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The 1999 year was some to be remembered as the year which great events left a mark upon politics, sports and music. Brazil was going through a time of hope and expectative with its president being reelected, meanwhile, the Euro was being announced as money between eleven countries part of the European Union. At the country area of Sao Paulo state, at Limeira city, Death Slave had begun to write the first sentences of the seventh prophecy. For some years, the group had dedicated exclusively to play songs of great names of the world heavy metal, but feeling that it was time to walk on its own steps. The first step was given by the drummer Marcelo Batistella assuming a partnership with the guitar players Mauro Batistella and Leandro Lazzerini that wrote the Fire Warrior song, which some time later would become the title of its first album. Nevertheless, months later, Mauro Batistella left the group for personal reason which leads to the first change on the still incomplete line up. By that time, many other pages of this history has been written. The group has several songs and it’s has come the time to go to the following level. Marcelo and Leandro joined to the bass player Marcio Aguiar, to the guitar player André de Marqui and counted with the Maurício Oliveira vocals to record their first album. [ 2 0 0 1 – F I R E W A R R I O R ] After two years of the Death Slave activities began, it releases its first album, title Fire Warrior. The album was made of nine tracks presented a poor production that leads some frustrations and doubts regarding the capacity of the band. However, received good reviews of specialized media that bet on the growth and ripening of the musicians and a promising future to the quintet. Fire Warrior was released in an independent way but has reached good repercussion on Brazil and several European countries, yielding a sequence of concerts, insertion on festivals and best of albums. Some time after its release, the group passes through a new falls. Mauricio Oliveira and Marcio Aguiar made their minds to give up and left the band due to musical reasons. [ 2 0 0 3 – T H E S H A D O W O F D E A T H ] The line up change reflected significantly on the band soundness that can be seen on The Shadow of Death single which was graced with the following review on Rock Brigade magazine of February 2003: “The Heavy Metal just like 80’s of the group is way more mature, the instrumental part is excellent, the guitar’s tone impeccable and bass & drums are more aligned”. The bass lines on the single that comes up with Evil Child and The Shadow of the Death songs were responsibilities of Flavio Biazi, while the new vocals were assigned to Eric de Oliveira. The Evil Child song was also released on the best of “Paranoid Collection” from Paranoid fanzine and “O Livro da Morte” promoted by the North American’s label Black Castle. [ 2 0 0 4 – A G R E A T Y E A R ] At last quarter of 2003, band passed through a renew of the line-up after Leandro and Flavio leaving it. It was time to pause and get prepared for a great year that was to come. With Tiago Pescarolo and Felipe Piccirilo joining the group, the band changed its course and musicality without step away of the traditional Heavy Metal that was used to. The guitar player Tiago improved a lot the new compositions while Felipe demonstrated all his technical and huge performance. The concerts were becoming frequently time after time and at live concerts, people were impressed with the bands performance. The name Death Slave got more acknowledges every day and by April 2004 the band was invited to play an opening concert for the biggest Brazil Metal band: Sepultura. The concert played at Limeira city, showed the band in an inspired night raising the crowd with songs from “Fire Warrior” and “The Shadow of Death” and new songs that would be on the second band’s album. Regardless the reduced concert time, the band received kudos from the Sepultura’s production team and members of that band as well; also they were recognized by the local media. It was a matter of time till the Death Slave releases its second album. [ 2 0 0 5 – S E A O F D R E A M S ] Even with the great concerts done by the band during the whole 2004 year, Death Slave didn’t hold the same line up and passed through more changes with the departure of guitar player André de Marqui but mainly for the left of bass player Felipe Piccirilo. The team was rebuilt with the bass player Victor Hugo coming and the return of Leandro Lazzerini. On 2005, the EP “Sea of Dreams” was released receiving very positive reviews from the specialized media. The “Sea of Dreams” and “Dreams” songs represented the frequently group evolution as the last one was top five classified on a big mobile carrier contest.
[ 2 0 0 7 – W E L C O M E T O T H E V A L L E Y ] Given the success critics of “Sea of Dreams” EP it was time to record a new album. The band had a set of songs ready and couldn’t wait more, however, before go to the studio they had to face another change on the line up. Victor Hugo and Leando Lazzerini left, they count on Felipe Piccirilo return and the new guitar player Bruno Sampaio that gave a green light for the records to began. The 2007 year was marked by Eric de Oliveira left, replaced during the record sessions by Victor Pacheco, talented vocalist indicated by Tiago Pescarolo. Victor radically changed the Death Slave vocals, discarding the traditional acute tones and betting on a more aggressive style which fit much better to the band’s songs. [ 2 0 0 8 – V A L L E Y O F M I R R O R ] At first quarter of 2008 the Death Slave release its second album title “Valley of Mirror”, the LP with 11 tracks was released by the Die Hard Records being very well accepted by the public and specialized media. The magazine Comando Rock published: “The new album, counting with a different line up, brings attention by the group evolution…” “the vocals – mainly difficult found on the first LP – was resolved with a new member that mix wisely acute and aggressive tones…” and wrap ups “Worth the price to check this new (and much better) band’s phase!”. At 2009 the band went through a new change on the line up and after Felipe Piccirilo left the band is lined up by: Victor Pacheco (Vocals), Bruno Sampaio and Tiago Pescarolo (Guitars), Daniel Poletti (Bass) and Marcelo Batistella (Drums) and it prepares to get back on road to advertise its most recent wok. Ten years has passes through and musicians made part of the band’s history that dedicates to traditional Heavy Metal, immortalized by great bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Saxon, mixing progressive and Hard rock elements. WELCOME TO THE VALLEY... |
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