first line-up (Max - gurgling, Andrea - guitars, Fabio - bass, Marco - drums) and a different name during that wintertime, Enthralment (this was the name of the band) recorded their first demo called ’Eulogy Of Burning Christ’. The official sound was a slow and brutal death-metal influenced by Immolation and Incantation....

11/05/2001

Reprobation in a few linese

Reprobation was formed in south suburban Chicago by guitarist Rob Whitworth & drummer Mike Rees. Bassist Chuck Herrholz later joined and the band was eventually rounded out by vocalist Shawn Connors. With this lineup the band released the ’One Rotted Autopsy’ demo in September 1999. In May 2000 Shawn decided to switch to guitar & vocals and the band added new vocalist...

08/05/2001

King of the Fire: Melechesh

In mid 1993, MELECHESH, the black entity of the Mediterranean/Near East-Middle East was born, a malicious seed, being then a solo project of Melechesh Ashmedi. However by early '94, MELECHESH turned into a real and established band making them the First Band of such nature to ever exist in the Holy cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, composed of Melechesh Ashmedi (guitars /...

07/05/2001

Tides Of Darkness have dreams and dreams

In January 1998 a cruel idea circled within the brain of singer and bass player Husky Vocalvomiter: ’I fuckingly also want a fuckingly hard heavy metal combo!!!’. So he persuaded the second Band member Devy and another guy from our hometown, called Mark the Shredder to join as guitar-player. So we guys needed only a drummer to be lucky and we found...

29/04/2001

Ezurate more hateful and evil

Members: Noctis - Vokill Assault Blackthorn - 6 Strings Of Death Azentrius - 6 Strings Of Death Culg-Gath - Nuclear Bass Meltdown S.D. Hellstorm - Lucifer's Hammers Releases - ’Ezurate’ Demo '95 ’Possessed By The Demon’ demo '97 ’Infernal Dominatio’ full length 2000 interview with the guitarist Azentrius on 28-04-2001 Please give us a short introduction of yourself? Hail!! Ezurate is a...

28/04/2001

Sublustris wants to play on Dynamo Open Air

Sublustris originated from the band Canister, which arose in November 95. Canister line-up originally was: drummer Ton de Haan, martijn Weeda on bass, Sebastiaan den Oudsten on guitar and Niels Jensen also on guitar. February 96 the band knew some changes. Chiel Lozeman and Arjaan Kampman took hold of the microphones and Sebastiaan left the band. At this time the band's style...

23/04/2001

Night In Gales never used physical violence

Formed in 1995 Night in Gales has steadily grown as a death metal to keep an eye on. After three releases for Nuclear Blast the band signed with Massacre Records. The band also did numerous gigs with well known bands like Hypocrisy, In Flames, Dismember and always showed on stage that things kick bad ass. Also the style changed from death metal...

18/04/2001

Growing Cells is dreaming of riffs

The band began in 1996. Its members, who came from other bands, were looking for an own sound identity into the old thrash & death metal. In those days the band had three members: Alex (drums), ‘Cesc & Carles (guitars). But when their singer Elena joined the band they developed their style;melodic, fast & original, mixing the different ways of “metal”. At...

11/04/2001

Detonation ready to explode

Detonation started out as a three-piece in the summer of 1997 under the name Infernal Dream, which was changed into Detonation a year later, because of another band with (almost) the same name. The band then consisted of Koen Romeijn on vocals and guitar, Mike Ferguson on guitar and Thomas Kalksma on drums. The first couple of months the band rehearsed without...

02/04/2001

The burning passion of Divine Rapture

BIOGRAPHY Divine Rapture emerged in the early/mid 1990’s s a three piece organism founded by J.J. and Mike Hrubovcak in the Philadelphia area. Due to an intense marketing and promotion affort put forth by the brothrts, the first record created such an impact on the underground scene that the entity’s presence was soon felt in all 50 states and foreign markets such...

20/03/2001

Neocrima will not disappoint you

It is no wonder you did not find biography and discography - they simply do not have those on this page so far since they are almost a brand new band relying on pure enthusiasm and having no financial support whatsoever. All band members were previously playing in different bands of Bishkek (which is the capital city of Kyrgyzstan - the country...

05/03/2001