Insatanity

Insatanity
General information
origin	Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States
Genre (s)	Death Metal , Black Metal , Brutal Death Metal
founding	1992
Current occupation
Drums	Larry Abrams
Electric guitar , vocals	Vanessa Cordoba
E-bass , now also vocals	Chris Lytle
Electric guitar	Scott Zupet
former members
Electric bass	George Cathers
Drums	BJ Vinci
Electric guitar	John Tavani
Electric guitar	Frank Pirrone
singing	Mark Rhochar
Electric guitar	Jay Lipitz
Drums	Rick Taylor
Drums	Matt Mazzenga
Electric guitar	Dan Roberts
Electric bass	Lou Suppa
Electric guitar, initially electric bass	Evan Williams
Electric guitar, initially electric bass	Ian Merrifield
Electric bass	Bob Dentzer
Drums	Jason Youse
Electric guitar	Kevin McClintock
Electric guitar	Ed Drozdowsky
Electric guitar, initially electric bass	Dan Loughry
Drums	Justin DiPinto
Electric guitar	Dave Spencer
Electric guitar	Chris Chamberlin
Electric guitar	Scott Davis
Drums	Poor Koroghlian
Drums	Mark Green
Drums	David Kinkade
Electric bass	Justin McGinley
Drums	David Joseph Brown
Electric guitar	Jefferson Lopez
Electric guitar	Rob Spisak
Drums	Duane Timlin
Vocals, electric guitar	Mike Dickson
Drums	Brandon Iscariot
Electric guitar	Demian "Attack" Gordon
Electric guitar	Vincent DiBona
Drums (live)	Ruston Great
Drums (live)	Ken Ingram
Drums	Gabriel Lewandowski
Electric guitar	Dustin Bell

Insatanity is an American black and death metal band from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania that was formed in 1992. The group has now moved its headquarters to Tampa , Florida .

history

The band was founded in June 1992 by singer Mark Rhochar. The line-up was initially supplemented by guitarists Jay Lipitz and Dan Roberts, bassist Lou Suppa and drummer Matt Mazzenga. After the first songs had been written, a first four-song demo was released in February 1993 . After the group had written on more songs, they went back to the studio in October 1993 to record the demo Ad Maiorem Satanae Gloriam , which also contains four songs. A third demo followed in June 1995 under the name Unholiness Rising . In September the band signed a recording contract with the Greek label Unisound International Records , which in January 1996 released the debut album Divine Decomposition . The line-up at that time consisted of the singer Mark Rhochar, the guitarists Dan Roberts and Jay Lipitz, the bassist Chris Lytle and the drummer Matt Mazzenga. Shortly after the release, the group split from the label. The band then continued to write new songs and performed live with them. In July 1997, she went back to the studio to record material for a split release with Immortal Suffering , which was released that month on Mortal Coil Records . The following years were marked by line-up changes and various small setbacks. Because of a high loss of members, the group finally took a longer break.

In 2001 the band resumed their activity and gave concerts again. In the following years there were further line-up changes, which made it impossible to write new material. For example, an EP that was to be released in 2002 under the name The Plague Of Amon could not be realized. The line-up did not stabilize until early 2005. After that, Insatanity went into the studio to record four songs for the EP The Black Stone , which was released on Descended Lord Records . In September they went on a US tour alone, before work on the next album The Day God Died began six months later . Around the same time, the band signed a contract with Grim Nocturnal Records . The recordings for the first album of their contract partner began in March 2007. David Kinkade was now the drummer in the band. However, due to a tour of North America with Manias and Zircon, the recordings were interrupted. During the tour, the drummer left the line-up, so it ended with another. The compilation Sheol was then published, which was composed of songs from the three official releases and songs from two other samplers. After returning from the tour, the band planned to continue recording. In the meantime, so that the new drummer had time to learn the new material, the songs that had been recorded for The Day God Died with the old drummer were released as an EP in September 2010. However, the recordings for the album could not be finished in the next few years due to further line-up changes. In 2014, the band went on a European tour with Bloodsoaked , which was the first time Insatanity performed in Europe. After returning to the United States, the band's headquarters were relocated to Tampa, Florida. As a result, new members were quickly found, before gigs took place a few months later and new songs were written. In 2015 they went on a three-week US tour together with Nervochaos . In addition, a record deal was signed with Pathologically Explicit Recordings . Here was over Divine Decomposition re-released with new artwork. After an appearance at the Las Vegas Deathfest in 2017, the EP Upon the Ivory Throne was released in 2018 .

style

Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia described Insatanity as a cult death metal band that shaped the brutal death metal scene together with other groups such as Vital Remains , Suffocation and Immolation . Joel McIver wrote in his book Extreme Metal II that the band plays a mixture of satanic death metal and black metal, dispensing with typical black metal elements such as the use of corpsepaint and keyboard sounds. However, the band's attitude is anti- Christian . Two band members are also supporters of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan .

Henry Akeley of chroniclesofchaos.com described Divine Decomposition's music as standard death metal in the style of internal bleeding and suffocation. In their songs, the group work with evil sounding riffs , rough screams , very deep growls and various tempo variations. However, the album does not come close to the creativity and technical ability of bands like Cannibal Corpse and Kataklysm . On explicitlyintense.com the album was described as brutal Death Metal with traces of Black Metal. The music is aggressive and provided with deep guttural singing .

Discography

• 1993: Insatanity (demo, self-published)
• 1994: Ad Maiorem Satanae Gloriam (demo, self-published)
• 1995: Unholiness Rising (demo, self-published)
• 1996: Divine Decomposition (Album, Unisound International Records )
• 1997: Vengeance from Beyond the Grave (EP, self-published)
• 1997: Promo Tape (split with Immortal Suffering , Mortal Coil Records )
• 1997: Vengeance from Beyond the Grave / Images of Horror (Split with Immortal Suffering, Mortal Coil Records)
• 2005: The Black Stone (EP, Descended Lord Records )
• 2005: Sheol (compilation, Grim Nocturnal Records )
• 2008: Dark Friday Overture (EP, Grim Nocturnal Records)
• 2010: The Day God Died (EP, Grim Nocturnal Records)
• 2018: Upon the Ivory Throne (EP, Pathologically Explicit Recordings )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Info. Facebook , accessed January 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Joel McIver: Extreme Metal II . Omnibus Press, 2005, ISBN 1-84449-097-1 , pp. 97 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} BIO. insatanity.com, archived from the original on May 15, 2008 ; accessed on January 18, 2019 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Eduardo Rivadavia: Insatanity. Allmusic , accessed January 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on May 21, 2016 ; accessed on January 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Henry Akeley: Insatanity - _Divine Decomposition_. chroniclesofchaos.com, accessed January 19, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Insatanity - Divine Decomposition. explicitlyintense.com, accessed January 19, 2019 .