Brodequin

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Brodequin
Brodequin Logo.jpg
General information
origin Knoxville , United States
Genre (s) Death metal
founding 1998, 2016
resolution 2008
Current occupation
Jamie Bailey
Michael Bailey
Henning Paulsen
former members
Drums
 Chad Walls
Drums
 Jon Engman

Brodequin is a death metal band from Knoxville , Tennessee ( USA ). The band name describes a medieval instrument of torture. The band's music is assigned to the subgenre of Brutal Death Metal . Thematically, Brodequin deals in the texts with the Middle Ages up to the 17th century and the torture methods of this time.

history

The band was founded in 1998 by the brothers Jamie (vocals, electric bass) and Michael Bailey (electric guitar) and drummer Chad Walls. All members had played in other music groups before, but did not feel comfortable there because they could not realize their musical ideas. After the founding, Brodequin recorded a demo , followed a little later by the recordings of the debut album Instruments of Torture , which was initially released in 2000 as a self-production. Over 1,000 copies of the album were sold in a short time, so that the album was released in 2001 in a second edition by Ablated Records. Because Brodequin wanted to gain complete control over publication and marketing, Michael Bailey founded the label Unmatched Brutality Records, on which all of the band's albums were released in the following years. First the second album Festivals of Death was released in 2001 , followed by the EP Prelude to Execution (2003). In the winter of 2003/2004, the recordings of the last studio album, Methods of Execution , were released in 2004 . In addition to Brodequin, Jamie Bailey ran the project Liturgy with ex-Disgorge singer Matti Way, which released an album in 2004. Jamie Bailey described the performance at Obscene Extreme in 2004 as the high point of the band's career . In the following period the band performed regularly at festivals such as the Maryland Deathfest. The performance at the Death Feast Open Air in Hünxe 2008 was canceled for personal reasons. in the course of the year the band broke up.

At the end of 2015 rumors about a reunion of the band, which Jamie Bailey neither denied nor wanted to confirm, intensified. In February 2016 it was announced that the band had been signed for Hellfest 2016.

style

The main influences of the band are bands like Disgorge , Broken Hope , Gorgasm , Deeds of Flesh or Napalm Death . The music, which is almost always underlaid with blast beats, is played very quickly, almost completely dispenses with guitar solos and offers heavily alienated vocals.

The lyrics are written by singer Jamie Bailey and deal with torture and executions in the Middle Ages. Bailey gets inspiration from reading historical books. The name of the band also referred to the topics: Brodequin is the name of a medieval torture device in which the victim's legs were constricted in a wooden frame and the leg bones were broken with the help of wedges. The most famous victim of this torture method was Urbain Grandier .

Discography

Studio albums
  • 2000: Instruments of Torture (in-house production)
  • 2001: Instruments of Torture (Re-Release, Ablated Records)
  • 2001: Festival of Death (Unmatched Brutality Records)
  • 2004: Methods of Execution (Unmatched Brutality Records)
Others
  • 1998: Brodequin (demo)
  • 2002: Created to Kill (4-way) (Split with Drowning , Aborted and Misery Index , Bone Brigade)
  • 2003: Prelude to Execution (EP, Unmatched Brutality Records)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Twan: Brodequin interview. (No longer available online.) In: Brutalism Webzine. March 1, 2001, archived from the original on March 11, 2016 ; accessed on February 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brutalism.com
  2. ↑ a b Thomas: Brodequin interview. In: Blood Duster. 2001, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f BRODEQUIN :: Interview with Jamie Bailey about 10 years of BRODEQUIN and a possible reunion. In: Amboss Mag. October 16, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Sherrie Zemla: Brodequin interview. In: Tartarean Desire. September 2003, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  5. ↑ DEATH FEAST Open Air - SUFFOCATION & BRODEQUIN canceled. In: stormbringer.at. February 26, 2008, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Ivana Niwy Kovacova: Hellfest - new bands confirmed + 1-day passes. In: MusicExistence. February 8, 2016, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  7. ^ Brodequin - Instruments of Torture. In: metal.de. Retrieved February 24, 2016 .