Treblinka (band)

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Treblinka
General information
origin Stockholm
Genre (s) Black metal , death metal
founding March 1988
Founding members
Johan "Lucifer Hellslaughter" Edlund
Current occupation
Vocals, electric guitar
 Johan "Lucifer Hellslaughter" Edlund
Electric guitar
 Stefan "Emetic" Lagergren
“Najse Auschwitzer” Holmberg is different
Jörgen "Juck" Thulberg

Treblinka was a Swedish black / death metal band.

history

Treblinka was founded in March 1988 by Johan "Lucifer Hellslaughter" Edlund . After he took over the vocals for the demo recording Mind the Edge of the thrash metal band River's Edge in June 1988 , their members Stefan "Emetic" Lagergren and Anders "Najse Auschwitzer" Holmberg Treblinka joined. The line-up was completed by bassist Jörgen “Juck” Thulberg from the hardcore band The Clint Eastwood Experience. The name, which is based on the Treblinka extermination camp , caused controversy; at their first concert the band was asked to declare before playing that they were not National Socialist ; on stage Hellslaughter announced: "Our name is Treblinka, and we are fucking proud of it!" On November 18 and 19, 1988, the band played their first demo recording, Crawling in Vomits, in the Sunlight studio .

In 1989 the second demo recording The Sign of the Pentagram and the 7 ” single followed , which was released by their own record company Mold in Hell Records with an edition of 666 copies and sold out within a few days.

In 1989 Emetic and Najse Auschwitzer left the band to focus on Expulsion, while Hellslaughter continued to operate under the new name Tiamat . While Daniel Ekeroth's book Swedish Death Metal and Century Media talk about a name change and the former member Juck also sees it that way, Megalomaniac Productions called Treblinka Edlund's first band, and Edlund himself said that Treblinka had nothing with Tiamat to do. Some tracks recorded under the name Treblinka were re-recorded for Tiamat's debut album Sumerian Cry .

The Treblinka recordings were not officially released until 2013, but numerous bootlegs appeared . Century Media released the 3 CD compilation Shrine of the Pentagram on October 4th, 2013 , which contains live recordings and instrumental pieces from the recordings of Sumerian Cry in addition to the previous releases .

Music style and lyrics

On Crawling in Vomits , Treblinka played “crude” and “amateurish”, but “nonetheless powerful” metal with half-distorted guitars, according to Ekeroth “strange melodies” and simple one-string riffs . The lyrics were gore - and party-oriented. The style on The Sign of the Pentagram was still primitive and raw, but the riffs were more elaborate, the arrangements better structured, and the lyrics were based on Satanism . Björn Thorsten Jaschinski from Rock Hard describes the style as "bestial rumbling Black Metal with influences from old Bathory , early Mayhem , South American chaotic troops and very little Stockholm death lead". Boris Kaiser from Rock Hard describes the sound as “very mangy over long stretches, but that's in the nature of things”.

Discography

  • 1988: Crawling in Vomits (demo)
  • 1989: The Sign of the Pentagram (Demo)
  • 1989: Severe Abominations (Single)
  • 2013: Shrine of the Pentagram (Compilation, Century Media )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Second edition. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009, pp. 78f.
  2. ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Second edition. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009, p. 148.
  3. ^ A b Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Second edition. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009, p. 150.
  4. ↑ a b http://www.centurymedia.com/newsdetailed.aspx?IdNews=13276&IdCompany=1. Century Media , August 19, 2013, accessed September 4, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b Treblinka:: to release first ever official "complete recordings" collection in October! Century Media, August 19, 2013, accessed September 4, 2013 .
  6. ↑ David Leslie: Before Tiamat, there was Treblinka. Beyond the Dark Horizon, July 17, 2009; archived from the original on January 2, 2013 ; accessed on July 5, 2012 .
  7. ↑ a b Church of TIAMAT ( Memento from May 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ^ A b Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Second edition. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points 2009, p. 81.
  9. ^ Björn Thorsten Jaschinski: Treblinka . Shrine of the Pentagram. In: Rock Hard . No. 318 , November 2013, p. 97 .
  10. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Treblinka . Shrine of the Pentagram. In: Rock Hard . No. 320 , January 2014, p. 106 .