BATTER was formed by Martijn and Rudi in 2002 with the name of "Grafveld". Grafveld is Dutch, and literally translates to Gravefield or Graveyard. Their goal was to play metal which would primarily target the thrash/black metal area.
They looked for other participants who'd like to give the band a "try-out", to see whether the style was liked by all participating musicians.
The try-out was in the summer of 2002 and consisted of:
Martijn - Vocals
Rudi - Guitars
Alex - Bass
Thierry - Drums
After the try-out, the band Grafveld was formed with these 4 members. In the following months, the band gathered weekly to play thrash/black metal.
After a couple of months, they decided it would be nice to have a second guitar player.
The fifth and latest member was found in Harro, a friend and acquaintance of both Rudi and Martijn. Also, with the fifth member, the band decided to change their goal. The goal changed to play thrash metal with influences of all sorts of other metal-styles as well, like death, heavy, speed and doom metal. A couple of previously written songs were erased, and new songs were written instead.
In the spring of 2003, the band became fed up with the name Grafveld. In the long and heated discussion that followed this rather radical decision, the choice fell on BATTER.
"To batter" is a rather more appropriate name for a thrash metal band instead of the more eerie name of Grafveld.
The name BATTER was chosen in the month of August, 2003 and
is still used ever since.
In the summer of 2005 Harro (leadguitar) stops playing with Batter. He joined forces with Raymond B (ex-Dark Desire, Tiranilor) to form the heavy metal band Heavy Metal Solarfall, in wich Thierry plays drums too. The following years BATTER kept playing in the original line-up. Due the fact they did a very few live shows, rumours where spread that BATTER stopped making METAL. This is not true, even when Alex in April 2008 decided to quit playing with BATTER, the remaining three members continue to make metal.
THRASH!
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Flashback Of Anger is very proud to announce that they have signed to famous Limb Music Products & Publishing, record label of such successful bands as Eldritch, Pagan's Mind, Rhapsody. The debut album "Splinters of Life" produced by Dirk Schlaechter (Gamma Ray) will be out on April 9th.
Next gigs : 01-03-'09 Groene Engel - Oss (NL) with a.o Hail of Bullets. 02-08-'09 De Azijnfabriek - Roermond (NL) with a.o Carach Angren. 03-07-'09 Soos Plock - Volkel (NL) with a.o Persistense. 03-14-'09 't Haske - Balk (NL) with a.o The Lucifer Principle. 04-04-'09 De Mads - Waalwijk (NL) with a.o Persistense. 12-05-'09 De Wieke - Deerlijk (BE) with a.o Izegrim.
Before VENGEANCE will do a short Italian tour in november (with support the Italian rock sensation HOUSTON),they will headline the Halloween Rock Fest in La Vida Tilburg (former Noorderligt) on nov 1.
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