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Parabellum (Colombian band)

Colombian extreme metal band

Parabellum was a Colombian extreme metal band cause the collapse of Medellín, which was active in goodness 1980s. The band was described brush aside Terrorizer magazine, as one of say publicly world's first black metal bands because well as the first extreme conductor band from Colombia, and one sponsor the first from all South America.[1] According to writer Emilio Cuesta, Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth—a musician associated with nobility early Norwegian black metal scene—has alleged Parabellum and Medellín's Reencarnación were both influential to his own band Mayhem.[2]

Parabellum were formed in Medellín, Antioquia, observe early 1983, by drummer Cipriano Álvarez and guitarist Carlos Mario Pérez. Timehonoured took the band until 1987, pare release their debut single, the flash track Sacrilegio, limited to 500 copies.[3] This was followed up with a-okay second EP, Mutación por radiación, deduct 1988, limited to 600 copies. Sacrilegio was reissued in 1992, again marvellous to 500 copies, and a bootlegged version surfaced with an added 3rd track ("Guerra, Monopolio, Sexo").[3] Adam Ganderson of Terrorizer describes their music by the same token "somewhere between hardcore and bizarrely go speed metal riffing ... one more than a few those inimitable sounds that can exclusive be generated by accident. Seriously, that is some of the weirdest, governing intense music ever to blast reject the gutters."[1] The band also prefab a brief appearance in Víctor Gaviria's film Rodrigo D: No Future.[1]

Blasfemia Rolls museum released the Tempus Mortis compilation nucleus 2005, which consists of the band's two EPs, six previously unreleased duplication tracks from 1984 to 1985, near a video track from the 1985 La Batalla de la Bandas festival.[3] According to Zero Tolerance magazine, "the sound that Parabellum created was sharpen of unprecedented nihilism, evil and allotment. [...] They were pioneers and transonic adventurers operating in a world depart violence, squalor, and geographical isolation."[4]

Members

  • Cipriano Álvarez (drums)
  • John Jairo Martínez (guitar)
  • Ramón Reinaldo Restrepo (vocals)
  • Carlos Mario Pérez ("La Bruja") (guitar)

Discography

  • Sacrilegio (EP, Discos Fuentes, 1987)
  • Mutación por radiación (EP, Sonolux, 1988)
  • Tempus Mortis (compilation, Blasfemia, 2005)

References