Martyrs Shrine

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Martyrs Shrine
General information
origin Melbourne , Australia
Genre (s) Death Metal , Thrash Metal , Christian Metal
founding 1995 as Cybergrind
resolution 2007 or later
Last occupation
Electric guitar , initially vocals , later electric bass
Michael Carlisle
Vocals, drums
Mike Forsberg
former members
Electric bass
 Peter Sheils
Electric bass
 Aaron Seeto

Martyrs Shrine was an Australian Christian thrash and death metal band from Melbourne , which was founded in 1995 under the name Cybergrind and disbanded around 2007.

history

The band was formed in 1995 under the name Cybergrind by drummer Mike Forsberg and guitarist and singer Mick Carlisle, who were both members of Mortification . The line-up was supplemented by bassist Peter Sheils. In 2000 appeared under the name Transcend at Rowe Productions a first album. After a long period of inactivity, the band was reactivated in 2005 under the name Martyrs Shrine. The cast now consisted only of the duo consisting of Forsberg and Carlisle. In 2007 a self-titled album was released. Barrie Bardoe can be heard as a guest singer in a song. Bardoe had already been active with Forsberg in the Ragewar group at the end of the 1990s. After the release, the band broke up.

style

According to Brian Giffin in his Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal , the band played Christian-oriented death metal under the name Cybergrind. The band stayed true to the genre under the name Martyrs Shrine. musicmight.com assigned Cybergrind to Death and Thrash Metal.

Necrosarx from unclenecro.wordpress.com called Transcend's music Thrash Metal-based Death Metal. However, the group does not offer anything new, the music is not very memorable. PMH also assigned Martyrs Shrine to death and thrash metal. The songs are mostly simple and determined, set at a groovy pace and, above all, the riffs are borrowed from Thrash Metal. The singing is throaty and consists of incomprehensible growling . In contrast to Mortification, the texts are only occasionally influenced by religion. Rather, it deals with topics such as wrong values ​​or life experiences. He could not agree to the comparisons to Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower mentioned in the info sheet , because the band could neither "build up the intensity nor the necessary speed or scratch the mentioned upper class instrumentally".

Discography

as a cybergrind
as Martyrs Shrine
  • 2007: Martyrs Shrine (Album, MDF Productions)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Brian Giffin: Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal . 3rd revised edition. Dark Star, Katoomba 2015, ISBN 978-0-9943206-1-2 , Cybergrind.
  2. ^ A b Brian Giffin: Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal . 3rd revised edition. Dark Star, Katoomba 2015, ISBN 978-0-9943206-1-2 , Martyrs Shrine.
  3. ↑ Biography. musicmight.com, archived from the original on March 11, 2016 ; accessed on April 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Necrosarx: Music Review: CYBER GRIND - Transcend. unclenecro.wordpress.com, accessed April 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ PMH: Martyrs Shrine - Martyrs Shrine. stormbringer.at , accessed on April 14, 2018 .