SICKENING HORROR
The band was formed on January 2002 by George Antipatis (guitars,
vocals), Ilias Daras (bass) and George Kollias (drums, Nightfall).
After a very short time the band started completing its first songs
which were floating around technical Death Metal forms in the likes
of Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Death and Atheist. After a
year-and-a-half of non-stop rehearsing and killer live shows, the
band recorded the demo "Promo 2003" in the Fall of 2003 which
received great reviews worldwide for its innovative and precise
sound. At the time, the band had George Bokos (Rotting
Christ/ex-Nightfall) on the second guitar, who left after a while
due to increased obligations. In the summer of 2004 George Kollias
joined the US death metal band Nile and recorded "Annihilation of
the Wicked" album. By 2005 Sickening Horror had completed the
song-writing of their first album. Meanwhile the band's influences
had expanded in a wide spectrum which included experimental black
metal bands like Ved Buens Ende, Dodheimsgard, Virus and
jazz-fusion artists like Charlie Parker, Dave Weckl, Virgil Donati.
All these elements filtered by their unique "Sickening Horror"
point of view, in a Death Metal basis, plus many industrial samples
and loops created what is now called "When Landscapes Bled
Backwards". The band's debut album was recorded in Athens and mixed
by mastermind Neil Kernon. As for the lyrics, they have to do with
quite simple - often personal - subjects, regarded from a
completely strange and surrealistic aspect. Eventually the band
reached to an agreement with Neurotic Records to unleash "When
Landscapes Bled Backwards" in Spring 2007 and everyone involved in
this recording has very high expectations, as the album's sound is
really fresh and has a vast variety of the deepest, strongest and
darkest emotions.