Polluted Inheritance is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 technical death metal

Technical death metal

Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...

 band formed in 1989 from the remnants of Sacrement (Van Wijck and De Fouw) and Pollution (Camonier and Wesdorp). They were quickly joined by singer Jean-Paul Hoorman. A 1991 demo, Afterlife, led to a deal with West Virginia Records. Nevertheless, Hoorman leaves the band and Camonier sings from then on. The album Ecocide

Ecocide (album)

Ecocide is the debut album by the Dutch technical death metal band Polluted Inheritance. The album was released in 1993 on Andy Classen's label West Virginia Records.-Track listing:# "Faces" # "Dissolved" # "Eaten"...

was recorded and released in 1993. Unfortunately the label went bankrupt and Polluted Inheritance was left without a record company.

They recorded another demo, simply titled Demo 94, to draw the attention of record labels, and became 'Demo of the Month,' courtesy of Dutch metal magazine Aardschok. DSFA

DSFA Records

DSFA Records was a Dutch record label, and "Doesn't Stand For Anything". Known bands for the label are Within Temptation, Trail Of Tears and The Gauntlet. The label has been defunct for several years....

 signed the band and they recorded their second album, Betrayed

Betrayed (Polluted Inheritance album)

Betrayed is the second album by the Dutch death metal band Polluted Inheritance. The album was released in 1996 on DSFA Records.-Track listing:# "Intro" – 1:26# "Forgotten Cause" – 3:43# "Mental Connection" – 4:11# "Elimination" – 5:32...

, which is released in 1996. It is followed by a tour with Orphanage

Orphanage (band)

- History :The band formed in 1993 and released their first demos Morph and Druid . Orphanage then recorded their first full album Oblivion and one year later released their second album, By Time Alone. Then released 1997 the band the EP At The Mountains Of Madness and worked three years on the...

. DSFA is, however, not happy, "their music is too 'complex and not saleable,'" and decides to drop the band, as the band put it on their MySpace blog.

Disappointment leads to a period of very little activity. The band gets signed again, this time by the small Belgian label RokaRola. Continuing their complex and technical approach, the band records a third album, Into Darkness, which is released the same year. After the recordings, de Fouw leaves the band. He is replaced by Vrieswijk.In 2008, Polluted Inheritance breaks up.

Discography

• Afterlife (Demo, 1991)
• Ecocide
  Ecocide (album)
  Ecocide is the debut album by the Dutch technical death metal band Polluted Inheritance. The album was released in 1993 on Andy Classen's label West Virginia Records.-Track listing:# "Faces" # "Dissolved" # "Eaten"...
  
  (Album, West Virginia, 1993)
• Demo 94 (Demom 1994)
• Betrayed
  Betrayed (Polluted Inheritance album)
  Betrayed is the second album by the Dutch death metal band Polluted Inheritance. The album was released in 1996 on DSFA Records.-Track listing:# "Intro" – 1:26# "Forgotten Cause" – 3:43# "Mental Connection" – 4:11# "Elimination" – 5:32...
  
  (Album, DSFA, 1996)
• Promo '98 (Promo CD, 1998)
• Into Darkness (Album, RokaRola, 2001)

Final line-up

• Friso Van Wijck - drums
• Erwin Wesdorp - guitar
• Ronald Camonier - guitar, vocals
• Steven Vrieswijk - bass