Pestilence
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1) Pestilence is a death m… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple bands using this name.
1) Pestilence is a death metal band from Enschede, The Netherlands founded in 1986. Later they incorporated more jazz and fusion elements into their music. They released four albums before disbanding in order to pursue other musical directions in 1994. Pestilence reformed in 2008 and released their album 'Resurrection Macabre' a year later in March. In late April 2011, the band released 'Doctrine'.
Pestilence started in the Netherlands in mid 1986 as a thrash metal band. The lineup, consisting of Patrick Mameli (guitar, vocals), Randy Meinhard (guitar), and Marco Foddis (drums), recorded two demos before gaining the attention of Roadrunner Records. After the first demo, Martin van Drunen (bass, vocals) joined them. These two demos - Dysentery (1986) and The Penance (1987) - are raw, sounding mostly like a cross between Possessed and Schizophrenia-era Sepultura. After signing to Roadrunner Records, Pestilence released their debut album titled Malleus Maleficarum in 1988, further refining their approach to thrash metal. The new material was tighter and more focused than the demos. Shortly thereafter, guitarist Randy Meinhard left the band to pursue other musical goals in a new band named Sacrosanct.
Meanwhile, Pestilence recruited a new guitar player by the name of Patrick Uterwijk. In 1989, the band released their second album Consuming Impulse, which was a turn toward to death metal. From a musical standpoint, things became heavier and more haunting. Vocally, Martin van Drunen moved away from cleaner vocals in favour of a more acidic growl. With its release, Pestilence gained international attention, highly regarded worldwide by death metal fans. But before a follow-up album was released, the lineup changed once again; vocalist and bassist Martin van Drunen departed to front Asphyx.
Pestilence were faced again with the challenge of replacing a member, being without a vocalist and bassist. So while recording their third album Testimony Of The Ancients (1991), they enlisted bassist Tony Choy, who at the time was playing with the technical death metal band Cynic and Patrick Mameli took over the vocal duties. With this lineup, they released the album Testimony Of The Ancients. The new material was not as abrasive as the previous albums, but the band's musicianship has obviously grown and the album had the best production job of the band's catalogue.
However, Tony Choy was never a permanent member, and ended up going back to Florida to eventually play with Atheist. In the meantime, Pestilence enlisted the talents of Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Obscura).
Over the years, the Pestilence members were getting into other forms of music, primarily jazz fusion which, the band wanted to pair with metal. The band's fourth and final album, Spheres was released in 1993. With every album, Pestilence went through some kind of a change and Spheres was no exception. Pestilence mixed jazz fusion elements into their death metal style, and used guitar synths throughout the album.
Pestilence's popularity had risen with the release of each album, but unfortunately, so did tensions between the members. So after a short period of time, the band unanimously decided to split up, feeling they had reached their creative climax.
In 1994, Roadrunner released one last CD from Pestilence: a best-of titled Mind Reflections, containing tracks from all four albums, plus the rare song "Hatred Within" (originally released on the Teutonic Invasion Part II compilation) and six unreleased live tracks recorded in at the Dynamo Open Air Festival in 1992. In 1998, Displeased Records re-released the debut album Malleus Maleficarum (which was originally never officially released in Europe), and included both demo recordings from 1986 and 1987. In 2006, Metal War Productions, working with Martin van Drunen, released Chronicles of the Scourge, containing two concert recordings and one unreleased bonus track. The two concerts are Live "Kix Festival" - Veghel, Holland (June 24, 1989) and Live Bochum, Germany (November 18, 1988). A bonus "rehearsal disc" was released with the first 1000 copies.
The band reformed in 2008. The new line up: founder Patrick Mameli (vocals, guitar), well known Tony Choy (bass) and drummer Peter Wildoer (Darkane, Non-Human Level and others). Their fifth album 'Resurrection Macabre' was released on the 16th of March 2009.
In October 2009, Jeroen Paul Thesseling re-joined Pestilence after fifteen years of separation from the band, replacing Tony Choy's bass position. However, Thesseling has maintained that he will remain the bassist of Obscura as well.
2) Pestilence was a short lived Death-Thrash band from Las Vegas, Nevada. They released one demo in 1987 called Infected. The band later changed its name to The Horde of Torment.
3) "Diseased Dungeon Noise" https://pestilentsynth.bandcamp.com/
4) Australian grind/crust band, released a demo in 1988
5) An underground trans artist from Tucson, Arizona
1) Pestilence is a death m… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple bands using this name.
1) Pestilence is a death metal band from Enschede, The Netherlands founded in 1986. Later they incorporated more jazz and fusion elements into their music. They released four albums before disbanding in order to pursue other musical directions in 1994. Pestilence reformed in 2008 and released their album 'Resurrection Macabre' a year later in March. In late April 2011, the band released 'Doctrine'.
Pestilence started in the Netherlands in mid 1986 as a thrash metal band. The lineup, consisting of Patrick Mameli (guitar, vocals), Randy Meinhard (guitar), and Marco Foddis (drums), recorded two demos before gaining the attention of Roadrunner Records. After the first demo, Martin van Drunen (bass, vocals) joined them. These two demos - Dysentery (1986) and The Penance (1987) - are raw, sounding mostly like a cross between Possessed and Schizophrenia-era Sepultura. After signing to Roadrunner Records, Pestilence released their debut album titled Malleus Maleficarum in 1988, further refining their approach to thrash metal. The new material was tighter and more focused than the demos. Shortly thereafter, guitarist Randy Meinhard left the band to pursue other musical goals in a new band named Sacrosanct.
Meanwhile, Pestilence recruited a new guitar player by the name of Patrick Uterwijk. In 1989, the band released their second album Consuming Impulse, which was a turn toward to death metal. From a musical standpoint, things became heavier and more haunting. Vocally, Martin van Drunen moved away from cleaner vocals in favour of a more acidic growl. With its release, Pestilence gained international attention, highly regarded worldwide by death metal fans. But before a follow-up album was released, the lineup changed once again; vocalist and bassist Martin van Drunen departed to front Asphyx.
Pestilence were faced again with the challenge of replacing a member, being without a vocalist and bassist. So while recording their third album Testimony Of The Ancients (1991), they enlisted bassist Tony Choy, who at the time was playing with the technical death metal band Cynic and Patrick Mameli took over the vocal duties. With this lineup, they released the album Testimony Of The Ancients. The new material was not as abrasive as the previous albums, but the band's musicianship has obviously grown and the album had the best production job of the band's catalogue.
However, Tony Choy was never a permanent member, and ended up going back to Florida to eventually play with Atheist. In the meantime, Pestilence enlisted the talents of Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Obscura).
Over the years, the Pestilence members were getting into other forms of music, primarily jazz fusion which, the band wanted to pair with metal. The band's fourth and final album, Spheres was released in 1993. With every album, Pestilence went through some kind of a change and Spheres was no exception. Pestilence mixed jazz fusion elements into their death metal style, and used guitar synths throughout the album.
Pestilence's popularity had risen with the release of each album, but unfortunately, so did tensions between the members. So after a short period of time, the band unanimously decided to split up, feeling they had reached their creative climax.
In 1994, Roadrunner released one last CD from Pestilence: a best-of titled Mind Reflections, containing tracks from all four albums, plus the rare song "Hatred Within" (originally released on the Teutonic Invasion Part II compilation) and six unreleased live tracks recorded in at the Dynamo Open Air Festival in 1992. In 1998, Displeased Records re-released the debut album Malleus Maleficarum (which was originally never officially released in Europe), and included both demo recordings from 1986 and 1987. In 2006, Metal War Productions, working with Martin van Drunen, released Chronicles of the Scourge, containing two concert recordings and one unreleased bonus track. The two concerts are Live "Kix Festival" - Veghel, Holland (June 24, 1989) and Live Bochum, Germany (November 18, 1988). A bonus "rehearsal disc" was released with the first 1000 copies.
The band reformed in 2008. The new line up: founder Patrick Mameli (vocals, guitar), well known Tony Choy (bass) and drummer Peter Wildoer (Darkane, Non-Human Level and others). Their fifth album 'Resurrection Macabre' was released on the 16th of March 2009.
In October 2009, Jeroen Paul Thesseling re-joined Pestilence after fifteen years of separation from the band, replacing Tony Choy's bass position. However, Thesseling has maintained that he will remain the bassist of Obscura as well.
2) Pestilence was a short lived Death-Thrash band from Las Vegas, Nevada. They released one demo in 1987 called Infected. The band later changed its name to The Horde of Torment.
3) "Diseased Dungeon Noise" https://pestilentsynth.bandcamp.com/
4) Australian grind/crust band, released a demo in 1988
5) An underground trans artist from Tucson, Arizona
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Pestilence Lyrics
01. Mind Reflections Unconscious, conscious Your mind is trapped, your body is fr…
Absolution Unreachable by the mortal ones For it is I am God…
Amgod Fathers of the holy church On thou knees and repent Confes…
Astral Projection Astral flight through space and time Faster than light - ima…
Aura Negative The virgin soul no longer white, shining devious through th…
Aurian Eyes [Performed by P. Mameli with the Roland midi guitar synthesi…
Bacterial Surgery Gathered and driven under their command They lived in fear f…
Changing Perspective The process of life A future at distance Time does not run…
Changing Perspectives The process of life A future at distance Time does not run…
Chemo Therapy Practising usury cancer Bifurcation of the tumour Unstoppa…
Chemotherapy Practising usury cancer Bifurcation of the tumour Unstoppabl…
Chronic Infection Forced isolation in centuries of disgust Disease of the soul…
Commandments Mutual aversion and disgust, religious facts Fighting for th…
Confusion Confusion confusion Human patterns of thought rejects Belie…
Cycle of Existence In an age of death and fear They were frightened of…
Deception The smokescreen of deceit To cloth the feeble mind Answering…
Dehydrated Lost in the desert for reasons unknown An extensive barren p…
Dehydrated II Once a God, once left to die The desert punishes relentless …
Deify Thy Master His hands held high Hypnotizing eyes, the instruments Of pow…
Demise Of Time Within the bounds of begin and end lies the evolution…
Devouring Frenzy Insatiable lust to consume To fill the emptiness inside De…
Discarnate Entity Discarnate entity Contaminated with a depression Entities h…
Displaced This intense feeling of not being Has taken the soul into…
Dissolve To dissolve into nothing less To let your soul be at…
Distress After fading into nothing less The aging soul falls into dis…
Divinity To reach the highest level of divinity For the soul to…
Doctrine The new head rush, the new mind blow Consuming minds like…
Dominatvi Svbmissa Pushed into this reality Morbid experiment of the All Given…
Echoes Of Death Trapped inside my self-capsule For a journey into an atmosph…
Electro Magnetic Intermolacular forces between Individual atoms Is where the …
Exitivm Injecting the mental venom The weakening of human thoughts C…
Extreme Unction Passed the door of death Hereafter place to be Fortified w…
Fiend Unstoppable urge to destroy the flesh By injecting the veno…
HangMan Hang Hangman Mind is set to the unexplainable As cries …
Hate Suicide Mutilated thoughts of reality Systematic instruction of wha…
Horror Detox The agony and pain To have to let go The cold reality Of…
In Sickness And Death The sick become now the dead Breaking out of the boundaries…
Land of Tears Dark sides of life Unspoken by those in search of the…
Laniatus Mangled and ripped from existence, gateway to the unknown c…
Layers of Reality What you can see you take as reality That’s how weak…
Lost Souls ("What happens to the soul after it has left a…
Malignant Malignant malignant Rooted deeper than the subconsciousness…
Malleus Maleficarum / Anthropomorphia Scientists have been researching for decennaries the possibi…
Manifestations Manifestations Appearances of the Divinity as Clear as can …
Materialization Once they can find a way to get inside your…
Mind Reflections Unconscious, conscious Your mind is trapped, your body is fr…
Morbvs Propagationem Riding the winds of disease Like Pazuzu but so much worse Sp…
Multi Dimensional Go Different planes of existence The frequency of that dimen…
Multiple Being Hidden deep inside Is one's personality Intentions unaware A…
Necro Morph When all life energy is sucked dry Only memories are left Bu…
Neuro Dissonance Neuro dissonance neuro dissonance Neuro dissonance neuro dis…
Non Physical Existent When one can not see it, It doesn't mean it is…
Obsideo Flat line, the gruesome possession The pounding of negative …
Out Of The Body In the darkness They crawl on places Where you can't see or…
Oversoul Holographic self image of reality The existence and nature o…
Parricide A life in desolation, remained in naivety Criminal aberrancy…
Personal Energy The temple of the soul Home of the spiritual source Blesse…
Phileas [Performed by J.P. Thesseling] [Discords performed on Leade…
Presence Of The Dead ["Seances to summon (and communicate with) the dead"] Welco…
Prophetic Revelations ["ancient wisdom in present reality"] Philosophy of time Th…
Reduced To Ashes Dark middle ages, centuries of pain The appearance of the in…
Reflections of the Mind Unconscious, conscious Your mind is trapped, your body is fr…
Resurrection Macabre Resurrected to rot once more Devouring the all organic whor…
Salvation To confess all of your sins Is where you salvation begins …
Saturation Flooded with the energy of a thousand souls Chaos merging wi…
Sinister Sinister The dark, the sinister Creating fear in the hearts…
Soul Search Paved roads of deceit Leading to all life's directions So ma…
Soulrot Beware of the rotting of the soul, No one can escape…
Spheres The Highest Intelligence as the explaining principal of exis…
Stigmatized ["Branded, for making the wrong choices in life"] Open the …
Subordinate to the Domination Anxiety provides the aspect of days Dislodge and make them d…
Super Conscious Clear voidance in a lucid state of mind No need for…
Suspended Animation Suffering from a disease The morbid symptoms aren't identifi…
Synthetic Grotesque Synthetic grotesque synthetic grotesque Synthetic Creating …
Systematic Instruction The propaganda machine Is spreading a prophet's doctrine Eve…
Testimony ["Seeking life-answers by using dark powers"] The gates t…
The Level Of Perception Skeptical research of mind control Fear of philosophical con…
The Predication Viatus qui legit Et audit verba profeciem huius Et servat ea…
The Process Of Suffocation Music:Mameli, Uterwijk Lyrics:v. Drunen Smoke's penatrating …
The Secrecies Of Horror ["An unknown dimension revealed to man"] Within the realms …
The Trauma Years kept passing by Still my mind hasn't forgotten Corps…
Transition Letting go past emotions and Embracing the new The easier it…
Trauma Years kept passing by Still my mind hasn't forgotten Corps…
Twisted Truth A god before god Summon the demons to enter your body Ceremo…
Ultra Demons Inside your weakness lies their strenght Any doubts is felt …
Voices From Within [Performed by P. Uterwijk with the Roland midi guitar synthe…
Y2H This is the year to hate To be consumed by the…