Infernal Mäjesty

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Infernal Mäjesty
General information
origin Toronto , Canada
Genre (s) Thrash metal
founding 1986 as overlord
Website www.infernalmajesty.com
Current occupation
Brian Langley
Kenny Hallman
guitar
 Steve Terror
Kiel Wilson
Kris DeBoer
former members
singing
 Chris Bailey
singing
 Donald Vince "Vampire" Kuntz †
Electric bass
 Bob Quelch
bass
 Psycopath
Drums
 Sven Cannon
Drums
 Kevin Harris
Drums
 Rick Nemes
Drums
 Graham MacSkimming
Drums
 Eric Laighton

Infernäl Mäjesty is a Canadian thrash metal band from Toronto , Ontario , founded in 1986 under the name Overlord .

history

Infernäl Mäjesty was founded in 1986 under the name Overlord. After the first demo and positive reactions in fanzines , the band got a record deal with Roadrunner Records . There the debut album None Shall Defy appeared , which among other things contained the four songs from the demo. On the album, the band consisted of singer Chris Bailey, guitarists Kenny Hallman and Steve Terror, bassist psychopath and drummer Rick Nemes. The release of the album was followed by the two demos Nigresent Dissolution and Creation of Chaos . Displeased Records also re-released the debut album, with songs from the demos included as bonus songs.

After the band, according to their guitarist Kenny Hallman, was not supported in Canadian music magazines and lost their recording deal, some members dropped out. Guitarist Steve Terror stated that after recording their debut album, their drummer had flown to New York to negotiate with Roadrunner Records; he “had the management of the band in his hands. [...] He told them that we weren't going on tour, we'd rather put out another album first. But he was only trying to enforce his own interests, because the rest of us had no idea what was going on. "The record company was" pretty mad at us because of this conversation ". The guitarists Hallman and Terror continued the band with new musicians. Bailey, Psycopath, and Nemes had left the band, so singer Donald Vince Kuntz, bassist Chay McMullen and drummer Kevin Harrison joined the band as new members. Singer Kuntz was soon to leave the band because he cut a woman's wrist, drank her blood and spent seven months in prison. In 1998 their second album Unholier than Thou was released , after which Chris Bayley could be heard again as a singer. In 2000, Chaos in Copenhagen followed , which included cover versions of Christ Denied and Dawn . In 2004 the next studio album One Who Points to Death followed via Galy Records . In 2007 the EP Demon God was released , which included four demo songs that were supposed to appear on the fourth album Systematical Extermination , as well as two old songs from the album None Shall Defy , which were newly recorded. Guest musicians were George Fisher and Rob Barrett from Cannibal Corpse and Chris Valagao from Zimmer Hole .

style

In the early days of the band, drummer Rick Nemes announced: "We are the toughest band in Canada and have only one goal: to oust Slayer from the throne!" Nemes had previously played with the Christian rock band Rapid Tears; he explained: “Well, Rapid Tears embodied a different approach to life, but it just didn't suit me at all. I live for earthly life with all its excesses and ' sins ' and have actually always been interested in the occult - in whatever form. I still believe in God today , but I know Satan is just as real. I learned to accept this life and my urges. I like everything that is macabre, and Infernal Majesty sound accordingly. ” Götz Kühnemund compared the concept of the band with the Venoms and classified the band accordingly as Black Metal . The style was compared to that of Slayer and Hallows Eve , Chris Bailey's vocals were described as death-metal- typical. Holger Stratmann from Crash and Rock Hard praised them as technically adept and the songs as complexly structured, but criticized the "stupid and clichéd horror texts".

Björn Friedetzky from New Rock & Metal Hammer described the music on the second album Unholier than Thou as “complex and majestic, but without any confidential pathos. In connection with the texts, she paints a picture of hopeful dynamism and angry feelings. Inspirations like Death or Slayer. Especially because of the structured song structure, Kenny does not deny: 'The decisive influences, however, lie inside [sic!] and outside the metal genre. only by adding such sources can something else come about. '”He described it as“ the best Death album for a long time and beyond any doubt ”and Eric Laighton as“ a brilliant drummer ”. Kai Wendel from Rock Hard warned in his review of the album that this was not "a similar raw work" as the "cult cracker" None Shall Defy , because the music had "changed a bit stylistically"; The band had “stayed true to their eighties roots”, but “upgraded them with some traditional Death Metal influences” and “went a little more orderly and well thought out than on their debut”. Since the band barely developed their style, their third album One Who Points to Death also offers “musically the old school of rumors of the eighties [...]. Where others try desperately to orient themselves backwards as possible, traditional roast guitar sounds, dirty solos and roaring chants below the death line are of course part of it. ”However, the album also offers“ a surprisingly modern production that makes the sound powerful and transparent ”.

Discography

  • 1986: demo
  • 1987: None Shall Defy
  • 1988: Nigresent Dissolution (Demo)
  • 1992: Creation of Chaos (demo)
  • 1998: Unholier than Thou
  • 1999: The Official Demo Series Vol. 1 ( split album with Dark Tranquility and Dark Angel )
  • 2000: Chaos in Copenhagen ( live album )
  • 2004: One Who Points to Death
  • 2006: Systematical Extermination
  • 2007: Demon God (EP)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Infernal Majesty , accessed on May 12, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Götz Kühnemund : Infernäl Mäjesty . Satan's dearest child . In: Metal Hammer / Crash , No. 11, 1987, p. 114.
  3. ↑ a b c d Götz Kühnemund: Infernal Majesty . Non [sic!] Shall Defy . In: Metal Hammer , No. 10, October 1987, p. 34.
  4. ↑ Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 1 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1993, p. 74 .
  5. ^ A b Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 219 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Björn Friedetzky: Infernal Mäjesty . One-sided love of home . In: New Rock & Metal Hammer , September 1998, p. 108.
  7. ↑ Unlucky birds with cult status ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . In: Rock Hard , No. 138, accessed April 25, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockhard.de
  8. ↑ Weekly World News - Aug. 17, 1993 - page 24 , accessed May 12, 2013.
  9. ↑ Infernäl Mäjesty - Unholier Than Thou , accessed on May 12, 2013.
  10. ^ Infernäl Mäjesty Discography , accessed May 12, 2013.
  11. ^ Infernäl Mäjesty - One Who Points To Death , accessed May 12, 2013.
  12. ^ Luxi Lahtinen: Interview with guitarist Kenny Hallman , accessed May 12, 2013.
  13. ↑ a b c d Holger Stratmann: Infernal Majesty . None Shall Defy . In: Rock Hard , No. 22, accessed April 25, 2013.
  14. ↑ a b c Holger Stratmann: Infernal Majesty . None Shall Defy . In: Crash , No. 9, September 1987, p. 69.
  15. ^ Björn Friedetzky: Infernal Mäjesty . Unholier Than Thou . In: New Rock & Metal Hammer , No. 8, 1998, p. 94.
  16. ↑ Kai Wendel: Infernal Majesty . Unholier Than Thou . In: Rock Hard , No. 135, accessed April 25, 2013.
  17. ^ Gunnar Sauermann: Infernal Majesty . One Who Points To Death . In: Metal Hammer , September 2004, p. 115.