Disgrace (band)

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Disgrace
General information
origin Turku , Finland
Genre (s) Death metal , rock
founding 1987
resolution 2014
Last occupation
Miska Koski aka King Nobody
Anton Kupias aka James Golf aka Mr. Golf aka Jimbo Golf aka Q-Pias
Electric guitar, vocals
 Jukka Taskinen aka Il Cattivo aka Oral Chimpanzee aka Il Cat aka Doctore Perrier aka Il Cattivo Doctore Sangria
Franco Messerschmitt
Electric guitar
 Leroy Brown
former members
Electric bass
 UKK
Electric bass
 Jussi Selonen aka CC Less
Electric guitar, vocals
 Toni Christian Stranius aka Thee Stranius († 2006)
Electric guitar, vocals
 Riku Sanaksenaho aka Artist Formerly Known aka Anal Chimpanzee aka Bald Revenger aka DJ Motherfukker
Electric bass
 Kari Salmelainen aka Le Petit Cock la Herman aka Jöhvikas aka Görn Borg
Electric guitar
 Oliver Lawny aka Fast Ola
Electric guitar
 Andrew Lilley
Electric bass
 Nuclear Powerplant aka A-Histus aka Cash Cow
Percussion (studio)
 Bengt Datsun
Narrator (studio)
 Moses Nambla 2002

Disgrace was a Finnish rock and death metal band from Turku that was formed in 1987 and disbanded in 2014.

history

The band was formed in 1987. In 1991 a first EP called Debts of God was released on Seraphic Decay Records . About 2,000 copies of this were different. Next came the debut album Gray Misery in 1992 , of which around 10,000 units were sold. In the same year the sampler Annihilation of the Antichrist was released by Witchhunter Records , on which Disgrace can also be heard. In 1993 the group recorded the Doom Metal album Vol II: Black Lizards Cry , which was never released. After that, guitarist and singer Toni Stranius left the cast to join Xysma . In 1994 the EP Vacuum Horror, Horror Vacuum followed on the band's own label Crawfish Recordings. Previously, the group had held three short European tours . A short time after the release, she went to a recording studio in Pori with producer Pentti Dassum to record the album Superhuman Dome , which was released in January 1996 on the German label Morbid Records . The album contains, among other things, revised songs from Vol II: Black Lizards Cry . For the following European tour Anton Kupias came to the cast as guitarist, so that Jukka Taskinen could concentrate completely on the singing.

A year after its release, the group rented a property to record and produce their next album, If You're Looking for Trouble . Taskinen and Kupias borrowed the name from the Elvis Presley song Trouble . The sound carrier was released in 1998 by Metamorphos Records . Shortly after its release, Taskinen suffered from burnout syndrome from which he soon recovered. For this he went to the Netherlands . A short time later, the remaining members went on a tour through Europe. After the second tour through the Netherlands and Germany, the band returned to Finland together with Taskinen. In Helsinki she then recorded her next album called Turku , which was initially just the working title. However, it was finally decided to name the album after her hometown. The release took place in 2001 at Riemu Records . After the release it went on tour through Europe with Sweatmaster . Before that, bassist Jussi Selonen had left the line-up and was replaced by a musician who listened to various pseudonyms such as “Nuclear Powerplant”, “A-Histus” and “Cash Cow”. After the album was released in Scandinavia , the band went on tour through Germany. After releasing in other parts of Europe, the band held two more tours. During these years the band played around 300 concerts in 15 different countries together with The Mutants , Boomhauer , The Voladoras, Kometa , The Flaming Sideburns , Gluecifer , The Burnouts, The Drags , King Khan and the Shrines , The Festermen , Trouble Bound Gospel , Cosmo Jones Beat Machine , Branded Women , Sweatmaster, Impaled Nazarene , Puffball , Satirnine , Los Banditos , Screamin 'Stukas , Rodeo Queen, Psychopunch , Crypt Kicker 5, The Egyptian Gay Lovers, The Coffinshakers and Xysma.

Then the group went to the studio with producer Pentti Dassum to record the album Born Tired , which was released in 2004. After the release, Franco Messerschmitt was added, who replaced the previous bassist UKK after only half a year. In addition, the band went on tour with Boomhauer and Kometa after their release and also played with Branded Women and Slideshaker in Finland. After a short European tour in 2004, guitarist Riku Sanaksenaho decided to stay in Berlin . Oliver Lawny came as a replacement. However, as he was seriously injured a short time later, he was again replaced by Leroy Brown. In 2010 and 2011 two more albums were released with Hammer & Nails and Vol. 2 . On January 17, 2014, the band made their last appearance; there were still Boomhauer and Crackwhore.

style

According to rockdetector.com , the style has shifted from simple extreme metal to a mix of 1950s death metal and rock 'n' roll . In addition, the band also tried a Doom Metal album, which was never released.

Judith Richter from Ox-Fanzine wrote in her review of Hammer and Nails that the band plays a mixture of rock 'n' roll and punk . The album contains "snotty vocals", while the song Drop of Wine contained on it has "a cool solo and piano in the chorus".

Robert Müller from Metal Hammer was particularly impressed by the vocals of the demo Inside the Labyrinth of Depression . On the cassette tape there is “one of the bitterest Röchelsinger in a long time to be admired”, who he and Martin van Drunen sound similarly extraordinary, albeit completely different. The demo serves with "simple but intensely knocked-down Death Metal". In a later extra edition, Müller wrote that Disgrace, next to Xysma, “is the band in Finland where you can most clearly recognize the very common, but obscure view of this music in the entire Death Metal scene ". On the album Gray Misery , it sounds like a psychedelic version of Carcass in the days of Symphonies of Sickness . In an interview with Müller, Jukka Taskinen stated that the members were fans of Carcass when the band was founded. As a guitarist he was influenced by Jimi Hendrix , Black Sabbath and early Deep Purple . Müller found that the lyrics on the album had an almost surreal character. Taskinen is no longer entirely satisfied with the texts. He tries to process personal thoughts and impressions in them. He tries to make it unusual and to leave it as open as possible in order to stimulate the listener to think. In another issue, he reviewed the album and again made a Carcass comparison. Particularly "concerning the sound and the extreme orientation", both bands would be similar, with Disgrace other stylistic devices, such as Jimi Hendrix-like guitar solo , bringing in with. He described the group's music in another edition as avant-garde death metal in the style of Xysma and Sentenced . In the same issue he also reviewed Vacuum Horror, Horror Vacuum . He assigned the music to Death Metal and also referred to it as rock music influenced by Carcass Grindcore . In a later review of Superhuman Dome , Müller described the music as a mix of death metal and rock 'n' roll of the 1960s and 1970s. The group sounds "a little like Amorphis without the doom-pounding legends". In the next issue, Sanaksenaho and Taskinen named Monster Magnet , Hawkwind , Kyuss and Motörhead as influences in an interview with Müller . Over time, according to Müller, the band has increasingly built rock influences into their Death Metal. Both said they wanted to make the music more aggressive by covering topics like "mouth creaking and sex". A few years later, Henning Richter discussed the Turku album . The group was initially influenced by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal , but since the mid-1990s they have turned away from metal and devoted themselves to rock 'n' roll. On the album “crystal hard beats ” would meet “ TNT guitar riffs”. The songs are "loud, rebellious, untamed, raw, matted and rousing" and would be performed with a "barbed wire voice".

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Info. Facebook , accessed January 11, 2016 .
  2. ^ Disgrace (3) - Debts Of God. Discogs , accessed January 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Various - Annihilation Of The Antichrist. Discogs, accessed January 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on January 12, 2016 ; accessed on January 11, 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.rockdetector.com
  5. ^ Disgrace (3) - If You're Looking For Trouble. Discogs, accessed January 11, 2016 .
  6. ^ Disgrace (3) - Turku. Discogs, accessed January 11, 2016 .
  7. ^ Disgrace (3) - Born Tired. Discogs, accessed January 11, 2016 .
  8. ^ Disgrace (3). Discogs, accessed January 14, 2016 .
  9. ↑ January 17, 2014 DISGRACE (yhtyeen hautajaiset) + BOOMHAUER + CRACKWHORE. Facebook, accessed January 14, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Judith Richter: DISGRACE . Hammer & Nails. In: Ox-Fanzine . 101 (April / May), 2012 ( online [accessed January 14, 2016]).
  11. ^ Robert Müller: Impressions from the slaughter . Disgrace. In: Metal Hammer . September 1991, p. 127 .
  12. ^ Robert Müller: Obscurity in the Azure . Disgrace. In: Metal Hammer Extra Thrash . No. 2 , 1992, p. 54 .
  13. ^ Robert Müller: Disgrace . Gray Misery. In: Metal Hammer . June 1992, p. 66 .
  14. ↑ Robert Müller: About Death Metal, and how it became music . The afterlife. In: Metal Hammer . August 1995, p. 134 f .
  15. ^ Robert Müller: Disgrace . Vacuum horror, horror vacuum. In: Metal Hammer . August 1995, p. 59 .
  16. ^ Robert Müller: Disgrace . Superhuman Dome. In: Metal Hammer . March 1996, p. 64 .
  17. ↑ Robert Müller: Galaxy M 13 with plastic effect . Disgrace. In: Metal Hammer . April 1996, p. 120 .
  18. ^ Henning Richter: Disgrace . Turku. In: Metal Hammer . February 2002, p. 92 .