Gladiator (band)
| gladiator | |
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 Gladiator in 2010 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Alekšince , Slovakia |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal , death metal , grunge |
| founding | 1989 |
| Current occupation | |
| Marián “Maroš” Hladký | |
| Georgio Babulic | |
| Tomáš “Lívo” Vereš | |
| Miloš "Miko" Hladký | |
| Peter "Slamka" Slamečka | |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Dušan Hladký |
Electric guitar |
Rastislav Krčmárik |
Electric guitar |
Rastislav Toman |
Gladiator is a Slovak grunge , death and thrash metal band from Alekšince that was founded in 1989.
history
The band was formed in 1989. The group's debut album was released in January 1992 under the name Designation on Zeras Records . The following year, the second album Made of Pain followed via Škvrna Records . The song My World , which was included on the phonogram, was also played several times on the radio. The third album was released under the name Third Eye in 1994. After switching to the major label Ariola , the album Dogstime followed in 1996. Another studio album was then released: Legal Drug (1997), which also featured a cover version of The-Doors -The song Touch Me was included … Viem, kde boh spí (1999) and Babylon Hotel (2000). A compilation was also released in 2002, which included a cover version of The Rolling Stones song (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction . Then the group switched to the Universal Music Group . About this the albums Črepy (2002) and Cesta do neba (2004) appeared. After that, the group switched to Columbia Records , which released further studio albums with Mesto (2006), … Ako predtým (2007) and Hlavu maj hore (2009).
style
According to rockdetector.com the album Designation is strongly oriented towards Thrash Metal. Third Eye was heavily influenced by grunge. According to Roland Silberhorn in the book Heavy Metal from Eastern Europe , the band plays a mixture of Thrash and Death Metal on designation . The music sounds like a mixture of Slayers Hell Awaits and Symbolic from Death . The vocals in particular sound like a mixture of Tom Araya and Peter Steele , as they would have sounded in 1985. The electric guitars would occasionally be reminiscent of Chuck Schuldiner . On Made of Pain the band also sound a lot like Slayer, especially the albums Hell Awaits , Reign in Blood and South of Heaven . The solos that Gladiator used, however, the group mastered better than Slayer. The texts would be read in perfect English . On Third Eye are influences from Metallica and Nirvana added. Later the band orientated itself towards Britpop . According to Birgit Fuß from Metal Hammer , the band on Legal Drug is just a third-rate copy of Pearl Jam . According to classicthrash.com , the album Designation could have been an old Sepultura demo. The song structures are moderately complex and the singing resembles that of Max Cavalera in the late 1980s. The album is comparable to the Sepultura recordings Schizophrenia and Beneath the Remains . On Made of Pain , the group is moving away from their Sepultura similarities. Compared to the debut album, the music doesn't sound very interesting. The songs are ordinary Thrash Metal. Also thethrashmetalguide.com strong on the debut album Sepultura parallels heard, and gave as a comparison, the albums Arise and Beneath the Remains of. The song Profitable Losses has a slight Death Metal influence. The follow-up song Bastard Death is similar , but the riffs are heavier. It would look similar with the other songs. Morbid Murdering is slower, but almost a pure Death Metal song, with moderately demanding riffs. Useless Child is comparable to the Slayers of the late 1980s. Also on Made of Pain it was found that the Sepultura parallels have been broken away somewhat. The music is mainly comparable to bands from the 1980s: especially Slayer, as well as Devastation and Violence . The songs are now mostly less fast and intense. In the song For All Gods , Death Metal influences can also be heard again. In later album releases, the band turned to modern heavy metal , which was enriched with grunge and groove .
Discography
- Predohra smrti (demo, 1990, self-published)
- Designation (album, 1992, Zeras Records )
- Thrash Metal Made in Slovakia '92 (Split with Editor , Acheron and Šakal, 1992, Station Master Records )
- Made of Pain (album, 1993, Škvrna Records )
- Third Eye (album, 1994, Škvrna Records)
- Dogstime (album, 1996, Ariola )
- Legal Drug (album, 1997, Ariola)
- ... viem, kde boh spí (album, 1999, Ariola)
- Babylon Hotel (album, 2000, Ariola)
- Single 1994 - 2002 (compilation, 2002, Ariola)
- Črepy (album, 2002, Universal Music Group )
- Cesta do neba (album, 2004, Universal Music Group)
- Mesto (album, 2006, Columbia Records )
- … Ako Predtým (album, 2007, Columbia Records)
- Hlavu maj hore (album, 2008, Columbia Records)
- Gladiator Live (Live album, 2008, Columbia Records)
- Gladiator Live (DVD, 2008, Columbia Records)
- Slovensko - hokejová republika / Life Is a Game (Split with Kristína, 2011, Universal Music Group)
- 20 rokov (compilation, 2011, Universal Music Group)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Birgit Fuß : Gladiator . Legal drug. In: Metal Hammer . June 1998, p. 84 .
- ↑ a b Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on November 4, 2014 ; accessed on October 31, 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.
- ↑ Gladiator - Mesto. Discogs , accessed October 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Gladiator -… Ako Predtým. Discogs, accessed October 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Gladiator - Hlavu Maj Hore. Discogs, accessed October 31, 2014 .
- ^ Roland Silberhorn: Heavy Metal from Eastern Europe . 2nd Edition. IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931624-20-X , p. 147 f .
- ^ Classic Thrash - Reviews - G. classicthrash.com, accessed November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ GLADIATOR (SLOVAKIA). thethrashmetalguide.com, accessed November 1, 2014 .
