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1998-2002 - Casketgarden was
formed in 1998 by three members: Attila Cseh, Péter Musitz,
Balázs Tóth. The plan was to make such a brutal but melodic
music as our favorite bands (At The Gates, Carcass ). The
line-up became complete with a bassist, and the present vocalist
István Cseh in 1999. We recorded two demos: An Ever Rounding
Circle in 1999, and ...Of Grief in 2000. These two
demos got great reviews in every magazine where they were sent
to. They were released in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia,
Bulgaria, Romania by Rock Express Records in MC format. After
the demos bassist Gábor Őri joined and stayed with the band for
eight years. The Non-Existent promo CD was released in
the summer of 2002, when we got a contract with the label Metal
Age Productions. This stuff got great reviews all over the
world, and our position in Hungary became stronger. We played
with bands like Pungent Stench, Dew-Scented, Children Of Bodom,
Nightwish, Anthrax and we gave successful concerts in Serbia,
Austria, Switzerland and Italy in 2003.
2003 - Casketgarden recorded the first full length album This Corroded Soul Of Mine at Studio Denever which was released via Slovak label Metal Age Productions. The music is the same as in the beginning: very brutal death/thrash metal with gloomy, heartbreaking melodies influenced by old English doom bands. The influences of Swedish bands were/are present in the fast rhythms, and twisted riffing strengthening the brutal side of music. Casketgarden with This Corroded Soul Of Mine became one of the main bands of Metal Age Productions. In the Hungarian Metal Hammer Magazine the album TCSOM reached the 4th position in the monthly sound check and the band was voted among the 10 most talented newcomers of year 2003 by the readers/fans. At this distance of time Casketgarden’s debut is an emblematic album of the whole Hungarian underground metal scene. | |
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2005 - The band's next step Open
The Casket, Enter The Garden (recorded in Studio Denevér, Hungary)
shows much more original taste and professionalism in music and sound.
It has already been the Sound check winner in the November 2005 issue of
HammerWorld Magazine (Hungarian Metal Hammer). The album and the band
were nominated in the Hungarian Metal Awards competition in 4 categories
(best album, best production, best artwork, best live act). Yet this
year Casketgarden was invited to appear on the Hungarian thrash legend
Moby Dick's Tribute album called "BálnaVadÁszok". OTCETG album
was released in February, 2006. 2007- Casketgarden joined the International Live Award competition, won the Hungarian round and reached the 7th position in the semi-final in Vienna's famous Planet Music club. A band played live in Austria, Slovakia, Czech Rep., France, Serbia, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Germany with the second album, though never played a European tour. 2008 - After a 9 month songwriting period the band entered Studio Denevér again to record their 3rd album called Incompleteness In Absence in the beginning of 2008. This time the mixing and the mastering were done in Sweden at Studio Underground by Pelle Saether, who you can also know as producer of almost all Carnal Forge (Swe) records, but he also worked with Fleshcrawl (Ger), Draconian (Swe), Terror 2000 (Swe), The Bereaved (Swe), Construcdead (Swe). |
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Songwriters focused on catchy song-structures as always and this time
there are more varied elements and thrash metal parts as well. The album
was released by Metal Age Productions on June 6, 2008. Incompleteness
In Absence reached position No. 2 in the July/August issue of the
Hungarian Metal Hammer. 2008-2010 - The band played lot of gigs with the third album, the most significant ones were Zagreb Metal Fest 2008 (CRO), Kaltenbach Open Air 2008 (A), Eisenwahn Fest 2008 (D), Brutal Assault 2009 (CZ), Metalfest 2010 (H), Rockmaraton 2010 & 2011 (H), and a mini tour supporting Warbringer (USA) in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria in 2010. There was a change in the line-up in 2009: Gábor Őri decided to leave the band. The new bassist became Dénes Schummel, who previously played with the band back in 2001.
In the beginning of 2009 the band
started to work on some ideas for the fourth album. Around that time one
of the founding members Péter Musitz also had to part ways with the
band. The new guitarist we found was István Csutak who played in bands
like Ventar (black metal) and Depths Of Depravity (technical death
metal) before. | |
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