Band : Merodac
Origin : Dominican Republic
Genre : Black Metal
Merodac is a melodic black metal band with black metal reminiscent of the traditional combination of black metal roots with other styles such as thrash, death, music and more ambient tunes. 2000 -2002 The group was formed on May 2, 2000 by Lord Mantus and Diabolus, who united their passion for music at a young age and kept the conviction to develop their ideas within the hard rock. Together they are joined in the Lower Nergal, Sir Courgen on guitar, Marlene Mesanz on keyboards and Juan Carlitos "El Conde" on drums and began to lock the concept of what would Merodach as a band. After a year of presentations at the underground in different parts of Santo Domingo, Nergal decides to leave the band and instead enters vampir who was not sustained in the line up for over 2 months and was replaced by Dusk, who keeps up Today in the thick ropes of the band, just as one of the founding members of the band Diabolus leaves and is replaced by the virtuoso guitarist Joel Solano (Morten Icarus) ex-Legion/Archaios. In early 2002 the band entered the studios "Torture Room" to record their debut album, which bear the name of 'Beyond the Gates of Sheol' and produced by Aldo "Koresh" Germain,. An album that marked the history of extreme metal in the Dominican Republic as the first album of extreme metal band to go on sale in the market with quality sound at the time was not expected an extreme band. This disc is extracted hits like "Elegies for a Beast," "Eternal Recurrence" and "Beyond the gates of Sheol." With this album achieved Merodach incorporated as one of the most important bands of the metal scene in the Dominican Republic, sharing stages with bands weight Legion (Archaia), Necro, Epsilon, Divinis invocat, AbaddonRD, Shrine, Infocus and many more. Likewise, managed care and bands and Latin American producers were invited to participate in compilations albums with metal bands throughout Latin America. After a year of successes and achievements, Marlene female Mesanz piece leaves the band to pursue his music career more profitable commercial rates in the country. Instead he substitutes another virtuoso keys Hellface, who is considered one of the best pianists and keyboardists Dominican metal, sharing that honor with the great Dark Martos (ex-Necro, Golem, Recalcitrant, Divinis invocat and more). 2003-2007 Line Up With a much more mature and more prepared players, Marduk begins preparing a majestic album, which for many is its unsurpassed record "The Zaroth Revelations", a gem as one of the best albums of black metal throughout Latin America. 'The Zaroth Revelation' was a totally conceptual album where Lord Mantus, leaving behind the traditional theme of darkness and vampires in the lyrics of a band blackera, and took the reins of a religious way of creating a third force personnel not came within Christianity, not Satanism, if not the Zarothismo. Zaroth is the main character of a disk, which chronicles the experiences of a new Messiah who rebels against the traditional forces and begins his road to ultimate glory, setting the trend to a different doctrine and liberal in a world banal. "The Zaroth Revelations was recorded and produced by Aldo Koresh German and released in mid-2004 under Just More Records record label, which started a revolution of presentations were accompanied by drama and spectacle in a show darker and bizarre. Exitos as "Into the Empire Without Limits, Whisper from the Obscure Domain, Beyond the Vision of Eternal Flash and The Black Winds" were parts of the disc. After years of success and presentations, in 2006 the band starts to feel a wear caused music by the obvious differences, ideological and even personal who were members, but kept the pace of presentation and promotion through the end of the year, although the same way the metal scene in Santo Domingo had a desgate also led to the emotional decline to bands and the public. 2008-2010 In early 2008 Joel Solano (Icarus mortem) and Hellface decide to give their lives to the gospel, creating a strong separation of ideals among the other members of the band and Christian musicians. Joel Solano months after conversion decides to leave the metal band to dedicate his life to Christ. Even under the difficult conditions the band continues to struggle to keep and use for live sound reinforcement and Eric Cruz-Baal (Legion / Archaios - Divinis invocat). After several timid performances, the band continues on a path without motivation, an absolute decline due unmanageable within the group, the differences in ideals, and personal music kept increasing among members who still remained in the band. In early 2009 the band space and decides to take a break while their leader Lord Mantus not think of a space if not the end of an era, not by any effort to revive again, the tragic conditions in which all went away. Between early 2009 and mid 2010, members of Marduk remained on personal projects such as its commercial professions, families, wives and beliefs. At the end of 2010 Dusk is the one who tries to calm the troubled waters, bringing together old friends, making them understand that friendship and ties uniting them for so many years were stronger than the differences that should be in the past. And that's when the band decided to meet again with the same line even Hellface who had left the gospel in those months ... .. all but Joel Solano who decided to follow the path of the gospel. The band starts to rehearse again and recruited a new guitarist to replace Icarus, ALX who came from the respected punk band "The Perex" and docked with the band and its style very quickly. But what seemed like an awesome meeting, begins to limp at the time that another founding member Sir Courgen decide to move abroad. 2011 The band does not stop and continues its process of searching for alternate guitar and when manage to come up with guitar virtuoso Voznor (Ex-Gamenon), who was a follower of the band since its inception. Already with a strong line up, the band launches into writing what will be his third studio album 'Ordinance', which promises to be the new jewel of extreme metal in the Dominican Republic and throughout Latin America.
Contact/ links
http://www.myspace.com/merodac
https://www.facebook.com/merodacrd?sk=wall http://www.youtube.com/user/merodacrd1
http://www.myspace.com/merodac
https://www.facebook.com/merodacrd?sk=wall http://www.youtube.com/user/merodacrd1