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Mortuary I.O.D.
9+ albums
dutchthrash metaldeath thrash metaldutch death metalmartin van drunen
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Mortuary I.O.D. is a death metal band from Dronrijp, the province of Friesland. After trying out for some years with different musicians and different names, in 1999 the line-up is transformed into the five-piece still known today, which consists of Arnout Visser (guitar), Germ Reitsma (bass), Franke Kooistra (guitar), Douwe Talma (drums) and Johannes Keekstra (vocals). In this time the members come up with the name Mortuary I.O.D. "I.O.D." stands for "Image Of Death", the title of an antique song, which can be found on the first album, but more about that later. From that moment on, the band gets seriously into creating music and many gigs are being scheduled. For instance, without even having released anything, in 2000 Mortuary I.O.D. shares the bill with the likes of Cannibal Corpse. In 2001 recordings are being done in the Landscape Studio in Gauw, Holland, under supervision of Jan Switters and from those sessions the "Promo 2001" is released, a pre-listen of the album the band is planning to release that same year. The promo contains two songs and is spread worldwide to all kinds of magazines, radiostations and gets great response. Now the disc is completely sold out. In March 2002 the delayed debut album "Distorted Massacre: Fear The Madness" is unleashed and also gets good attention. This album now is sold out as well. It leads to quite a big amount of gigs, also foreign ones, for instance one with Dew-Scented in Germany. In August Mortuary I.O.D. is on stage at D
