Artist description An outburst of raging fury and stunning brutality fusing the best of old school Metal bands into a brand new chaotic vision of aggression.

Music Style Brutal Metal Hardcore

Musical Influences Deformity, Soilent Green, Neurosis, Acid Bath, Today is the day

Similar Artists Overcast, Coalesce, Suffocation, Obituary, Merauder, All Out War

Artist History SLAVERY is a band that plays a unique kind of metalcore. Through the years, the band has kept on expressing its brand new chaotic vision of aggression by fusing the best of old school metal and hardcore bands into an outburst of raging fury and stunning brutality and established itself as one of the finest and most promising local underground act. SLAVERY came to existence in Paris during the year 1996. In the beginning of 1997 the band started playing with a full line-up and recorded its first demo in April 1998, released as a featuring on the Paris Rising compilation amongst other local acts such as Knockoutz, In greed, Vile and Crossbreed. In 1999, after a few local shows, the band went through a major line-up change with the arrival of new bass player , new drummer and new singer during the summer. In September 1999, SLAVERY started playing more shows in Paris and north of France. In may 2000, the band entered the studio and recorded its debut MCD entitled TO SEDATE AGONY released on the band’s own label MISERERECHORDS in October. Enjoying really enthusiastic reviews in both alternative and national press, the release of this new effort allowed the band to play more often and hit new areas like Belgium or south of France. In the summer, after the arrival of a new bass player, SLAVERY appeared at the SUPERBOWL OF HARDCORE 2001 along with major French and European underground metal and hardcore acts. The beginning of 2002 took things to a faster pace with the purchase of a van that allowed the band to hit the road at cheaper expenses. The band played some shows across France and kept on spreading its intense and abrasive mixture of brutal metal intensity and raging hardcore grooves through devastating live acts. As for now, SLAVERY has been working on new songs and plans to record it’s first LP for 2003. In the meantime, the band is going to play some shows in France and Switzerland and will perform its first headlining tour in Spain and France, between October 30 and November 09 of 2002. SLAVERY INTENDS TO PLAY AS MANY SHOWS AS POSSIBLE and is eager to display its outraging potential to larger audiences across France and Europe. As long as booking people can provide full coverage of travel expenses along with food and shelter, the band never declines any offer. So if you need one band to burst your pit into pieces, feel free to contact us!

Group Members PYC : drums - Erwann : guitar/backing vocals - Guillaume : guitar/backing vocals - Raphaël : vocals - Cyril : bass

Instruments Guitars, Bass, Drums, Throat

Press Reviews With this Mini Cd "To Sedate Agony" we encounter a band with huge potentialities and with wide improvement margins; yeah, the sound these french offer is dynamic and involving and then, their death metal is filled up with wickedness: a sound commixtion that does not renounce to the death thrash of the never little regretted At the Gates or to the monolithical power of Morbid Angel or to the sudden tempo changes that made great a masterpiece like "Heartwork" (Carcass of course. All, greatly, assembled with modern metal core components and sick flashes of unsane bloody musical claustrophobia. "Our Glass" and "Butchered be the Sluttish" make things clear immediately, offering us technical passages and heavy solutions, fast rhythmics and a desperate screaming. The members proofs are excellent (the guitar does not disappoint our expectations and Pierre Yves's furious drumming enriches the final result), and the outcome is exceptionally disrupting. The five tracks of "To Sedate Agony" are all of high manufacture, their quality level untouchable and the force of songs like "Firefly" or "Quenchless Waste" merciless. Middle way between the modern and the past, Slavery set a nice teeth blow to every lover of evolved death metal. Good listening. With this Mini Cd "To Sedate Agony" we encounter a band with huge potentialities and with wide improvement margins; yeah, the sound these french offer is dynamic and involving and then, their death metal is filled up with wickedness: a sound commixtion that does not renounce to the death thrash of the never little regretted At the Gates or to the monolithical power of Morbid Angel or to the sudden tempo changes that made great a masterpiece like "Heartwork" (Carcass of course). All, greatly, assembled with modern metal core components and sick flashes of unsane bloody musical claustrophobia. "Our Glass" and "Butchered be the Sluttish" make things clear immediately, offering us technical passages and heavy solutions, fast rhythmics and a desperate screaming. The members proofs are excellent (the guitar does not disappoint our expectations and Pierre Yves's furious drumming enriches the final result), and the outcome is exceptionally disrupting. The five tracks of "To Sedate Agony" are all of high manufacture, their quality level untouchable and the force of songs like "Firefly" or "Quenchless Waste" merciless. Middle way between the modern and the past, Slavery set a nice teeth blow to every lover of evolved death metal. Good listening.

Location Paris, PLACE DES FETES - France

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