Under The Pledge Of Secrecy

// BIOGRAPHY // STATUS OF WORK & UPCOMING // PAST SHOWS

The band was founded in Aachen/Germany in early 2005 by Arthur E., Thorsten S. and Stefan K. with an experimental approach to create a unique mixture of various styles with focus on hard music. Starting with shows in the years 2006-2007, the band then also played Belgium, Luxemburg, France, and Denmark. After thedebut EP “The Convoluted Line” (5 gegen 5000/ Yskalnari records) was released in 2008 alongside with subsequent line-up changes (Thomas. B. - guitars and Till. V. - bass) the band headed to studio in 2011 to release its full-length debut in mid-2012. Tough times came up in 2012 and the release had to be postponed. In 2013/2014 more live shows were tackled i.e. sharing stages with bands like Tesseract, Animals as Leaders, Dying Fetus, Fallujah and Black Shape of Nexus. The first full-length entitled "Black Hole Mass Evolution" was finally released in November 2014. Until 2016 live promotion of the record was focussed. 2017 saw novel line-up changes and ideas, followed by conception of a new album in 2018. Currently searching a label, the release of "Empire of Bastards" is scheduled for December 2019.

// Past shows

10.12.16 - MTC Cologne w/ Melt Banana

18.11.16 - Ate Meierei Kiel w/ Blackwater, Skardus

23.04.16 - Aixtreme Metalfest w/ Thornuz Apotheosis Omega,
Diaspora, Ius Talionis, Human Waste

19.03.16 - Agnosie Tour / The Hirsch Effekt / Under the Pledge of Secrecy

13.02.16 - Blastfest Chapter III Kramladen Kaiserslautern w/ Fuck you and Die, Obsolete Incarnation, Algetic, Massacre the Wasteland, Spreading Miasma, Invokation

16.01.16 - Blastphemy Winterfeast Epplehaus, Tübingen w/ Ad Nauseum, Hateful

29.01.15 - Knüppel ADS Festival Vol III AZ Aachen w/ Human Waste, Unbegotten, Exsanguination

20.12.14 - Blastphemy VIII Epplehaus, Tübingen w/ Miseo, By Brute Force, Hazarder, Agrace

29.11.14 - AZ Record Release Show w/ Corova, Naevus, Black Shape of Nexus

15.11.14 - Alte Meierei, Kiel w/ Vladimir Harkonnen, Dark Hansen

08.11.14 - 6K Unreal Night Festival (Be) w/ Dying Fetus , Goathwore, Fallujah, Malevolence, Chainsaw, Disaster, Resistance, Knives to a gunfight, Neverlight Horizon, Nexilva, Carcer City, Exist Immortal, Mystica

31.10.14 - JUZ Südpol, Recklinghausen w/ The Matter of China, Grow Cold, Vermin

02.10.14 - Euroblast X Festival Cologne w/ TesseracT, Animals as Leaders, Leprous, The Safety; Destiny Potato, The Heavy Metal Ninjas, Felix Martin,Drewsif Stalin’s Musical, Brutai, Endeavours

30.08.14 - Jam Club, Koblenz w/ Corova, Five dollar crack bitch, Noir Reva

26.07.14 - Mad Cafe, Liege (Be) w/ The Betreyer's Judgment (Fr), Bloodshot (Be), Celebrate (Be)

19.07.14 - Vortn' Vis Ieper (Be) w/ Demon head (DK), E.B.D.B (Be), As Echoes ,Fade (Be), Naked Ape (Be)

03.05.14 - AZ-Aachen @ AZ-Fest 2014

Nov. 2013 - EUROPEAN TOUR 2013 (cf. poster fb page)

05.11.12 - AZ-Aachen w/ Hexis (DK), This Gift is a Curse (SE), Cause of Divorce

20.04.12 - AZ-Mühlheim w/ Titan (CA), Mourning for Tomorrow

24.11.11 - KSE Festival 2011 - Kulturbahnhof Jülich (Ger),w / Koroded, The Ghost of a Campaigner,President Evil, Suiciety Remains

10.12.10 - AZ-Aachen w/ Antitainment

02.10.10 - Ungdomshuset, Copenhagen (Dk) w/ By The Patient, Defilementory, Streets Of Pompeii, The Last Messenger,The Absent

23.05.10 - Food For Your Senses Festival (Lux) w/ Shaped By Fate (uk), Miles to Perdition, Exinferis, Traeos, Doedning (Dk),Retrace my fragments, Angels and Enemies, An Apple a day, The Mike Litoris,Complot

15.05.10 - Jam Club Koblenz w/ Corova, Cambodia, Action Power

30.04.10 - Symposium of Sickness II - Blue Box Siegen w/ Skin Harvest, Retarded Noise Squad, Lifeless

24.04.10 - Mosh it up Festival XV – Musikbunker Aachen (Ger) w/ Sinister, Scornage, Beliar, Evil Hedgehog, Kingdom Of Salvation, New Born Hate, New World Depression, Torment of Souls /Witchtower

23.04.10 - Heartcoretage – Wermelskirchen w/ Danse Macabre, Patsy Ohara, Fargo, Ays

17.04.10 - AZ- Aachen, 15 Jahre AZ w/ Glasses, Statu Hysterie, Six bullet plan, Planks, Knifefight
Allegorie, Antilopen, Nazi Dogs

19.02.10 - Cairo – Würzburg, w/ Nesseria

12.02.10 - Rote Flora – Hamburg w/ Nesseria

06.02.10 - Sojus-7 – Rheingebolze, Monheim w/ Brutal Unrest, Cause for Confusion, Satan's Propaganda

05.12.09 - AZ Aachen w/ Mutiny on the bounty / Rumble in Rhodos / Skin Harvest / Mourning for Tomorrow

28.11.09 - Kreativfabrik, Wiesbaden - w/ Fuck Wolves, Killefit

30.05.09 - Vortex– Siegen w/ Vaulting / Greed Killing, Skin Harvest, In All Consequence

15.10.09 - Frontline – Gent (Be) w/ Spiritus Mortis / The Brave do not fear the grave, The Zygoma Disposal

08.03.09 - JH De Bogard Geel (Be) w/ Dancing on debris, The Brave do not fear the grave

07.03.09 - Vort'n Vis Ieper (Be) w/ Dancing on Debris, The Brave do not fear the grave, Maudlin

06.03.09 - OHK – Oostende (Be) w/ Dancing on Debris, The Brave do not fear the grave, Nemea

13.12.08 - Bechtholsheimer Hof – Würzburg w/ The Codeheart Syndrome, It´s a Trap you fucking Primate, Deathtrap

31.10.08 - Kulturpalast Wiesbaden w/ Maudlin, A Sailors Grace

13.09.08 - JUZE TREFF9 Heidenheim w/ Chainway, Dead flesh fashion, Mindtrap

12.07.08 - AZ-Lüdenscheid - Lüdenscheid w/ Misantropicana, Dead Fleash Fashion Ding Dong Dead

11.07.08 - AZ-Aachen w/ Misantropicana, Dead Fleash Fashion, Ding Dong Dead

13.06.08 - Kulturbunker - Köln w/ Trainwreck, Comadre, Who calls so loud, Aussitot mort

08.06.08 - Caleya Practice Room - Hamburg w/ Celestine, Caleya

07.06.08 - The morgue – Berlin w/ Call me Betty, Sleeve

06.06.08 - Linkes Zentrum Hinterhof - Düsseldorf w/ Trainwreck, Alarmstufe Gerd

30.04.08 - AZ-Mühlheim - Mühlheim an der Ruhr w/ Ding Dong Dead, One starving day

26.04.08 - Bauwagenplatz - Köln w/ Vuur / Sandcreek Massaker

05.04.08 - Casa Kulturcafé – Siegen w/ Jernigan, Skin Harvest

22.03.08 - Alte Druckerei – Lüdenscheid w/ Blonk, Identify the Stereotypes, And still I Bleed

20.03.08 - Escalier – Huy, (Be) w/ Torn in my Pride, Isaiah

16.03.08 - Alte Hettner-Halle 0 - AFL Proberaum - Bad Münstereifel (Euskirchen)
w/Call me Betty, Misantropica, Mindtrap, Brathin Dust, A Flowers Logic

15.03.08 - AZ-Aachen w/Call me Betty, Misantropicana, Mindtrap

16.02.08 - Squatt Noize - Erfurt w /Nesseria, Ampools, It is imperative

15.02.08 - Immerhin - Würzburg w/ Nesseria

09.12.07 - AZ Aachen - Record release Party w/ Corova, Jernigan, Tarngo

08.12.07 - Metallic – Orleans, (Centre Fr) w/ Corova

07.12.07 - Cool Boul-Niederanven, (Lux) w/ Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, Ensis, Corova

23.11.07 - Juz Großrosseln – Saarbrücken w/ Dancing on Debris/ Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, Sick Society, Hungry

14.07.07 - AZ Aachen | dong farewell show w/ Dancing on Debris, Nicoffeine, Woburn house, Do androids dream of electric sheep

07.06.07 - AZ Aachenw/ Endnote, Lavatch, Elision

26.05.07 - Exhaus – Trier w/ Mourning for Tomorrow, Corova, Kurushimu, Insolence

25.05.07 - Spunk - Gelsenkirchen w/ Mourning for Tomorrow, Corova

21.04.07 - Westside Unity Festival X – Kohlscheid (Ger) w/ Nesseria, Malkovich, Bloodtrial, Nein Nein Nein, Justice, Dancing on Debris, Status Hysterie, Nazi Dogs

14.04.07 - Mosh it up Xll festival | Musikbunker Aachen w/ Abrogiation, Contradiction, Decay of Days, Midwinter, Orden Ogan, Retribution, Supersoma, Wretched

25.02.07 - AZ Aachen w/ Nesseria (Fr), the Antidoctrine, thejoshuaparade

18.02.07 - Juze Treff9 - Heidenheim w/ Crowpath[swe], S.Punch

27.01.07 - Elfer Music Club - Frankfurt w/ In Order To Complain

26.01.07 - HOT-Koblenz w/ Blood attack , In Order To Complain, B.S. system, Sic n twisted

25.01.07 - Bla-Bonn w/ Corova

13.12.06 - Emokeller-Essen w/ Detached, Mourning for Tomorrow

09.12.06 - HOT-Herzogenrath w/ Rollergirls, Einweg, Susp.Act, Resultat

08.12.06 - AZ Aachen w/ Divine Torment(bel), Blood Attack, A death through confession

01.08.06 - Wild Rover-Aachen

12.07.06 - AZ Aachen w/ Achilles(us), Lavatch

19.04.06 - Wild Rover - Aachen

04.02.06 - AZ Aachen w/ Klarknova, Nicoffeine