Deville (band)

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Deville
General information
origin Malmo , Sweden
Genre (s) Stoner rock
founding 2003
Website http://deville.nu/
Current occupation
Martin Nobel
Martin Fassberg
Electric guitar, vocals
Andreas Bengtsson
Electric guitar
 Andreas Wulkan
former members
Electric guitar
 Martin Hambitzer
Electric guitar
 Jan Persson
Electric bass
 Markus Åkesson
Drums
 Markus Nilsson

Deville is a Swedish stoner rock band from Malmö that was formed in 2003.

history

The band was founded in 2003 and consisted of bassist Markus Åkesson, who had previously been in Australia for a long time , guitarist and singer Martin Hambitzer, who had previously worked in a pop band, and guitarist and singer Andreas Bengtsson. The band was named after the Cadillac DeVille . A split release with Sergej the Freak called Sergej the Freak meets Deville was released on Daredevil Records in late 2005 . In 2007 the band signed a contract with Buzzville Records . In December 2007, the debut album Come Heavy Sleep , which was recorded in 2006 and 2007, was released in the Benelux countries . In the rest of Europe and the USA , the album was released in early 2008. In June 2009, the second album Hail the Black Sky followed in Europe and the USA on Buzzville Records. Then the group went on touring Europe. In 2011 and 2012 Deville wrote the next album called Hydra . After the recordings, Hambitzer left the line-up and was replaced by the guitarist Jan Persson. After the album was released in March 2013 on Small Stone Records , Persson left the band in the summer and was replaced by Andreas Wulkan. 2013 and 2014 followed by appearances in the USA and Europe, before the album Make It Belong to Us was recorded in the Sunnanå Studios in the summer of 2015 . The material was mixed and produced by the drummer Markus Nilsson. The release took place in November on the Swedish label Fuzzorama Records . The publication was preceded by a tour with Mustasch through Germany and Switzerland in October . Since its inception, the band has played over 400 concerts in countries such as Denmark , Norway , Finland , the Netherlands , Belgium , Austria , Czech Republic , France , Italy , Lithuania , Portugal , Greece , Spain , Great Britain and the USA.

style

laut.de described the music as a mixture of stoner rock and metal. Come Heavy Sleep leans heavily on Black Sabbath . Also Hail the Black Sky as these influences to be, but melodic and processed also Foo Fighters - and Audioslave Bonds. Hydra "still relies on some stoner riffs ,but clearlygivespreference tothe rock part ". According to Janne Stark in The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Deville was a stoner band, with riffs that would be reminiscent of Les Paul . The music can be heard influences from Black Sabbath, Kyuss and Fu Manchu . In an interview with Jörg Staude from Rock Hard , Andreas Bengtsson stated that the band is not only influenced by Black Sabbath and Soundgarden , but also by Mastodon and Kvelertak .

Discography

  • 2005: Sergej the Freak Meets Deville (Split with Sergej the Freak, Daredevil Records )
  • 2007: Come Heavy Sleep (album, Buzzville Records )
  • 2009: Hail the Black Sky (album, Buzzville Records)
  • 2013: Hydra (album, Small Stone Records )
  • 2015: Make It Belong to Us (Album, Fuzzorama Records)
  • 2018: Pigs with Gods (Album, Fuzzorama Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Janne Stark: The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Premium Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-91-89136-56-4 , pp. 219 .
  2. ↑ a b Deville. laut.de , accessed on March 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c Biography. deville.nu, accessed March 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Jörg Staude: Deville . Full and great. In: Rock Hard . No. 346 , March 2016, p. 75 .