Suffocate Bastard

BIOGRAPHY
The history of the band so far.
The birth of SUFFOCATE BASTARD reaches back to the year 2000. Stefan started back then to look out for a Death/Black Metal Band. He found a female guitar player and a drummer. They moved their rehearsing room to Herten/GER. After Stefan placed an ad at Idiots Records Music Store in Dortmund/GER Patrick and David answered the ad and thus joined the band; Patrick on guitars and David on bass. As the drummer left due to personal reasons Patrick switched to playing drums and David to guitars. As Patrick played a more brutal style of drumming and David more diverse on guitar the music changed towards more aggressive and extreme Metal. After the female guitar player left, Patrick switched back to guitars when Mike Brown joined in on Drums. Because this new drummer was a really unreliable guy the band was forced again to switch positions. This was the time when the band decided to record their self-titled first Demo-Tape on 6 analogue tracks with Tim Donart (HYSTERIA). Thorsten Zank then joined in on bass. After that a second singer joined for a short term, additionally a new drummer (Sascha Fichtner) joined and each left quickly again, due to the fact that the music evolved more and more extreme and these guys could not keep up with the pace. Unfortunately this was the time when the band intended to record their second Demo-Tape. Luckily Meik Bartnick of the band PARANOIZ stepped in to fill in the vacant place on drums. Again somebody had to leave because of his unreliability, this was the bass player and again the band was incomplete. Despite that SUFFOCATE BASTARD recorded their second Demo in the neighbouring rehearsal room with the support of HYSTERIA and some friends. This Demo-CD is entitled "Architects Of Perversity" (see Discography-Section on http://www.suffocate-bastard.de for details and music download). Because the drumming still was not extreme enough and he had another band anyway, Meik Bartnick left. After that, Karsten Boehnke (Ex-ETERNAL DIRGE, MUSTY GUTS) and Thorsten Bertram (Ex-PROVOCATION, CASTIGATE) joined in on bass and drums and that has been the beginning of the current era of SUFFOCATE BASTARD, as quite long experience met youthful eagerness. It seems as if the band with the new members are THE line-up who have searched and eventually found each other.
After learning and rehearsing the old demo songs, we rapidly wrote new ones and everytime we played we were really amazed how great that synergetic effect among us has been and still is.
Definitely all the songs now were significantly faster, and much more brutal and extreme.
After eagerly rehearsing to be finally able to perform live on stage in 2005, we did some awesome gigs with bands like DESPONDENCY, BEHEADED, HOUR OF PENANCE, DISAVOWED, DEEDS OF FLESH, SUFFOCATION and many more in Germany, Austria and Switzerland .
We found a perfect brutal underground partner with Revenge Productions and recorded our debut full length album "Acts of contemporary violence" in the Soundlodge studios in Rhauderfehn/GER in December 2006 which has been released on April, 18, 2007.
Simultaneously the "Architects Of Perversity" Demo has been re-released in a 3-way Split CD with DIVARICATE (US) and VISCERAL CARANGE (MEX) in a co-operation of Death Corporation Records and Necrotorture Agency/Nekromantik Records of Italy.
Shortly after the release of the album SUFFOCATE BASTARD amicably split ways with singer Stefan. For the already scheduled appearance on the Neurotic Deathfest in the Netherlands, luckily Konni of German brutal death masters DESPONDENCY filled this spot.
Eventually, the band then found a new capable singer with Brice Blanchard, formerly in recently spilt-up DEAD MEMBERS.
After intensely rehearsing the setlist with Brice we returned to the stage as soon as possible and had some decent gigs in the Netherlands, Belgium and the home of brutal Death Metal in Wermelskirchen.
In August, 2008 we embarked on the "Gutting Europe V" Tour supporting Greece's INVERACITY and BEHEADED from Malta in Clubs and on Festivals throughout Europe including the UK and the Brutal Assault Festival in Czech Republic.
Strengthened by this tough but great experience we are currently in heavy writing mode for our sophomore album.
In May 2009 Drummer Thorsten Bertram left the Band and could be swiftly replaced by young talent Tim SchlichtingAt the end of 2009 founding member Patrick Czerny quit after nearly 10 years.
Surprisingly quick Othon Kokkinos could join the band as second guitar player.Suffocate Bastard is now able and busy with a rejuvenated and full line-up to carry on with writing the remaining songs for the next full length recording.