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Azazel

Azazel Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Thrash

    Location SANGER/FRESNO, Un

    Profile Views: 16026

    Last Login: 2/13/2012

    Member Since 4/11/2009

    Website www.wix.com/azazel559/azazel

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    The roots of Azazel can be traced back to 1994 in the garages of Sanger when "Tricky" Nick Cantú, Ric Hard, Chris Muñoz and other friends started picking up instruments and jamming on their favorite songs. They eventually began writing their own songs as a band under various names such as Dirty Sanchez, Dirty Sancho, and Death Inhaled before settling on Azazel. Fast forward a few years to 2009, the lineup finally stabilizes with Tricky on lead vocals and guitar, Chris on guitars, Ric Hard on drums and Mario Reyes (a.k.a. Hellmask) on bass. As a four piece band, Azazel starts taking the show out of the garage and onto the stage, playing their first shows at places such as The Venue, Zapp's Park, The Wizard's Pub, slaughtering crowds with their energetic and uncompromising brand of thrash metal. October of the same year saw personnel and configuration changes with the addition of Pierce May of Trumpet Solo fame on guitar and Armando Jiménez of Red Castle Army fame on bass, allowing Tricky to focus on doing vocals only. In early 2010, a revamped Azazel once again started bringing the heavy metal thunder to the masses across Fresno, building a following and a reputation for the sheer aggression and musicianship exhibited onstage. Toward the end of the year, Azazel played their final shows for the year (among them Fresno's FUSE Festival, their first out of town show being in Visalia, and even a birthday party!) and commenced recording on their self-titled demo/EP at Sweet Sea Studios in San Francisco. With the recordings near completed, they once again locked themselves in the garage to start composing new material when Armando decided to leave the band in pursuit of a different musical direction. 2011 saw the introduction of Tommy Nuñez on bass, having brought on the brutal with bands such as Tenth Key and Lying In Wait. The band also released a self-titled four song demo/EP that year to coincide with more metal madness on different stages throughout the state. 2012 is here, new songs are being written, the ante is being upped, and the brutality will be coming to a venue near you!!!

  • Members

    Nick Cantú: Vocals, Chris Muñoz: Guitars, Pierce May: Guitars, Ric Hard: Drums, Tommy Nuñez: Bass

  • Influences

    Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura, Slayer, Testament, Pantera, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy

  • Sounds Like

    World domination, one crowd at a time!

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    Tonight there's gonna be trouble, some of us won't survive... You see, me and boys we mean business, we're bustin' out dead or alive!!!

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    AZAZEL has a show on 03/02/2013 at 08:00 PM @ BABYLON in Fresno, CA http://lnk.ms/dyLjV #concert

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    AZAZEL has a show on 09/01/2012 at 07:00 PM @ Full Circle Brewing Co. in Fresno, CA http://lnk.ms/cyZQz #concert

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    AZAZEL has a show on 09/01/2012 at 06:30 PM @ Full Circle Brewing Co. in Fresno, CA http://lnk.ms/d6c0S #concert

  5. Azazel

    AZAZEL has a show on 09/01/2012 at 06:30 PM @ Full Circle Brewing Co. in Fresno, CA http://lnk.ms/d6ZwX #concert

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