Martyr is a Canadian 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....

 band from Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières means three rivers in French and may refer to:in Canada*Trois-Rivières, the largest city in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada*Circuit Trois-Rivières, a racetrack in Trois-Rivières, Quebec...

, Québec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, founded in 1994 by brothers Daniel and François Mongrain.

History

Formed in 1994 by brothers Daniel (guitar, vocals) and François Mongrain (bass), along with Pier-Luc Lampron (guitar) and François Richard (drums), Martyr recorded a demo tape

Demo (music)

A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...

 in September 1995 entitled Ostrogoth. In September 1997, the drummer François Richard left the band being replaced by Patrice Hamelin, the full-length debut Hopeless Hopes was self-released in November that same year.

Members

• Daniel Mongrain (1994–present) - guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Martin Carbonneau (2002–present) - guitar
• François Mongrain (1994–present) - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , backing vocals
• Patrice Hamelin (1997–present) - drums
  Drum kit
  A 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 ....
  
  

Former members

• Pier-Luc Lampron (1994–2001) - guitars
• François Richard (1994–1997) - drums
• Jeremy Hoffman (1994–2009) - studio stud

Discography

• Hopeless Hopes
  Hopeless Hopes
  -Personnel:* Daniel Mongrain – clean vocals, guitar* Pier-Luc Lampron - guitar* François Mongrain - bass, death growls* François Richard drums, percussion...
  
  (1997)
• Warp Zone
  Warp Zone (album)
  -Personnel:* Daniel Mongrain – clean vocals, guitar* Pier-Luc Lampron - guitar* François Mongrain - bass, death growls* Patrice Hamelin drums, percussion* Luc Lemay - Narration on Realms of Reverie...
  
  (2000)
• Feeding the Abscess
  Feeding the Abscess
  -Personnel:Martyr* Daniel Mongrain – clean vocals, guitar* Martin Carbonneau - guitar* François Mongrain - bass, death growls* Patrice Hamelin drums, percussionProduction* Pierre Rémillard - producer* Yannick St-Amand - producer* Alan Douches - mastering...
  
  (2006)

External links

• Martyr's official website