Gorguts is a Canadian
death metal four-piece. Based in Quebec, started in 1989 with
Luc Lemay on guitar and vocals,
Sylvain Marcoux on guitar,
Eric Giguere on bass, and
Stephane Provencher on drums, they began their career as a pretty typical
death metal band. Their first release was a 1990 demo tape entitled
And Then Comes Lividity, which landed them a record deal with
Roadrunner records.
Their full-legnth debut,
Considered Dead, came out in 1991 and featured guest appearances by
Death's guitarist,
James Murphy, and
Cannibal Corpse's vocalist,
Chris Barnes.
The Erosion of Sanity was the title of their second album, which was released in 1993 and was more of the same. Soon enough, coinciding with the decline of
death metal's short-lived popularity,
Gorguts was dropped from the
Roadrunner label. For the next five years, the band went on hiatus.
Every member of the band quit except for Lemay, and most observers were sure that
Gorguts was no more. However, three new musicians (
Steeve Hurdle on guitar/vocals,
Steve Cloutier on bass, and
Patrick Robert on drums), were eventually brought in to fill the missing slots. The new
Gorguts was signed to the
Olympic label and released
Obscura in 1998.
Obscura was an uncompromising
experimental metal album that was met with mixed reception (
the open minded were impressed and interested, and
the closed minded wanted their traditional
death metal).
Steeve Hurdle left
Gorguts after the release of
Obscura and was soon replaced by
Daniel Mongrain, who was previously playing guitar for the
prog metal group Martyr.
From Wisdom to Hate,
Gorguts' first album with
Mongrain, was released in 2001.
Gorguts Discography:
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Considered Dead, 1991,
Roadrunner records
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The Erosion of Sanity, 1993,
Roadrunner records
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Obscura, 1998,
Slipdisc records.
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From Wisdom to Hate, 2001,
Olympic records.
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