Devourment
Milwaukee Metal Fest 2024
The Rave / Eagles Club
2401 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53233
May 18, 2024
2:00 PM CDT
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After a successful return of Milwaukee Metal Festival in 2023, the iconic midwestern, multi-day event is now revealing 19 more bands and daily schedules for the highly anticipated 2024 edition, with more TBA! To celebrate this absolutely stacked lineup, Milwaukee Metal Fest is extending early bird tickets through December 11, 2023! Co-organizer and Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta comments, "This year’s line up is growing fast & we’re extremely excited to have some of the best bands in the world headed to Milwaukee in May of 2024.” Co-organizer Tim Borror adds, "This is already an incredible line up and we still aren’t finished. We are committed to this music and making this the best party in metal. Don’t miss Milwaukee Metal Fest 2024. The current bands who will appear at the 2024 edition are as follows: Friday, May 17: Blind Guardian, Kamelot, Symphony X, Destruction, Marduk, Metal Church, Incantation, Profanatica, Eternal Champion, Visigoth, UADA, Night Demon, Necrofier, Silva, Ancient Entities + more TBA Saturday, May 18: Mr. Bungle, Hatebreed, Katatonia, Death To All, Deicide, Possessed, The Red Chord, Skinless, Martyr AD, Heathen, Devourment, Internal Bleeding, Cenotaph, Cloak, Embryonic Autopsy, Eyes of the Living + more TBA Sunday, May 19: Slaughter to Prevail, Avatar, In Flames, Death To All, Lacuna Coil, Bleed From Within, Alluvial, Viogression, Beyond Threshold + more TBA
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Devourment Biography
Formed in 1995 by Brad Fincher (drums) Brian Wynn (guitar) and Wayne Knupp (vocals) in Dallas, TX. Devourment has remained consistent and powerful throughout several reformations, leading many to celebrate them as the heaviest death metal band in the world due to their influential blend of vicious slam elements with an old school death metal sound. The band’s current lineup includes Ruben Rosas (vocals), Captain Chris Andrews (guitar), Dave Spencer (bass), and Brad Fincher (drums).
Devourment’s three full-length recordings are Molesting the Decapitated, released in 1999 on United Guttural; Butcher the Weak, self-released in 2005 and then rerecorded and reissued by Brutal Bands in 2006; and Unleash the Carnivore, released in 2009 on Brutal Bands. A compilation album titled 1.3.8. was released through Corpse Gristle in 2000, and reissued by Displeased and Unmatched Brutality in 2004. On the power of these releases, and the band’s explosive live shows, Devourment soon became one of the most infamous acts in the death metal underground throughout the last decade.
The band announced that they had signed with Relapse Records in 2010, and, since then, have toured with Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, and Cattle Decapitation. Additionally, Devourment made appearances at Germany’s Party San Open Air festival, the Brutal Assault Festival, Mountains of Death Open Air, and Metal Mean Festival.
May 2014:
Official press release:
Death metal's most brutal band Devourment have announced a major lineup change that sees the band regressing to the sewage from which they were originally conceived. After nearly 10 and 20 years, respectively, Eric Park and Mike Majewski have decided to leave the group to pursue other things. Their absence has ushered in the return of two of Devourment's most hailed players. Devourment co-founder Brad Fincher has reclaimed the drum throne, and Ruben Rosas has come back, sans guitar, to once again provide guttural filth on the mic. Rosas made his unique style of vocal assault infamous on the band's legendary 1999 debut LP Molesting the Decapitated, and is known by true death metal aficionados to tout some of the lowest, sickest growls on the planet. The originator of the Devourment name and overall vision of groove-oriented, Texas style brutality that became the hallmark of the band's sound, Brad Fincher co-wrote and performed drums on the early demos, Molesting the Decapitated, and the 1.3.8.compilation, which includes Devourment's signature slammer, "Babykiller".
In addition to that personnel shift, incumbent bassist Chris Andrews has taken over the role of guitar, where he will be debuting his crushing style worthy of the Devourment lineage – pushing it forward into more extreme and punishing directions.
The band commented on the reformation:
"Devourment mines it's origins while marching toward a darker, ever more brutal future. Two eras ofthe Devourment legacy shift and combine in a completely new and deadly line-up. This hybrid monster is set to elevate the signature sound they created and deliver the definitive next level of hyper-brutal death metal. Nothing can prepare you for the Pure Apocalyptic Embludgeonment that is coming. Nothing."
Read MoreDevourment’s three full-length recordings are Molesting the Decapitated, released in 1999 on United Guttural; Butcher the Weak, self-released in 2005 and then rerecorded and reissued by Brutal Bands in 2006; and Unleash the Carnivore, released in 2009 on Brutal Bands. A compilation album titled 1.3.8. was released through Corpse Gristle in 2000, and reissued by Displeased and Unmatched Brutality in 2004. On the power of these releases, and the band’s explosive live shows, Devourment soon became one of the most infamous acts in the death metal underground throughout the last decade.
The band announced that they had signed with Relapse Records in 2010, and, since then, have toured with Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, and Cattle Decapitation. Additionally, Devourment made appearances at Germany’s Party San Open Air festival, the Brutal Assault Festival, Mountains of Death Open Air, and Metal Mean Festival.
May 2014:
Official press release:
Death metal's most brutal band Devourment have announced a major lineup change that sees the band regressing to the sewage from which they were originally conceived. After nearly 10 and 20 years, respectively, Eric Park and Mike Majewski have decided to leave the group to pursue other things. Their absence has ushered in the return of two of Devourment's most hailed players. Devourment co-founder Brad Fincher has reclaimed the drum throne, and Ruben Rosas has come back, sans guitar, to once again provide guttural filth on the mic. Rosas made his unique style of vocal assault infamous on the band's legendary 1999 debut LP Molesting the Decapitated, and is known by true death metal aficionados to tout some of the lowest, sickest growls on the planet. The originator of the Devourment name and overall vision of groove-oriented, Texas style brutality that became the hallmark of the band's sound, Brad Fincher co-wrote and performed drums on the early demos, Molesting the Decapitated, and the 1.3.8.compilation, which includes Devourment's signature slammer, "Babykiller".
In addition to that personnel shift, incumbent bassist Chris Andrews has taken over the role of guitar, where he will be debuting his crushing style worthy of the Devourment lineage – pushing it forward into more extreme and punishing directions.
The band commented on the reformation:
"Devourment mines it's origins while marching toward a darker, ever more brutal future. Two eras ofthe Devourment legacy shift and combine in a completely new and deadly line-up. This hybrid monster is set to elevate the signature sound they created and deliver the definitive next level of hyper-brutal death metal. Nothing can prepare you for the Pure Apocalyptic Embludgeonment that is coming. Nothing."
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