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Sympathy hails from Saskatchewan Canada.
About 10 years ago, Dharok initiated Sympathy with three
friends. Two years later, after recording a short demo and
a full length album together, the band slowly started to
fall apart due to a lack of commitment on the part of all
the players. So Dharok started to play all the instruments
himself. Between the years of 1993 and 1997, Dharok recorded
two full length albums and a demo own his own, Arrogance
and Ignorance (1993), Age of Darkness (1995), and Realms
of Choas (1996, remixed in 1997).
In
2001, Dharok reinitiated Sympathy and recorded ‘Invocation’
at Port Trax Studios. The album was the first that Sympathy
had recorded in 5 years. And in early 2002, the Dutch metal
label, Fear Dark, decided to release ‘Invocation’. The disc
has been a new beginning for Sympathy and truly marks the
beginning of the band’s future.
Fast,
furious and ferocious, Sympathy churns out its own unique
style of Death Metal with sickening aggression. Huge walls
of thick crunching guitars, coupled with the soaringsounds
of synths give Sympathy's music a hauntingly surreal quality
that mixes the sinister with the saintly, the malignant
with the majestic, and the hellish with the heavenly.
Influenced
by such acts as early Morbid Angel and Suffocation, Sympathy
adapts the styles of these bands to fit a more modern sound.
Sympathy's sound, often compared to artists as diverse as
Dimmu Borgir and Hate Eternal, combines the aggression of
Thrash, the brutality of Death Metal, and the abrasiveness
of Black Metal.
FEBRUARY,
2003
Spock's Beard - Snow
Serenade - The Serpent's Dance
Opeth - Deliverance
Cryptopsy - And then You'll Beg . . .
Old Man's Child - Ill-natured Spiritual Invasion
JANUARY,
2003
Immolation - Unholy Cult
Hate Eternal - King of All Kings
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Origin - Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas
DECEMBER,
2002
Emperor - Prometheus
Amon Amarth - The Crusher
Horde - Hellig Usvart
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
NOVEMBER,
2002
Hate Eternal - King of All Kings
Immolation - Closer to a World Below
Immolation - Unholy Cult
Slechtvalk - The War that Plagues the Lands
OCTOBER,
2002
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Into Eternity - Dead or Dreaming
Extol - Undeceived
Crimson Thorn - Purification
Avenger of Blood - Celestial War
SEPTEMBER,
2002
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Hate Eternal - Conquering the Throne
Mithras - Forever Advancing. . . Legions
In Flames - Reroute to Remain
Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
AUGUST,
2002
Origin - Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas
Vader - Revelations
Frost-Like-Ashes - demo 2002
Horde - Hellig Usvart
Antestor - The Return of the Black Death
JULY,
2002
The Crown - Crowned in Terror
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical
Kekal - The Painful Experience
In Flames - Clayman
Extol - Mesmerized
Extol - Paralysis
Amps:
Line6 AX2
Peavey Triumph 60
