Memoriam is a

death metal Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...

band from

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, England. The band was formed in 2016 by former

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vocalist

Karl Willetts Karl Willetts (born 21 September 1966) is an English death metal vocalist, best known as the lead singer of Bolt Thrower and Memoriam. Biography Willetts joined the British death metal band Bolt Thrower in 1988. Before that, he drove the b ...

, alongside Scott Fairfax (Ex

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& Ex Cerebral Fix) on guitar, Frank Healy (Ex

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, Ex

& Ex

Napalm Death Napalm Death are an English grindcore band formed in Meriden, West Midlands, in 1981. None of the band's original members have been in the group since 1986, but since ''Utopia Banished'' (1992), the lineup of bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mi ...

) on bass and Andy Whale (Ex

) on drums. In 2020, Andy Whale left the band and was replaced by Spike T. Smith (Ex Sacrilege, Ex The Damned). In an interview, Willetts stated that the band was originally formed as a tribute to the late

drummer Martin Kearns. To date, the band has released five studio albums, two of which reached the charts in Germany, ''For the Fallen'' at number 16 and ''The Silent Vigil'' at number 32. The band's latest album, ''Rise to Power'', was released on 3 February 2023. The band originally signed to Nuclear Blast, but left after the first three albums for Reaper Entertainment, a new label established by previous Nuclear Blast employee Florian Milz. In an interview with MetalTalk, Karl Willetts said that work was underway for the next album. "We don't rest on our laurels," he said. "We are driven by Scott's airfaxphenomenal songwriting ability. That is all he does. That's what Scott lives to do. He gets up at breakfast, goes to work, paints four cars, comes home and then throws himself in the studio and writes songs every night. We've probably got enough songs in his closet for about another six albums!" The band's first fully narrative & performance-based music video for "All is Lost" (from the album "Rise to Power"), directed by Hal Sinden of Eulogy Media Ltd., was released on 9 December 2022.

Touring & Festival Appearances

The band tours actively and has played many of the worlds most notable metal festivals including: * Obscene Extreme (2016 & 2022) * Eindhoven Metal Meeting (2016) * Fall of Summer Festival (2016) * Party.San (2016 & 2022) *

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(2017) * In Flammen (2017 & 2022) * Roadburn (2017) * Grasspop Festival (2017) * Summer Breeze (2017) * Meh Suff! (2017) * Leperfest (2017) * Copenhell (2017) * Turock (2017) * Lords of the Land (2017) *

Rock Hard Festival Rock Hard Festival is a heavy metal festival organized and sponsored by the '' Rock Hard'' magazine. First established in Lichtenfels, Bavaria, Germany, in 1990 on an irregular basis, mostly for magazine anniversaries, it is held annually in Gels ...

(2018) * Inferno Festival (2018) * Vagos Metal Fest (2018) * Hellfest (2018 & 2022) * Bloodstock Open Air (2018 & 2021) * Midgardsblot (2019) * Damnation Festival (2021) * UK Deathfest (2022) * Dark Easter Metal Meeting (2022) * Hard Rock Laager (2023) * Tuska (2023) * Damnation Festival (2024)

Band members

Current

– vocals * Scott Fairfax – guitars * Frank Healy – bass * Spike T. Smith – drums

Former

* Andy Whale – drums

Discography

Studio albums

* ''For the Fallen'' (2017) * ''The Silent Vigil'' (2018) * ''Requiem for Mankind'' (2019) * ''To the End'' (2021) * ''Rise to Power'' (2023)

Singles

* "The Hellfire Demos" (2016) * "Surrounded by Death" (2016) * "The Hellfire Demos II" (2017) * "The Hellfire Demos III" (2017) * "All is Lost" (2022) * "Total War" (2022)

References

External links

Official website
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