Children Of Bodom

Children Of Bodom adalah sebuah band Metal dari kota ESPOO, Finlandia. Klasifikasi dari genre tertentu menjadi debat yang sangat ketat dari kritikus musik dan para fans. Bisa saja di kategorikan dalam beberapa genre seperti power Metal, Heavy Metal dan Melodic Death Metal. Walau demikian, Alexi Laiho, gitaris dan vokalis serta juga salah satu anggota pendiri band ini menolak label-label tersebut dan lebih senang di panggil sederhana sebagai METAL BAND.

Band ini pertama di bentuk pada tahun 1993 oleh Alexi Laiho dan Drummer Jaska Raatikainen dengan nama awal adalah Inearthted . Semua anggota adalah asli dari Inearthted kecuali pemain keyboard yang baru bergabung setelah mereka ganti nama dan menandatangani kontrak dengan Spinefarm Records. Nama yang mereka usung sekarang di ambil dari sebuah kejadian kriminal yang terkenal saat itu, masih belum terungkap, terjadi di danau BODOM pada tahun 60-an di Finlandia, dimana seorang pembunuh menikam tiga orang remaja di tengah malam.

Hari-hari mereka di kejutkan oleh album “Something Wild” (1997) untuk keahlian mereka dalam teknik bermain. Band ini di perkuat oleh dua proyek berikutnya (HateBreeder dan Follow The Ripper ) yang mereka rilis di Eropa. Tema nya penuh dengan amarah dan perasaan namun selalu ada sisi Melodic nya yang menjadi pengaruh buat band-band Heavy Metal yang baru bermunculan di zaman sekarang, diikuti dengan album Hate Crew Deathroll, yang lebih berat dan kurang melodik dari biasanya. Segera setelah rilis album Hate Crew Deathroll gitaris Alexander Kuoppala mengundurkan diri dari Children Of Bodom dan di gantikan oleh Roope Latvala.

Setelah tur yang panjang untuk Eropa dan Amerika, di edit sebuah EP dan sebuah DVD, keduanya diberi judul “Thrashed, Lost & Strungout” yang termasuk dua lagu baru dan dua versi baru “Bed Of Nails” oleh Alice Cooper dan “She’s Beautiful” oleh Several Andrew. Dalam DVD ini termasuk penampilan Children Of Bodom dengan gitaris Alexander yang di ekstrak dari Finnish Tuska Festival 2003, video klipnya terdiri dari “Thrashed, Lost & Strungout” dan “Sixpounder” dan setengah jam bersama band dengan footage perjalanan band di Helsinki, menmpilkam danau Bodom. Setelah tur mini di Amerika mereka kembali masuk studio untuk merekam “Are You Death Yet?” yang banyak memasukkan unsur industrial dan mewakili inovasi-inovasi baru dari band.

“In Your Face” adalah single pertama dari “Are You Death Yet?”. Sound nya sangat powerful dan mentah, kejutan berikutnya ada pada single ke dua yaitu “Oppss….I did it Again” versi penyanyi pop Britney Spears.

Pada bulan Oktober 2006, mereka meluncurkan DVD baru berjudul “Chaos Ridden Year-Stockholm Knockout Live” produksi ini di film kan pada tanggal 5 Februari pada arena di Stockholm, Swedia. Semuanya terdiri dari pertunjukan tiga jam penuh yang di pisahkan menjadi: Pertunjukan penuh di Swedia yang di sutradarai oleh Patric Ullaeus, video, Foto dan dokumenter dari sejarah band yang belum di rilis.

Blood drunk di luncurkan tahun 2008 yang menjadi karya terakhir mereka sejauh ini, dengan single pertamanya “Tie My Rope“. Dengan album baru ini Children Of Bodom mengharapkan reaksi positif dari para Fans, karena ini merubah sedikit style band, tapi kita bisa bilang mereka masih tetap utuh memegang inti dari musik mereka, dengan solo yang luar biasa dari Alexi dan Janne pada Keyboard.

Mereka sekarang dalam proses pembuatan album baru, yang mengusung judul “Relentless Reckless Forever“

Formasi Terakhir:

• Alexi laiho – gitar dan Vokal
• Jaska Raatikainen – Drum
• Henkka Seppälä – Bass
• Janne Wirman – Keyboard
• Roope Latvala – Gitar

Mantan Anggota:

• Alexander Kuoppala – Gitar (1993 – 2003)
• Sami Harash Tenetz – Vokal (1996)
• Jani Pirisjoki – Keyboard – (1993-1997)
• Samuli Miettinen – bass – (1993-1995)
• Erna Siikavirta – keyboard (1998)
• Kimberly Goss – keyboard (September 1998)
• Diskografi:
• Something Wild (1997) >>Download disini
• Hatebreeder (1999) >> Download disini
• Follow the Reaper (2000) >> Download disini
• Hate Crew Deathroll (2003) >> Download disini
• Are You Dead Yet? (2005) >> Download disini
• Blooddrunk (2008) >> Download disini
• Relentless Reckless Forever (2011) >> Download di sini

• source: http://dewanada.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/children-of-bodom/

Spawn of Possession

Biography

Spawn of Possession formed in February 1997, consisting of Jonas Bryssling (guitar), Jonas Karlsson (guitar), and Dennis Röndum (drums).
After three years the band recorded their first demo, The Forbidden, and right after found bass guitar player Nick Dewerud to fill the empty bass spot. A year later the band went to the studio to record their second demo, Church of Deviance, and in December 2001 Spawn of Possession signed a deal with Unique Leader Records.
The band worked on new material for the next six months and in June 2002 began recording their debut album, Cabinet. The band ended up in the Pama Studios together with the highly acclaimed producer and engineer Magnus Sedenberg with whom they had worked on previous recordings, and released Cabinet.
To promote the album, they first toured Europe for four weeks, together with Disavowed, Vile, Inhume, and Mangled. Shortly after followed a six-week North American tour together with Unique Leader label mates Severed Savior, Pyaemia, and Gorgasm. Travelling coast to coast including a five gigs ride to Canada, they played no less than 27 shows on this tour.
After coming back from the US came another European tour, as part of the annual No Mercy package, with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Hypocrisy, Kataklysm, Exhumed, Vomitory, and Carpathian Forest. After this spring-tour summerfestival the band perform at eight festivals, including Fuck the Commerce (Germany), Stonehenge (Netherlands), Grind You Mother (Italy), and Mountains of Death (Switzerland).
During this period and the beginning of fall 2004, Spawn of Possession also started to work on new material. In mid-September the band joined Cannibal Corpse as direct support on a 24 show tour throughout Scandinavia and the Baltic/Eastern European states. The successor to the debut album is titled Noctambulant and was released in July 2006 by Neurotic Records.
On May 11, 2009, the band posted a small preproduction teaser from their as yet untitled new album, commenting that they wanted "to finally break the silence". There are five finished songs and seven others still in the works. The band also explained that "additional lineup changes will be announced soon".
On June 24, 2009, Jonas Bryssling confirmed on Spawn of Possession's message board that Matthew Chalk (ex-Psycroptic, Mephistopheles) and Christian Muenzner (Obscura, ex-Necrophagist) have joined the band. Bryssling states "Two very talented and competent musicians has recently joined Spawn of Possession. Matthew Chalk (Ex-Psycroptic) is going to handle the vocal and lyric writing. Christian Muenzner (Obscura, ex-Necrophagist) is going to do the Lead Guitar part and unleash his madness into the multicoloured and distorted universe of Spawn of Possession. The Line-up is now complete."
However in September 2010, Dennis Rondum joined back and will handle the vocals instead of Chalky who just joined for a brief period. In December 2010, Richard Shill has been relieved from drumming duties. The reason cited was that Richard depends very much on actual band practice and with SoP members being scattered all over Sweden, Norway and Germany band practice becomes an impossibility. Henrik Schönström announced as new drummer.
On May 20, 2011 it was announced they were signed to Relapse Records and are beginning work on a new album to be released this fall.

Influences

Spawn of Possession have been influenced by many different artists from various subgenres, mainly from death metal and classical music. They have been influenced by artists such as Death, Atheist, Nocturnus, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Gorguts, Dismember, Edge of Sanity, God Macabre, and Carcass as well as art music composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Sylvius Leopold Weiss and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Members

Current members

• Jonas Bryssling - Rhythm Guitar (1997-Present)
• Erlend Caspersen – Bass Guitar (2009-Present)
• Henrik Schönström - Drums (2010-Present)
• Dennis Röndum - (Drums/Vocals) (1997-2006) Lead Vocals (2010-Present)
• Christian Muenzner - Lead Guitar (2009-Present)

Former members

• Jonas Karlsson - Lead guitar (1997-2006)
• Niklas Dewerud – Bass (2000-2006)
• Matthew Chalk - Vocals (2009-2010)
• Jonas Renvaktar - Vocals (2003-2009)
• Mikael Petersson - Session vocals (2000-2001)
• Richard Schill - Drums (2008-2010)

Discography

• The Forbidden (demo, 2000)
• Church of Deviance (demo, 2001)
• Cabinet (2003)
• Noctambulant (2006)
• Incurso (2012)

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Fleshgod Apocalypse

Biography

Fleshgod Apocalypse was formed during 2007 and recorded their first demo the same year. The demo was re-released the following year on a split CD with fellow Italian bands Septycal Gorge, Modus Delicti, and Onirik. Fleshgod Apocalypse then signed to Neurotic Records. In early 2008 the band toured Europe, supporting bands like Behemoth, Origin, Dying Fetus, Hate Eternal, Suffocation, Napalm Death and many more.

In May 2008, the band recorded its first full-length album, Oracles. In December of that year the band decided to part ways with Neurotic Records and signed with Willowtip Records, who releasedOracles in 2009.

Shortly after the release of Oracles in 2009, the band had a lineup change, with a new member, Tommasso Ricardi taking over vocals and rhythm guitar, which were previously handled by Francesco Paoli, as Paoli took over the drums at this time.

In 2010, Fleshgod Apocalypse released a new EP entitled Mafia. It includes four new tracks and a cover of the track "Blinded by Fear" by At the Gates.

Until 2010, current Fleshgod Apocalypse drummer Francesco Paoli was simultaneously in his former band Hour of Penance doing vocals, as well as drumming in Fleshgod Apocalypse. Also in 2010, another new member, Francesco Ferrini, was added to the band to play keyboards. Ferrini had previously played session keyboards on Oracles and Mafia.

In May 2011, the band signed a worldwide deal with German record label Nuclear Blast Records.^[1] The band released their second album, Agony, on August 9, 2011 in North America and August 19, 2011 in Europe.^[2] The iTunes version of Agony also includes a cover of the track Heartwork by Carcass.

Fleshgod Apocalypse is part of the 2011 Summer Slaughter Tour in North America alongside co-headliners Whitechapel and The Black Dahlia Murder. The band is set to go on tour in the US with Polish band Decapitated in late 2011.

Discography

Full-length albums

• Oracles (2009)
• Agony (2011)

Demo

• Promo '07 (2007)

Split

• Da Vinci Death Code (2008)

EP

• Mafia (2010)

Band members

Current members

• Tommaso Riccardi - vocals, guitars (2009–present)
• Paolo Rossi - bass, clean vocals (2007–present)
• Cristiano Trionfera - guitars, vocals (2007–present)
• Francesco Paoli - drums, guitars, vocals (2007–present)
• Francesco Ferrini - piano (2010–present)

Necrophagist

History

Necrophagist's debut album Onset of Putrefaction has been out of print for years. The percussion on the album was handled by a drum machine. Eventually, a new edition with drum samples recorded by Hannes Grossmann was created. All of the old guitar, bass guitar, and vocal tracks were mixed along with the brand new drum samples. The re-release also features two songs from Necrophagist's 1995 self-titled demo tape. The whole album was also engineered by long-time Necrophagist engineer and producer Christoph Brandes at The Iguana Studios. It was mastered by Bob Katz at "Digital Domain", Orlando, Florida. The re-release was issued in 2004 by Willowtip in the USA/Canada and Relapse in the rest of the world.In August 2001, Necrophagist performed at the Brutal Assault open air festival in the Czech Republic. The band also returned to perform in the years 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2010.

On February 10, 2006 it was announced that Christian Muenzner had departed the band due to scheduling conflicts. Later on, he joined the death metal band Obscura. A replacement guitarist was found, Sami Raatikainen, who is from Helsinki, Finland. Sami also plays in the band Codeon.

In 2006, the band undertook an American tour called "Carving North America's Epitaph". Necrophagist was joined on this tour by Arsis, Alarum,Neuraxis, Ion Dissonance, Cattle Decapitation and Thine Eyes Bleed. They, along with Dying Fetus, supported Cannibal Corpse on their U.S. tour in the fall, which also included some Canadian venues.

In 2007, the band announced on its Myspace profile that after the 2007 California Metalfest, drummer Hannes Grossmann would leave the band. Hannes stated that he was unable to commit to the band's full-time touring schedule. Marco Minnemann (who has played with Paul Gilbert, Terry Bozzio, Chad Wackerman) was the official permanent replacement for Hannes.

Necrophagist was a headlining act for The Summer Slaughter Tour in 2007, which featured a wide variety of other extreme metal bands includingDecapitated, Arsis, The Faceless, Cephalic Carnage, As Blood Runs Black, and Cattle Decapitation.

In April 2008, Necrophagist announced that Romain Goulon would be joining the band as their new drummer, replacing Minnemann, who would still be working with Suiçmez on a side project.^[4]

Necrophagist played in the "Pillage the Village Tour" in 2008 from August 26, 2008 to September 10, 2008 with death metal bands Dying Fetus and Beneath the Massacre. Shows in some areas also included Carcass, Suffocation, 1349, and Aborted.

Necrophagist has begun to work on its next album with new drummer Romain Goulon.^[5] According to rumors, two possible names are "The Path to Naught" and "Death to the Faithful". Suiçmez stated that the band would be using seven-string guitars on the album.^[6] Muhammed himself will be recording with a new custom shop Ibanez Xiphos guitar with 7 strings, as well as 27 frets.^[7] Sami Raatikainen is now an Ibanez Guitar endorsee, using a 7 String RG-Series guitar on stage.

Members

Current members

• Muhammed Suiçmez – vocals, lead guitar (1992–present)
• Stephan Fimmers – bass guitar (2003–present)
• Sami Raatikainen – rhythm guitar, lead guitar (2006–present)
• Romain Goulon – drums (2008–present)

Former members

• Jan-Paul Herm – guitar (1992–1995)
• Raphael Kempermann – drums (1992–1995)
• Daniel Silva – drums (1995–1998, 2001–2003)
• Mario Petrovic – guitar (2000–2001)
• Slavek Foltyn – drums (2000–2001)
• Björn Vollmer – guitar (2001–2002)
• Julien Laroche – bass guitar (2001–2003)
• Christian Müenzner – guitar (2002–2006)
• Heiko Linzert – bass guitar (2003)
• Hannes Grossmann – drums (2003–2007)
• Marco Minnemann – drums (2007–2008)

Discography

• Onset of Putrefaction (1999)
• Epitaph (2004)