Thanatos (death/thrash metal - Pays-Bas)

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Les vétérans du death/thrash batave reviennent.

Dutch death metal veterans THANATOS have inked a deal with Listenable Records. The band is currently working on material for the follow-up to 2014's "Global Purification" album for an early 2020 release.

THANATOS, Holland's first-ever death/thrash metal band, has become an illustrious name that has been haunting the underground metal scene for decades and is now celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2019.

The band has always maintained a consistent quality over its entire catalog with its authentic brand of unrelenting death thrash metal — staying true to its initial merciless madness, faithfully unleashing frenetic hooks, crushing straight forward dynamics and original visceral brutality wrapped up in a massive production as the main killing components.

Guitarist/vocalist Stephan Gebédi comments: "When THANATOS emerged in 1984, metal was still raw and unpolished and there was a strong 'us against the world' feeling amongst both bands and fans. We were at war with the establishment, organized religion and mainstream music. The current metal scene has lost a lot of its rough edges. A lot of bands have adopted a polished, plastic sound and a somewhat pleasant, politically correct attitude. Thank god, or rather Satan, for bands that still choose to go against the grain,stir up some controversy and never let go of the original feeling."

THANATOS is:

Stephan Gebédi - Vocals, Guitar
Paul Baayens - Guitar
Marco de Bruin - Bass
Martin Ooms - Drums

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DVD pour leurs 40 ans :

Hollands' oldest death metal band Thanatos is premiering a video from the group's upcoming anniversary album and DVD Four Decades Of Death, set to celebrate the 40th year of the band's existence on November 15 via Agonia Records. Watch "Global Purification" below.

The album consists of previously unreleased songs and a bonus DVD, which captures, on a multi-cam recording, the band's last live show from 2022.

"From beyond the grave we bring you this album with unreleased stuff from the past four decades plus a cool live registration of our last show ever," comments Thanatos's founder, Stephan Gebédi (Hail Of Bullets). "Filmed at the Baroeg Open Air festival in our hometown Rotterdam on September 10th 2022, the band played songs ranging from the early demo days to our final album Violent Death Rituals in front of about 8000 people. This is a posthumous celebration of our 40th anniversary. Releasing this rare, unreleased stuff on CD/vinyl and our final show on DVD feels like a great way to end things or, to put it more bluntly, put the last nail in our coffin!"