Benediction

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Benediction
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Benediction on the Rock under the Oaks 2019
Benediction on the Rock under the Oaks 2019
General information
Genre (s) Death metal
founding 1989
Current occupation
singing
 Dave Hunt (since 1998)
Electric bass
 Frank Healy (since 1992)
Drums
 Neil Hutton (1995–2002, since 2007)
Darren Brookes (since 1989)
Electric guitar
 Peter "Rewinski" Rew (since 1989)
former members
singing
 Mark "Barney" Greenway (1989–1990)
singing
 Dave Ingram (1990-1998)
Drums
 Ian Treacy (1989-1993)
Drums
 Paul Brookes (1994)
Drums
 Neil Hutton (1994-2005)
Paul Adams (1989-1991)
Drums
 Nicholas Howard Barker (2005-2006)

Benediction is a British death metal band from Birmingham .

history

The band was formed in 1989 by Barney Greenway , Ian Treacy, Peter Rewinski, Darren Brookes and Paul Adams in Birmingham . In the same year the quintet recorded the first demo "The Dreams You Dread", which sold surprisingly well for a demo. This was followed by a record deal with the German independent label Nuclear Blast . The debut album “Subconscious Terror” and a split EP limited to 3,800 copies (Confess All Goodness / Blood, Pus & Gastric Juice) with Pungent Stench were released there in 1990 . Already before the release of the first album in September 1990, Barney Greenway left the band to succeed Lee Dorrian as singer in Napalm Death . He's finishing the recordings, but by the time “Subconscious Terror” was released, he had already left the band. With Dave Ingram a new singer has been found who will do the following tour with the band . a. with Autopsy , Bolt Thrower and Paradise Lost .

In 1991 the second album "The Grand Leveler" was presented and the first European tour followed as a headliner with Bolt Thrower, Nocturnus , Dismember and Massacra . The tour through Yugoslavia broke off the band due to the uncertain political situation after the first appearance. When the tour ended, founding member Paul Adams left the band and guitarist Darren Brooks took over the bass for the recordings for the EP "Dark is the Season". For the upcoming tour with Asphyx , Simon Harris was hired as a session bassist. In 1992 the band began work on the third studio album "Transcend the Rubicon", which was released in 1993 and is considered the best and most successful album of the band. It was also the debut of the new bassist Frank Healy (ex- Cerebral Fix ), with whom the band had already played two sold-out shows in Israel in 1992.

After touring the album with Atheist and Cemetary , founding member Ian Treacy left the band in 1994 and later played with Meathook Seed . He was replaced by Paul Brookes, who can already be heard on the EP "The Grotesque / Ashen Epitaph" released in February 1994. After a tour of Mexico Brookes left the band shortly before the end of the recordings for the fourth studio album. Neil Hutton, who was hired as a live drummer for the upcoming tour, became a permanent member of the band and can already be heard as the drummer on the fourth album, released in 1995. It bears the title of the band's first demo "The Dreams You Dread" as a thank you to the fans who have remained loyal to the band since their first demo.

This was followed in the summer of 1995 by a sold-out tour as the headliner of the Nuclear Blast Festival and in the following three years many other shows and finally in 1998 an appearance at the Wacken Open Air . This appearance was also the last with Dave Ingram, who left the band after the release of the fifth album "Grind Bastard" and a little later became a member of Bolt Thrower. His successor Dave Hunt already made the recordings for the 2001 album "Organized Chaos".

The departure of drummer Neil Hutton in 2002 caused the band to freeze their activities until further notice. Although Nick Barker of Cradle of Filth was briefly won over as a drummer in 2005, he left the band in 2006 after a few sessions and returned to the will . In 2007 the former drummer Neil Hutton was brought back to the band. With him, the band was able to release the seventh album "Killing Music" in 2008 after seven years without a single release. In autumn 2008 the “No Reunion Required” tour through Europe followed.

Discography

Albums

  • Subconscious Terror (1990, Nuclear Blast)
  • The Grand Leveller (1991, Nuclear Blast)
  • Transcend the Rubicon (1993, Nuclear Blast)
  • The Dreams You Dread (1995, Nuclear Blast)
  • Grind Bastard (1998, Nuclear Blast)
  • Organized Chaos (2001, Nuclear Blast)
  • Killing Music (2008, Nuclear Blast)

Singles, EPs

  • Confess All Goodness (1990, Nuclear Blast), split EP with Pungent Stench
  • Experimental Stage (1992, Nuclear Blast), single
  • Return to the Eve (1992, Nuclear Blast), single
  • Dark is the Season (1992, Nuclear Blast), EP
  • Nuclear Blast Promo EP II (1993, Nuclear Blast), split with Mortification , Gorefest and Macabre
  • Wrong Side of the Grave (1993, Nuclear Blast), single
  • The Grotesque / Ashen Epitaph (1994, Nuclear Blast), EP
  • The Temple of Set (2001, Nuclear Blast), split EP with Pungent Stench

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Holger Stratmann (Ed.): RockHard Enzyklopädie . 700 of the most interesting rock bands from the last 30 years. Rock Hard Verlag, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 39 .
  2. ^ Adrian Bromley: Interview with Dave Ingram. Chronicles of Chaos, February 9, 1995, accessed April 19, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Alexander Eitner: Interview with Benediction. metalnews.de, August 7, 2008, accessed April 19, 2009 .