Leng Tch'e
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Leng Tch'e is a grindcore
band based in Belgium
. The band describes their style as "razorgrind", a combination of grindcore with death metal
, stoner rock
and metalcore
.
The band's name is derived from "lingchi", a method of torture
and execution originating from Imperial China which is also known as the "Death by a Thousand Cuts". Death by a Thousand Cuts
is also the name of one of the band's albums.
frontman Gurgloroth 'Svencho' Sven De Caluwé. The band began life under the billing of Anal Torture, forged by Sven and Dark Ages guitarist Glen along with vocalist Isaac and bass player Kevin in early 2002. Leng Tch'e signed to the Italian Spew label for the opening 2002 album Death by a Thousand Cuts
. After that album, the band released a split 7" single with Black Ops.
The band would employ Israeli guitarist Nir 'The Goat' Doliner of Lehavoth, even undertaking gigs in Israel opening for Amon Amarth
. Unable to secure a bassist Nicolas would switch from guitar to cover this role. Eventually the distance factor for Doliner prevented a full time role. In early 2004 therefore the band inducted Geert as second guitarist. The band enrolled former Pyaemia bassist Frank Rizzo as guitarist in late 2003. Meantime, Isaac fired up a Noise side project billed as Permanent Death whilst vocalist Sven De Caluwé would front In-Quest
for an album.
The band's second album, ManMadePredator
, would be scheduled for May 2004 release. Leng Tch'e proposed split releases in 2004 with Fuck...I'm Dead
for No Escape Records and a split 7" single with Gronibard on Bones Brigade Records. Guitarist Rizzo decamped in August, being replaced in November by Jan of Spleen. In early 2005 the band inducted Boris of Suppository as new frontman, debuting this revised line-up at the 30th April 'Face Your Underground' festival in Antwerp.
Leng Tch'e contracted to Relapse Records in March, scheduling a summer release date for new album The Process of Elimination
. The band played May US East Coast dates along with Impaled
, Malignancy and Aborted
. The band partnered with Fuck the Facts
plus Gorgasm and Beneath the Massacre
for a Canadian tour in 2006.
On March 9, 2007, a new album, Marasmus
, was released on Relapse Records
. Some commentators noted that the album was closer to the deathcore
sound.
On May 16, 2008, The band announced that Boris had decided to quit the band.
, Hemdale, Nasum
and Blood Duster
as formative influences for the group. Jan Hallaert has also cited Hateplow, Bury Your Dead
, Burnt by the Sun
, Yob
, The Sword
, Converge
, Neurosis
, Mastodon
, Aborted
, Ringworm
, Morbid Angel
, Hatebreed
, Torche
, Suffocation
, Fu Manchu
, and Cephalic Carnage
.
Grindcore
Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....
band based in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
. The band describes their style as "razorgrind", a combination of grindcore with 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....
, stoner rock
Stoner rock
Stoner rock or stoner metal is a subgenre of heavy metal, combining elements of psychedelic rock, blues rock, traditional heavy metal and doom metal. Stoner rock is typically slow-to-mid tempo and features a bass-heavy sound, melodic vocals, and 'retro' production...
and metalcore
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
.
The band's name is derived from "lingchi", a method of torture
Torture
Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...
and execution originating from Imperial China which is also known as the "Death by a Thousand Cuts". Death by a Thousand Cuts
Death by a Thousand Cuts (album)
Death By a Thousand Cuts is the full length debut album from Leng Tch'e. As a result of legal problems, the fifth song 'FUCK Eddy De Dapper' was changed to 'FUCK Censorship' on the 2nd edition onwards.-Track listing:# - 1:01# - 1:23#Hypocriscene - 1:56...
is also the name of one of the band's albums.
Biography
Leng Tch'e drummer Sven is AbortedAborted
Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...
frontman Gurgloroth 'Svencho' Sven De Caluwé. The band began life under the billing of Anal Torture, forged by Sven and Dark Ages guitarist Glen along with vocalist Isaac and bass player Kevin in early 2002. Leng Tch'e signed to the Italian Spew label for the opening 2002 album Death by a Thousand Cuts
Death by a Thousand Cuts (album)
Death By a Thousand Cuts is the full length debut album from Leng Tch'e. As a result of legal problems, the fifth song 'FUCK Eddy De Dapper' was changed to 'FUCK Censorship' on the 2nd edition onwards.-Track listing:# - 1:01# - 1:23#Hypocriscene - 1:56...
. After that album, the band released a split 7" single with Black Ops.
The band would employ Israeli guitarist Nir 'The Goat' Doliner of Lehavoth, even undertaking gigs in Israel opening for Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth is a Swedish viking metal band from Tumba, Sweden founded in 1992, and takes its name from the Sindarin translation of Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The band comprises vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg, bassist Ted Lundström...
. Unable to secure a bassist Nicolas would switch from guitar to cover this role. Eventually the distance factor for Doliner prevented a full time role. In early 2004 therefore the band inducted Geert as second guitarist. The band enrolled former Pyaemia bassist Frank Rizzo as guitarist in late 2003. Meantime, Isaac fired up a Noise side project billed as Permanent Death whilst vocalist Sven De Caluwé would front In-Quest
In-quest
In-Quest is a technical death metal band from Belgium. Formerly signed with Good Life Recordings, they are currently unsigned. The band have been active underground since the Early 90s, with Sven de Caluwe as a singer from 2002 to 2004, when he left to focus on Aborted; he was replaced by Swedish...
for an album.
The band's second album, ManMadePredator
ManMadePredator
-Track listing:#The Meaning of Life - 00:54#Public Enema n°1 - 01:02#Too Stupid to Live - 01:41#5 Minutes of Fame - 01:47#You Fat Prick - 01:14# - 01:31#Time is Against Me - 01:31#The Happy Retard - 01:09# - 01:00#Sleazebag - 02:48...
, would be scheduled for May 2004 release. Leng Tch'e proposed split releases in 2004 with Fuck...I'm Dead
Fuck...I'm Dead
Fuck...I'm Dead is a grindcore band from Melbourne, Australia.Fuck...I'm Dead started in May 2000, with Tom Raetz on bass, Dave Hill on guitar and drum programming and Jay Jones on vocals...
for No Escape Records and a split 7" single with Gronibard on Bones Brigade Records. Guitarist Rizzo decamped in August, being replaced in November by Jan of Spleen. In early 2005 the band inducted Boris of Suppository as new frontman, debuting this revised line-up at the 30th April 'Face Your Underground' festival in Antwerp.
Leng Tch'e contracted to Relapse Records in March, scheduling a summer release date for new album The Process of Elimination
The Process of Elimination
The Process of Elimination is Leng Tch'e's third full-length album and their first on Relapse Records. A video was made for Derisive Conscience.-Track listing:#The Fist Of The Leng Tch'e - 01:50#Don't Touch My Spandex - 01:22#Overkill Bill - 0:51...
. The band played May US East Coast dates along with Impaled
Impaled (band)
Impaled is a death metal/goregrind band from Oakland, California.-History:The band's name is an acronym, standing for: Impaled - Immoral Medical Practitioners And Licentious Evil-Doers...
, Malignancy and Aborted
Aborted
Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...
. The band partnered with Fuck the Facts
Fuck the Facts
Fuck the Facts is a Canadian grindcore band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 1998. They began in the late nineties as a solo recording project constructed by musician Topon Das. After many early recordings, including split tapes with groups from around the world, Fuck the Facts began developing a...
plus Gorgasm and Beneath the Massacre
Beneath the Massacre
Beneath the Massacre is a Canadian death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Their debut album, Evidence of Inequity, was released in 2005, under Galy Records. In early 2006, the band signed with Prosthetic Records and has since released their first full-length album, Mechanics of...
for a Canadian tour in 2006.
On March 9, 2007, a new album, Marasmus
Marasmus (album)
Marasmus is Leng Tch'e's fourth full length album and their second on Relapse Records. A video was made for the song .-Track listing:*All Songs Written By Sven...
, was released on Relapse Records
Relapse Records
Relapse Records is an independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990.-History:The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August, 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado...
. Some commentators noted that the album was closer to the deathcore
Deathcore
Deathcore is an extreme metal music genre that combines elements of death metal with elements of metalcore or hardcore punk, or both. It is defined by an "excessive" use of death metal riffs, blast beats and use of hardcore punk breakdowns...
sound.
On May 16, 2008, The band announced that Boris had decided to quit the band.
Influences
The band's Myspace page credits RegurgitateRegurgitate (band)
Regurgitate is a goregrind band from Sweden.In 2001, Bizarre Leprous Productions released a 46-band tribute to Regurgitate entitled Comeback of Goregods: Tribute to Regurgitate, with bands such as Inhume, Lymphatic Phlegm, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Haemorrhage, and Neuro-Visceral Exhumation taking...
, Hemdale, Nasum
Nasum
Nasum was a political Swedish band that played a mixture of grindcore and death metal. The band's name, meaning 'nose', was taken from the horror film Flesh for Frankenstein.-Biography:...
and Blood Duster
Blood Duster
Blood Duster is a extreme metal/stoner rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their name comes from the song "Blood Duster" by John Zorn, from the 1989 album Naked City.-History:...
as formative influences for the group. Jan Hallaert has also cited Hateplow, Bury Your Dead
Bury Your Dead
Bury Your Dead is an American metalcore band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, formed in 2001. To date they have had eight releases; one EP: Bury Your Dead, one live DVD: Alive, and six studio albums: You Had Me at Hello, Cover Your Tracks, Beauty and the Breakdown, Bury Your Dead, It's...
, Burnt by the Sun
Burnt by the Sun (band)
Burnt by the Sun was a band from New Jersey, USA. Formed in November 1999 by ex-Human Remains drummer Dave Witte and guitarist John Adubato. ex-For the Love of... Vocalist Mike Olender and bassist Ted Patterson joined soon after. A split EP with The Luddite Clone on Ferret Records brought them to...
, Yob
Yob (band)
Yob is a doom metal band from Eugene, Oregon composed of Aaron Reiseberg, Travis Foster, and Mike Scheidt.Yob was founded by vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt in 1996. The original incarnation of Yob featured Scheidt alongside bassist Lowell Iles and drummer Greg Ocon...
, The Sword
The Sword
The Sword is an American heavy metal band that formed in Austin, Texas, in 2003. Since its inception the band has comprised vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt and bassist Bryan Richie, and currently includes touring drummer Jimmy Vela following Trivett Wingo's departure in...
, Converge
Converge (band)
Converge is an American band from Salem, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the elements of the metalcore genre.-Description:...
, Neurosis
Neurosis (band)
Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
, Mastodon
Mastodon (band)
Mastodon is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1999. The band is composed of bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders, guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds, guitarist Bill Kelliher and drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor...
, Aborted
Aborted
Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...
, Ringworm
Ringworm (band)
Ringworm is a hardcore punk. band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1991. The name "Ringworm" was derived from a Vincent Price movie. The band has toured extensively in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe and has released their last three albums on Victory Records...
, Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked one Morbid Angel album in its “Top 40 greatest death metal albums”, with their 1989 debut Altars of Madness appearing at number 1...
, Hatebreed
Hatebreed
- History :Hatebreed was formed in 1994 in Bridgeport, Waterbury and New Haven. They began by recording a three song demo and selling it to locals. Those three songs would eventually be released on a split seven inch with New York's Neglect in 1995...
, Torche
Torche
Torche is a band from Miami, Florida, whose sound is often described as stoner metal, or sludge metal.-Biography:The group was formed in 2004 by Steve Brooks , Juan Montoya , Jonathan Nuñez and Rick Smith Torche is a band from Miami, Florida, whose sound is often described as stoner metal, or...
, Suffocation
Suffocation (band)
Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1989 in Long Island, New York. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Guy Marchais, drummer Mike Smith and bassist Derek Boyer. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for...
, Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu (band)
Fu Manchu is a Southern Californian stoner rock band, who released their debut single "Kept Between Trees" in 1990. They have been featured on compilations put together by Tony Hawk and ESPN's X Games, and invited to perform on the US television program Monster Garage...
, and Cephalic Carnage
Cephalic Carnage
Cephalic Carnage is an American grindcore band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The band comprises vocalist Lenzig Leal, guitarists Steve Goldberg and Brian Hopp, drummer John Merryman and bassist Nick Schendzielos...
.
Current members
- Serge Kasongo – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
(since 2008) - Jan Hallaert – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
(since 2002) - Nicolas Malfeyt – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(since 2005) - Oliver Coppens – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(since 2011)
Former members
- Kevin – bass (2001–2002)
- Glen Herman – guitar (2001–2003)
- Isaac Roelaert – vocals (2001–2005)
- Sven de Caluwé (aka "Svencho") – drums (2001–2007)
- Nir Doliner – guitar (2003)
- Frank "Rizzo" Stijnen – guitar (2003–2004)
- Geert Devenster – guitar (2004–2007)
- Peter Goemaere – guitar (2007)
- Boris Cornelissen – vocals (2005–2008)
- Tony Van den Eynde – drums (2007-2011)
Discography
- RazorgrindRazorgrind-Black Ops:#Black Day in Paradise #Pride Forever Gone #Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body #Silently Corrupt #Shell of a Man -Leng Tch'e: #Delusions of Grandeur #Overflow #Necro-Dildo 69 #More Evil Than You Can Handle...
(Split 7" EP with Black Ops) (2002) - Death by a Thousand CutsDeath by a Thousand Cuts (album)Death By a Thousand Cuts is the full length debut album from Leng Tch'e. As a result of legal problems, the fifth song 'FUCK Eddy De Dapper' was changed to 'FUCK Censorship' on the 2nd edition onwards.-Track listing:# - 1:01# - 1:23#Hypocriscene - 1:56...
(2002) - ManMadePredatorManMadePredator-Track listing:#The Meaning of Life - 00:54#Public Enema n°1 - 01:02#Too Stupid to Live - 01:41#5 Minutes of Fame - 01:47#You Fat Prick - 01:14# - 01:31#Time is Against Me - 01:31#The Happy Retard - 01:09# - 01:00#Sleazebag - 02:48...
(2003) - The Process of EliminationThe Process of EliminationThe Process of Elimination is Leng Tch'e's third full-length album and their first on Relapse Records. A video was made for Derisive Conscience.-Track listing:#The Fist Of The Leng Tch'e - 01:50#Don't Touch My Spandex - 01:22#Overkill Bill - 0:51...
(2005) - Amusical Propaganda for Sociological WarfareAmusical Propaganda for Sociological WarfareAmusical Propaganda for Sociological Warfare is a split between the bands Leng Tch'e and French grindcore band Warscars.-Leng Tch'e:# #Pattern #Sole of Mistrust #The Divine Collapse # #Convenient Subverting #As Tolerance Subdued...
(Split 7" EP with Warscars) (2006) - MarasmusMarasmus (album)Marasmus is Leng Tch'e's fourth full length album and their second on Relapse Records. A video was made for the song .-Track listing:*All Songs Written By Sven...
(2007) - Split w/ Fuck the FactsFuck the FactsFuck the Facts is a Canadian grindcore band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 1998. They began in the late nineties as a solo recording project constructed by musician Topon Das. After many early recordings, including split tapes with groups from around the world, Fuck the Facts began developing a...
(2008) - Hypomanic (2010)