Natron - Biography
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If you're talking about Death Metal and searching for a band to doubtless act for Italy within this extreme style of metal, you can't do without referring to Natron as the most influential band of the last 13 years coming from this country, not only for their remarkable presence in the scene with relentless touring and several releases. Indeed through their records so far Natron always mantained high quality standards and mainly managed to come up with an exceptional blend made of unearthly horror moods, psycotic early 90's inspired Death Metal riffs built on refined and ultra-powerful grinding rhythmic grounds, and massive raged vocal patterns growling eerie visionary lyrics; an evoluting sound that helped the band to distinguish from the mass of hundreds of brutal death bands spreaded all around in the underground metal community.
Natron was one of the first death metal bands to emerge from Italy in the early nineties. Hailing from the proud igneous deep south, Natron formed back in may 1992 but the band truly got into gear in november 1994 when , achieved a stable line-up, they unleashed the first demo named "Force", their first raw piece of grinding death metal. In spite of its gross sonic violence the demo allowed the band to surface the national underground and not late a deal offer came in the early 1995 from an italian label called CSP. This urged the band to enter the Zasko Lab studio (Rome) in april 1996 and record new material for a mini album. Enough being ripped off by this label for months and realized the wasting of time, in july 1997 the band compiled some excerpts from the previous recording to put out a new demo called "A taste of blood" - which marked a mentionable improvement - and make a promo-tape for labels only. Shortly after the mighty- now long time dead - underground italian label Headfucker offered to release their debut album therefore in august the band moved to the Nadir studio (Genova) to record "Hung, Drawn & Quartered" , the Natron excellent first album that was released in december 1997 . As a consequence of this first issue the band started to promote massively the debut album in Europe ,visiting countries like France, Belgium, Holland and Germany playin'with death/grind acts like Mangled, Centinex, Edge of Sanity, Disfear, Kadath, Krabathor, Anorexia Nervosa and Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition. Natron started to strike favourably abroad so that in 1998 their weird death metal attracted the attention of french label Holy records which ended to sign the band for a four albums deal.
In march 1999 Natron entered the Abyss studios in Sweden under the precious supervision of Tommy and Peter Tagtgren (Hypocrisy,Pain) to record the follow-up to their debut, and one month later- as a preventive form of promotion - the band went touring Europe as opening act for their label-mates Septic Flesh and Misanthrope.
In june 1999 the second high-acclaimed album "Negative prevails" was issued and the band reckonized as a new school death metal talent. Enthusiastic reviews urged the band to enter the Abyss studios again in may 2000 to release their third album. "Bedtime for mercy" -issued in november- marked a new step forward in the band's evolution focusing more on experimental fields. Furthermore their previously announced mini album "Unpure" saw the light the same month of the year. What was supposed to be their real debut finally found the racks in 2000, released 4 years later by the italian Nocturnal Music.
During the following two years the band engaged in a further series of shows; in 2001 embarking in a french tour supporting Septic Flesh,including french Nuclear festival with No Return and - among others - being part of the italian Agglutination Metal Fest with Ancient and Kiko Loureiro.2002 saw the band trekking with german Necrophagist and czech Intervalle Bizzarre all over Europe including Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic and Slovakia. In order to celebrate Natron first ten years of career, in november 2002 Holy records unleashed "Necrospective", an album featuring all the material published by the band previous the Holy records era. To properly support "Necrospective" during all the 2003 Natron teamed up with czech deathsters, Pandemia for a successful tour all over Europe ( Czech Rep., Germany, Poland, England, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy) including a couple of czech summer festivals and a opening slot for Exhumed, ex label mates Cephalic Carnage and Inhume.
Despite all this intense giggin' the band started to work hardly on their "come back", and decided to enter the studio again, not before starting newly a trek over Europe during the spring 2004 with austrian grinding force Mastic Scum and introducing the songs from the upcoming album to the audience of Belgium,Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. In june 2004 the band recorded their 4th full-length album in Italy at the local Jolly Roger studio and went mixing it at the Starstruck studio in Copenhagen ( Denmark) with producer Anders Lundemark (Konkhra). In july 2004 Natron was invited to perform the Obscene Extrem festival in Czech rep. as one of the headliners along with Extreme Noise Terror, General Surgery and other influential death/grind outfits from the worldwide scene . In november the new heavy-weight "LIVID CORRUPTION" was finally out and its release date celebrated with an opening act for a Suffocation show in a hometown club. "Livid Corruption" was mostly enthusiastically reviewed and many are still considering this new chapter as the highlight of the band, needless to say german Rock Hard Magazine rated it as on of the best death metal albums ever released since the last 3 years and compared it to the Terrorizer's "World Downfall" grind masterpiece.
During the spring 2005 Natron promoted their last album headlining a tour in Italy, France, Holland, Belgium,Germany and Czech Republic. Furthermore appeared at a bunch of summer festivals in Italy, France, Belgium along with the likes of Aborted, Zuul FX, Pungent Stench, Blood Duster and lately played with Obituary, Lord Belial, Gadget, Textures and many more at the czech Brutal Assault fest in august 2005.
(source: http://www.natron.it)
2006 begins with a new tour supporting Dutch deathsters God Dethroned all over Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and late in the fall of the year a second tour supporting Die Apokalyptischen Reiter on their European tour between November and December.
Few months later in May 2007 Natron is back again on the road to proudly support NY legendary death metal masters, Suffocation for an extensive tour all over southern-eastern Europe including Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Spain and France. In July 2007 Natron performed the Italian Frozen Rock Festival, playing with Entombed, Schizo, My Dying Bride, Brutal Truth, Lacuna Coil and Meshuggah.
Throughout the last couple of years some serious line up troubles affected the band and also touring - which had always been a priority for the band and therefore afforded thanks to some session musicians-slowed down the writing process of the new album but after a short string of Italian gigs the "Italian godfathers of death" entered the local Golem Dungeon studio between March and April 2008 to record their long awaited come back album.Mixing session were held in July/August 2008 after performing the european best death metal meeting of the year,the Neurotic Death Fest (with Napalm Death/Cryptopsy/Asphyx/Behemoth,Hate Eternal/Dying Fetus and many others) and the local Sziget Sound Festival supporting Entombed again. During the fall Natron supported Deicide over their italian tour and performed two french festival in Nantes and Marseille sharing the stage with Inhume, No Return and many others.
(source: http://www.myspace.com/natronband)
Natron was one of the first death metal bands to emerge from Italy in the early nineties. Hailing from the proud igneous deep south, Natron formed back in may 1992 but the band truly got into gear in november 1994 when , achieved a stable line-up, they unleashed the first demo named "Force", their first raw piece of grinding death metal. In spite of its gross sonic violence the demo allowed the band to surface the national underground and not late a deal offer came in the early 1995 from an italian label called CSP. This urged the band to enter the Zasko Lab studio (Rome) in april 1996 and record new material for a mini album. Enough being ripped off by this label for months and realized the wasting of time, in july 1997 the band compiled some excerpts from the previous recording to put out a new demo called "A taste of blood" - which marked a mentionable improvement - and make a promo-tape for labels only. Shortly after the mighty- now long time dead - underground italian label Headfucker offered to release their debut album therefore in august the band moved to the Nadir studio (Genova) to record "Hung, Drawn & Quartered" , the Natron excellent first album that was released in december 1997 . As a consequence of this first issue the band started to promote massively the debut album in Europe ,visiting countries like France, Belgium, Holland and Germany playin'with death/grind acts like Mangled, Centinex, Edge of Sanity, Disfear, Kadath, Krabathor, Anorexia Nervosa and Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition. Natron started to strike favourably abroad so that in 1998 their weird death metal attracted the attention of french label Holy records which ended to sign the band for a four albums deal.
In march 1999 Natron entered the Abyss studios in Sweden under the precious supervision of Tommy and Peter Tagtgren (Hypocrisy,Pain) to record the follow-up to their debut, and one month later- as a preventive form of promotion - the band went touring Europe as opening act for their label-mates Septic Flesh and Misanthrope.
In june 1999 the second high-acclaimed album "Negative prevails" was issued and the band reckonized as a new school death metal talent. Enthusiastic reviews urged the band to enter the Abyss studios again in may 2000 to release their third album. "Bedtime for mercy" -issued in november- marked a new step forward in the band's evolution focusing more on experimental fields. Furthermore their previously announced mini album "Unpure" saw the light the same month of the year. What was supposed to be their real debut finally found the racks in 2000, released 4 years later by the italian Nocturnal Music.
During the following two years the band engaged in a further series of shows; in 2001 embarking in a french tour supporting Septic Flesh,including french Nuclear festival with No Return and - among others - being part of the italian Agglutination Metal Fest with Ancient and Kiko Loureiro.2002 saw the band trekking with german Necrophagist and czech Intervalle Bizzarre all over Europe including Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic and Slovakia. In order to celebrate Natron first ten years of career, in november 2002 Holy records unleashed "Necrospective", an album featuring all the material published by the band previous the Holy records era. To properly support "Necrospective" during all the 2003 Natron teamed up with czech deathsters, Pandemia for a successful tour all over Europe ( Czech Rep., Germany, Poland, England, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy) including a couple of czech summer festivals and a opening slot for Exhumed, ex label mates Cephalic Carnage and Inhume.
Despite all this intense giggin' the band started to work hardly on their "come back", and decided to enter the studio again, not before starting newly a trek over Europe during the spring 2004 with austrian grinding force Mastic Scum and introducing the songs from the upcoming album to the audience of Belgium,Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. In june 2004 the band recorded their 4th full-length album in Italy at the local Jolly Roger studio and went mixing it at the Starstruck studio in Copenhagen ( Denmark) with producer Anders Lundemark (Konkhra). In july 2004 Natron was invited to perform the Obscene Extrem festival in Czech rep. as one of the headliners along with Extreme Noise Terror, General Surgery and other influential death/grind outfits from the worldwide scene . In november the new heavy-weight "LIVID CORRUPTION" was finally out and its release date celebrated with an opening act for a Suffocation show in a hometown club. "Livid Corruption" was mostly enthusiastically reviewed and many are still considering this new chapter as the highlight of the band, needless to say german Rock Hard Magazine rated it as on of the best death metal albums ever released since the last 3 years and compared it to the Terrorizer's "World Downfall" grind masterpiece.
During the spring 2005 Natron promoted their last album headlining a tour in Italy, France, Holland, Belgium,Germany and Czech Republic. Furthermore appeared at a bunch of summer festivals in Italy, France, Belgium along with the likes of Aborted, Zuul FX, Pungent Stench, Blood Duster and lately played with Obituary, Lord Belial, Gadget, Textures and many more at the czech Brutal Assault fest in august 2005.
(source: http://www.natron.it)
2006 begins with a new tour supporting Dutch deathsters God Dethroned all over Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and late in the fall of the year a second tour supporting Die Apokalyptischen Reiter on their European tour between November and December.
Few months later in May 2007 Natron is back again on the road to proudly support NY legendary death metal masters, Suffocation for an extensive tour all over southern-eastern Europe including Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Spain and France. In July 2007 Natron performed the Italian Frozen Rock Festival, playing with Entombed, Schizo, My Dying Bride, Brutal Truth, Lacuna Coil and Meshuggah.
Throughout the last couple of years some serious line up troubles affected the band and also touring - which had always been a priority for the band and therefore afforded thanks to some session musicians-slowed down the writing process of the new album but after a short string of Italian gigs the "Italian godfathers of death" entered the local Golem Dungeon studio between March and April 2008 to record their long awaited come back album.Mixing session were held in July/August 2008 after performing the european best death metal meeting of the year,the Neurotic Death Fest (with Napalm Death/Cryptopsy/Asphyx/Behemoth,Hate Eternal/Dying Fetus and many others) and the local Sziget Sound Festival supporting Entombed again. During the fall Natron supported Deicide over their italian tour and performed two french festival in Nantes and Marseille sharing the stage with Inhume, No Return and many others.
(source: http://www.myspace.com/natronband)