Yesterday in 2007 Fleshcrawl released the album Structures of Death Illertissen, Bavaria,Germany Death Metal Status:Active Years active: ?-1990 (as Morgöth), 1990-1991 (as Suffocation), 1991-present Fleshcrawl formed in spring 1987 by Stefan Hanus and Bastian Herzog. The band worked under the name Morgöth until the year 1990, when they changed their monicker to Suffocation and decided to become much more extreme concerning the musical direction. After their first demo tape Festering Flesh they were again forced to change their band name because of the upcoming US Suffocation and their first vinyl appearance. After having found a constant band name in Fleshcrawl they released their first 7 EP Lost in a Grave in 1991 on Morbid Records. One year later Fleshcrawl inked a record contract with Black Mark Production. In June 1992 they recorded their debut album Descend into the Absurd at Montezuma Studio, Stockholm. Shortly after, Mike Hanus replaced Gero Schmitt on guitar. In 1993 Fleshcrawls second album Impurity was produced in Dan Swanös Unisound Studio. They proved their power at the Easter Bash Tour 95 where they were joined by Deicide, Cathedral and Brutal Truth. In December 95 Fleshcrawl recorded their third album Bloodsoul being followed by their fourth album Bloodred Massacre in 1997 - both recorded at Abyss Studios by Peter Tägtgren. Having been the debut for the new singer Sven Gross who took over the place of Alex Pretzer, Bloodred Massacre earned the best reviews since their first album in 1992. In 1998 Tobias Schick occupied the long time vacant bassist slot. After the release of Bloodred Massacre, Fleshcrawl cut the ties with Black Mark and went on a four week European Tour with Vader and Kataklysm, also participating in festivals with Cannibal Corpse and Dark Funeral. Back from the tour, Fleshcrawl signed a contract with Metal Blade Records. In January 2000 As Blood Rains from the Sky - We Walk The Path Of Endless Fire - produced at Fredman Studios in Gothenburg - was released. Press reactions and reviews for this album turned out to be the best since the band came together in 1987. In June 2000 Fleshcrawl went out to tour Europe together with Vader and Vital Remains for a 25 show trek. Several single shows and festivals followed throughout the summer (e.g. Czech Dynamo Festival, Summer Breeze Festival). In the meantime, Fleshcrawl started preparing their new song material for their 2nd album on Metal Blade. In January 2001 they supported Bolt Thrower on a warm-up tour of Germany and Holland followed by the Torture-Tour in June 2001 supporting Six Feet Under. That same year Fleshcrawl performed live on the Party-San Open Air. In September 2001 the band entered Studio Underground in Västeras, Sweden, to produce album No. 6 - Soulskinner. After having returned from the studio with the best feeling ever, the band went out to promote Soulskinner supporting Bolt Thrower and Benediction on a 4 week European Tour in January 2002. Having played a few single shows in Germany and Europe throughout spring and early summer 2002, Fleshcrawl performed on Wacken 2002. This also was the first appearance of new guitarist Oliver Grbavac substituting founding member Stefan Hanus, who quit the band for personal and private reasons. In fall 2002 the band appeared on the Westfalenfestival in Dortmund amongst other things. Another premiere took place in November 2002: Fleshcrawl played their first tour of Japan supporting Hypocrisy from Sweden. This was a very intense and huge experience in the bands career. In retrospect, the year 2002 became the most successful since the bands foundation. After having returned from Japan, Fleshcrawl started writing for the next album. During the year 2003 the band made itself scarce concerning live shows in order to intensely prepare the new song material for the follow-up to Soulskinner. In November 2003, Fleshcrawl again headed up to Studio Underground in Sweden to record album No. 7, entitled MADE OF FLESH, MADE OF FLESH was released 23rd February 2004 in Europe and 9th March 2004 in the U.S. In support of MADE OF FLESH, Fleshcrawl supported Six Feet Under in February/March 2004 throughout a european tour. During the summer of 2004, the band performed several single shows as well as on some of the major european openair festivals for extreme metal (Party-San OpenAir, Summer Breeze Open Air, Metalcamp Slovenia, Rock Harz, Skeleton Bash, Kaltenbach OpenAir). Metal Blade Records Sven Gross – vocals Nico Scheffler – Bass Oliver Grbavac – Guitar Mike Hanus - Guitar Bastian Herzog – drums 1.Skulls Of The Rotten (Intro) - 1:21 2.Structures Of Death - 2:48 3.Into The Fire Of Hell - 3:51 4.Written In Blood - 3:03 5.A Spirit Dressed In Black - 4:03 6.Fleshcult - 3:00 7.Into The Crypts Of Scattered Souls - 2:48 8.Anthem Of Death - 4:58 9.Nothing But Flesh Remains - 3:37 10.Rest In Pain (R.I.P.) - 3:20 11.About Mortality - 2:58 12.War Of The Dead - 5:35 Released on September 21st in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy and on September 24th in the rest of Europe. Not released inside of North America. Limited first edition digipak bonus track: 13. Rockin Is My Business (The Four Horsemen Cover) (04:05) Recorded at Studio Toninfusion, by Mark Schmitt, in Ulm. Structures Of Death is the eighth studio album by the German death metal band Fleshcrawl, which was released 21.September.2007 in Germany, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic, then released in the rest of Europe on 24.September.2007. It is their first album to feature bassist Nico Scheffler, who joined in 2005 to replace Tobias Schick, and was their first album not recorded in Sweden Keeping consistent with their recent work (since As Blood Rains from the Sky...), the bands unique sound is created through an amalgamation of melodic guitar rhythmics built upon a foundation of very heavy, very familiar, highly brutal drumwork and vocals. Like other Melodic death metal bands, such as Grave, Arch Enemy and (early) Entombed, Fleshcrawls guitar work for this album is laden with Swedish death metal-style distortion, especially in the riffing, which remains comparable to their earlier releases in that it utilizes mid-to-high range tones and moderate-to-rapid tempos, accented by occasional, moderately-technical guitar solos, which tend to be somewhat longer and more rhythmic than those in their earlier work. Diverging from other contemporary melodic death metal releases, the overall intensity of the album is well enhanced by the use of brutal/technical death metal-style blast beats incorporated into highly prominent, yet not obtrusive, very rapid double-Bass on the order of such bands as Kataklysm and Krisiun along with somewhat guttural, abrasive vocals, somewhat reminiscent of such bands as Six Feet Under and Cannibal Corpse. Like other Fleshcrawl albums, and death metal as a whole, the lyrical themes cover such gory, death metal-esque subjects as insanity (Structures of Death; Written In Blood), evisceration (Into the Crypts of scattered Souls; Nothing But Flesh Remains), the Grim Reaper/Harvester of Souls (Anthem of Death), demons/demonic possession (Rest in Pain; A Spirit Dressed in Black), Mortality (About Mortality), and doomsday/the apocalypse (War of the Dead). However, unlike any of their earlier releases, this album includes several references to their earlier work. Track 4, Written in Blood, includes the lines, Forever more the soulskinner is back, referencing to their sixth studio album, Soulskinner, and track 6, Fleshcult, which describes the mindset of death metal and the experience of the band through their 20 year history through a collection of synecdochal allusions to their previous work, including: From the Dead to the Living and Center of Hate from Impurity Bloodsoul from Bloodsoul The Messenger and Beyond Belief from Bloodred Massacre Feed the Demons Heart from As Blood Rains from the Sky... Soulskinner, Breeding the Dead, Legions of Hatred, and Forced to Kill from Soulskinner Forged in Blood and Damned in Fire] from Made of Flesh youtube/watch?v=Js8_EMsuYDM
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:37:35 +0000
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