Rosicrucian

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Rosicrucian
General information
origin Sala , Sweden
Genre (s) Thrash metal
founding 1986 as Atrocity
resolution 1995
Last occupation
Fredrik Jacobsen
Jhonny "Berget" Bergman
Lars Lindén
Electric guitar
 Magnus Söderman
Ulf "Uffe" Pettersson
former members
Drums
 Patrik Marchente
Drums
 Andreas Wallström
Singing, initially also electric guitar
 Glyn Grimwade
Drums
 Kentha Philipson
Singing (live)
 Jens C. Mortensen
Drums
 Johan Redin
Drums
 Fredrik Andersson
singing
 Ronny Bengtsson

Rosicrucian was a Swedish thrash metal band from Sala , which was founded in 1986 under the name Atrocity and split up in 1995. The group later moved to Västerås .

history

The band was founded in 1986 under the name Atrocity. In May 1988 a first demo followed , entitled Atrocious Destruction . In the same year, the split release Is This Heavy or What? Was released, limited to 1,000 copies . , also attended by Tribulation , Damien and Gravity. In 1989 a second demo followed with To Be… Or Not to Be .

In the same year, the band recorded another demo called Initiation into Nothingness , which the group had now renamed Rosicrucian. The line-up consists of the guitarists Magnus Söderman and Lars Lindén, the singer Glyn Grimwade, the drummer Patrik Marchente and the bassist Fredrik Jacobsen. In 1990 a second Rosicrucian demo followed. After the 1992 debut album Silence was released on Black Mark Production , singer Glyn Grimwade and drummer Patrik Merchente left the group, whereupon Ulf "Uffe" Pettersson joined as the new singer. Since the group lacked a drummer, Jhonny "Berget" Bergman took over the vacant instrument on the 1994 album No Cause for Celebration . In December 1994 a permanent drummer was found in Andreas Wallström. In 1995 Bergman returned to the drums but the band soon broke up. After the breakup, guitarist Magnus Söderman and bassist Fredrik Jacobsen founded the band Slapdash in the same year .

style

Janne Stark wrote in The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! that Rosicrucian's songs were complex and intelligent, and at times comparable to those of Candlemass and Testament . The singing is not the most melodic, but at least the lyrics are understandable. Occasionally, non-genre instruments are also used, such as a violin .

Daniel Ekeroth assigned the music of Atrocity in his book Swedish Death Metal to Thrash Metal, which was influenced by bands like Testament and Heathen . However, the heavy metal influence is too pronounced for the music to be considered extreme. Under the name Rosicrucian they turned more to Death Metal . Since you but a few " Mosh - riffs " and the Bay Area even have kept singing, it was fans Death metal is not always met with many in the early 1990s to love in return.

Holger Stratmann from Rock Hard wrote in his review of Silence that it contained Thrash and Death Metal riffs, while the vocals were groaned “half-gloomy”. The music is not particularly innovative, only the guitar work stands out, in which one can often recognize an "acoustic run of Malmsteen style next to the heavy riffs and the rattle". In a later edition Thomas Kupfer reviewed No Cause for Celebration and noted that the previous album was still pure Thrash Metal, whose overall good impression was only diminished by the singing that took some getting used to, but this album was no longer convincing. You can hear the songs the earlier influence of the members by hardcore punk . The songs are aggressive, but boring and unimaginative and are only occasionally made interesting through breaks . Martin Popoff also discussed the album in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties and concluded that the band was heavily oriented towards the technically demanding San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal of the 1980s. The singing sounded harsh, the songs seemed well produced and sometimes unpredictable, although the lyrics were worth listening to.

Discography

as atrocity
  • 1988: Is This Heavy or What? (Split with Tribulation , Damien and Gravity, Is This Heavy or What?)
  • 1988: Atrocious Destruction (demo, self-published)
  • 1989: To Be… Or Not to Be (demo, self-release)
as slapdash
  • 1990: Initiation into Nothingness (demo, self-publication)
  • 1990: Demo (demo, self-publication)
  • 1992: Silence (Album, Black Mark Production )
  • 1994: No Cause for Celebration (Album, Black Mark Production)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Janne Stark: The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Premium Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-91-89136-56-4 , pp. 655 .
  2. ↑ Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on January 23, 2016 ; accessed on August 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on January 23, 2016 ; accessed on August 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Info. Facebook , accessed August 18, 2018 .
  5. ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936878-18-9 , pp. 313 (English: Swedish Death Metal . Translated by Andreas Diesel).
  6. ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936878-18-9 , pp. 400 (English: Swedish Death Metal . Translated by Andreas Diesel).
  7. ^ Holger Stratmann: Rosicrucian . Silence. In: Rock Hard . No. 67 , December 1992, p. 84 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Rosicrucian . Atrocious Destruction. In: Rock Hard . No. 88 , September 1994, pp. 87 f .
  9. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 369 .