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| PUNISH recorded and released their first, eponymous album in March 2000 as a five-piece. Several concerts in support thereof followed and by 2004, three new songs were published on the MCD "Three Songs in Mental Disorder". After an intensive period of songwriting, the band’s next mile-stone was a studio session in December 2004. With producer Alex Krull (Atrocity / Leaves’ Eyes), four songs were recorded at the Mastersound-Studios in Fell- bach (Germany). The MCD "Four Songs in Morbid Lust" was released in February 2005 and continues to sell strong. After the former lead vocalist’s departure in early 2006, Reto Hardmeier (bass, growls) and André Mathieu (guitar, screams) took over the vocal duties and PUNISH chan- nelled their newly-gained power as a quartet by entering the Mastersound-Studios once more to record the current 10-song album “Dawn of the Martyr”. Their first European tour with the Norwegian viking war- riors Helheim under their belt, PUNISH now stir up a challenging witches’ cauldron of monstrous blast-beats, blinding guitar shreds and misanthropic torrents of hatred: DAWN OF THE MARTYR ReviewsTrespass - Blümchensex?Lords of Metal (nl) Lords of Metal (en) Dawn Radio - 9/10 sounds2move - "gewaltiger Hassklumpen" Heavymetal - 90/100 Legacy (#49, print) - 11/14 Schwermetall - 10/13 Rock Hard (#243, print) - 7.5/10 Amboss - "fuckin' heavy!" darkness.de - 8/10 Arising Realm - 3.5/5 Bloodchamber - 9/10 Metal-Factory - 8.9/10 Carnagedeathmetal - 8.5 UltrarocK - "un batteur tout simplement énorme" sounds2move (interview on tattoos) Pull The Chain - "old-school" Vampster - "definitiv Pflichtstoff!" Metallinks.nl - 8.7 (incl. interview, contest) Zwaremetalen - 78/100 Vampster (interview) Metal Observer - 9/10 Evilized - 77% Metal Waves - 8, 5 metal-district - 9/10 "[...] dass diese Band zum feinsten gehört, was diese Szene derzeit in Europa zu bieten hat." "Sensationell!!!" “Highly technical death metal from what must be one of Switzerland's prime bands in the genre.” – Quam Libet Records Stylistic vicinity: Death, Slayer, Morbid Angel, Necrophagist, Crytopsy, Kataklysm On tour with Helheim in November 2006. | Label: Quam Libet Records Distribution: Non Stop Music (CH) membrane records (CH) twilight Vertrieb (D / worldwide) Buy: Swiss Metal Mailorder amazon.de Listen and buy: | ||
| see also: HEAVY METAL NATION II |
![]() Reto Crola drums | ![]() André Mathieu guitar/vocals | ![]() Reto Hardmeier bass/vocals | ![]() Ralph Huber guitar |
| Album | EP | EP | Compilation | |||
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| Punish (2000) | Three Songs of Mental Disorder (2004) | Four Songs in Morbid Lust (2005) | HEAVY METAL NATION II (2005) | |||
Scrupulous Torment | Discouraging Calamity | Screams from Misan- | feat. |


