Messiah were a death

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....

/thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 band from Switzerland

Switzerland

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Messiah's debut album, Hymn to Abramelin, was released in 1986 through Chainsaw Murder Records. Their second LP, titled Extreme Cold Weather, came out in 1987 and was re-issued on CD three years later by Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast

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. The release also contained the band's debut album. The band then managed to sign to a German

Germany

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 major metal label, Noise Records

Noise Records (Germany)

Noise Records was a German record label founded by German music industry personality Karl-Ulrich Walterbach in 1983 as an expansion of his company Modern Music Records. Noise Records specialized in thrash and melodic speed metal. It was sold to the Sanctuary Records Group in 2001 and ceased any...

, which released their next album, Choir of Horrors, in 1991. Messiah released two more albums, Rotten Perish and Underground, through Noise, but disbanded in the mid-1990s. Although the band members have since rehearsed together and gave a concert, they have decided not to re-unite.

Last known line-up

• R. B. Broggi – Guitars
• Andy Kaina – Vocals
• Patrick Hersche – Bass
• Steve Karrer – Drums

Former members

• Reto Wilhelm Kühne – Vocals, bass
• Rolf Heer – Drums
• Christofer Johnsson
  Christofer Johnsson
  Christofer Johnsson is a Swedish musician. He is a founding member and the guitar player for Therion and used to be in Carbonized, Liers in Wait, Messiah and Demonoid. He is a member of the magical order Dragon Rouge and founder of the defunct Dark Age Music label...
  
   – Vocals (Carbonized
  Carbonized
  Carbonized were a Swedish death metal band formed 1988 in Saltsjöbaden. The band was formed by Lars Rosenberg in 1988, with Dismember vocalist Matti Kärki...
  
  , Demonoid
  Demonoid
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  , Therion
  Therion (band)
  Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...
  
  , ex-Liers in Wait
  Liers in Wait
  Liers in Wait were a Gothenburg, Sweden-based death metal band active between 1990 and 1995.The group was formed by Kristian Wåhlin after the dissolution of Grotesque, a precursor to At the Gates, and for a very brief time featured the band's core members...
  
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• Andre Steiner – Guitars
• Dave Philips – Bass
• Pete Schuler – Drums
• VO Pulver – Guitars
• Oliver Kohl – Bass

Albums

• Hymn to Abramelin (1986)
• Extreme Cold Weather (1987)
• Choir of Horrors (1991)
• Rotten Perish (1992)
• Underground (1994)
• Choir Of Horrors (2010) Remastered with Bonus Tracks
• Rotten Perish (2010) Remastered with Bonus Tracks

EPs

• Psychomorphia (1990)
• The Ballad of Jesus (1994)
• Psychomorphia (2010) Remastered with Bonus Tracks

Compilations

• Powerthrash / The Infernal Thrashing (2004)
• Reanimation, Live At Abart (2003)

Demos

• Demo 1984 (1984)
• Infernal Thrashing (1985)
• Powerthrash (1985)
• Live Baar (1985)
• Extreme Cold Weather (1986)