Horrid

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Horrid
General information
origin Varese , Italy
Genre (s) Death metal
founding 1988 as Rites of Death
Current occupation
Mario "Belfagor" Plumari
Simone "Eligor" Comerio
Davide "Dagon" Ariostini
former members
Drums
 Davide Bacchetta
Electric bass, vocals
 Max
Drums
 Roberto "Istrice"
singing
 James
Drums
 Vito "Draughar" Rizzi
initially electric guitar, later also vocals, then only vocals
 Robert
Singing (session)
 Morris
Drums
 Mick
Drums
 Matteo "Matt" Rendina
Electric guitar
 Alex
singing
 Davide "Satras" Ricciuti
singing
 Dec
Electric guitar
 Simone Morelli
Drums
 Riccardo
Electric guitar
 Alessio "Alastor"
Singing (live)
 Giovanni "Lord Astaroth" Marretta

Horrid is an Italian death metal band from Varese , which was founded in 1988 under the name Rites of Death .

history

The band was founded in 1988 under the name Rites of Death by the guitarist Mario "Belfagor" Plumari and the bassist and singer Max. After the name was changed to Horrid the following year, the first two demos Eternal Suffering and You Are Mine appeared in 1992 and 1994 . Another was recorded in 1993, but it was not released until 2009 on Terror from Hell Records . Through the demos, the group caught the attention of various labels. After the EP Awaiting for the Truth , which was released by Cryptic Soul Production in 1996 , the band later moved to the Sunlight Studio in Stockholm to record the EP Blasphemic Creatures , which was released in 1998 by Behind the Mask Records . Through the latter, Horrid reached a record deal with Deadsun Records , which in 2002 released the debut album Reborn in Sin . After a contract with Xtreem Music was signed, the second album Rising from the Hidden Spheres followed in 2006 . In 2011 the compilation The Final Massacre was released by Blasphemous Art Productions and Black Tears Producions . The line-up had changed several times since it was founded, with Plumari being the only remaining original member. In June 2013, the band returned to the Sunlight Studio to record the album Sacrilegious Fornication under the direction of Tomas Skogsberg , which was released in April 2014 by the German label Dunkelheit Produktionen . The album consists of eight original songs as well as a cover of the Hellhammer song Massacra . After the album Beyond the Dark Border had been recorded with a new line-up , the material was mixed and mastered in October 2016 in the 16th Cellar Studio . It appeared the following year via Dark Productions. On December 31, 2019, the album As We Forget Our Past followed on the same label . The album consists of ten older songs that were recorded in the Walking Cloud Studio and mixed and mastered by Stefano Morabito .

style

According to the band's Facebook presence, she was initially influenced by groups like Hellhammer or its sequel Celtic Frost . Mr. Møller from Metal.de wrote in his review of Beyond the Dark Border that you can hear classic and dark-sounding Death Metal in the European , especially Swedish , style. Similarities to Grave , Dismember , Bolt Thrower and Asphyx can be heard in the songs . The songs are varied, but most of the time the group does not manage to sound independent. Sebastian Schilling from Rock Hard wrote about As We Forget Our Past that this is "the perfect incarnation of the HM2 sound " and that it is a kind of best of Death Metal in Swedish style. He drew comparisons with Lik and Endseeker . The varied songwriting and the "strong melodies" are also particularly characteristic . The singing is reminiscent of Jan Chris de Koeyer from Gorefest . In an interview with Schilling in the same issue, Davide "Dagon" Ariostini stated that the band was initially influenced by Hellhammer. After the release of Eternal Suffering , the group was heavily influenced by the wave of Swedish death metal bands, so that the following releases had little in common stylistically with the first demo.

Discography

Remarks

  1. ↑ Composition of new and old material, is also often run as a studio album.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horrid. Discogs , accessed June 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Info. Facebook , accessed June 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Christian Wögerbauer: HORRID: "As We Forget Our Past" with new recordings for the 30th anniversary. Vampster , accessed June 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Mr. Møller: Horrid - Beyond The Dark Border. Metal.de , accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Sebastian Schilling: Horrid . As We Forget Our Past. In: Rock Hard . No. 393 , February 2020, p. 84 f .
  6. ↑ Sebastian Schilling: Horrid . No more time to waste. In: Rock Hard . No. 393 , February 2020, p. 82 .