Ghostorm
| Ghostorm | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Vilnius , Lithuania |
| Genre (s) | Technical death metal |
| founding | 1992 |
| resolution | 1997 or later |
| Last occupation | |
| Andrius Daugirdas | |
| Linas Buda | |
| Rytis "Tairala" Tankevicius | |
Electric guitar, later also vocals
|
Saruna's "Omenas" Tamulaitis |
| former members | |
Drums |
Smarve |
Drums |
Meinardas "Brazas" brazaitis |
singing |
Gino Paoli |
singing |
Laurynas Sadauskas |
singing |
Marius Berenis |
Electric bass |
Liudas Remeika |
Ghostorm was a Lithuanian technical death metal band from Vilnius that was formed in 1992 and disbanded around 1997.
history
The band was formed in October 1992. In 1994 the first demo appeared under the name The End of All Songs . The sound carrier contained recordings from June 1993, in which the band consisted of the guitarist Sarunas "Omenas" Tamulaitis, the drummer Meinardas "Brazas" Brazaitis, the singer Laurynas Sadauskas and the bassist Liudas Remeika. The last three members were previously active in the band Dissection, which should not be confused with the Swedish band of the same name . It also contained recordings from October in which the band consisted of tamulaitis and brazaitis, singer Marius Berenis, bassist Andrius Daugirdas and guitarist Rytis Tankevicius. A little later the group recorded two more songs for a sampler. In 1995 Black Mark Production released the debut album Frozen in Fire , which was recorded in the Swedish Unisound Studio under the direction of Dan Swanö . Through Swanö, the band had also won the contract with Black Mark Production. On the album you can hear Rytis “Taraila” Tankevicius as second guitarist and Smarve, who replaced Brazaitis as drummer. In the meantime, the band has also been able to perform together with Anathema and Solstice in front of around 1,200 people in Lithuania. In 1997 the second album Black Box was released , whereupon Linas Buda can be heard as the new drummer and which was again produced by Swanö. During the recordings Tamulaitis also took over the vocals, as Marius Berenis left the band shortly after the recordings of Frozen in Fire . In the meantime the band has split up.
style
According to The Ultimate Hard Rock Guide Vol I - Europe , the band plays technical death metal in the style of atheist . According to Martin Popoff in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties , the band plays routine death metal with a drumming that is complicated and twisted, which reminded him of Meshuggah . The singing is guttural , although the English is extremely bad. The songs also reminded him of Entombed and Gorefest . Frank Albrecht from Rock Hard stated that the lyrics sound quite passable for the fact that English was hardly ever taught in a Lithuanian school at the time. In an interview with Albrecht, Sarunas Tamulaitis explained that he first wrote down the texts in his mother tongue before they would be translated by the manager, who studied English. According to Björn Friedetzky from Metal Hammer there is Death Metal on Black Box with "[t] heavy grooves instead of double bass thunderstorms". In addition, there are “accurate rhythms, hard guitar walls that have space to vibrate and melodies that are hard to beat in terms of catchiness”.
Discography
- 1994: The End of All Songs (demo, self-release)
- 1995: Frozen in Fire (Album, Black Mark Production )
- 1997: Black Box (Album, Pargan Music )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Frank Albrecht: A question of attitude . Ghostorm. In: Rock Hard . No. 102 , November 1995, pp. 50 f .
- ↑ a b c Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on January 22, 2015 ; Retrieved January 20, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Ghostorm - Black Box. Discogs , accessed January 21, 2015 .
- ^ Garry Sharpe-Young , Horst Odermatt & Friends: The Ultimate Hard Rock Guide Vol I - Europe . Bang Your Head Enterprises Ltd, 1997, p. 220 .
- ↑ 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. 169 .
- ^ Björn Friedetzky: Ghostorm . Black box. In: Metal Hammer . April 1998, p. 83 .
