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Sacrosanct
12+ albums
thrash metalprogressive thrash metalTechnical Thrash Metalold school thrash metaldutch
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Thrash Metal from Enschede, the Netherlands! 1988: A few months after the release of the debut-album "Malleus Maleficarum" by the death-metal band Pestilence (Nld), the German guitar player Randy Meinhard abandons the band followed shortly by Marco Foddis to give life to his own musical child called Sacrosanct. Within weeks the young band is completed with the right members. Michael Cerrone is joining Randy with the guitar riffs, Remco Nijkamp is taking the bass, Ronny Scholten replaces Foddis at the drumkit and Michael Lucarelli completes the line-up on vocals 1989: The band releases their first and only demo called "The Die Is Cast". Soon after the band signs a one-album-contract with the No-Remorse Records-label (Virgin). 1990: The debut album "Truth Is What Is" is released. It is described as techno-thrash. The press is quite impressed. Because of a poor promotion and little back-up from the record-company, the band is not able to do live-performances as much as they want to. After a short while No-Remorse-Records goes bankrupt. This setback leads to the departure of Cerrone and Nijkamp by the end of the summer. The two start up the band Imperium (Nld). Some time later that year Ronnie deserts the band to appear in the band Genetic Wisdom much later. Randy Meinhard and Michael Lucarelli sign up the guitarist Gerrit Knol, the German bass-slammer Christian Colli and the 16 year old drum-animal Haico van Atticum to replace the lost musicians. 1991: With this cast,
