Rehearsal days, Sept 1992, prior to the rock festival

For a long time Disinterred was composed only of a drummer, Bruce  and bassist, myself, after we kicked out Alex from guitar duties.  No one seemed to fit in until one Jean Pierre happened to chance his luck with us, and got in!  Till then the band was not known as Disinterred but as Defunted, had only one full song 'The Undead' and fragments of two others, 'Blood for the deceased' and 'Cascade of Blood'.  Jean Pierre brought some material into the band but most of all he brought new revolutionary ideas and our style was completely changed from raw brutal death metal to atmospheric dirges of funerals and hard music combined together.  The change in style also brought the change in name, we saw that Disinterred fitted perfectly to what we wanted to create.  Blood, mayhem, zombies and cannibalistic fantasies infested our lyrics and music, most of the keyboard pieces being influenced from horror movies.  The first appearance, on 20th Aug 1993 was somewhat shaky.  Nobody knew about the gig, only a few people.  That night we played 6 new tracks, had lots of sound problems, ended up in debt and lost our drummer (who teamed up with Alex again)  But Disinterred survived.  Only few weeks passed and another drummer was found in the form of Dione, a much better drummer.  He did wonders, in just 4 months not only learning the six 6 songs we had but also the new ones which we wrote!  And he was ready for the next Disinterred appearance, in a rock marathon called "Rock for the Fort" (in aid for the restoration of an old historical fort).  The 800+ crowd welcomed us and stood astounded as our sheer brutality and progress we made in just 4 months.  We played 4 songs, one of which was new but the crowd wanted more, and in the 30 minutes we had we repeated another couple of songs.  'Cascade of Blood' is still reverbarating through those walls!

Photos above showing the first live appearance of Disinterred, on 20 August 1993		Preparing for the show, Rock for the Fort (19 Dec 1993) proved the breaking grounds for Disinterred.  In the photo, I (back at the cam) am helping Dione	Live appearance 18 Mar 1994

1994 dawned upon Disinterred and new material was being written for the up coming live appearance in March.  A rock festival (again!) was being held at the college Jean Pierre was going and we had only been given a 15 minute part, enough to pound our terror into the heads of 1500+ people.  We were at our best, Disinterred was healthy and all the rumours that were spreading against us was causing more good than harm.   In summer 1994 we improved the music on 'Blood for the deceased' to become one of the best in our playlist.  With a couple new songs we approached the organisers of the Rock for the Fort and got a place for the second time in it.  But this was never to be.  Disinterred never went on stage.  After the cancelling of this show we agreed to take a short break before recording our debut demo.  But the break was to be indefinate.  Disinterred was dead.  In September Jean Pierre and I recorded a demo-tape.  This was our side-project band Anhedonia, a band completely different from Disinterred.  The music style was more oriented to the new music which was taking over from death metal: Doom.  The demo contains 3 songs and an intro and sold a few copies around.  But that was the end of our side project...

The basic cover layout of the Anhedonia demo tape

With the death of Anhedonia, Jean Pierre worked alone on his solo project Gruesome Funeral with 2 demos and a CD out, Dione had done a demotape with his solo project Sequela, and I joined a brutal death metal band, Dusk. They had 5 songs, all written before I joined in.  It was in March 1995 the first time we appeared, as support band. The response was magnificent and a month after we took part in a rock festival, Live Buzz '95.  Final exams approached and I had to postpone my playing time till summer. Then we starting working hard and seriously to record a demo, something which was never to be.  Dusk disbanded and I quit to join newly formed Maleficarum.  I agreed to help them out on bass duties in return they would play in my side project Disjecta Membra.  We only completed one full song, Demon Wind, when I had to quit; my music career had come to an end...

Photos taken in classical black and white during the first live appearance of Dusk on 3 March 1995 at Rick's Nightclub, Paceville		Me playing in front of the storming crowd at Live Buzz '95 on 2 April 1995 held on the Granaries, Floriana, Malta	Dusk, Live Buzz '95 kicking some ass with our brutal music.  We had about an hour of show time