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Greek Thrash/Death Metal Band SEMIC STAINS to release with Casket Music

Greek Thrash/Death Metal Band SEMIC STAINS to release with Casket Music

After hearing the bands previous releases and reading the excellent reviews received for these, Casket Music have done a deal with Greek Thrash/Death Metal Band SEMIC STAINS to put out their next anticipated offering 'SECRECY OF THOUGHTS' through it's Label. The release is tentatively scheduled for release in the Summer 2013, and we are all really excited about this band.
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Semic Stains is a thrash/death metal band formed in Ioannina (Greece) in 2002 when Stathis Theodorou (guitars) and George Zoulis (guitars) teamed up with Alex Seretis(vocals) and Dinos Polychronopoulos(Drums). The original line up was completed with the addition of Christos Bosmos(bass) later that year.

Headed by the drive to create music that would express and fulfill the band's ambition, all songs turned out to be aggressive and technical, while combining memorable melodies and a heavy American sound. A sound that was imprinted
on the band’s demo “Sworn to silence” recorded at Fragile Studios with Vaggelis Yalamas(Fragile Vastness) as the producer.

"Sworn to Silence" was nominated "Demo of the month" in several magazines and fanzines around the world receiving really encouraging reviews

“Very good compositions, beautiful orchestrations, clever guitar ideas, brutal and clean vocals, drift towards creation, really good co-operation among the band members but also individual abilities.” …..Metal Hammer (Demo of the month 8/10)

“I can easily see this band appearing with Rotting Christ in the top of the Greek scene to the world. Demo of the month! ” …….Whiplash Brazil

“It is a pity that I don't have a record company otherwise I would sign them immediately”…… Progrok Bulgary (Demo of the month 5/5)

“..bring to mind the insuperable Death”….. War Inc (8/10)

Following the demo's warm reception, Semic Stains were included in Greece Attacks II – The Next Assault Compilation (Sound & Vision) featuring most promising Greek Metal Bands with the track "Death of Innocence". The sequel to the legendary 1989 Greece Attacks compilation helped the band reach a wider audience, alongside numerous live appearances in Festivals around Greece and support acts to major bands like Rotting Christ and Septic Flesh.

It was time to get back in the studio!!

The band entered the highly equipped Reaction Studios (Athens-Greece) with Stathis Theodorou as the producer, to record its debut album entitled “Secrecy Of Thoughts” moving within aggressive, technical and intense paths.
Sadly Dinos P. had to quit the band, so the recordings were carried out by session drummer Stelios Pavlou.

The promo cd “This Cage” was released featuring 3 tracks from the upcoming album predisposing the band’s debut.

“…The band performs with typical comfort the modern, extreme and in (few) points melodic thrash, evoking the old-school approach but elaborately avoiding that characterization, mainly due to the unmistakable (but carefully embedded) influence of technical death metal but also because of the absolutely huge and modern sound they have managed to create. If this is a mere sample of the album, then we anxiously wait for the release”…… Metal Hammer (GR) - (8/10)

"...everything is undeniably well done. .. Three compositions that are characterized by their aggressiveness, speed alternating passages and full of groove....And I confess that if these Greeks cast today a debut whose songs were as interesting as those contained in the "This Cage", I'd buy the CD" ...two guys metal reviews

Secrecy of thoughts is a concept album focusing on a man’s mental struggle after finding his family murdered. A man, who is experiencing feelings of loss, wrath and indignation, who wants to avenge but is facing terrible dilemmas about the appropriate stance to keep.
He essentially reaches the boundaries between human and beast, mentally healthy citizens and ruthless killer….and eventually turns worse…

Dive into his Secret Thoughts ….

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