King's Evil

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King's Evil
General information
origin Tokyo , Japan
Genre (s) Thrash metal
founding 1989
Current occupation
E-bass , now also vocals
Takachika Nakajima
Yuichi Ishiguro
Masamichi Yamada
former members
Electric bass
 Hiroyuki Ishizawa
Drums
 Eiji Murakami
Electric guitar, later also vocals
 Wataru Yamada

King's-Evil (often spelled King's Evil ) is a Japanese thrash metal band from Tokyo that was founded in 1989.

history

After the Yamada brothers left their hometown of Sapporo, left the drummer and bassist they played with and moved to Tokyo, they placed an advertisement in a magazine in 1989 looking for new members. Masamichi Yamada was 16 years old at the time of the move and the band was formed while he was still in high school. The brothers initially assumed that the members would follow, but that did not happen. From 1990 to 1998 the band wrote their own songs, rehearsed them in their own rehearsal room, held gigs and could also be seen at the so-called "Hokoten" in Harajuku . The "Hokoten" was an event at which a busy downtown street was closed to make room for bands and other artists to perform. The group could be seen there every Sunday from August 1992 for three years. However, she mainly played cover versions of songs by bands such as Metallica , Pantera , Megadeth and Sepultura . It consisted essentially of the Yamada brothers and was supplemented by two other members, both of which were subject to frequent changes in line-up. In June 1995 the line-up expanded to a quintet. The five of the band held eight gigs before parting with the drummer and the singer. The band was initially inactive, but played again in June 1999 as opening act for Marduk in Tokyo, where Wataru Yamada had now also taken over the vocals. According to an advertisement in the Japanese music magazine Player , the drummer Eiji Murakami joined the cast in March 1999 and the bass player Takachika Nakajima in February 2001. In the meantime, King's-Evil had recorded a demo in 2000 , but the band's activity was reduced after the Yamada brothers joined the group Ritual Carnage . In July 2001 the band signed a record deal with Worldchaos Production , which in November 2001 released the debut album Deletion of Humanoise . The album was released in the same year on Spinefarm Records in Finland before it was released the following year on Crash Music in the USA . In 2011, the next album was released under the name Sacrosanct , also with Worldchaos Production .

style

Bradley Torreano from Allmusic wrote that the band's founding was inspired and influenced by the bloody symbolism and wild riffs of Thrash Metal as well as the then emerging Death Metal . On Deletion of Humanoise , the group is comparable to Kreator . Andrea from vampster.com said in her review of Deletion of Humanoise that you can hear classic Thrash Metal in the German style, so that a comparison with Sodom , Kreator and Destruction makes sense. Sometimes similarities with Metallica can also be heard. The singing usually consists of aggressive shouts . classicthrash.com also found that the album included classic style thrash metal. The group played routinely, the vocals were rough and the riffs fast, although the music could not come up to the quality of Ritual Carnage because the songs were not memorable. At Sacrosanct , the band did not develop any further, the album could just as easily have been from the same year as Deletion of Humanoise . thethrashmetalguide.com found the music on the debut album to be similar to that of Ritual Carnage, but a bit faster and more aggressive. As a comparison, a mix of Kreator of the late 1980s and Necrodeath was given. The speed is often very high, but there are also slower, melodic passages. The vocals are comparable to those of Mille Petrozza , but they tend towards Death Metal. On the second album there is high-energy, classic Thrash Metal that slips into Speed ​​Metal . The speed is usually high and suggests Proto-Death-Metal in the style of Fastkill or Torture Squad . There are also a few slower, more technically demanding songs, more modern interruptions and a few borrowings from Melodic Death Metal . The vocals are again similar to Petrozza, but rely more on screaming .

Discography

  • 1998: Live Demo (demo, self-publication)
  • 1999: Demo One (demo, self-published)
  • 2001: Deletion of Humanoise (Album, Worldchaos Production )
  • 2011: Sacrosanct (Album, Worldchaos Production)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography. odn.ne, archived from the original on April 12, 2008 ; Retrieved August 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Bradley Torreano: King's Evil. Allmusic , accessed August 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ King's Evil - Deletion Of Humanoise. Discogs , accessed August 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ King's-Evil - Sacrosanct. Discogs, accessed August 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Andrea: KING'S-EVIL: Deletion Of Humanoise. vampster.com, accessed August 4, 2017 .
  6. ^ Classic Thrash - Reviews - K. classicthrash.com, accessed August 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ KING'S EVIL (JAPAN). thethrashmetalguide.com, accessed August 4, 2017 .