News
21/03/2010Deleterious will enter the studio
It is finally happening, as of march 26 Deleterious will enter the studio of Quintijn Verhoef in Utrecht.
We have been rehearsing and shaping the songs for months and now we feel that we are ready to record 5 new songs. Simultaneously we are creating the artwork and setting up all the things we need for a new release.
As things didn't really work out with bas the bass player we found a great replacement in Steven and we feel that he takes the songs to a higher level with his playing. The working title for the new EP will be "Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet" and song titles are still up for debate within the band.
We will try to keep you more updated from this point on with studio updates (maybe even some videos) until the final product has arrived. After that we will send out copies for reviewing and even try to impress some labels (you never know right).
As of the start of this summer we are ready to blast live again. So any interesting parties can contact us through myspace or through our official website
08/05/2009
Great news (well, for us at least)! Our first gig in over a year will take place at our semi-homebase Artishock in Soest on the 29th of May. Over the past months we've been working hard on new songs which we're anxious to play live for the first time. See you in Soest!
10/02/2009
Perhaps it shouldn't have gone unsaid that a couple of month ago we found our new bassplayer. Or did he find us? Anyway he's here to stay! (Als het rijmt is het waar...)
Current focus is on creating some new mindblowing material and figuring out if we're ever going to be able to play it. We hope to do some in gigs in a couple of months.
06/10/2008
Sadly we're forced to rekindle our search for a bassplayer. If you are interested to join us or know of anyone who might be. Please get in touch!
08/08/2008
A long, long time passed since the last update and believe it or not; we actually got some breaking news:
As of July 14th both Martine and Melvin decided to quit the band. At this point it would be nice to make up a story about fierce fights breaking out in the rehearsal studio, but the truth is pretty boring. Both Ms would like to pursue world domination by playing different kinds of music. In this we wish them all the best.
On the plus side we're happy to announce that we're complete again only three weeks after the decimation of our line-up. We would like to welcome Bas (what's in a name?) on bass and Richard on drums.
Bas was the first one to join impressing us at a try out with his 8 string (!) bass performance. He also plays bass (and other instruments) for an acoustic folk group called Fossegrim.
Richard has been a friend for some time. He is playing the drums for the black/grind band "Liar Liar Cross on Fire", the rock band "Unexposed" and luckily from now on for Deleterious as well.
Up to date we did only one rehearsal session with the renewed line-up but it's working out very well indeed. We will focus on some brand new songs and the older ones will get a refreshing touch-up.
Deleterious will be back better than ever in a couple of months!
21/03/2008
Some pictures of our show in Zwolle added. They're taken by Johannes. If you're wondering why there are no pictures featuring Martine... She felt ill that day.
08/03/2008
New pictures by Iris again!
02/03/2008
Some new pictures added of our most recent gig at the first round of the metalbattle. We had a blast playing in Soest (once again).
Congrats go out to Disquiet who won and will be performing in the semi-finals at Baroeg, Rotterdam on march 14th. Good luck!
We're also glad to announce that we will finally be playing in our hometown. The date is the 28th of march and we will support Nuestros Derechos' cd presentation. Don't miss it!
19/02/2008
Time for another update I'd say. First of all some-one actually did an interview with us.
Check it out right here
Also some new reviews came up in magzines like Rock Tribune and Mindview. All reviews are collected in the reviews topic on our forum. For a direct link: click
Below is the flyer for the metalbattle in which we will compete next friday. Other gigs are coming up at The Cave in Amsterdam on the 7th of march and (finally) one in Utrecht (ACU) on march the 28th. See you there!
18/01/2008
A few pictures from last week's show in Eindhovuh added. The pictures are courtesy of Anita.
15/01/2008
Another review online, and it's a biggy! click here or read below:
Ik heb al eens eerder het vermoeden uitgesproken dat BandBio wizard in MSWord standaard de regel bevat dat "de muzikale richting lastig te omschrijven" is. Hier hebben we er weer een.
Volgens de bio van Deleterious is de beste omschrijving, een moderne benadering t.o.v. black en death. Niet echt mijn stijl, maar als ik de MCD scan om een goed voorstel richting de RegioReporters te maken, ben ik toch wel zeer aangenaam verrast! In het begeleidend schrijven zegt de band te hopen dat we de tijd kunnen vinden om een review te schrijven. Op dit moment eigenlijk niet, maar ik maak hier graag een uitzondering voor.
Deleterious bracht eerder een album uit onder de naam INRI (zie de review in Aardschok van December 2002). Toen een andere Nederlande (getekende) death band koos voor de naam "I.N.R.I.", besloot INRI verder te gaan als Deleterious. Onder die naam mogen ze van mij heel groot worden!
De opener, "3", begint met een korte intro die je ritmisch compleet op het verkeerde been zet. De baspartij doet zeer sterk denken aan het werk van Les Claypool (Primus). Na enkele seconden gaat het echter vol gas, Pure speed wat mij betreft, double-bass op de automaat en vlammen! Halverwege wordt je ineens weer teruggegooid naar het begin; tegen het einde van de track heb ik sterk de neiging om toch nog maar een keer te luisteren.
Maar we gaan verder met "divine interference". Ruim vier en een halve minuut. Steeds denk je dat er een nieuwe track begint, maar dan herken je toch weer een variatie op een variatie van een halve minuut geleden. Dit zit heel geraffineerd in elkaar, zowel ritmisch als in de bouw van het nummer.
"in dying motion" spreekt mij in eerste instantie minder aan. Zware zang, slepende ritmes, maar ook dit keer gaat halverwege het roer om, vette ritmes en een sfeer die mij sterk doet denken aan het grote feest dat wordt gegeven in Zion (The Matrix Reloaded).
"quip 'n' quail" kent dezelfde opzet en ook hier hoor ik Les Claypool inloeden in het baswerk. Als uiteindelijk de laatste grunts zijn uitgeschreeuwd, de gitaar voor het laatst heeft gekrijsd en de laatste ritmische mitrailleur heeft geklonken in "death is just the way i composed it" zit ik de schijf toch nog maar een keer opnieuw op.
Ik ben geen liefhebber van black en death, maar deze schijf zal ik vaak draaien. Toegankelijk is deze muziek absoluut niet. Toch denk ik dat de meeste black en death liefhebbers hier niet over hoeven te twijfelen. Maar ook als je van het progressieve werk houdt is dit absoluut een aan te raden uitstapje, deze moet je zien en horen!
Score: 95/100
06/01/2008
05/01/2008
Yet another review in Dutch. Click!
03/01/2008
We wish everyone a happy new year!
For us it'll start with some rather nice gigs! check out our gigs section for more info!
11/12/2007
The second review for SCTI, to be found here (in Dutch)
11/12/2007
Dying Motion was included in yet another web based mp3 sampler: check it out at Nedermetaal
10/12/2007
At last! We're able to provide you with some news, which we know you've all been eagerly anticipating since… well since the website first came online I'd guess. So, without further ado let me tell you what the past few months brought us.
First of all we released our demo, which was a pretty nice event we were looking forward to for a long time (very very long indeed), but before I start boring you with the entire unabridged 'story of our lives' I will sum up the rest of it in short:
We did some gigs, failed to get paid for one of them (which is a story I could write a 30 page report about but won't), sent out some cds to venues, received precisely the kind of response we expected to (a deafening silence, for those of you who like to go into detail, though I doubt you're out there), made some progress on new material, bought a new amp for Bart in Appelscha (look it up if you don't know it. It's very idyllic) and last, but not least in any way imaginable: we received the first review on our demo cd! It's printed below.
So now you're up to speed there are some other things that require your undivided attention: First of all the song Dying Motion was put in the webzine Metalstorm's mp3 sampler. Thanks for this go out to Marcel Hubregtse.
The absolute last thing I will say (I hope I'm not lying) is that we received two reviews on our gig in Groningen, which is a pretty remarkable occurrence in itself considering it had to involve an enormous percentage of reviewers among the audience. They're written in Dutch and can be found here. Please note that this is our very official band forum where you can share crucial information like: which of our songs you dislike most, what you had for breakfast… well you get the gesture.
To end the misery sustained to you by reading all this (I appeared to have lied earlier on), we would like to thank the bands Laboratory Sickness and Thomas Crapper Water Closet for a very nice evening in Ede and we're looking forward to sharing the stage in Eindhoven with Control Human Delete (once again) and Next Waste Dimension!
Also, Bart has finally accomplished to get his very own wikipedia entry!
And now for the review:
Suspiciously Close To Infinity' is the first demo of Deleterious, a Dutch extreme metal combo. Musically the band operates somewhere in between death and black metal, which is a tricky category to belong to. You can either drown in all your influences, resulting in incoherent compositions, and only seldom does a band succeed in really creating a new and original sound.
Luckily, Deleterious are on the right track here. To begin with, there are no obvious influences of this or that band. A brutal passage here or there reminds me of the tight death/black of Zyklon and some black metal parts make me think of the futuristic Lunaris-sound, but there are so much more other kinds of things going on. The band goes out of their way to produce varied, non-standard extreme metal, which comes forward in each song containing at least one cool break or neat trick. The internal cohesion of the songs still needs a little bit of work and the drum sound is a bit dry, but nevertheless Deleterious delivers a fine first product.
07/10/2007
Website online!