Graveworm
| Graveworm | |
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 Graveworm at the Metalcamp 2007 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Dark metal |
| founding | 1997 |
| Website | http://www.graveworm.de/ |
| Founding members | |
| Stefan Fiori | |
| Harry Klenk (until 2011) | |
guitar |
Steve Unterpertinger (until 2002) |
| Didi Schraffl (until 1999) | |
| Martin "Maschtl" Innerbichler | |
| Sabine Mair (until 2012) | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Stefan Fiori |
bass |
Florian Reiner |
guitar |
Eric Righi (since 2001) |
guitar |
Steve Unterpertinger |
Drums |
Martin "Maschtl" Innerbichler |
| former members | |
guitar |
Thomas "Stirz" Orgler (2012) |
guitar |
Lukas Flarer |
Drums |
Moritz Neuner |
guitar |
Harald Klenk (2011) |
Keyboard |
Sabine Mair (2012) |
Graveworm ( English for 'grave worm') is a dark metal band from South Tyrol that was founded in 1997.
Band history
Graveworm was signed for the first time in 1997 by the Serenades Records label after a live performance in their hometown of Bruneck in South Tyrol, without the band having previously produced a demo recording . After the first positive feedback, the debut album When Daylight's Gone was released . On the following tour with Crematory , Therion and Lake of Tears the band met the singer Sarah Jezebel Deva and worked with her in 1998 on the EP Underneath the Crescent Moon . In addition to a spoken part in "By The Grace Of God", she took on the classic vocals on the remake of the title "Awake". In the same year the band appears for the first time at the Wacken Open Air .
In 1999, As the Angels Reach the Beauty was released , which was followed by a tour of Germany with Agathodaimon and Transylvania . Scourge of Malice allowed the band to go on their first headlining tour in 2001 with support from Suidakra , Dornenreich , Vintersorg and Darkwell . On "Scourge of Malice" there is a cover version of the Iron Maiden title Fear of the Dark . The following year she switched to the German label Nuclear Blast . Didi Schraffl ( bass ) left the band and Harry Klenk (guitar) was replaced by Eric Righi. Together with Righi she produced Engraved in Black , which was released in 2003 and which also features a cover version of the Pet Shop Boys title It's a Sin . Shortly after its appearance, Steve Unterpertinger ( guitar ) , who was largely involved in the songwriting process, left the band and was replaced by Lukas Flarer, who had already taken on bass for live performances. Harald Klenk came back, but this time as a bass player.
In 2004 she played on the X-Mas Festival Tour with Destruction , Kataklysm and other bands. Martin “Marschtl” Innerbichler on drums took a private break, and Moritz Neuner (formerly with Darkwell, Dornenreich, Leave's Eye and Shadowcast) took over his job. The album (N) Utopia (2005) was followed by a tour in which she appeared as a support act for Ensiferum with Communic . At the end of September 2005 Lukas Flarer left the band for personal reasons and was replaced by Thomas "Stirz" Orgler, who had also helped out several times in the past. The (N) Utopia tour, which was planned for late autumn 2005, had to be canceled due to a death in the Fioris family and postponed indefinitely.
In May 2006 Graveworm played on the Metal Crusader Tour 06 together with Kataklysm , Vader , Nuclear Assault , Speed / Kill / Hate and The Absence for six weeks in the United States and Canada .
In 2007 the album titled Collateral Defect was released on Massacre Records, where Orgler took over the songwriting. The pieces differ more from the previous albums and break new ground. The following tour with Disbelief and In Slumber resulted in the collaboration with Jagger (Disbelief), who wrote the lyrics for Forlorn Hope on the album Diabolical Figures released in June 2009 and also appears there as a guest singer.
In the spring of 2011 Harald Klenk left the band for family reasons and was replaced by Florian Reiner (Voices of decay). At the end of 2011, the album Fragments of Death was released by Nuclear Blast , which reminds a little more of the roots of the sextet. The keyboards were put in the background in the overall sound and the song structures were more linear. Shortly after the release, the band separated from Thomas Stirz and Sabine Mair and decided to use samples for live performances in the future and not include a keyboard player in the line-up. Founding member and former main songwriter Steve Unterpertinger took over the missing position on the guitar.
In November 2012, Graveworm played a headlining tour with Agathodaimon , Emergency Gate and Kadavrik. A short tour of China followed. In the fall of 2014 the band led the first part of the revived Wacken Road Shows and released the album Ascending Hate on AFM Records in June 2015 .
Discography
Albums
- 1997: When Daylight's Gone
- 1999: As the Angels Reach the Beauty
- 2001: Scourge of Malice
- 2003: Engraved in Black
- 2005: (N) utopia
- 2007: Collateral Defect
- 2009: Diabolical Figures
- 2011: Fragments of Death
- 2015: Ascending Hate
Others
- 1997: Demo 1997 ( MC )
- 1997: Eternal Winds (EP)
- 1998: Underneath the Crescent Moon (single)
- 1998: Awaiting the Shinning ( VHS )
Web links
- Official website
- Graveworm at Discogs (English)