God Dethroned

Foto: Eugene Straver 

GOD DETHRONED was formed by mainman Henri Sattler in 1990. After one demo they released their debut album "The Christhunt" in 1992 on a tiny German label. Due to problems with the other band members and the record company, Henri decided to split the band. He then formed Ministry Of Terror, a Thrash Metal band, and released the "Fall Of Life" album with them in 1994. After a European tour Henri left the band and re-formed GOD... Meer »

Foto: Eugene Straver 

GOD DETHRONED was formed by mainman Henri Sattler in 1990. After one demo they released their debut album "The Christhunt" in 1992 on a tiny German label. Due to problems with the other band members and the record company, Henri decided to split the band. He then formed Ministry Of Terror, a Thrash Metal band, and released the "Fall Of Life" album with them in 1994. After a European tour Henri left the band and re-formed GOD DETHRONED. With new band members and better songs in his back, Henri and the new GOD DETHRONED recorded "The Grand Grimoire" and inked a deal with Metal Blade. Many successful tours followed in Europe, the U.S. and Japan with great Death and Black Metal acts like Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Immortal, and Marduk, just to name a few.

In the meantime most of the renowned festivals were played: Dynamo Open Air, Wacken, Graspop and Summer Breeze. However, not everything went smooth. Drummer Roel Sanders left the band after the US tour promoting "Bloody Blasphemy". Nile's Tony Laureano played on the "Ravenous" album, but couldn't stay for obvious reasons. Janne from The Crown played on the tour and finally new drummer Ariën van Weesenbeek came in, whose first recording experience with the band was "Into the Lungs of Hell". This album was received very well by the press around the globe and again the band toured around Europe and played more festivals like Party San and Summer Breeze.

Bassist Beef and guitar player Jens didn't have the motivation any more to keep on touring and playing, so they decided to call it quits after about 8 years. About 2 months before the recording of "The Lair of the White Worm" bass player Henk joined the band, and 2 weeks before the recording axeman Isaac came in. The result: an intense new album. Loads of variety, highly skilled musicianship, and cool songs !

GOD DETHRONED already started promoting the new album by playing festivals and shows allover Europe. So far the band did a small tour as a support for Grave, a european headline tour with support act Summon (USA) and they'll hit the road on a much larger scale during 2005, because it's about time to play The States and Japan again soon. « Minder