Oppressor

Oppressor was a technical death metal band from Chicago, Illinois, which was founded in 1991 and in 1999 separated again. They released three albums. Three of the band members founded the alternative metal band SOiL.

History

Oppressor was founded in May 1991 by Tim King and Adam Zadel. A month later came another guitarist Jim Stopper and drummer Tom Schofield added the band. They took the first Demonworld Abomination in the same year. The second demo As Blood Flows, which was recorded in 1992, the band introduced a contract with the label Red Light Records, where they released their debut album, Solstice of Oppression 1994. Shortly after the album's release, Red Light but suffered a bankruptcy and the band was forced to find another label. In the meantime, the band released the compilation album Oppression Live / As Blood Flows in Megalithic Records. However, Megalithic short time later went bankrupt, although it was only for a few months. Ultimately, the band signed a contract with Olympic Recordings and released the next album Agony in 1996. In years earlier, Jim stopper, Shaun Glass ( guitarist for Broken Hope) and Ryan McCombs founded the alternative metal band SOiL, which is actually just as side project was intended. Published in 1998 Oppressor their last album, which was called the Elements of Corrosion. The band split up in 1999, as the side project SOiL began to be more successful than Oppressor.

Style

The style played Oppressor, later as Technical Death Metal known. The sound of style with bands like Morbid Angel and Gorguts is to be compared. Thematically trade their songs of death, suffering and moral depravity.

Discography

• World Abomination (Demo, 1991)
• As Blood Flows (Demo, 1992)
• Oppressor (EP, 1994)
• Solstice of Oppression (Album, Red Light, 1994)
• Oppression Live / As Blood Flows ( Compilation, Megalithic, 1995)
• Agony (Album, Olympic, 1996)
• Elements of Corrosion (Album, Olympic, 1998)
• The Solstice of Agony and Corrosion ( Best-of/Kompilation, Mortal Music, 2009)