God Dethroned
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 God Dethroned at the Party.San Metal Open Air 2017 (front from left to right: Mike Ferguson, Henri Sattler, Jeroen Pomper; behind on drums: Michiel van der Plicht) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Death metal |
| founding | 1990, 1996 (?), 2015 |
| resolution | 1993 (?), 2012 |
| Website | goddethroned.com |
| Founding members | |
| Henri Sattler | |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
Henri "TSK" Sattler |
guitar |
Dave Meester |
| Jeroen Pomper | |
| Michiel van der Plicht | |
| former members | |
guitar |
Oscar Carre |
guitar |
Jens van der Valk |
bass |
Marco Arends |
bass |
Beef |
Drums |
Ariën Van Weesenbeek |
Drums |
Jens van der Valk |
Drums |
Tony Laureano |
guitar |
Isaac Delahaye |
Drums |
Roel Sanders |
guitar |
Susan Gerl |
guitar |
Danny Tunker |
bass |
Henk "Henke" Zinger |
guitar |
Mike Ferguson |
God Dethroned ( English "dethroned God") is a death metal band from the Netherlands with a very changeable history. The only constant is its founder, singer and guitarist Henri Sattler . The band has released a total of 12 studio albums (as of 2020) since their first formation in 1990, almost all of which were released on Metal Blade Records .
history
God Dethroned was founded in 1990 by Henri Sattler, then 20 years old. After a demo recording , they released their debut album The Christhunt in 1992 . After problems with the other band members and the record label , Sattler broke up the band . Sattler founded the thrash metal band Ministry of Terror in 1994 , but left it again after recording the album Fall of Life and a European tour and re-founded God Dethroned with other members. After the release of The Grand Grimoire in 1997, there followed successful tours with, among others, Cannibal Corpse , Morbid Angel , Immortal and Marduk and appearances at large open airs such as Dynamo , Wacken and Summer Breeze .
In 1999, 2000 and 2001 the albums Bloody Blasphemy , The Ancient Ones and Ravenous were released. After numerous tours through Europe and America, their sixth album followed in 2003, entitled Into the Lungs of Hell , with which they achieved their worldwide breakthrough. In the summer of 2004 God Dethroned was booked for numerous festivals. They played again at the Summer Breeze , the With Full Force and the Vienna Metal Fest . In autumn 2004, the band released the album The Lair of the White Worm . Before recording began, Isaac Delahaye (guitar) and Henk Zinger (bass) joined the band. This was followed in 2006 by The Toxic Touch , an album that Sattler described in retrospect as "experimental" and on which, according to his own account, he had a disproportionately small share because of his father's serious illness. On October 18th, 2008 Isaac Delahaye played his last concert with God Dethroned at the Rekwi Festival and in early 2009 he switched to the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica .
In the same year Passiondale , the first of three concept albums about the First World War , was released with the participation of Roel Sanders (drums), who was already part of The Grand Grimoire , and Susan Gerl (guitar). At the end of 2010, Passiondale's successor Under the Sign of the Iron Cross was released with Michiel van der Plicht (drums) and Danny Tunker (guitar) as new band members.
On February 14, 2011, Sattler announced via the band's MySpace blog that 2011 would be “the last year” of the band and that it was time to face “new challenges”. The last gig before the band split up again took place on January 26, 2012 at the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise.
The end became just a pause, however. The “reunion” took place with the participation in the 2015 edition of 70,000 Tons ... For the time after that, Sattler announced that the core of the band “only consists of Michiel and me” and they probably only “a small selection of shows “Instead of playing gigs every weekend. On May 5, 2017, God Dethroned concluded their World War II trilogy with the release of the album The World Ablaze . Mike Ferguson (guitar) and Jeroen Pomper (bass) worked as additional band members on this work.
On February 7th, 2020 the most recent studio album Illuminati was released , which brings them "back to the dark side" in terms of content, with topics such as religion, Freemasonry and occultism, and which Sattler describes as the "most versatile album" of the band. In addition to Sattler and van der Plicht, Jeroen Pomper and Mike Ferguson were also involved in Illuminati , as did Dave Meester, who, like van der Plicht, previously played for Apophys and replaced Ferguson on guitar, who left before the album was finished.
Current line-up
- Live on the With Full Force 2018
Singer and guitarist
Henri Sattler
Guitarist
Mike Ferguson (until 2019)
Bass player
Jeroen Pomper
Drummer
Michiel Van Der Plicht
Discography
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- 1992 - The Christhunt (Shark Records)
- 1997 - The Grand Grimoire ( Metal Blade Records )
- 1998 - The Christhunt (re-release with new cover, Cold Blood Industries)
- 1999 - Bloody Blasphemy (Metal Blade Records)
- 2000 - The Ancient Ones (Cold Blood Industries)
- 2001 - Ravenous (Metal Blade Records)
- 2003 - Into the Lungs of Hell (Metal Blade Records)
- 2004 - The Lair of the White Worm (Metal Blade Records)
- 2006 - The Toxic Touch (Metal Blade Records)
- 2009 - Passiondale (Metal Blade Records)
- 2010 - Under the Sign of the Iron Cross (Metal Blade Records)
- 2017 - The World Ablaze (Metal Blade Records)
- 2020 - Illuminati (Metal Blade Records)
Web links
- Official website
- Profile at Metal Blade Records
- Profile at bandcamp.com
- Video concert recording of the band's performance at the Rock-Hard-Festival 2015 in the archive of the WDR-Rockpalast
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dănuț Ivănescu: God Dethroned - Good news on the western front. ( Memento from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Henri Sattler on carteadenisip.ro ( Cartea de Nisip [German sandpaper] - a former Romanian metal magazine), January 2009
- ↑ God Dethroned with a new album and new line-up. (No longer available online.) In: bloodchamber.de. September 20, 2010, archived from the original on February 10, 2015 ; accessed on February 10, 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.
- ^ Henri Sattler: The Final Year. ( Memento June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Entry on God Dethroned's blog on MySpace.com
- ↑ a b Patrick Olbrich: God Dethroned - Reunion in 70,000 tons. Metal.de News, July 30, 2014, accessed August 4, 2017
- ↑ God Dethroned Returned On The 70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise. In: Skulls n Bones. January 30, 2015, accessed February 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Katrin Riedl: God Dethroned - The World Ablaze. metal-hammer.de, May 5, 2017, accessed on August 4, 2017
- ↑ God Dethroned announce new album 'The World Ablaze' for May 5th! Press release on metalblade.com (Metal Blade Records), February 9, 2017, accessed August 5, 2017
- ↑ a b Joe Divita: God Dethroned announce Illuminati album, share title track. loudwire.com, December 13, 2019
- ↑ Petra Schurer: God Dethroned - Illuminati. metal-hammer.de, February 7, 2020
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany
