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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.
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