Thorium (band)

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Thorium
General information
origin Copenhagen , Denmark
Genre (s) Death metal
founding 1997
Current occupation
Kræn Meier
Electric guitar
 Jens Peter "JP" Storm-Ringström
Michael Hvolgaard "MHA" Andersen
Perra Karlsson
former members
Electric bass
 Thomas Fagerlind
Electric bass
 Kaspar Boye "KB" Larsen
Drums
 Jesper Frost Jensen
Drums
 Nikolaj "Niko" Borg
Electric guitar
 Marcel Lech Lysgaard
Electric guitar
 Johan Axelsson
Electric guitar
 Jonas Lindblood
Electric guitar, now also electric bass
 Morten Ryberg
Electric guitar, now also electric bass
 Allan Tvedebrink

Thorium is a Danish death metal band from Copenhagen that was formed in 1997.

history

The band was founded in late 1997. After about a year, the first appearances followed, with Thorium, among other things, opening act for Artillery . Through a demo that consists of two songs, the group reached a contract with Diehard Music . In summer 1999, the group went into the Grieghallen Studio in Bergen , where Pytten and Herbrand Larsen from Audrey Horne they cherished as producers. The material was mixed by Jacob Hansen . The album was released in early 2000 under the name Oceans of Blasphemy . Since the label suspected Nazi texts behind the songs, it separated from the band afterwards, but the contract was soon resumed after the allegations proved unfounded. In the German magazine Rock Hard the band was named "Best Newcomers of 2000". After the release followed appearances all over Denmark and the group could be seen in the Czech Republic at the Nuclear Storm Festival . Three years later, in January 2003, the band went to the Exponent Studio in Slovakia to record the next album with producers Tomáš Kmeť and Roman Slavik . Originally, the Red House Studios were intended for this purpose and Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek from Vader was the producer. However, because Wiwczarek had to cancel, the plan had to be discarded. The recorded material was then mastered by Tue Madsen . The album was released under the name Unleashing the Demons . It contains the Cancer Cover Cancer Fucking Cancer as the last song . In summer 2003 the band performed at the festivals Party.San in Germany and Brutal Assault in the Czech Republic. Meanwhile, due to the bankruptcy of Diehard Records, the collaboration with the label had to be terminated and Morten Ryberg and Jesper Frost Jensen left Thorium. At the end of 2005, the band returned with a three-song demo that was recorded in August at Berno Studio in Malmö , directed by Berno Paulsson . These recordings were released as an EP under the name Cast from Hell on Mighty Music , a sub-label of Prutten Records . The third album, entitled Feral Creation , was released in February 2008 by Mighty Music. Then Marcel Lech Lysgaard can be heard as the new guitarist, Kaspar Boye "KB" Larsen as the new bassist and Nikolaj "Niko" Borg as the new drummer. The line-up was the same as that of Withering Surface , an old Andersen band, in 1999.

style

According to Joel McIver in his book Extreme Metal II , the band offers cleverly played and aggressive Death Metal. In an interview with Rock Hard , Michael Hvolgaard “MHA” Andersen stated that by founding Thorium he wanted to express his sympathy for old-school death metal, which is why he has gathered musicians with similar fondness around him. He was initially influenced by groups like Pestilence , Deicide , Possessed , Morbid Angel and Darkthrone (especially Soulside Journey ). He tried to combine the best elements from Scandinavian and American Death Metal. The lyrics of Ocean of Blasphemy are blasphemous , whereby he would not describe himself as a Satanist , but rather as an atheist . In a 2008 rock-hard interview, Andersen stated that the influences at the time were Florida death metal bands like Deicide and Morbid Angel and Swedish groups like Entombed or At the Gates , while everything is now more controlled and mature and more English bands how Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death would be major influences. In his review of Ocean of Blasphemy , Frank Albrecht from Rock Hard wrote that classic Death Metal can be heard on it, although the speed of the songs is usually high. The album has clear structures, is catchy and nasty and occasionally melodious. The group combines the riffs of American death metal bands of the early 1990s with the then current Scandinavian bands of the genre. In a later issue, Volkmar Weber reviewed Unleashing the Demons and noted influences from both Swedish and American Death Metal. In addition, similarities to Metallica and Slayer can be heard and blast beats are used. The album could compete with releases from Cannibal Corpse. In a further review by Albrecht of Feral Creation , he wrote that the music is still committed to classic death metal in the style of the 1990s, with a singing consisting of classic non-gurgled growls . The speed is almost always high. The songs are simply structured, but technically demanding, and nothing for fans of complex structures in the style of Job for a Cowboy or Nile . Matthias from Metal.de also reviewed the album. The group played, he summed up, classic death metal that alternates between different speed levels. The group was influenced by Swedish and somewhat also by American genre representatives.

Discography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d About. mightymusic.dk, accessed February 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on May 14, 2016 ; accessed on February 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ ?: Thorium . Hot & cool! In: Rock Hard . No. 183 , August 2002.
  4. ↑ a b c Volkmar Weber: Thorium . After the revolution. In: Rock Hard . No. 252 , May 2008.
  5. ^ Joel McIver: Extreme Metal II . Omnibus Press, 2005, ISBN 1-84449-097-1 , pp. 161 .
  6. ↑ ?: Thorium . Beer instead of church tax! In: Rock Hard . No. 156 , May 2000.
  7. ^ Frank Albrecht: Thorium . Ocean of Blasphemy. In: Rock Hard . No. 155 , April 2000.
  8. ↑ Volkmar Weber: Thorium . Unleashing the Demons. In: Rock Hard . No. 182 , July 2002.
  9. ^ Frank Albrecht: Thorium . Feral Creation. In: Rock Hard . No. 182 , July 2002.
  10. ^ Matthias: Thorium - Feral Creation. Metal.de , accessed on February 17, 2018 .