Thanatos (band)

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Thanatos
Thanatos 2019.jpg
official band photo from 2014 promo shoot by Erik Negakinu
Background information
Origin Rotterdam, Netherlands
Genres Thrash metal, death metal
Years active1984–1992, 1999–present
LabelsListenable Records
Members Stephan Gebédi
Paul Baayens
Martin Ooms
Mous Mirer
Past membersAad Kloosterwaard
André Scherpenberg
Ed Boeser
Erwin De Brouwer
Marcel Van Arnhem
Marco de Groot
Mark Staffhorst
Remco De Maaijer
Remo Van Arnhem
Rob De Bruijn
Theo Van Eekelen
Website http://thanatos.info/

Thanatos is a Dutch extreme metal band. With a history dating back to 1984, they are the oldest death metal band from the Netherlands. Their second album, Realm of Ecstasy (some album covers show Realm of Ecstacy), received positive marks from Dutch music magazine Oor and various international magazines for its solid compositions and challenging arrangements. [1] After enduring constantly changing line-ups and problems with distribution, promotion, and even ownership of the rights to the second album, Thanatos folded in 1992, the final straw being the cancellation of a tour with Cannibal Corpse and Exhorder. [1]

Contents

In 1999, founding member Stephan Gebédi revived the band, which signs with Hammerheart Records. After re-releasing the first two albums with demo and live tracks, the band's third full album, Angelic Encounters, emerged in 2000. In 2002 a mini-CD with original songs as well as covers from Celtic Frost and Possessed was released by Baphomet. After a few shows in Greece and a short tour with Pungent Stench, the band recorded their fourth album, Undead. Unholy. Divine , described as a solid return to 1980s metal (in the style of Slayer, Possessed) with the addition of blast beats. [2] Release of a fifth album, Justified Genocide, was postponed when the band's label at the time, Black Lotus Records, went bankrupt; Dan Swano finished the mix for the CD. [3] To celebrate more than twenty years of Dutch death metal, Thanatos released (on Chinese label AreaDeath Productions) a limited-edition box containing Emerging From The Netherworlds, Realm Of Ecstasy, and Angelic Encounters, besides 56 bonus tracks and 19 videos. [1]

In February 2009, the band issued an update containing details about their upcoming album Justified Genocide. It was released on March 15 in Europe and April 6 in the UK and Ireland. [4]

Century Media Records signed the band in 2012. The initial plan was to re-release the five studio albums of the band in 2012 and 2013, but the label offered the band a new recording contract which resulted in a new studio album from Thanatos in 2014, entitled Global Purification. This coincided with the band's 30th anniversary in that year. In 2019, Thanatos celebrated their 35th anniversary with a double-CD compilation album, a 7 inch vinyl EP and a special show in their hometown Rotterdam featuring a lot of former band members. Later that year Thanatos signed a new record deal with French label Listenable Records and started recording their seventh studio album. The album, Violent Death Rituals, had a March 2020 release.

Discography

Demos

Studio albums

Live album

Compilation album

EP's

Members

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Thanatos (band)

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Thanatos," Popencyclopedie, Muziekcentrum Nederland Archived 2010-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "File Under: Thanatos - Undead Unholy Divine". www.fileunder.nl. Archived from the original on 16 October 2005. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  3. ↑ http://www.nedermetaal.nl/content/view/325/30/%5B%5D
  4. ↑ "Justified Genocide Details" - Blabbermouth.net Archived 2010-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
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