Dance Club Massacre
| Dance Club Massacre | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Deathcore |
| founding | 2004 |
| Website | www.myspace.com/danceclubmassacre |
| Founding members | |
Keyboard |
Kurt Latos |
Keyboard, effects |
Jake Thomas |
bass |
Chris Mrozek |
| Current occupation | |
| Nick Seger | |
| Mitch Hein | |
| James Poston | |
| Jon Caruso | |
| Matt Hynek | |
Dance Club Massacre is an American deathcore band from Chicago , Illinois, founded in 2004 by Kurt Latos, Jake Thomas and Chris Mrozek . Today the band consists of Nick Seger ( vocals ), Mitch Hein ( guitar ), James Poston ( bass ), Jon Caruso ( drums ) and Matt Hynek ( keyboard ). Dance Club Massacre are currently signed to Black Market Activities and have so far released a demo and two studio albums.
history
A year after its founding, the band released their first demo CD, which contains seven songs and was pressed 150 times. This demo was sold at concerts and on their Myspace page . Shortly after the demo was released, Kurt Latos left the band and Matt Hynek replaced him on keyboard.
The first album Feast of the Blood Monsters was released in 2006. The debut album was one of the 50 best-selling albums on the online label Interpunk.com. Like the demo itself, it was produced and mainly published online. A physical sound carrier was only pressed 1,100 times.
Through the band Psyopus , which is under contract with Metal Blade Records , Dance Club Massacre signed a contract with Black Market Activities in 2007 and released a new recording of the debut album Feast of the Blood Monsters .
In 2008 the band released their second album, Circle of Death .
style
music
Dance Club Massacre play deathcore with black metal elements, as known from Scandinavian metal bands such as Gorgoroth , Marduk or Dark Funeral . Her influences include bands like The Locust , Dimmu Borgir , Cradle of Filth , An Albatross, Daughters, Converge , Horse the Band, Fantômas , Pig Destroyer and Between the Buried and Me .
Texts
The band's lyrics include topics like parties and drinking , which have also been criticized as misogynistic.
reception
Feast of the Blood Monsters
The album received mediocre to negative reviews. Metal.de, who rated the first version of the album from 2006, criticized the "monotony" of the singing, which seemed insignificant and degenerated into monotonous screeching. The band's experimentation with "abstract sounds ..., such as small electronic games in the form of triangle chirps and organ sounds somewhere between a fair and church howl."
Thom Jurek, who rated the 2007 re-release of the album on AllMusic, described the album's lyrics as hilarious, especially since you don't understand them, but you can read them in the booklet. Nick Segers singing is reminiscent of the horror film screeching of a B-movie. The musical accompaniment would raise the band above average.
Circle of Death
Circle of Death was positively received by allmusic . The review states that the band is a rarity, as in the tradition of bands like Cannibal Corpse or Carcass they combine extreme metal with ironic lyrics. Texts like Have You Ever Chopped a Wolf or Ode to the Barracuda would lose their disturbing approach through the humorous note. The album is memorable and highly entertaining, even if the hidden track, a cover of the title 99 Bottles of Beer , with around 28 minutes, feels 20 minutes too long.
Other reviews rated Circle of Death as a musical advance, even if the band's potential was not yet exhausted.
Discography
- 2005: Dance Club Massacre (demo, self-produced)
- 2006: Feast of the Blood Monsters (album, self-produced)
- 2007: Feast of the Blood Monsters (album, re-produced and re-released via Black Market Activities)
- 2008: Circle of Death (Album, Black Market Activities)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review Dance Club Massacre - Feast of the Blood Monsters on allmusic.com
- ↑ a b Review Dance Club Massacre - Feast of the Blood Monsters on metal.de
- ↑ "... make these tunes better than the average thrash." Review Dance Club Massacre - Feast of the Blood Monsters on allmusic.com
- ↑ a b Review Dance Club Massacre - Circle Of Death on allmusic.com
- ↑ See Review of Circle of Death (Title: You Guys Know Better ) on metal-archives.com
Web links
- Dance Club Massacre on MySpace
- Dance Club Massacre at Allmusic (English)