TRACK LIST

01 GLORIFICATION OF LIFE
02 THE EMPIRE IS ...
03 APOLOGY FOR WAR
04 WAITING

05 AKHILLEUS
06 NORNES I: URD
07 NORNES II: VERDANDT
08 NORNES III: SKULD

 

BYATIS PLAYS TIGHT DEATH METAL WITH A LOT OF OLD AND NEW MODERN DEATH METAL INFLUENCES. SOMETIMES MUSIC REMINDS A MIX OF MORBID ANGEL AND SUFFOCATION WITH MODERN BRUTAL DEATH/GRIND. VOCAL RANGE IS VARIOUS: IT CHANGES FROM LOW TO HIGH PITCHED VOC ( TIME TO TIME). MUSIC RANGE IS VARIOUS TOO. THERE ARE MODERN DOWNTURNED RIFFS AND GRIND DRUMMING, BREAKDOWNS MIXED WITH OLD GUITAR SOLOS. GOOD MIXTURE. FOR ALL FANS OF DEATH METAL. FOR ME THIS IS: MORBID ANGEL REINCARNATED THROUGH BRUTAL DEATH METAL. 

The beginning
The Byatis' adventure begins in the spring 1997. The band was then called Trepanation. It was composed of five members : Hav as guitarist and sharp voices, Vincent and Gilles, two brothers, as drummer and bass guitarist, Marc, as vocalist and finally Arnaud as other guitarist. Compositions were primary and resolutely oriented grind/death. The evolution After a year used to repeat, to compose and to make its first gigs, the band was reduced to three members : Flav, Vincent and Marc, who took the bass guitar in the same time. In November 1998, Phildar, Flav's class neighbor, joined them as second guitarist. Thus is how Trepanation became Byatis. Moreover, this new name will be followed by a change of repertory. New influences appeared, such as progressive rock. Finally, the songs left less and less place to grind so as to put forwards death metal. From a demo...

Byatis recorded for the first time in April 1999 to the Studio du Bras d'Or, for the compilation named Intramurock 6. The result showed that the band had to improve again. In their 3m2 humid cellar, the four musicians worked their technique and composition. The band undertook its first concerts outside the region, with Torment and Kortex for instance. ...to an another
Not being satisfied of the preceding recording, Byatis recorded two of its new titles with one of their friends, Guillaume Dallery (Black Dust, Belenos, Shagma) in September 2000. These two songs were released on the "Race of Cain " demo exited in January 2001. With this new support, the band offers itself new opportunities to play gigs in the North of France and in Belgium with bands such as Decline Of Humanity, Gerbe Of Life, Disgust, Amethyste, Tridus Elasticus,...