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Necrophagist
Origin	Karlsruhe
Country	Germany
Years active	1992—Present
Genres	Technical Brutal Death Metal
Labels	Relapse Records
Website(s)	www.necrophagist.de

Necrophagist is a Technical Brutal Death Metal band from Germany, led by guitarist/vocalist Muhammed Suiçmez. The band is noted for its neo-classical guitar technique and the use of many different arpeggio techniques. After recording their demo, the remainder of the band quit and Muhammed was left to record the debut album, Onset of Putrefaction, himself, with the aid of computer programmed drums. After some time, Necrophagist's line-up finally stabilized, and their second album Epitaph was released in 2004.

Since Necrophagist's debut was out of print for years, and Muhammed was never fully satisfied with the sound of it, the band re-recorded it. This new re-release includes brand new drum samples that Hannes Grossman, the drummer, recorded piece by piece. All of the old guitar, bass, and vocal tracks were mixed along with the brand new drum samples, to create a crisp and clear stereo track. The re-release also features two songs from Necrophagist's 1995 self-titled demo tape. The whole album was also engineered by long time Necrophagist engineer and producer Christoph Brandes at The Iguana Studios.

On the 10th of February, 2006 it was announced that Christian Muenzner had departed the band due to 'scheduling conflicts'. A replacement guitarist has been found, Sami Raatikainen, who is from Helsinki, Finland. Sami also plays in the band Codeon. The band was on hiatus from March 2005 to June 2005, due to Muhammed Suiçmez being ill.

In 2006 the band has done an American(Canadian dates were cancelled) tour called "Carving North America's Epitaph". Necrophagist was joined on this tour by Arsis, Alarum, Neuraxis, Ion Dissonance, Cattle Decapitation and Thine Eyes Bleed. They, along with Dying Fetus, supported Cannibal Corpse on their US tour in the fall, which also included some Canadian venues.

The band recently anounced on their Myspace page that after the 2007 California Metalfest, drummer Hannes Grossman would leave the band. Hannes has stated that he was unable to commit to the band's full-time touring schedule. ^[1]

Contents 1 Discography 1.1 Studio releases 1.2 Demos 2 Line-up 3 Former members 3.1 Guitar 3.2 Bass 3.3 Drums 4 External links

• Onset of Putrefaction (1999 LP, re-issued in 2004 on Willowtip Records)
• Epitaph (2004 LP on Relapse Records)

• Requiems of Festered Gore (1992)
• Necrophagist (1995)

• Stefan Fimmers - Bass
• Sami Raatikainen - Guitar
• Muhammed Suiçmez - Guitar, Vocals
• Marco Minnemann - Drums

• Jan-Paul Herm (1992-1995)
• Mario Petrovic (2000-2001)
• Björn Vollmer (2001-2002)
• Christian Müenzner (2002-2006)
• Matthias Holzapfel

• Jochen Bittmann
• Julien Laroche
• Heiko Linzert (2003)

• Raphael Kempermann (1992-1995)
• Daniel Silva (1995-1998, 2001-2003)
• Slavek Foltyn (2000-2001)
• Hannes Grossman (2003-2007)

• Necrophagist Official Homepage
• Necrophagist Official Forum