Vendetta (Band)
Vendetta is a Bavarian thrash metal band from Schweinfurt, which was founded in 1984, disbanded in 1990 and 2002 got together again.
History
The band was founded in 1984. After the release of two demos, followed in 1987, the debut album Go and Live ... Stay and Die, which joined in 1988 Brain Damage. After a tour together with Tankard, Helstar and Sodom, appearances followed with bands like Kreator, Destruction, Overkill and Metal Church. In 1990, the band broke up for the time being.
Since 2002 the band is active again, but only bassist Heiner remained of the former occupation. For the rights to their recordings, the band had to engage in a long-running lawsuit claims to be a lawyer. In 2007, the album Hate at Metal Axe Records was published. After that, the group reached a deal with Massacre Records. The band went with Dan Swanö in the Unisound studio to record Feed the Extermination, which was released in December 2011.
Style of music and texts
The band played in their previous time classic speed and thrash metal. The vocals of Micky Wehner has been described as a mixture of Kai Hansen and Dirk Schröder ( Iron Angel ). The debut album " is full of breaks, fast parts, cutting guitar riffs and massive solos ", where Siebi of Heavyhardes.de particularly highlights the numerous Breaks, " what is in this form of a young band to date ( 1987) with the exception of the almost at the same time emerging paradox did not get to hear. Okay, we let the Mekong Delta and their debut times left out, because they had to join a very different musical approach, namely classical music with extreme Metal. Vendetta were there but more Metal in the traditional sense [ ... ]. "This album was also compared with the early works of Metallica and stresses that the band in so many processed like other riffs on a whole album.
The second album Brain Damage was compared to Metallica's early works; " Just in Stakkatoriffing with the melodic Lickläufen also show the same understanding of music "; also fell comparisons to Sacred Reich. The pieces were part of " more complicated and tricky " and sounded " almost progressive [ ... ]. Moreover, it was also put even more on catchy melodies and guitar harmonies, which in parts the pace was somewhat scaled back. "
The demo recordings between reunification and the album Hate " embodied the classic Vendetta sound " while modern orientation; However, the band announced that they had changed considerably after the demo recordings, the new album sounds like a mixture of old and new metal elements. Since Hate influences from groove metal are clearly audible, with bands like Machine Head, Pantera, Dearly Beheaded and Am I Blood are called. The band's style also differs from that of earlier publications by the singing of Mario bird that is less melodic against Wehner and more along the lines shouting.
In their lyrics the band treats political and social criticism.