Aftermath (band)
| Aftermath | |
|---|---|
 Left to right: Chris Waldron, Ray Schmidt, Kyriakos Tsiolis, Steve Sacco and John Lovette |
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| General information | |
| origin | Chicago , Illinois , United States |
| Genre (s) | Progressive metal , thrash metal |
| founding | 1985, 2015 |
| resolution | 1996 |
| Current occupation | |
| Chris Waldron | |
| Ray Schmidt | |
| Steve Sacco | |
initially electric bass, now electric guitar |
John Lovette |
| Kyriakos "Charlie" Tsiolis | |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Adam |
Electric bass |
Danny Vega |
Electric bass |
Pat Delagarza |
Aftermath is an American progressive and thrash metal band from Chicago , Illinois , that was founded in 1985, disbanded in 1996 and has been active again since 2015.
history
Kyriakos "Charlie" Tsiolis met Steve Sacco in high school , after which the two decided to write songs together. Sacco and Tsiolis then added Ray Schmidt as drummer. Tsiolis had previously met Schmidt through his brother and both had played together in a band several times. A friend of Tsiolis recommended Adam as bassist for the cast. On Halloween night 1985 the members played together as a band for the first time.
The group rehearsed three to four times a week before the first appearance in a local club followed in June 1986, together with the bands Terminal Death and Devastation . When the first demo and the second Killing the Future were released , the band still consisted of the original line-up. Then John Lovette joined the band as the new bass player, as the members found him more professional. It wasn't until later that they found out that he was actually a guitarist and had never played bass before. The group was also looking for a second guitarist. After several months of unsuccessful search, Lovette identified himself as a guitarist, whereupon he moved to this post. The line-up on bass then changed several times with Danny Vega, Pat Delagarza and finally Chris Waldron.
The band played only 33 concerts in ten years. She performed with groups such as Mercyful Fate , Solitude Aeturnus , Sacrifice , Crumbsuckers , Flotsam and Jetsam , Cynic , Mind Funk , Trouble , Cyclone Temple , Carcass , Pitchshifter , Macabre and many local bands. She also played at the seventh, eighth and ninth Metal Fest. Much of their appearances took place in Chicago. She also played in smaller villages in Illinois as well as in Milwaukee , Minneapolis and Detroit .
In addition to another demo in 1989 under the name Words That Echo Fear , the group recorded one for Roadrunner Records in 1990 , before another demo was recorded in 1996. Also, the group on the compilation Metal Forces Presents ... Demolition - Scream Your Brains Out magazine Metal Forces to hear. The group received requests from labels like New Renaissance Records , but they waited for bigger labels like Metal Blade Records , Combat Records and Roadrunner Records. Except for a demo for the latter label, the band could not achieve anything with these record companies.
The first and only album, Eyes of Tomorrow , was recorded in 1991. Previously, the Big Chief Records label had the band under contract in 1990, but the label went bankrupt while the album was being recorded. Instead, the album was released in 1994 on the band's own label, Zoid Recordings , where Tsiolis's brother was President and Manager. The release of the sound carrier was originally planned for 1990. Since the original pressing was soon sold out, they teamed up with Thermometer Sound Surface to produce more sound carriers and to re-release the album. Thermometer also went bankrupt a short time later. In 1998 the album was re-released on Black Lotus Records .
After losing a name dispute with the hip-hop label Aftermath Entertainment from Dr. Dre broke up the band in 1996. The band had held their last appearance in Chicago in front of over 6,000 fans, although the group did not know of the imminent breakup at the time. Then a new project was founded with Mother God Moviestar. A self-titled album was released through Interscope Records in 1998 before the band split up after a US tour. Then Tsiolis and John Lovette formed the band Stripping the Pistol.
In 2015, the band got together again and re-released for the thirtieth birthday of the band Eyes of Tomorrow on Shadow Kingdom Records , where it had been remastered by Paul Logus ( Pantera , Stone Sour , Satyricon , Steel Panther ). It was also Killing the Future remastered from Logus and on CD at Divebomb Records re-released. The offer to perform at Headbangers Open Air in July 2015 as well as to re-release the Shadow Kingdom Records album prompted the members to revive the band. Their first appearance since reunification, however, was held in May at the Ragnarökkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago.
style
In an interview with metalcorefanzine.com , Kyriakos “Charlie” Tsiolis stated that Slayer and hardcore punk bands were influenced by Aftermath at the beginning . You can hear this especially on the first demo. Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia described Aftermath as a progressive thrash metal band. He found Eyes of Tomorrow to be technically very demanding, which reminded him of Anacrusis . Blabbermouth.net wrote that the group was formed solely to play faster than anyone before. At first the group played crossover , which made them one of the pioneers of this genre. After the band added a second guitarist with Lovette and released Words That Echo Fear , the group turned away from this genre towards dark, complex, technically demanding and progressive Thrash Metal. Holger Stratmann from Rock Hard felt the songs on Killing the Future as varied, where he especially "with synthesizer sounds underlaid acoustic guitar breaks emphasized". The music is best comparable to that of Sanctuary . The group play a mixture of progressive and thrash metal, which mostly consists of hard and heavy beats . The group also draws its influences from jazz , funk and classical music . The singing is spoken chant, reminiscent of Ronnie "Nasty Ronnie" Galetti and Thomas Gabriel Fischer .
Discography
- 1986: Demo # 1 (demo, self-published)
- 1987: Killing the Future (demo, self-published)
- 1989: Words That Echo Fear (demo, self-published)
- 1990: Roadrunner Demo (demo, self-published)
- 1994: Eyes of Tomorrow (Album, Zoid Recordings )
- 1996: Demo (demo, self-publication)
- 2011: When Will You Die? - Demos 1986/1987 (compilation, FOAD Records )
- 2011: When Will You Die? - Demos 1989/1990 (compilation, FOAD Records)
- 2011: 25 Years of Chaos (Box-Set, AreaDeath Productions )
- 2019: There Is Something Wrong (Album, Zoid Entertainment )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Chicago Thrashers AFTERMATH Are Back. Blabbermouth.net , accessed September 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Aftermath. metalcorefanzine.com, accessed September 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Aftermath: Biography by Eduardo Rivadavia , Allmusic, accessed on September 26, 2015
- ↑ Holger Stratmann: Aftermath . In: Rock Hard . No. 38 , April 1990, pp. 54 f .