Aggressor
| Aggressor | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal , technical death metal |
| founding | 1986 |
| Website | http://www.agressor.fr/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Alexandre Colin-Tocquaine (since 1986) | |
| Joel Guigou (since 1992) | |
| Romain Goulon (since 2003) | |
Electric guitar |
Pierrick Valence (since 2007) |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Momo |
Drums |
Destroy |
Electric bass |
JM Libeer (1988) |
Drums |
Jean Luc Falsini (1988) |
Electric bass |
Laurent Luret (1990) |
Drums |
Thierry Pinck (1990) |
Drums |
Stéphane Guégan (1992 to 1994) |
Electric guitar |
Patrick Gibelin (1992) |
Electric guitar |
Manu Ragot (1994) |
Drums |
Gorgor (2000 to 2003) |
Electric guitar |
Adramelech (2000 to 2007) |
| Live members | |
Electric guitar |
Bernard Y. Queruel (2001) |
Agressor is a French thrash and death metal band from Antibes that was formed in 1986.
biography
The band was formed in 1986 after singer and guitarist Alexandre Colin-Tocquaine began looking for other musicians in 1984 and formed a short-lived speed metal band called Kataclism in 1985 . In 1986 Agressor played the first demo recording The Merciless Onslaught , which promoted the band's position in the international underground. In 1987 the second tape Satan Sodomy followed , the pornographic cover of which attracted attention. This was followed by the first concerts in France and Switzerland with Messiah , Samael , Sodom and Living Death, among others . In 1988 the split LP Licensed to Thrash was released with Loudblast as the first French Thrash Metal record . After recording the demo recording Orbital Distortion , Agressor was the first French band to be signed by an international record company and recorded the debut album Neverending Destiny in the Berlin Skytrak studio a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall . The album was produced by The Boss and released in 1990 through Noise Records ; the record cover was designed by Philippe Druillet , one of the founders of the comic magazine Métal hurlant .
In 1992 Agressors second album Towards Beyond followed , which was recorded in the Swedish Montezuma studio; like Neverending Destiny , it was produced by The Boss, who released it through his own record company, Black Mark Production . Agressor's contributions to the split LP Licensed to Thrash from 1988 were also released via Black Mark Production under the title Satan Sodomy . In 1994, the album Symposium of Rebirth followed , for which the choirs of the Opéra de Lyon were engaged. Also appeared Napalm Death vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway in Terrorizer -Cover After World Obliteration with; Colin-Tocquaine himself had planned to join Napalm Death a few years earlier when the band was looking for a new guitarist and Colin-Tocquaine had problems with his own band.
After the album was released, the band performed on tours and concerts with bands such as Sinister , Wargasm , Morbid Angel , Obituary , Pestilence and Biohazard . On January 20, 1995 Agressor played with Sadist and Blessed in Sin in Toulon , the appearance of Blessed in Sin was released in 1995 as a cassette with the title A Tribute to Euronymous . After touring the UK with Cradle of Filth in June '96, Colin-Tocquaine began working for Black Mark Production and became guitarist for Ibanez . Due to these activities, no further recordings followed until 2000. The album Medieval Rites , released in 2000, was made with the help of a flautist , a violinist , a trombonist , an opera singer , Krells and Christinas of Bloodthorn , ex- Mercyful-Fate drummer Morten Nielsen and Rotten-Sound and Enochian-Crescent drummer Kai Hahto . The album was followed by a tour with Bloodthorn and … And Oceans and the MCD The Spirit of Evil , which included two video recordings from a concert with Mayhem in Marseille in 2000, in which Agressor was supported by James Murphy ( Testament , Death , Obituary).
In January 2002 the band organized a concert at the Midem in Cannes , the video recording of which was recorded in 2006 on a DVD accompanying the album Deathreat , which was released through Season of Mist .
Music style and lyrics
The band describes their music as a " black-metal- tinged death-thrash-metal fusion". Metalion described the style of the first two demo recordings and the pieces on the split LP with Loudblast as Death Metal in the Kreator tradition , especially Alex Colin-Tocquaine's vocals remind of Miland “Mille” Petrozza . In the Metal Hammer the material was compared to Kreators Pleasure to Kill . On the debut album Neverending Destiny , the band moved between brutal Thrash Metal and technical Death Metal , the lyrics were about science fiction , while most of the other bands wrote gore - or occult- influenced lyrics; the style was now slightly reminiscent of Morbid Angel . On her second album, Towards Beyond , she mixed medieval music with technical death metal, thrash metal riffs and “ultra-heavy passages with a cavernous sound”. At the Symposium of Rebirth , choirs by professional opera singers were added, while acoustic medieval pieces, death metal and re-enacted pieces from the film music for Conan the Barbarian alternate on the album . In the review of Deathreat on sputnikmusic.com , the high speed and the powerful sound of the pieces are particularly positively highlighted, whereby the comparison with the band Vader is particularly appropriate on this album . The singing in particular is comparable to that of Vader singer Piotr Wiwczarek. It was awarded four out of five possible points. On metalcrypt.com the album Medieval Rites is described as experimental, with some comparisons being made with Celtic Frost . 4.25 out of a possible 5 points were awarded.
Discography
- 1986: The Merciless Onslaught (demo recording, self-release)
- 1987: Satan Sodomy (demo recording, self-release)
- 1988: Licensed to Thrash (split LP with Loudblast , New Wave Records )
- 1989: Orbital Distortion (demo recording, self-release)
- 1990: Neverending Destiny (Album, Noise Records )
- 1992: Towards Beyond (Album, Black Mark Production )
- 1993: Satan Sodomy (re-release of the contributions to the split LP Licensed to Thrash , EP, Black Mark Production)
- 1994: Symposium of Rebirth (Album, Black Mark Production)
- 1995: Someone to Eat on Brutale generation (Semetery Records, WMD)
- 2000: Medieval Rites (Album, Season of Mist )
- 2002: The Spirit of Evil (EP, self-published)
- 2005: Barrabas on Apocalypse: livre 66, chapitre premier (Season of Mist)
- 2005: The Merciless Onslaught (compilation of demo recordings from 1986 to 1989, Deadsun Records )
- 2006: Deathreat (Album, Season of Mist)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Metalion : Aggressor . In: Jon Kristiansen : Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 141.
- ↑ Old Thrash Bastard Part II: Alex Colin Tocquaine . In: Jon Kristiansen: Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 552.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j biography .
- ↑ Blessed in Sin: Blessed in Sin , 1998.
- ↑ Euro rock . French Connection . In: Metal Hammer / Crash , No. 13, July 16 - June 29, 1989, p. 94.
- ↑ AGRESSOR - "Neverending Destiny" . In: Jon Kristiansen: Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 194.
- ↑ Madbutcher3: Agressor Deathreat , accessed January 23, 2012.
- ^ Sargon the Terrible: Review: Agressor - Medieval Rites , accessed January 23, 2012.