Infernäl Mäjesty
INFERNÄL Mäjesty is a Canadian thrash metal band from Toronto, Ontario, founded in 1986 under the name of Overlord.
History
INFERNÄL Mäjesty was founded in 1986 under the name of Overlord. After the first demo and positive reactions in fanzines the band got a record deal with Roadrunner Records. There, the debut album None Shall Defy, which contained, among other things, the four songs from the demo was released. On the album the band consisted of singer Chris Bailey, guitarist Kenny Hallman and Steve terror, bassist and drummer Rick Nemes psychopath. The release of the album was followed by two demos Nigresent Dissolution and Creation of Chaos. Displeased Records also released the debut album again, with songs from the demos were included as bonus tracks.
After the band was not supported according to their guitarist Kenny Hallman in the Canadian music magazines and lost their recording contract, rose from some members. Guitarist Steve terrorist stated that their drummer had flown to the debut album from New York to the recordings in order to deal with Roadrunner Records; he " had the management of the band in his hands. [ ... ] He told them that we did not go on tour, but rather wanted to bring out yet another album. He only tried to impose his own interests, because the rest of us had no idea what was going on there. " The record company had been" quite angry about this conversation to us. " The guitarist Hallman and terror continued the band with new musicians. Bailey, Psycopath, and Nemes had left the band, so a singer Donald Vince Kuntz, bassist and drummer Kevin Harrison Chay McMullen came as new members of the band. However, singer Kuntz should the band soon leave again because he aufritzte a woman 's wrist, drank their blood, and this went to prison seven months. 1998 her second album Unholier than Thou, whereupon Chris Bayley was heard again as a singer. In 2000, chaos followed in Copenhagen, which contained covers of Christ Denied and Dawn. In 2004 followed via Galy Records the next studio album One Who Points to Death. In 2007, the EP Demon God, what next four demo songs that were supposed to appear on the fourth album systematical Extermination, two old songs from the album None Shall Defy were included that were re-recorded appeared. Guest musicians were here to hear Hole George Fisher and Rob Barrett of Cannibal Corpse and Chris Valagao of room.
Music style
In the early days of the band announced drummer Rick Nemes: "We are the heaviest band of Canada and have only one goal: to unseat Slayer! " Nemes had previously played in the Christian rock band Rapid Tears; he said: " Well, Rapid Tears have indeed represent a different attitude to life, but the fit just did not to me. I live for the earthly life with all its excesses and sins ' and was pretty much always in the occult - in whatever manifestation Anyway - interested. I think even today in God, but I know that Satan is just as real. I have learned to accept this life and my instincts. I like now times all that is macabre, and accordingly sound Infernal Majesty. " Götz Kühnemund compared the concept of the band with the Venoms and ordered the band corresponding to the Black Metal to. The style has been compared to that of Slayer and Hallow's Eve, Chris Bailey's vocals were described as death-metal - typical. Holger Stratmann from the crash and Rock Hard praised as a technique, and structured the songs as complex, but criticized the " stupid and clichéd horror texts".
Björn Friedetzky from New Rock & Metal Hammer described the music on the second album Unholier than Thou as "complex and majestic, but without any confidential pathos. In conjunction with the texts she paints a picture of hope, full of dynamism and angry feelings. Inspirations like Death or Slayer. mainly because of the highly structured song structure, Kenny does not deny, 'The decisive factors are, however, in [ sic] and outside the Metal genre. only by the inclusion of such sources otherwise arise. ' " He described it as" the best Death album for a long time and is beyond any doubt " and Eric Laighton as " brilliant drummer ". Kai spiral from Rock Hard warned in his criticism of the album that this is not " a similarly crude concoction " as the "cult Firecracker " None Shall Defy is because the music " style but something changed " have; Although the band was " their eighties roots remained faithful " have " these but upgraded with some traditional Death Metal influences " and go " something orderly and thoughtful to work than on the debut ." Since the band's style evolved little, also her third album One Who Points to Death " musical still the old lumber- school eighties [ ... ]. Where others try desperately to orient themselves backwards as possible, include traditional Bratgitarren sounds, dirty solos and raucous chants below the line of death, of course, to do so. " However, the album also features " a surprisingly modern production that makes it seem powerful and transparent sound. "