Havoc Unit
Havoc Unit is a Finnish metal band, the elements of Death Metal and Industrial Metal combined with electronic music. It was founded in 1995 as ... And Oceans and renamed in 2005 in Havoc Unit to.
Biography
The founding members de Monde, Neptune and K- 2T4 -S since 1989 already played in a death metal band called Festerday before they founded in 1995 ... And Oceans. The band first played a few demo recordings, her first as an officially respected recording Mare Liberum was published in 1997 on Defender Productions from Sweden. The band signed for two albums with the French label Season of Mist. In the Finnish studio Tico Tico, known for his work with Impaled Nazarene, Sentenced, Thy Serpent, and others, she took in October 1997 their debut album The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts, the design of the ex- at-the - Gates - guitarist Alf Svensson took over and whose texts are held in Finnish, Swedish, English and French.
The debut album was followed by a split release with Bloodthorn on which each of the other band and a song by ... And Oceans one of GGFH was covered. The idea for this paper came from Season of Mist. After these recordings Mr. Oos was replaced by Gaunt of Rotten Sound. In November 1998, the band recorded at Tico -Tico studio on their second album. For this an exclusive title of Puissance and a spontaneously created in the studio Ambient-/Noise-CD were contributed, among other things that came with only the limited double digipak version. The album, published in 2001 A.M.G.O.D. was first recorded in the Abyss Studios, was released by Century Media Records, and had a new logo on; the change, as well as the adoption of new pseudonyms, was an idea of the singer. In addition, the band and on the successor Cypher and electronic elements, including some from the techno - range in their music moved there with a. In 2005, the group renamed itself Havoc Unit and changed the musical direction towards the Industrial Metal. Members do not see this as a mere name change, rather Havoc Unit is a different concept than ... And Oceans. The band rarely occurs live.
Style and texts
The group was formed originally from members of the Finnish Death Metal and Black Metal scene. First one was based namely on then-popular symphonic black or dark metal ( for the first two albums were Dimmu Borgir comparisons with Stormblåst and Borknagar ), but saw it not as a black metal band and had no relation to Satanism. From the beginning, the group put emphasis on the use of synthesizers, which they saw as " indispensable," as well include the band's founder and Ambient Darkwave to her musical influences. Her style under the name of ... And Oceans is characterized as a mixture of grindcore and thrash metal with elements of symphonic metal and ambient. After renaming the Havoc Unit 2005, the band took a musical re-orientation towards the Industrial Metal with influences from death and black metal. This stylistic change documented in the renamed Havoc Unit band with her 2008er Album h.IV [ Hoarse Industrial Viremia ] on which they increasingly rely on elements of electronic music. In their texts, the group opposes any form of religion, they are addressed with some hateful words against religious scriptures such as the Bible, Koran or the Talmud and the people who believe in it.
Discography
- 2007 - Havoc Unit / And Then You Die (Split with And Then You Die )
- 2007 - Synaesthesia - The Requiem Reveries
- 2007 - Havoc Unit / ... and Oceans
- 2008 - h.IV [ Hoarse Industrial Viremia ]