UNDER THREAT

UNDER THREAT is a melodic death metal band hailing from Colombia South America. The band was formed in 1997 by Nicolas Bermudez,(guitars),David Bermudez (bass) Alejandro Rojas (drums) and John Perez (vocals), originally under the name of "Skulptor". In the middle of 1999, and after several conceptual changes, the name SKULPTOR was changed to UNDER THREAT.
The band entered studio to record their first release on CD format. The album HIPOSTASIS was released at the end of '99 on Transilvania Music, an independent Colombian record label,this first release was extremely well received in the Colombian and South American metal scene. Upon the release, of Hipostasis, (now late guitarist and friend) Carlos Venegas joined UNDER THREAT and the band played numerous shows around Colombia gaining a great following from the people there
On 2001 the band moved to the US except for Carlos who decided to stay in Colombia for personal reasons.On december of the same year Under Threat entered Studio One in Racine, Wisconsin and recorded "Behind Mankind's Disguise", their first album under an American label (conquest music), it was then mastered at Mastermind in Milwaukee, WI. The album was released in march 2003, Erick Leider from Wisconsin joined as second guitarist then. Back then,the band participated in several compilations along side the likes of Satyricon, Angel Corpse, Impaled Nazarene Exhumed and Jag Panzer and played shows with bands such as Destruction, Divine Empire, Fleshgrind, Anal Blast, Kataklysm, Suffocation, Strapping young lad among others. During 2002 Under threat toured with Monstrosity, Dark Faith and Blood Stained Dusk and played at the 2002 Milwaukee Metal fest and then on 2003 again, on this year the band also participated in Las vegas metal fest.
On early 2004 the band decided to part ways with Erick and during summer of the same year entered Studio One again in racine to record their 3rd album entitled "deathmosphere", 10 new songs, including the first ever total acoustic instrumental track "third world blood".On october of the same year UNDER THREAT headlined their gigantic hometown's annual festival "Rock al parque" again with guitarist Carlos Venegas on second guitar, which will turn out to be his last performance with the band.a video track from this gig was recorded to be included as an enhanced element for "deathmosphere".
On 2005 Jake Sommer from Milwaukee joined on second guitar,followed by a series of gigs and festivals throughout the North american midwest prior to the release of the new album.
On january 2006,after struggling for more than a year to find the way to release it ,Barbarian records from Madison WI finally released "deathmosphere" in the U.S, and Hateworks records from Colombia did for South america and Europe on august of the same year, followed by a series of gigs again around the midwest area to promote the new album and also,during november of that year the band performed the last two Under Threat concerts in Colombia (Cali and Bogota) to the date.
In early 2007 the band decided to take a break and follow different projects and oportunitties in different parts of the world.
Since then, Alejandro,John and Jake have been working separetly in different bands in Colombia and the US (Leishmaniasis, Soulburner,La nariz del diablo,Karneia, Psychotic Humanoid) except for Fallen Divinity in which John and Jake played together for some time, while David and Nicolas relocated to the United Kingdom to work on The Blaze Bayley band with former ex iron maiden singer Bayley Cooke until march of 2011.
The band is currently starting to work on material left unfinished back on 2006 as well as on new songs for a new long awaited album to see the light on 2012; in the meantime,a re edtiion of both albums "deathmosphere" and "behind mankind's disguise" in one sleeve box will be re-release at some point in 2011 through hateworks (www.hateworks.net)