Disbelief is a metal

Heavy metal music

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 band from Hesse

Hesse

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, Germany

Germany

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. Their music is rooted in death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

, but has melancholic tendencies.

Biography

The band was formed in 1990, but did not become one solid line-up for several years. They began with Karsten Jäger, Oliver Lenz, and drummer Markus Gnap, with guitarist/bassist Denis Musiol joining later. They released their first demo the following year. After two more demo tapes, five years, and the replacement of Gnap and Musiol with Tommy Fritsch, Jochen Trunk, and Kai Bergerin, they released their self-titled album in 1997. Their second album, Infected, was released in 1998. A year later, they replaced Fritsch with Jan-Dirk Löffler and received a new recording contract from Massacre Records

Massacre Records

Massacre Records is an independent record label based in Abstatt, Germany.The label was founded in 1991 by Torsten Hartmann. The label is specialized on bands of the harder varieties of metal...

. After a few more albums, they became signed to Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...

, which distributed their 2004 record Spreading the Rage to North America and helped them to gain a wider fanbase. After reinstating Fritsch into the band, they released 66Sick

66Sick

-Bonus tracks:The first-edition release came with a slipcover and four bonus tracks, all of which are covers....

 in 2005, also in America. Lenz left the band in late 2006 and was replaced by Jonas Khalil; however, the band's seventh album, Navigator, was still released in late February 2007.
In 2009 Karsten Jäger was a guest musician on Graveworm's Diabolical Figures.

Discography

• Disbelief (1997, Grind Syndicate Media)
• Infected (1998, Grind Syndicate Media)
• Worst Enemy (2001, Massacre Records, licensed from GSM)
• Shine (2002, Massacre Records, licensed from GSM)
• Spreading the Rage (2003, Massacre Records, licensed from GSM)
• 66Sick
  66Sick
  -Bonus tracks:The first-edition release came with a slipcover and four bonus tracks, all of which are covers....
  
  (2003, Nuclear Blast)
• Navigator (2007, Massacre Records)
• Protected Hell (2009, Massacre Records)
• Heal (2010, Massacre Records)

Current members

• Karsten Jäger – vocals
• Jochen Trunk – bass guitar
• Cornelius Althammer – drums
• Alexander Hagenauer – guitar
• Wolfgang Rothbauer – guitar

Previous members

• Markus Knap – drums
• Denis Musiol – guitar/bass guitar
• Jan-Dirk Löffler – guitar
• Tommy Fritsch – guitar
• Olly Lenz – guitar