CRUCIFIX

Год:2008 Страна:Denmark (Skjern/Odense) Стиль:Death Metal Размер:76.86 mb Формат:VBR~256kbps

Lars Groth: Drums

Morten Agerbo: Guitar

Tommy Johnson: Guitar

Bo Simonsen: Bass
HH: Vocals

Crucifix

Crucifix
began back in the summer of 1993 as a cover band. It was childhood
friends Morten Agerbo and Lars Groth who were the founders of what
would eventually turn out to be Crucifix. They teamed up with another
friend of theirs, Tommy Johnson and he introduced the guys to Bo
Simonsen. The basics of the band had been put together but a leadsinger
was still missing. The band started looking for a singer and Bo
suggested an old school buddy of his, Hans Henrik – HH. The line-up was
finally complete and the band began playing tunes of such bands as
Metallica, Slayer and Obituary etc.

It
wasn’t long until the band started making music of their own. The style
however was more brutal and soon after the band played more deathmetal
than cover tunes. They soon had got a reputation in the local area as
an alternative to all the other bands that played music from the grunge
scene. They began playing a lot of gigs and their reputation as a quit
decent live act grew.

In
1995 the band was put out on a compilation along side of other Danish
bands, called Danish Upcommers. Soon after tragedy struck the band when
front man HH was killed in a motorcycle accident. After the accident Bo
Simonsen left the band but the rest of the band decided to continue and
honour the memory of HH by releasing their first demotape. It was
entitled Crucifix and vocal duties were handled by Morten Agerbo and
Tommy did the bass lines. From here on the band played a lot of gigs
and it seamed like everything was going in their direction.

In
November 1997 Morten Flindt, an old friend of Tommys, was asked to join
the band. At the same time long-time friend Morten Agerbo was asked to
leave due to his lack of commitment. He had joined the military and the
rest of the band felt he didn’t make an effort to combine the two.

In
the months to follow Crucifix played a lot of gigs around Denmark and
everything seemed fine. The music was great and people were enjoying
playing live but Rene never really fit in. The band couldn’t cope with
him and in the summer 1998 he was kicked out. He later went on to join
a band called Evil Pigs. Morten Agerbo, who in the mean time had
finished his military duties, rejoined Crucifix and things began to
happen.

Studiotime
was booked and in January 1999 the much acclaimed demo, Extermination,
was released. It was a 4 track album recorded at the Aabenraa studio by
Jacob Hansen of Invocator. One of the tracks featured on that album,
Into the Unknown, was later released on a compilation called Extremity
Rising Vol. 4. Due to some internal misunderstandings however, the demo
was only sent to record labels in Denmark and at that time there
weren’t that many labels around. Months followed, again with several
gigs but none of the labels seemed interested in the band and
frustration began among the members. Finally Crucifix decided to take a
break. The first break ever in 6 years.

During
the spring of 2001 Diehard records had got around to hear Crucifix and
offered them a contract. The only problem was the band hadn’t played
together for almost 2 years and obviously they were out of shape. The
record label therefore wanted to hear some new material. Sadly enough,
a lot of things had happened to some of the members during the break
and after only a few weeks of playing together again, Tommy, Jesper and
Morten Agerbo left the band and decided to call it quits.

Lars
and Morten Flindt were determent however not to let this change slip
away. They found guitarist Jeppe Larsen and he joined the band along
with Kristian Ohmer, from Evil Pigs, on bass. Vocal wise there were
still problems finding a decent front man and after only a few
rehearsals, Kristian Ohmer left the band. Finally Crucifix hooked up
with Jens “Killhailer” of Victimizer. He was just what the band had
been looking for in a front figure. The same couldn’t be said about
Jeppe. He skipped rehearsals and when he on rare occasions decided to
show up, he was stoned out and hanging off the wall. It didn’t take
long for the band to kick him out.

The
new material however, didn’t fit into what Diehard Records thought of
as Extreme and Brutal Death Metal so they dropped further contract
negotiations after staling them for several months.

In
late autumn 2003, Måns and Martin joined the band but only for a few
months. Jens had moved away to concentrate on Victimizer and Lars
couldn’t find the motivation to keep playing in Crucifix. He decided to
put his energy in a band he had joined a few years back called Lunar
Caustic. Later on Morten Flindt also joined them.

It
would seem that faith was sealed but in December 2004, Lars and Morten
decided to give it a go and reformed Crucifix. This time around with
frontman Soeren Kusk. Nevertheless he wasn’t the sort of singer they
wanted and he was therefore asked to leave in February 2005. They
called upon former singer Jens Killhailer to help them out.

In 2007, Crucifix is preparing their first real full-length album "Threnody Of The Crucifix" on Aural Offerings Records