Undercroft

death metal

The beginning of UNDERCROFT is marked by the appearance of their mythical first two demos. “To Final The Battle” the band’s debut recording, appeared in May of 1993. Then came “Demons Awake… Revenge is Near” in November of the same year. That led them to the release of their debut album, called “Twisted Souls”, which was recorded in 1995. UNDERCROFT played many shows both in northern and southern Chile and were an opening act for KREATOR, who was making their second Chilean visit, in the now defunct venue Manuel Plaza. In their first international performance, UNDERCROFT opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the Swedish act THERION. Two years later, in 1997, the album “Bonebreaker” appeared. During this period, they played together with MORBID ANGEL during their first Chilean visit in the Monumental Theatre. In September 1998, the album “Re-Demolition” was released, which is the re-edition of both the band’s demos, plus some tracks taken from the recording of “Bonebreaker” adding a Napalm Death cover song, “Unfit Earth”. After a break, UNDERCROFT recorded one of their best works to date, “Danza Macabra”, released in August 2000. The album marked some changes in the line-up, bringing in more of the force and power that had already started to characterize the band. This album was a great step for UNDERCROFT. The line-up was: Claudio Illanes on Guitars, Pablo Cortez on Drums and Alvaro Lillo Voice and Bass… A complete Chilean tour followed the release of “Danza Macabra” taking the band to the most prestigious venues in Santiago and other Chilean cities. For the live gigs, they began to use a guest guitarist to give the live performance the same sound and power as the studio recording. After the success of “Danza Macabra”, UNDERCROFT decided to expand their frontiers. With heavy hearts, the band made the hard decision to leave Chile for Europe, specifically Sweden, in March 2001. While there, they recorded a new album made up of 11 songs with the famous Swedish producer Daniel Bergstrand (STL, Meshuggah, In Flames, Stuck Mojo and Lord Belial among others) at Studio Dug Out in Uppsala. After the recording of this new album, which took three weeks to complete, they made several new contacts and played gigs in Sweden, Poland and Germany. Meanwhile, they attracted the attention of several record labels and decided to sign a record deal with PAVEMENT/CRASH MUSIC to release the new album. The album was out in recor...