Cruentus
Encyclopedia
Cruentus is a Polish
Industrial Metal
band, with Djent
and Progressive Metal
influences, formed in Szczecin
, in 1999.
, Poland
by Jakub "KRN" Lasota (bass guitar
) and Tomasz "Archangel" Gabryel (guitar
). In 2000 the group was joined by Robert "Binar" Gregorczuk (synthesizer
, keyboards
), Michał "Misiek" Kucharski (drums), Szymon "Shi-mon" Toda (guitar
) and Roman "Romulus" Murzyński (vocals
). Also in this year the band has recorded the first demo "Manifestation of Conteporary Universal Dementia" which sounds like Doom Metal
/Gothic Metal
. In 2001 Dariusz "Sulphur" Borajkiewicz has replaced Romulus on vocals
. During the first five years of cooperation the band has recorded three demos and one LP - "Event Horizon" released by 22 Records in 2004. The style of the band could be described as Symphonic Black Metal
. "Event Horizon" received a lot of positive reviews.
-Beats
and a lot of synth-sounds. This very original release received many positive reviews, as was the case with "Event Horizon". They gained a considerable reputation in Industrial Music environment. In 2007 Marcin "Hyeev" Galicki has replaced Sulphur on vocals
.
. They changed the style again, to Industrial Metal
, like Fear Factory
, Strapping Young Lad
or early Mnemic
and polyrhythm
ic themes, like Meshuggah
, The Dillinger Escape Plan
. There are also many clean-vocal moments and Metalcore
influences. In 2009 Bartłomiej "Bart" Mieżyński has replaced MRTZ on drums and at the beginning of 2010 Michał "Alvaro" Waliszewski has replaced Shi-Mon on guitar
.
In August 2010 the band released "Terminal Code". It contains 11 tracks composed by Jakub "KRN" Lasota and Tomasz "Archangel" Gabryel. In lyrics there are many quotations of Stanisław Lem or William Gibson
. The lyrics in track "Love&Tensor Algebra" are an original fragment of Lem's Cyberiad. "Terminal Code" received a lot of very positive reviews in whole Europe.
In 2011 the band has announced the start of work on the next album, which will be in style of "Terminal Code", but there will be new influences, like dubstep
and Djent
.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
Industrial Metal
Industrial metal
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...
band, with Djent
Djent
Djent is a heavy metal music subgenre that emerged as a spin-off from progressive metal. Coined by the band Meshuggah, it was popularized through the internet by Periphery, specifically guitarist Misha Mansoor. The word "djent" is an onomatopoeia for a heavily palm-muted, distorted guitar chord...
and Progressive Metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
influences, formed in Szczecin
Szczecin
Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....
, in 1999.
Beginnings
The band was formed in 1999 in SzczecinSzczecin
Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
by Jakub "KRN" Lasota (bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
) and Tomasz "Archangel" Gabryel (guitar
Guitar
The 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...
). In 2000 the group was joined by Robert "Binar" Gregorczuk (synthesizer
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
, keyboards
Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
), Michał "Misiek" Kucharski (drums), Szymon "Shi-mon" Toda (guitar
Guitar
The 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...
) and Roman "Romulus" Murzyński (vocals
Singing
Singing 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...
). Also in this year the band has recorded the first demo "Manifestation of Conteporary Universal Dementia" which sounds like Doom Metal
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...
/Gothic Metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...
. In 2001 Dariusz "Sulphur" Borajkiewicz has replaced Romulus on vocals
Singing
Singing 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...
. During the first five years of cooperation the band has recorded three demos and one LP - "Event Horizon" released by 22 Records in 2004. The style of the band could be described as Symphonic Black Metal
Symphonic black metal
Symphonic black metal is a black metal subgenre that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The genre is known for its symphonic and orchestral elements and is centralized in Europe.-Characteristics:...
. "Event Horizon" received a lot of positive reviews.
2004-2007
The next release of the band was demo "Technological Symphony". The band had started to use electronics in their music. In 2006 Cruentus released "Audition of Your Modern Nitemare" EP which was a big future improvement in band's career. They started to make extremely modern music - on "Audition(...)" the Modern Metal sound was mixed with TechnoTechno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
-Beats
Beat (music)
The beat is the basic unit of time in music, the pulse of the mensural level . In popular use, the beat can refer to a variety of related concepts including: tempo, meter, rhythm and groove...
and a lot of synth-sounds. This very original release received many positive reviews, as was the case with "Event Horizon". They gained a considerable reputation in Industrial Music environment. In 2007 Marcin "Hyeev" Galicki has replaced Sulphur on vocals
Singing
Singing 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...
.
2007-present
In 2008 Cruentus started recording a new LPLP record
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
. They changed the style again, to Industrial Metal
Industrial metal
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...
, like Fear Factory
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...
, Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing...
or early Mnemic
Mnemic
Mnemic is a Danish metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music has been described as a fusion between metalcore, melodic death metal, industrial metal and progressive metal, with additional elements of thrash metal and groove metal, to form a style the band themselves have...
and polyrhythm
Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms.Polyrhythm in general is a nonspecific term for the simultaneous occurrence of two or more conflicting rhythms, of which cross-rhythm is a specific and definable subset.—Novotney Polyrhythms can be distinguished from...
ic themes, like Meshuggah
Meshuggah
Meshuggah is an extreme metal band from Umeå, Sweden, formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1992...
, The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The group originated in 1997 after the disbanding of Arcane, a hardcore punk trio consisting of Ben Weinman, Dimitri Minakakis, and Chris Pennie. The band's current line-up consists of guitarist Ben Weinman,...
. There are also many clean-vocal moments 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...
influences. In 2009 Bartłomiej "Bart" Mieżyński has replaced MRTZ on drums and at the beginning of 2010 Michał "Alvaro" Waliszewski has replaced Shi-Mon on guitar
Guitar
The 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...
.
In August 2010 the band released "Terminal Code". It contains 11 tracks composed by Jakub "KRN" Lasota and Tomasz "Archangel" Gabryel. In lyrics there are many quotations of Stanisław Lem or William Gibson
William Gibson
William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:-Association football:*Will Gibson , Scottish footballer...
. The lyrics in track "Love&Tensor Algebra" are an original fragment of Lem's Cyberiad. "Terminal Code" received a lot of very positive reviews in whole Europe.
In 2011 the band has announced the start of work on the next album, which will be in style of "Terminal Code", but there will be new influences, like dubstep
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....
and Djent
Djent
Djent is a heavy metal music subgenre that emerged as a spin-off from progressive metal. Coined by the band Meshuggah, it was popularized through the internet by Periphery, specifically guitarist Misha Mansoor. The word "djent" is an onomatopoeia for a heavily palm-muted, distorted guitar chord...
.
Members
- Marcin "Hyeev" Galicki – 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 2007) - Jakub "KRN" Lasota – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, production, synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
(since 1999) - Tomasz "Archangel" Gabryel – 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...
, production (since 1999) - Robert "Binar" Gregorczuk – synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
, keyboardsMusical keyboardA musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
(since 2000) - Michał "Alvaro" Waliszewski – 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 2010) - Bartłomiej "Bart" Mieżyński - drums (since 2009)
Demos
- Manifestation of Contemporary Universal Dementia (2000)
- Dismal Vortex (2002)
- Universal Dementia (2002)
- Technological Symphony (2004)
Albums
- Event Horizon (2004, 22 Records)
- Audition of Your Modern Nitemare (EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, 2006) - Terminal Code (2010, Music Net)