The release date of the of the new album „Without Looking Back“ by the polish Hard and Heavy Metal Band KAT on CD is June 14th, 2019. The pre-order phase will start on May 31st, 2019 in Pure Steel Webshop.
KAT - once celebrated as the pioneers of Heavy Metal - are currently in their second spring.
The British Metal Hammer has recently selected their 1986 album "Metal And Hell" as one of the best 40 Black Metal albums in history, and their song 'Flying Fire' can be found in the movie "SQUADRON 303” - which held its world premiere in November 2018. Now their latest work "Without Looking Back" will be released through Pure Steel Records. With this work, they add another highlight to their career, which started in 1981. Just think of the classic '666' from 1986 or 'Bastard' from 1992.
Musically, KAT have always been an unpredictable metal monster that thrived in speed, heavy metal, black metal and later in thrash metal. In 2019 they are HEAVIER THAN EVER. The Quartet with the band’s constant leader and guitarist Piotr Luczyk at the forefront is tearing slowly at the guts of Heavy Metal. The monstrous guitar, however, always remains classically melodic. KAT left the old relationships to VENOM and SODOM far behind, but in 2019 they compete with ACCEPT and RAGE. KAT will be in full bloom in 2019.
TRACKLIST:
1. Black Night In My Chair
2. Poker
3. Medival Fire
4. The Race For Life
5. Flying Fire
6. Wild
7. Walls Of Whispers
8. Let There be Fire
9. More
10. The Promised Land
Total Playing Time: 60:56 min
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LINEUP
Qbek Weigel – vocals
Piotr Luczyk – guitars
Adam „Harris" Jasiński – bass
Mariusz Prętkiewicz – drums
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The metal legend and trash trailblazer from behind the Iron Curtain was established as an instrumental group by Piort Luczyk, the band’s guitarist in 1979. Two years later, on the eve of the introduction of the Martial Law in communist Poland the band is joined by a vocalist.
Following several successful gigs and festivals and a win at the most renowned Eastern Europe rock festival in Jarocin in 1984, KAT was noticed by Western experts and records its first album “Metal and Hell” under the Belgian “Ambush Records” label.
The planned European tour does not come to fruition due to political turmoil behind the Iron Curtain - the band members are denied passports to travel.
At home KAT supports a number of bands including Hanoi Rock and Pretty Maids and joins Metallica on their Polish leg of the Master of Puppets tour.
The band spends next years focusing on studio albums.
In 1998 KAT is honoured with the only tribute album ever for a Polish band. “Czarne zastepy” features such heavy-weights as Vader and Behemoth and their renditions of KAT’s tracks.
The band tours with Motorhead, Killer and Iron Maiden.
In 2005 as part of the „Mind Cannibals” promo tour KAT joins Six Feet Under for their European tour. The band then joins Helloween for a tour together.
In 2006 the band suspends activity.
Piotr Luczyk organises music festivals in Europe: Metallica ZLOT in Poland and Germany and the biggest European Cover Festival.
In 2014 KAT unexpectedly returns with the acoustic-symphonic record “Acoustic - Osiem filmow”
In 2016 the band enters the studio where it records their latest material, mysteriously named “Without Looking Back”.
A new chapter begins...
DISCOGRAPHY
Metal and Hell - 1986
666 - 1986
Oddech wymarłych światów - 1988
Bastard - 1992
Ballady - 1993
...Róże miłości najchętniej przyjmują się na grobach - 1996
Szydercze zwierciadło - 1997
Mind Cannibals - 2005
Acoustic - 8 filmów - 2014
Without Looking Back - 2019