Post Mortem (band)

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Post mortem
General information
origin Belmont , Massachusetts , United States
Genre (s) Death Doom , Thrash Metal , Hardcore Punk
founding 1982
Current occupation
Mark Kelley
Rick McIver
John Alexander
Mirai Kawashima
former members
Drums
 Salmon Patteez
Electric guitar
 Dean Pesaturo
Electric guitar
 Andrew Donheiser
Electric guitar
 Jay Scheffler
Electric guitar
 Andy Sicard
Electric guitar
 Tom Nelligan
Electric guitar
 Michelle Meldrum († 2008)
singing
 Norman McIver
singing
 Seth Putnam († 2011)
singing
 Eric
singing
 Chris Jordan
singing
 Frances Simmons
singing
 John McCarthy († 2009)
Electric guitar
 Rich Goyette

Post Mortem is an American metal band from Belmont , Massachusetts that formed in 1982.

history

The band was formed on March 22, 1982 and consisted of singer John McCarthy, guitarist John Alexander, bassist Mark Kelley and drummer Rick McIver. The first three demos followed with Punks After Death , The Dead Shall Rise and Death to the Masses . The bands could also be heard with Ready to Die on the sampler Speed ​​Metal Hell II and with Armies of the Dead on Thrash Metal Attack . In 1986 the debut album Coroner's Office followed. In 1987 the EP The Missing Link followed . Guitarist Michelle Meldrum ( Phantom Blue ) was featured on the EP alongside Andrew Donheiser and Phil Williams as a guest musician. In 1988, Rich Goyette joined the band as the new guitarist, replacing John McCarthy. The band also gained some media coverage when a band member was arrested while masturbating in public in Boston . The next album was released in 1990 under the name Festival of Fun via Shit Kicka Records . In 1993 another album with the name Destined for Failure followed on Red Light Records , before the band was put on hold after various line-up changes. In 2003 the project was revived. Singer John McCarthy died in January 2009. On the album Message from the Dead , which was released in the same year, Mirai Kawashima ( Sigh ) was represented as the new singer.

style

The band plays a mixture of hardcore punk , doom and death metal , with the vocals being described as "rough and dirty". The debut album dealt mainly with the subject of death, so that the band is one of the first death metal bands. The music alternates between fast, aggressive and slow, heavy Doom Metal passages. On the EP The Missing Link , the band expanded mainly lyrically, so that the song Caveman, for example, reports on the life of a Neanderthal man . The Metal Hammer described the band on their debut album as a "mixture of Death Metal and Thrash , with slight hardcore influences".

Discography

  • Punk After Death (Demo, 1984, self-published)
  • Death to the Masses (Demo, 1985, self-published)
  • The Dead Shall Rise (Demo, 1986, self-published)
  • Coroner's Office (album, 1986, New Renaissance Records )
  • Turkey on Your Nose ... (Demo, 1986, self-published)
  • The Missing Link (EP, 1987, New Renaissance Records)
  • Seasoned NoSalt Makes My Beef Stew Taste Like My Beef Stew (single, 1990, Wicked Sick Records )
  • Ring Around the Rectum (Single, 1990, Taboo Records )
  • Festival of Fun (album, 1991, Shit Kicka Records )
  • Rehearsal 1991 (demo, 1991, self-published)
  • Destined for Failure (Album, 1993, Red Light Records )
  • Deterioration of the Flesh (compilation, 2007, self-published)
  • A Message from the Dead (Album, 2009, Taboo Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Post Mortem , accessed May 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 1 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1993, p. 131 f .
  3. ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 317 .
  4. ^ Post Mortem (3) - Destined For Failure , accessed May 20, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b SIGH's MIRAI KAWASHIMA Featured On New POST MORTEM Album - Oct. 21, 2009 , accessed May 20, 2013.
  6. ↑ News - January 2009 , January 2009, accessed June 1, 2013.
  7. ↑ Hucky Heppke: Hardcore Special . In: Metal Hammer , July 1987, p. 33.