Kat (band)

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Cat
General information
Genre (s) Heavy metal , speed metal , thrash metal
founding 1980
Website http://www.kat.com.pl/
Founding members
singing
 Roman Kostrzewski (until 2004)
guitar
 Piotr Luczyk
guitar
 Ryszard Pisarski (until 1984)
bass
 Tomasz Jaguś (until 1987)
Drums
 Ireneusz Loth (until 2004)
Current occupation
Henry Beck (since 2005)
Piotr Luczyk
guitar
 Jarek Gronowski (since 2004)
Krzysztof Oset (since 1990)
Mariusz Pretkiewicz (since 2004)
former members
guitar
 Wojciech Mrowiec (1984–1985)
bass
 Krysztof Stagman (1987)
guitar
 Jacek Regulski (1990–1999; died 1999)

KAT ( pl. "Henker") are a Polish speed / thrash metal band. With Turbo and TSA she is one of the pioneers and the "Big Three of Polish Metal " (Wielka Trójka Polskiego Metalu) . Heinrich / Henryk ("Henry") Beck, who came to Germany as a repatriate in 1988, has been the successor to the singer Roman Kostrzewski, who retired in 2004, since 2005 .

history

KAT were founded around the turn of the year 1979/80 in Katowice . In the first few years, KAT excelled as a live band and appeared in 1985 in Poland with Hanoi Rocks . The 666 debut album, recorded in 1984 and released in 1986, offered dark speed metal with Polish-language lyrics on the subject of "death" and above all "devil". Shortly thereafter, a Belgian record company released an English version of this album under the title Metal and Hell . Nevertheless, KAT remained an insider tip in Western Europe - not least because they were persistently ignored by the leading metal magazines.

On the follow-up album Oddech Wymarłych Światów , recorded in 1987 , which, like the debut, was released with a two-year delay, the characteristics typical of KAT are recognizable for the first time. The technically adept, punchy, dark Thrash Metal, which often takes up elements of traditional Polish music, is complex, mostly located in the middle tempo range and often provided with acoustic passages. An exception is the album Ballady , on which melancholic sounds predominate, while thrash metal echoes can only be heard rarely and comparatively subtle. Until 1997 all texts were written in Polish. Because KAT remained true to the dark topic (with all the emphatic affirmation of life) and added caustic church criticism to it, Catholic organizations often took action against the band, for example by obtaining bans on performance.

In 1996 the tribute album Czarne Zastępy ("Black Sharms ") appeared, on which death and black metal bands like Vader , Behemoth and Lux Occulta can be heard.

style

In the beginning, the musicians were inspired by bands like Deep Purple and Black Sabbath , but wanted to achieve a mixture of calm and brutality. When bands like Venom , Anvil and Raven brought punk elements into metal, KAT took them over too. While the songs on the single Noce Szatana can be assigned to heavy metal , they have the sinister sound of the following debut album and point to the development towards a more extreme style.

Discography

Chart positions
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Albums
Oddech wymarłych światów
  PL 49 04/24/2006 (1 week)
Somewhere in Poland
  PL 40 07/12/2004 (1 week)
Rarities
  PL 49 11/12/2013 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 1986: 666
  • 1987: Metal and Hell ( 666 with English lyrics)
  • 1989: Oddech Wymarłych Światów ("The Breath of Extinct Worlds")
  • 1992: bastard
  • 1993: Ballady
  • 1996: Róże Miłości Najchętniej Przyjmują Się Na Grobach ("Roses of love are best accepted in graves")
  • 1997: Szydercze Zwierciadło ("The Mocking Mirror")
  • 2005: Mind Cannibals

Singles

  • 1984: Ostatni tabor / Noce Szatana ("The last train / Nights of Satan")
  • 1986: Time of Revenge / Czas zemsty
  • 1986: Metal and Hell / Oracle

Live albums and compilations

  • 1987: 38 Minutes of Life (recording of the performance at Spodek in Katowice on April 4, 1987)
  • 1994: Jarocin - Live
  • 2004: Somewhere in Poland
  • 2007: KAT 1985 - 2005 (compilation)
  • 2013: Rarities (compilation)
  • 2014: Acoustic - 8 Filmów (compilation)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tomektor: Kat "Metal Gods" ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metal-glory.de
  2. ↑ Tomektor METALGLORY: METALGLORY Magazine - Interviews - Pik CHILDREN OF DOOM. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
  3. ^ KAT “Noce Szatana / Ostani Tabor” 10 ″ Out Now .
  4. ↑ http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=312&lang=pl
  5. ↑ http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=214&lang=pl
  6. ↑ http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=839&lang=pl

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