Music Style Death Metal

Musical Influences Carcass, Death, Atheist

Similar Artists newer Carcass, Death, Atheist, Opeth

Artist History Ascension founded around Easter 1993 under the name "Decay", but a steady line-up was fixed for the first time in the autumn of 1997. A little bit later, the name "Ascension" was born. The first Ascension demo CD "Walking on the psychopath" was released in March 2001. Ascension play Melodic Death Metal, but none of the kind In Flames for example does. Rather we try to put more curious and jazzy sounds into our music. It's hard to draw a comparison to other bands. Roughly outlined, Ascension settles between new Death, Carcass and Atheist (but few technical) but it contains also trademarks of other styles. In July 2001 three members (Olli-bass, Davud-voc and Holgi-drums) left the band. But the two members who were left (Zeisi-git and Chris-git) decided to continue with the band. Two new musicians were found in October 2001: Robin (bass, from the Thrashers of "Red To Grey" and Martin (drums, ex-"Last Salvation). In Summer 2002, Robin decided to quit Ascension because he wants to concentrate on his main band "Red To Grey". The bass parts on our forthcoming Album will be played by old bass man Olli. Whether he re-enters the band or not isn't clear at the moment. Release date of "Ascension" (selftitled) will be probably Nov./Dec. this year.

Group Members Zeisi - Guitars, vocals ** Chris - Guitars, vocals ** Martin - Drums **

Albums Ascension (coming Winter 2002/03), Walking On The Psychopath (Demo 2001)

Press Reviews *** "Walking On The Psychopath" (Demo 2001) Schwermetall (Underground), 5/6 P. ++ Central Nerve (Reviews/Records): "There are some damn interesting ideas on show on this CD. Kind of has the odd parts that fit into that weird progressive bracket of Atheist and Cynic.", "These guys are bloody good at what they are doing. Each song has its own identity." ++ Vates Noctis (Reviews), 7/10 P. ++ Metal District (Underground), 7/10 P. ++ Mordor Metal Mag (Reviews), 9/10 P. ++ BloodDawn (Reviews): "Etwas sehr experimentelles und innovatives wird einem hier geboten, die Songs sind abwechslungsreich und haben alle ihren eigenen Stil." ++ Deathgrind (Reviews), 3,5/5 P.

Location Egling, Bavaria - Germany

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