Postmortem (band)
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- Not to be confused with the American thrash metal band Post Mortem.
Postmortem is a German
Germany
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death metal
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band from Berlin
Berlin
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.
Band history
Postmortem was founded in 1991. After numerous live appearances (including complete tours with CrematoryCrematory (band)
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and Atrocity
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) and two demos, the band signed its first record deal, with Husky Records, and recorded Screams Of Blackness, which sold out and was re-released in 1998. After that, they played live again with Crematory and at a few large festivals (Death Comes in Lithuania with Hypocrisy
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, Bands Battle with Rammstein
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, and many more). After the Totmacher EP, the band changed labels after some disagreements and moved to Morbid Records. The four releases were presented after a few tours, including a European tour with Morbid Angel
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, a Germany tour with Sodom
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) and almost every large festival (Wacken Open Air
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, With Full Force
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, Party San, Dynamo Open Air
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, Force Attack
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, Death Comes and many more. After the release of Storm Force the band separated from Morbid Records. In 1998 the band signed a license deal for the American market with Pavement Music. Join The Figh7club was released via Station 54/SimRec and was promoted live in 2004 on a European tour with Pro Pain and Carnal Forge
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. But despite a good response from the press and fans, the drummer and the second guitarist left the band in 2004. 2006 the band found with Max Scheffler a new drummer and in 2007 Postmortem toured with that new line-up the Giant-Tour with Ektomorf and Onslaught.
Im November 2008 Postmortem released with „Constant Hate“ their 4th studioalbum via „War-Anthem Records“ after 10 years without an official longplayer. „War-Anthem Records“ plans to release Postmortem's upcoming album "Seeds of Devastation" for November 2010.
Discography
- Secret Lunacy (Demo, 1991)
- Last Aid To Die (Demo, 1992)
- Screams Of Blackness (Album, Husky, 1994)
- Der Totmacher (Single/EP, Husky, 1996)
- The Age Of Massmurder (Album, Morbid, 1997)
- Repulsion (Album, Morbid, 1998)
- Storm Force (Single/EP, Pavement, 2000)
- Join The Figh7club (Single/EP, Pavement, 2003)
- Constant Hate (Album, War Anthem Records, 2008)
- Seeds of Devastation(Album, War Anthem Records, 2010)
Current members
- Marcus Marth (1991-)
- Matthias Rütz (1991-)
- Tilo Voigtländer (1991-)
- Max Scheffler (2006-)
Former members
- Ekkehard Wolff - bass (2001–2005)
- Marko Schröder - drums 2002-2005)
- Andreas Grant - drums (2000–2002)
- Dirk Olesch - bass (1993–1995)
- Marko Thäle - drums (1991–2000)
- Sven Gohdes - bass (1991–1993)