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History
begins back in ´92 with Lars and I playing in a band called Fear
Itself, together with three other guys. Most of the time we played
soccer indoor right next to our rehearsal room (it was more fun than
being serious and creating music, I guess), but we managed to pull
ourselves together, in between the chaos, to play heavy metal.
The music suffered a lot under the fact that we were newbies and
poor musicians..anyway, the idea was to play thrash metal in the
vein of Forbidden, Overkill, Metallica, Slayer, Sacred Reich and so
on… (We did our best - no doubt about that) and we all had the same
influences. Eventually we began working hard in the rehearsal room
and played a lot of gigs. We improved a lot in this period of time
along with our expectations on the future. The five of us created
three demo’s in three years. Nothing exciting really happened
regarding record deals and so on, although we struggled a lot to
achieve this. Instead we began parting ways because of the fact that
we began listening to different kinds of music. Some of us wanted
death metal others wanted the hardcore thing ... but not Lars and I.
We still wanted to play the good old Bay area thrash metal ... and
at the same time adding some of the German power metal. All this
emerged in the split up of Fear Itself, leaving Lars and I with no
band to continue... (Manticore) (text Kristian Larsen of Fear
Itself) | |
