God Dethroned

“The Toxic Touch is the product of two years of extensive and intense touring all over the world. The new line-up has proved to be superior to all the previous ones. You could see it as a learning process. While everybody knows us as a band with a fine mix between the brutal and the melodic parts, people appreciate us mostly for our groove and melody, especially live. The new album reflects that more than ever before.

The number of blast-beats on this album has been decreased to a minimum. Why? Simply because in a live situation it’s probably the most boring part. In the new situation the blast-beat adds something special, the explosion, whereas in the past it was just a common part of our style and therefore ‘nothing special’...

The fact that our two ‘new’ guys had a lot of time to adapt their style of playing to the band resulted in an album which shows a lot of devotion and intense playing like we were waiting for the fury to be unleashed! And it was...

We decided to choose a relatively unknown studio and producer this time. Jörg Uken’s Soundlodge Studio was the chosen one. We heard some of the demos and CD’s he produced and in how much time that was done. We felt he would be able to do a killer job when given a proper amount of time. He did the best mixing job we could have wished for. Never before did a God Dethroned album sound this good.

Isaac managed to improve his leads a lot compared to our previous album, we gave Henk his distortion back on the bass, Henri came up with his catchiest lyrics ever, but Ariën totally went over the top on his drum kit. When you play with a drummer on his level, the world needs to hear it. Whoever didn’t recognise his skills before cannot escape it this time...

The Toxic Touch has become an album with new and broader influences, techniques and songwriting, but sounds exactly the way God Dethroned should sound anno 2006. This time with our best and heaviest production to date.”
(Henri Sattler)

GOD DETHRONED was formed by main man Henri Sattler in 1990. After one demo they released their debut album “The Christhunt” in 1992 on a tiny German label. Due to problems with the other band members and the record company, Henri decided to split the band. He then formed Ministry Of Terror, a Thrash Metal band, and released the “Fall of Life” album with them in 1994. After a European tour Henri left the band and re-formed GOD DETHRONED. With new band members and better songs in his back, Henri and the new GOD DETHRONED recorded “The Grand Grimoire” and inked a deal with Metal Blade. Many successful tours followed in Europe, the U.S. and Japan with great Death and Black Metal acts like Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Immortal, and Marduk, just to name a few.

In the meantime most of the renowned festivals were played: Dynamo Open Air, Wacken, Graspop and Summer Breeze. However, not everything went smooth. Drummer Roel Sanders left the band after the US tour promoting “Bloody Blasphemy”. Nile’s Tony Laureano played on the “Ravenous” album, but couldn’t stay for obvious reasons. Janne from The Crown played on the tour and finally new drummer Ariën van Weesenbeek came in, whose first recording experience with the band was “Into the Lungs of Hell”. This album was received very well by the press around the globe and again the band toured around Europe and played more festivals like Party San and Summer Breeze.

The time following the release of “Into the Lungs of Hell” was one of the most difficult periods in the band’s history. The band had been together so long that the individual band members had developed new views on life and the band. Somehow the challenge was gone. At a certain point Beef and Jens decided to leave. The remaining band members Henri and Arien wrote a new album, “The Lair of the White Worm”, based on a novel by Bram Stoker. New band members Isaac Delahaye and Henk Zinger joined the band right before the recordings. After the release the band played numerous shows and festivals like the Summer Breeze and With Full Force, headlining tours in Europe and the U.S. as well as support slots for bands such as The Haunted and Bolt Thrower.

In between tours the band worked on a new album and went straight into the studio after the European tour with Bolt Thrower. Two months later “The Toxic Touch” was a fact. After the release of the album the band will start an extensive touring program again. Not only in Europe and the U.S. but also South America is on the list this time. Be prepared, because the infection is about to begin!!!

The Toxic Touch will be released by Metal Blade Records on October 31st, 2006 in the US


Discography:
· The Christhunt (1992, re-released in 1998 on Cold Blood Industries)
· The Grand Grimoire (1997, Metal Blade)
· Bloody Blasphemy (1999, Metal Blade)
· Ancient Ones (2000, Cold Blood Industries) ***collection of demo songs and live tracks***
· Ravenous (2001, Metal Blade)
· Into the Lungs of Hell (2003, Metal Blade)
· The Lair of the White Worm (2004, Metal Blade)
· The Toxic Touch (2006, Metal Blade)