Miasm (band)

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Miasm
General information
origin Vienna , Austria
Genre (s) Death metal
founding 1990, 1995, 2004
resolution 1993, 1996, 2008
Founding members
Christian Woditsch
Peter Prochazka
guitar
 Günter "Ares Cancer" Kostistansky
Johannes "Attems" Attems
Gregor "Capral Adorator" Schmidt
Current occupation
singing
 Gerhard "Gorehead" Siedl
guitar
 Günter "Ares Cancer" Kostistansky
guitar
 Johnny Patrascu
bass
 Michael "Mike" Fischer
Drums
 Gregor "Capral Adorator" Schmidt
former members
singing
 George Wilfinger

Miasma was an Austrian death metal band from Vienna , which was founded in 1990, disbanded in 1993 and, after a short period as a progressive metal band, was unsuccessfully re-established in 2004 in 2004, so that it disbanded again in 2008.

history

Miasma was founded in November 1990 in Vienna by singer Christian Woditsch, guitarists Peter Prochazka and Günter "Ares Cancer" Kostistansky, bassist Johannes "Attems" Attems and drummer Gregor "Capral Adorator" Schmidt. Schmidt was also active in the band Caldera at this time. The first Miasma performance took place in December 1990 in the Vienna hard rock club Graffiti . Schmidt played drums in both bands that evening. He soon decided to concentrate fully on one band. Since he preferred miasma, he was, so to speak, the trigger for the prompt collapse of Caldera. In March 1991, Miasma recorded a demo called Godly Amusement . It was produced by the Pungent Stench - frontman Martin Schirenc. The singing post was inconsistent in the beginning. Christian Woditsch can be heard on the demo, after (or before) George Wilfinger held the post. After his first classic heavy metal favorites, Wilfinger joined the death metal band Morbid Angel and looked for a field of activity geared towards death metal and found it at Miasma. The reason for switching to Gerhard "Gorehead" Siedl again is not known.

In October 1991 Miasma performed with the two Austrian bands Disharmonic Orchestra and Disastrous Murmur as well as the German Ulcerous Phlegm in the Arena Vienna . In the same month the one-man label Lethal Records offered her a contract and sent her to the studio, where an album was hastily recorded and mixed before the next concert with established bands of the genre was due in December. These were Asphyx , Samael and Silent Death in the Metal Club in Flums, Switzerland . This was followed by a show in January 1992 with the even better-known US bands EvilDead and Lääz Rockit in the Vienna Rockhaus. The album Changes was released shortly afterwards, but was only available through mail order . The small label, later controversial because of its dealings with the artists, struggled to produce enough quantities and to ensure good sales. Although the organizational deficits were reduced, the album was not widely used. Nonetheless, the two death metal bands from Klagenfurt , Disharmonic Orchestra and Disastrous Murmur, in Pungent Stench and Miasma, also faced two Viennese death metal representatives with cross-national effects. Miasma accompanied other big names in June 1992: At the Gates and Therion from the death metal stronghold of Sweden. (The fourth band was Betrayer from Poland.) Also in June 1992 Miasma was the headliner of a death metal festival in Leipzig. There is a cassette recording of this performance under the title Live Leipzig . The Vienna Arena was then used again. In addition to the two local death metal flagships, the program also included the Swedish headliner Unleashed and the Klagenfurt colleagues from the Disharmonic Orchestra. Miasma then opened in Wels for the stylistically different German group Axxis .

Towards the end of the year, the album was available in regular stores. So the time was right for a sales promotion measure, which is why a three-week tour with the Disharmonic Orchestra through Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Austria started in November 1992. In January 1993, the recording of the EP Love Songs followed. After the end, it went back on stage, because they were booked in Pforzheim together with Blood , Amaymon and Eternal Curse. There was a falling out with Lethal Records due to accounting differences. The phonograms had been pre-financed by the band and a repayment should have taken place due to the sales, which however did not materialize. The EP wasn't even delivered yet. This also led to annoyance and quarrels within the band. The manager was the first to leave, as he was responsible for the financial affairs per se. But the musicians couldn't agree with each other either, which escalated when the band broke up in the summer of 1993. This made the plans for a second CD, the working title of which was The Man is at the Door , obsolete.

Johannes Attems, Gregor Schmidt and Peter Prochazka stayed together to play Progressive Metal under the name Missing Link. The former Miasma singer Georg Wilfinger joined them shortly afterwards and they called themselves Miasma again. The demo Miasma 1995 was created , recorded at the end of October 1995. They made several appearances in smaller clubs and gave a farewell concert at the Rock-on-the-Water Festival in Greifenstein lido in July 1996. In 2001, Napalm Records released an unauthorized re-release of both official sound carrier on a CD. There was a reunion in autumn 2004. It was based on Günter Kostistansky, who had asked Gregor Schmidt, Johannes Attems and Gerhard Siedl (all except Peter Prochazka) whether they wanted to push Miasma again. A second, unknown guitarist was hired, so that in spring 2005 the new line-up was established. The guitarist didn't stay in the band for long. Then Attems left the project again due to lack of time. Schmidt then devoted himself to his band The Flow until they broke the sails. When he returned, the vacancies were filled with Johnny Patrascu on guitar and Michael Fischer on bass. That was Christmas 2005. The turn of the year 2005/2006 was marked by practicing the songs from the Changes album and studying new compositions. In addition, performance options were explored. Only a year later did the concert activity actually continue, namely in November 2007 as the headliner of the indoor festival “Metalzone Kaltenbach Part 8” in Vienna. In January 2008 they were the main group of the Hellfest in the Viper Room, also in the Austrian capital.

When Siedl fell ill, he had to be represented. Once again, Wilfinger was chosen as the miasma singer. In May 2008 there was another appearance in St. Pölten with Angelcorpse from the USA, among others . At the end of the month, Johnny Patrascu, Michael Fischer and Gregor Schmidt got out together. This was tantamount to a dissolution because the dropouts wanted to take the name Miasma with them, but the right to the name lay with Gerhard Siedl and Günter Kostistansky. Patrascu, Fischer and Schmidt brought in the Siedl representative George Wilfinger and completed themselves with Alin Kalam on the second guitar. Gregor Schmidt's proposal for a name, Destination Void, emerged as the winner from several internal voting rounds (flanked by Google rounds to avoid duplication of names). Miasma is de facto non-existent.

style

For Rock Hard , Markus Müller took on the band and their publications three times. In issue no. 60 it says: “Musically, a relatively crude fare is served, as if there were: Slow, doomy parts, combined with fast, yet largely controlled outbursts and deepest grunt vocals, which are less clichéd than suffocation or benediction work. ”In issue 66 he gives his impressions in other words. In the meantime, he only found the degree of originality higher than at the first contact. He makes a comparison in issue 79, classifying Obituary and Morbid Angel less harshly, with autopsy being the more suitable yardstick. In Metal Hammer Robert Mueller and Martin winder-reviewed the recordings. Changes lie, wrote Müller, unlike the works of her compatriots Pungent Stench and Disharmonic Orchestra, right at the center of what is called Death Metal. So typically the sound of "urbösem, dark runtergerifftem Death Metal" However, the arrangements were appealing, the pace of "medium to ultra fast", the song "dark and quite dull", the only flair and charisma (as Samael Worship Him having ) were missing. Love Songs stand in the tradition of Death Metal, but contain "some somewhat unmotivated breaks ". The Death / Doom Metal on offer is of lasting value despite the lyrics ("tasteless to the point"), wrote Wickler on the occasion of the re-release. His music description: "Most of the songs doom in areas with a malevolence factor ten, the guitars saw in ultra-deep regions."

Metallian.com assigns Miasma to "brutal Death Metal". On the website of DeathGrind magazine called Brutal News , it is stated that Miasma stands for "Old-School-Death-Metal", which is played a little slower, so that with the opening track of the LP, Baphomet , it slips into the Doom area. Except for the singing, it is less “mangy”. The lyrics are also not as abnormally brutal as in comparable bands, for example Pungent Stench. Deathmetal.org characterizes the style as Doom Metal, which is crossed with the simple American variant of Death Metal and therefore sounds like Morpheus Descends or Baphomet . Compared to the representatives of Death Metal motherland Sweden, Miasma is on the level of Grave and Unscanny, and if a “doomy melody” is added it is close to Candlemass . In terms of threat, she definitely ranks ahead of Entombed . In contrast to At the Gates and Therion, the miasma is “delicate fare”.

Discography

  • 1991: Godly Amusement (demo, in-house production)
  • 1992: Changes (Album, Lethal Records)
  • 1992: Live Leipzig (audio cassette, in-house production)
  • 1993: Love Songs (EP, Lethal Records)
  • 1995: Miasma 1995 (demo, in-house production)
  • 2001: Changes / Love Songs ( compilation , Napalm Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Destination Void. In: wordpress.com. March 2, 2010, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g miasm. In: metallian.com. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Özgür Özçınar: Interview: George Wilfinger of Raising the Veil. (No longer available online.) In: metaljunkie.rocks. June 5, 2015, archived from the original on July 13, 2016 ; Retrieved July 13, 2016 (English translation from Rock Vault Zine ). 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.metaljunkie.rocks
  4. ↑ Rottendamned: Interview with George Wilfinger from "Monument of Misanthrophy" and "Raising the Veil". In: deadcenter666.com/Antichrist Magazine. June 11, 2015, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Markus Müller: Miasma. Changes . In: Rock Hard . April 1992, Record Review, p. 74 .
  6. ↑ a b Brett Stevens: From the Vault: Miasma Changes. In: deathmetal.org. July 1, 2013, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Markus Müller: Miasma. Changes . In: Rock Hard . No. 66 , November 1992, Record Review, pp. 83 .
  8. ↑ a b Markus Müller: Miasma. Love songs . In: Rock Hard . No. 79 , December 1993, Record Review, pp. 83 (wrong No. 78 overprint).
  9. ↑ a b Melinda: A Taste of Chaos with Destination Void. (No longer available online.) In: metalmaniacs.com. November 20, 2009, archived from the original on July 13, 2016 ; accessed on July 13, 2016 . 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.metalmaniacs.com
  10. ^ Robert Müller: Miasma. Changes. Lethal Records . In: Metal Hammer . The international hard rock & heavy metal magazine. March 1992, CD, LP, MC Reviews, pp. 68 f .
  11. ^ Robert Müller: Miasma. Love songs . In: Metal Hammer . The international hard rock & heavy metal magazine. January 1994, CD, LP, MC Reviews, pp. 55 .
  12. ↑ Martin Wickler: Martin Wickler . In: (Hard Rock &) Metal Hammer . April 2002, Reviews, p. 97 .
  13. ↑ Stefan: Miasma (Old School Death from Austria). Changes + Love Songs (Old School Death). In: deathgrind.bruview.de. April 1, 2002, accessed July 13, 2016 .

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