Sacrilege

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Sacrilege
General information
Genre (s) Crustcore (initially), then Thrash Metal and later Doom Metal
founding 1984
resolution 1990
Last occupation
initially electric guitar , later electric bass
Frank Healy
Spikey T. Smith
Electric guitar
 Damian Thompson
Lynda "Tam" Simpson
former members
Electric bass
 Tony May
Electric bass
 Paul Morrisey
Drums
 Andy Baker
Drums
 Liam Pickering
Drums
 Paul Brookes
Electric guitar
 Mitch Dickinson

Sacrilege was an English band formed in Birmingham in 1984 and disbanded in 1990. The band was initially more likely to be classified as crustcore , later thrash metal and towards the end of their career doom metal .

history

Before founding the band, guitarist Damian Thompson and drummer Andy Baker formed the crustcore band Warwound. In 1983 they joined the band The Varukers . Damian Thompson left this band in 1984 to form Sacrilege. In the following two years the band recorded two demos that were assigned to the crustcore.

After drummer Pickering was replaced by Andrew Baker in 1985, the band recorded their first album, Behind the Realms of Madness, in July. The album was released through Children of the Revolution Records , a Bristol-based label. 7,000 copies of the album were sold. Mitch Dickinson joined the band as the second guitarist. He never played live with the band and shortly thereafter joined the hardcore band Heresy . Meanwhile, the band briefly received a contract with FM Revolver Records , but they never recorded an album.

In August and July 1986 the band recorded two more demos. Seven songs later appeared on the album Within the Prophecy , which was recorded in January 1987 at Rich Bitch Studios in Birmingham with Rob Bruce and producer Mike Ivory . The album was released that same year through Under One Flag Records , a subsidiary of Music for Nations . The album was to be assigned to Thrash Metal. During the recording, bassist Tony May was replaced by Paul Morrisey and rhythm guitarist Frank Healey joined the band. Towards the end of the year, drummer Andy Baker was replaced by Paul Brookes.

After that Brookes was replaced by Spikey T. Smith and Healey took over the bass after Morrisey left. Together they recorded the next album called Turn Back Trilobite , which was released in April 1989 through Under One Flag Records. Stylistically, the band moved more away from Thrash Metal and towards Doom Metal. In 1990 the band broke up.

After the breakup, Healey and Baker joined Cerebral Fix , with Healey later playing with Benediction and Baker in an early version of Cathedral . Brookes also played with Benediction and from 1999 with Marshall Law . Cerebral Fix covered the song The Closing Irony on the album Tower of Spite from 1990, where the song was called Closing Irony .

style

The band moved from aggressive crustcore to increasingly complex thrash metal to doom metal, which they played towards the end of their careers. At the first demos the band tended more towards hardcore punk, with the later demos the metal influence came out more strongly. Yosuke "Insulter" Konishi from Nuclear War Now! Productions points to the origins of Sacrileges in the British hardcore scene of the mid-1980s and describes their music as a mixture of former British hardcore by bands such as Discharge , The Varukers, Icons of Filth and Antisect in combination with powerful Thrash and Metal. The mixture resulted in a highly energetic metal / hardcore hybrid that quickly set itself apart from the other punk and metal-mixing bands of the time. While many of them did not have the compositional skills or the talent for memorable metal pieces, Sacrilege was equally adept at heavy thrash and heavy, driving metal. Sacrilege has combined epic metal songwriting with Tam's “scorching” scorching female vocals and the power, passion and intensity of hardcore punk.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sacrilege Within The Prophecy , accessed January 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ SACRILEGE (uk). Myspace , archived from the original on January 16, 2012 ; Retrieved February 26, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Classic Thrash - Reviews - S , accessed January 14, 2012.
  4. ^ Insulter: Sacrilege (UK) “It's Time to Face the Reaper” DLP Official Distribution. Nuclear War Now! Productions , October 1, 2014, accessed October 1, 2014 .