Minotaur (band)

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Minotaur
General information
Genre (s) Thrash metal
founding 1983
Website http://www.minotaur-thrashers.de/
Current occupation
Alf Diehl
Jörg Bock
Andreas Richwien
former members
Electric bass
 Thomas Witte
Electric bass
 Rainer
Electric bass
 Thomas Labies
Electric bass
 Marco Scharfenort
Electric guitar
 Lars "Viking" Ramcke
Electric guitar
 Tomislav Stanic
Electric guitar
 Jedinko Petrovic
Electric guitar
 Ulf Kaiser
singing
 Andreas "Buschi" Babushkin
Vocals, electric bass
 Chris Zenk

Minotaur is a German thrash metal band from Halstenbek that was founded in 1983.

history

Minotaur was founded in 1983. Due to several line-up changes, the release of the first demo recording The Oath of Blood was delayed until 1986. The band worked on other songs and contributed a song for the compilation Teutonic Invasion Part I by Roadrunner Records . They then released their self-financed and self-produced debut album Power of Darkness in 1988. The album was limited to 2,500 pieces. In the 1990s the album was released again on CD.

The band developed a few more songs and reached a contract with the Remedy Records label , where they released Death Metal in October 1990 . This was followed by appearances and tours with Torment , Drifter , Melissa, Procyon, Helstar , Hades , Viper , Rage , Invocator , Vendetta , Uncle Tom Angelripper , Samael , Sabbat , Betrayer , Gorefest , Risk , Riff Raff and Holy Moses . The band took a break in 1992 and reunited in 1993 to record the EP Welcome To… which was released on Molon Lave Records . Drummer Jörg Bock was the only remaining founding member.

Since 2003, the band's old recordings have been re-released via To the Death Records . In addition, the band held a tour of Europe . The band made appearances in Germany, Portugal , Sweden and Spain . In March 2009 the album God May Show You Mercy… We Will Not was released via I Hate Records .

style

Minotaur was founded under the influence of the first demo recordings of Metallica , Anthrax and Possessed , the musicians grew up with then-new American bands such as Slayer , Possessed, Exciter , Dark Angel , Death , Hallows Eve and Anthrax, whose music was linked to the older New Wave of British Heavy Metal resulted in the style of Minotaur. Metalion described the style of The Slaughter Continues in Slayer -Fanzine as difficult to compare with the others, really original and "wild death metal of the painful kind".

Discography

  • The Slaughter Continues (Demo, 1986, self-published)
  • The Oath of Blood (Demo, 1986, self-published)
  • The Power of Darkness (Demo, 1987, self-published)
  • Power of Darkness (album, 1988, Crazy Records)
  • Death Metal (EP, 1990, Remedy Records )
  • Welcome To ... (EP, 1993, Molon Lave Records )
  • Torment / Desert Storm / Minotaur (Split album with Torment and Desert Storm , 1993, Remedy Records)
  • Don't Burn the Witch ... (Split single with Toxic Holocaust , Goat Messiah and Evil Angel , 2006, Midnight Records )
  • God May Show You Mercy… We Will Not (album, 2009, I Hate Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Arto Lehtinen: Interview with Minotaur .
  2. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2011 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. , accessed February 20, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.minotaur-thrashers.de
  3. ↑ Nima: Minotaur .
  4. ↑ “It's really hard to compare ´em with any other bands, ´cause this is really original !!!!!!!! SAVAGE DEATH METAL THE PAINFUL WAY !!!!!!! (Or something like that I think ..) ” Metalion : Minotaur . In: Jon Kristiansen : SLAYER . N ° 1 to 5 . Rosières en Haye: Camion Blanc 2009, p. 389.