Callenish Circle was a melodic death metal

Melodic death metal

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 band from the Netherlands

Netherlands

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. They recorded three of their albums for Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

, and broke up in February 2007. In the early 2000s things were going well for the band. In 2002 they toured with God Dethroned

God Dethroned

-Biography:God Dethroned was formed in 1991 by singer and guitar player Henri Sattler, with Hans Leegstra and Ard de Weerd. Sattler and Leegstra had previously been in Dysentery; Leegstra, quickly after the band formed, left the music scene altogether. They recorded a demo, Christ Hunt, in 1991,...

, played at the Dutch version of Ozzfest and the German Party San Open Air, and opened for Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir

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. Their fourth album was released by Metal Blade in 2003; to support it they played that year's Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air

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 and Summer Breeze festivals in Germany, and in October they were part of the Bonded By Metal Over Europe-tour, headlined by Exodus

Exodus (band)

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, Nuclear Assault

Nuclear Assault

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, and Agent Steel

Agent Steel

Agent Steel is an American speed metal band from Los Angeles, California that was formed in 1984 by singer John Cyriis ,and drummer Chuck Profus. The band released two full length albums, and one EP before disbanding in 1988...

. In 2006 they toured Mexico (cited by the band as the high point of their career), before fatigue and disinterest caused the band to break up.

A part of their song is used as an outro in the online program Angry Joe Show. The song used is "Suffer my Disbelief" and is found on the Flesh Power Dominion album.

Discography

• Lovelorn (Demo, 1995)
• Drift of Empathy (Album, Hammerheart, 1996)
• Escape (EP, Polar Bear, 1998)
• Graceful... Yet Forbidding (Album, DSFA (Benelux)/Edgerunner, 1999/2001)
• Flesh Power Dominion
  Flesh Power Dominion
  Flesh Power Dominion is the third studio album by Callenish Circle. It was released in 2002 along with a digipak edition that contained two bonus tracks...
  
  (Album, Metal Blade, 2002)
• My Passion // Your Pain
  My Passion // Your Pain
  My Passion // Your Pain is the fourth studio album by the melodic death metal band Callenish Circle.-Track listing:# "Soul Messiah" − 3:54# "Dwelling in Disdain" − 4:10# "Forsaken" − 4:55# "What Could Have Been..." − 7:13...
  
  (Album, Metal Blade, 2003)
• Forbidden Empathy (2CD, 2005)
• [Pitch.Black.Effects
  Pitch.Black.Effects
  [Pitch.Black.Effects] is the fifth and final studio album by the melodic death metal band Callenish Circle.-Track listing:# "This Day You Regret" − 4:32# "Ignorant" − 4:20# "Behind Lines" − 3:36# "Schwarzes Licht" − 4:51# "Sweet Cyanide" − 4:31...
  
  ] (Album, Metal Blade, 2005/2006)

Final line-up

• Wim Vossen − bass
  Bass guitar
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• Remy Dieteren − guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Gavin Harte − drums
  Drum kit
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• Ronny Tyssen − guitar
• Patrick Savelkoul − vocals

Past members

• Jos Evers − guitar (1992–1998)
• Maurice Wagemans − bass (1992–1995)
• John Gorissen − bass (1995–1997)
• Roland Schuschke − bass (1997–2002)
• René Rokx − bass (2002–2005)

External links

• Callenish Circle official website
• Callenish Circle at MySpace
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