Herege
Traditional heavy metal band from Brazil
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
In the end of 2001, was formed with Dennis de Lima (vocals), Rodrigo Dantas (bass), Maurício Velasco (drums) and Selvino Girardi (guitars) and the proposal of playing some covers of 70' and 80' bands like Judas Priest, Motörhead, Manowar and Iron Maiden. In the same year Selvino left and in 2002 the band decided to start writing their own songs and also had some line-up changes, which ended when Mateus Luft (guitars) joined the band.
In 2003 Herege released the first demo, titled , with two songs. This demo received a great response, even with a small promotion, made through a few concerts in the first semester of 2004.
In July of 2004 the band recorded their second demo, titled , with the tracks: , , and a cover of (Judas Priest). After finishing the recordings of the second demo, Mateus left the band, being replaced by two guitar players: Dalton Castro and Rui Pedroso. This second recording had a more intense promotion, with lots of concerts in Brazil for a year, including a concert with the thrash metal legend Atomica.
During the second semester of 2005, recorded the first EP, , containing the songs , and , which was released in 2006 as EP with the songs , and live videos recorded at Expo Ijuí as bonus. Actually the band is composing new songs which will be part of their first full length, and meanwhile, still promoting the EP, now with just one guitar since Rui Pedroso left the band.
Escaping from themes about fantasy, castles, dragons, darkness and mythology, Herege' lyrics are about real themes, which are part of the life every headbanger, talking about our world, society and its values, keeping the essence of heavy metal in every song.
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