Criminal (band)

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Criminal
General information
origin Santiago , Chile
Genre (s) Thrash metal , death metal
founding 1991
Website http://www.criminal1.com/
Current occupation
Anton Reisenegger
Zac O'Neil
Dan Biggin
Electric guitar
 Olmo Cascallar
former members
Electric bass
 Juan Francisco Cueto
Drums
 Jose Joaquin Vallejos
Electric guitar
 Rodrigo Contreras
Drums
 Jimmy Ponce
Electric bass
 Robin Eaglestone
Mark Royce
Drums (live)
 Nicholas Barker
Electric bass (live)
 Staff Glover
Electric bass (live)
 Aldo Celle

Criminal ( English "criminal", "criminal") is a Chilean thrash and death metal band from Santiago , which was founded in 1991.

history

The band was founded in 1991 by guitarist and singer Anton Reisenegger after his previous band Pentagram split up. Other founding members were the guitarist Rodrigo Contreras, the drummer Jose Joaquin Vallejos and the bassist Juan Francisco Cueto. In April 1992 the band held their first gig, playing as the opening act for Kreator in front of about 4,000 spectators. After that, the band played other gigs, including with Sepultura . After the release of the first two demos Criminal and Forked in 1992, the debut album Victimized was released in 1994 as a self- release . In the first three weeks, more than 1,000 units of this sound carrier separated. Thereupon the label BMG became aware of the band and re-released the album in South America and Japan . The music was then played several times on MTV Latin . After the band returned from the Latin Metal Festival in Mexico City in 1995 , they split from drummer Vallejos, who was replaced by Jimmy Ponce in 1996. The band then played in the opening act for Motörhead and Bruce Dickinson and also recorded a few songs for the live EP Live Disorder , which was released in 1996. In 1997 followed the second album Dead Soul , which was produced by Vincent Wojno . Like its predecessor, over 10,000 units of the album were sold in Chile alone. Since BMG was not satisfied with the good sales figures and the label also had financial difficulties, the label separated from the band. Then Criminal signed a contract with Metal Blade Records . During the album release party, the group played alongside Napalm Death . Their bassist Mitch Harris played the pentagram song Demoniac Possession together with Criminal . This song was also used by Napalm Death on their EP Leaders, Not Followers , which consisted entirely of covers. A music video was created for the song Collide from the album Dead Soul , which was nominated for the "Best Rock Video" category at the MTV Latino Video Music Awards. In addition, the band played in front of over 50,000 people at the Rock al Parque festival in Colombia .

Anton Reisenegger with Max Cavalera

The album was also released on a tour through all of South America, where the group also played with Exodus and at the Rock Al Parque Festival , where the band performed in front of around 50,000 spectators. In 1998 the compilation Slave Master Live was released , which also contained the demo Forked . In the same year, the band went on their first US tour, where the band took part in the Milwaukee Metal Fest and also played as an opening act for Testament , The Haunted and Overkill . The group ended the year with an appearance on the Monsters of Rock , which also included bands like Anthrax , Slayer and Helloween . Further appearances followed in 1999, in which the band took part together with Testament and Overkill, among others. Their album Cancer , which was released in 1999, was produced by Reisenegger and Contreras.

In 2002 Reisenegger and Contreras decided to move to England . There they went looking for new members and found them with the drummer Zac O'Neil ( Extreme Noise Terror ), the bassist Robin Eaglestone (Ex- Cradle of Filth ) and the keyboardist Mark Royce (Ex- Entwined ). Previous bassist Juan Francisco Cueto has since joined Dorso . With the new line-up, there followed appearances as the opening act for Candlemass and Return of Sabbat in July, as well as appearances at the Wacken Open Air and Summer Breeze , while the band sent a demo that included three songs to various labels. In November the band also played with Descent and Darkane in the UK. At the beginning of 2003 the band separated from Eaglestone, who was not replaced for the time being. The band then recorded the album No Gods No Masters , which was released in 2004. The phonogram was recorded at Springvale Studios in Suffolk in October 2003. The bass was then played by both guitarists, as Eaglestone had left the band for personal reasons. In February and March 2004 the band went on a two-week tour through Europe with Six Feet Under and Fleshcrawl , where Staff Glover was the bass player. Gigs in Chile followed in May, with keyboardist Royce disappearing two days before the gigs, which meant his departure. Royce was not replaced. After Aldo Celle joined the band as the new bass player, he made his first appearance on August 20th at Summerbreeze. One year later, the next album, Sicario , was released, in English "contract killer". On the album, which was produced by Andy Classen , Cueto had returned to the band as bassist. The album was voted one of the top 10 best albums of the year by the readers of Terrorizer . After a few isolated appearances together with bands such as Chimaira , Brujeria , Lamb of God and in front of over 14,000 spectators with Megadeth , as well as appearances at festivals in Europe and the La Cumbre del Rock Chileno in Chile, the band paused and there were again line-up changes. During this time, Staff Glover was again active as a bassist. In 2006 the band could be seen on the Up from the Ground . At the end of 2008, the band went back to the studio, with bassist Dan Biggin and drummer Zac O'Neil once again found a permanent line-up. In March 2009, the album White Hell was released . The album first appeared on Massacre Records ; the limited version of the album included a DVD as a bonus. Then the founding member Rodrigo Contreras left the band and moved back to Chile. Olmo Cascallar came to replace the cast. Then the band wrote on the seventh album, which was released in 2011 under the name Akelarre , which means "Witches' Sabbath". The phonogram was recorded at HVR Studios in Suffolk. After that the band played at the Summer Breeze and the Bloodstock Open Air . In addition, the band played in Chile together with Metallica in front of 55,000 spectators. In their career so far, the band has played in Chile, Argentina , Uruguay , Peru , Colombia, Venezuela , Mexico, USA, Great Britain , Germany, Austria , Belgium , the Netherlands and Portugal .

style

According to laut.de , instead of Grindcore as before, Sicario now increasingly incorporates Thrash Metal influences. According to Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia , the band is often compared to Sepultura. According to Claudia Pajzderski from Metal Hammer , however, the only thing they have in common with Sepultura is the origin of both bands. In an interview with Pajzderski, Reisenegger stated that Slayer is his greatest influence. The songs would mostly deal with personal and occasionally political subjects. In his review of Dead Soul , Michael Schäfer described the band as a death and thrash metal band, with the band offering a modern mix of both genres, so that influences from bands such as Grip Inc. and Machine Head can be heard. Especially the groove of the songs reminds me of Machine Head. The songs are varied and angry, but not uncontrolled. Claudia Pajzderski from Metal Hammer also described the music on Cancer as a modern mixture of death and thrash metal. However, in contrast to its predecessor, Dead Soul , the music is far more aggressive. Martin Wickler from Metal Hammer , the band plays on No Gods No Masters a brutal, but still dynamic mixture of heavy , thrash and death metal, as well as grindcore. The level of play is technically high. The songs are again very groove-oriented. The songs offered a mixture of traditional thrash metal and neo-thrash metal . The vocals are aggressive and the keyboard is original. In a report on the song Rise and Fall from the album Sicario , Metal Hammer referred to the band as a neo-thrash band. Anzo Sadoni from Metal Hammer vom Metal Hammer described the music on White Hell as a modern mix of death and thrash metal. The album is multi-faceted and offers good solos . The band moves in the album from death thrash metal, melodic death metal to modern metal . Robert Müller from Metal Hammer wrote about the Akelarre album that the band played Thrash Metal, which also slipped into Death Metal. The songs are driving and technically demanding. He recommended the album to fans of Slayer, The Crown and Deströyer 666 .

According to Martin Popoff in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties , the band plays American death metal on Dead Soul . In addition, a similarity to early Sepultura can be heard throughout, albeit not as strong as with bands like Overdose . In addition, the band also processed influences from thrash metal, doom metal and hardcore punk . Popoff wrote about Sicario in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s that the band is still playing death metal and described the music as a mixture of God Dethroned , Arch Enemy at the time of The Root of All Evil , Krisiun , harder Sepultura releases and Soulfly . The band also has an unleashed and six feet under vibe in the songs .

Discography

  • 1992: Criminal (demo, self-published)
  • 1992: Forked (demo, self-published)
  • 1994: Victimized (album, self-published)
  • 1996: Live Disorder (Live EP, BMG)
  • 1997: Dead Soul (album, BMG )
  • 1998: Slave Master (Live-Album, BMG)
  • 2000: Cancer (album, Metal Blade Records )
  • 2004: No Gods No Masters (album, Metal Blade Records)
  • 2005: Sicario (album, Metal Blade Records)
  • 2009: White Hell (album, Massacre Records )
  • 2011: Akelarre (Album, Massacre Records)
  • 2014: Intoxicate (single, self-published)
  • 2016: Fear Itself (Album, Massacre Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Criminal. (No longer available online.) Massacre-records.de, archived from the original on August 14, 2014 ; Retrieved September 3, 2014 . 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 / massacre-records.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Biography. criminal1.com, accessed September 3, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on September 4, 2014 ; Retrieved September 3, 2014 . 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.rockdetector.com
  4. ↑ a b c Eduardo Rivadavia: Criminal Biography , allmusic.com (English). Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  5. ↑ Anzo Sadoni: Six Feet Under . + Fleshcrawl + Criminal. In: Metal Hammer . May 2004, p. 134 .
  6. ^ A b Martin Popoff, David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 95 .
  7. ↑ a b Info. Facebook , accessed September 3, 2014 .
  8. ↑ 6. Up From The Ground - 2006. uftg.de, accessed on September 3, 2014 .
  9. ↑ a b Criminal. laut.de , accessed on September 2, 2014 .
  10. ^ Claudia Pajzderski: Criminal . Guide to the Otherworld. In: Metal Hammer . October 2001, p. 114 .
  11. ↑ Michael Schäger: Criminal . Dead soul. In: Metal Hammer . June 1999, p. 81 .
  12. ^ Claudia Pajzderski: Criminal . Cancer. In: Metal Hammer . September 2001, p. 86 f .
  13. ↑ Martin Wickler: Criminal . No Gods, No Masters. In: Metal Hammer . March 2004, p. 108 .
  14. ↑ Criminal . Rise and Fall. In: Metal Hammer . October 2005, p. 55 .
  15. ^ Anzo Sadoni: Criminal . White Hell. In: Metal Hammer . March 2009, p. 97 .
  16. ^ Robert Müller: Criminal . Akelarre. In: Metal Hammer . September 2011, p. 120 .
  17. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 91 .

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