Legendary New Orleans' Death Metal masters OPPROBRIUM are ready to unleash their fifth full-length entitled "The Fallen Entities" on 22nd February 2019 via High Roller Records!
Death/Thrash pioneers and brothers Francis (Guitars, Bass, Vocals) and Moyses M. Howard (Drums), who released classics like "Serpent Temptation" and "Beyond The Unknown", present their first studio release in 10 years and describe it as their most ambitious album to date. The songwriting goes to a new technical level with complex song structures and numerous tempo changes that the band is known for.
The album's opening track, "Dark Days, Dark Times", is now streaming below:
Two more songs are available:
"Wicked Mysterious Events":
+ "The Fallen Entities":
'The Fallen Entities', the fifth studio full-length is the brand-new album by this world renowned legendary death / thrash metal pioneers brothers Francis (Guitars, Vocals) and Moyses M. Howard (Drums) in 10 years, since the release of 'Mandatory Evac' in 2009, and it's described by the band's riff master / vocalist Francis as; "One of the most ambitious albums that we've ever written”.
Lyrically Opprobrium's 'The Fallen Entities' will take you into a distant past to a present reality, and musically the band's songwriting goes to a new technical level and complex song structures that the band is known for along with numerous tempo changes. Opprobrium once again raised the bar with their soon to be release epic death / thrash metal album 'The Fallen Entities'.
Tracklist:
1. Dark Days, Dark Times
2. Creations That Affect
3. Wicked Mysterious Events
4. The Fallen Entities
5. Throughout the Centuries
6. Turmoil Under the Sun
7. In Danger
8. Obstructive Behaviour
So get ready, OPPROBRIUM is back!
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LINEUP
Moyses M. Howard - Drums
Francis M. Howard - Guitars, Vocals
BIOGRAPHY
Back in mid 1982, Moyses M. Howard (drums) and Francis M. Howard (guitar, vocals) moved from their native land of Rio de janeiro, Brazil with their parents and settled down in Louisiana (New Orleans) USA, after as little as a year Moyses took interest in music and drums, which made an immediate impact on Moyses, he then encouraged his younger brother Francis to take guitar lessons, Francis was instantly interested to learn and practice more and more.
For the brothers, from '84 then on, both formed numerals metal bands with friends from school and numerous musicians, playing shows, under quite a few different band names at the time. After a couple a years, after they took interest in the newer underground metal bands and hardcore in the mid 80's that was starting to gain popularity, speed fascinated the brothers; Then on February 1986, they formed Incubus (Opprobrium’s old band name at that time).
Moyses and Francis put Scot W. Latour on vocals, a New Orleans born bass player, which have been playing also in the same Heavy Metal bands under different names with the Howard brothers for quiet a few years before the birth of Incubus. In May '87, the trio recorded their first demo, entitled; "Supernatural Death". which spread thru the underground Death Metal scene as the band continued on playing shows. A few months after the release of their demo, the band released their first debut album "Serpent Temptation" (produced by Incubus a.k.a. Opprobrium) through a small US label and Metal Works (UK).
This masterpiece made quite and impact in the international metal scene and built up a strong worldwide fan following. At the end of '89, the band was looking for a new label to release their second album. In the mean time, in late '89, bassist/vocalist Scot W. Latour left the band and the brothers found a new bassist in Mark Lavenia, a native of Orlando, Florida. The band moved to Tampa, Florida back in '89, and Francis took over the vocals duties.
Both the band a newer label; Nuclear Blast, that was freshly starting out, got in contact with each other in early 1990 in talks for the second band project. Nuclear Blast took the chance, signed the band and released the brilliant follow-up "Beyond the unknown" in the mid 1990, an album that both Francis and Moyses recorded by themselves as solely musician at Morrisound recording studio in Tampa, Florida (produced by Incubus a.k.a. Opprobrium and Tom Morris.) The second album once again received raving responses by both media and fans worldwide at that time and in 1991 the band embarked into their first headlining extensive European tour.
On February 1992 the band moved back to New Orleans , Louisiana, departing also from bass player Mark lavenia. A couple of years later, in mid 1994, Francis and Moyses recorded a remake (produced by the band) of their classic first album "Serpent Temptation" (released by Radiation Records/Nuclear Blast Records in 1996), which one of their songs of this project "The battle of Armageddon", was featured in the popular Nuclear Blast Records compilation series; :Death.....is just the beginning" Vol.III in 1994.
In 1997, the brothers started to write new material and in late 1999, Francis and Moyses decided to record once again a collection of 10 new songs with Nuclear Blast records. They started to record their third album "Discerning Forces" during October/November 1999 in their native land of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at Discovery Digital Studio (with producer Harris Johns: Kreator, Sodom, Voivod, Whiplash, etc.).
Harris Johns mixed the album at his Spider House studio (Berlin, Germany) in Feb-March of 2000. Once again the Howard brothers did the whole recording as a 2 piece band, Francis played all the rhythm and lead guitars, bass and vocals, while Moyses handled the drums. "Discerning Forces" released in 2000, the band's third album, was released under a new band name; Opprobrium.
The album shows a much more technical death metal material ever recorded by the brothers, with Francis reaching one of his most brutal vocal tones to date. The band changed their name from Incubus to Opprobrium, so their fans won’t mistake them to the new Pop/Rock band Incubus from Calabasas, California, which at that time were emerging commercially in the pop radio waves and with lots of videos airplay on MTV in America and worldwide, so the band had no choice but to change their name to avoid any confusions between the two bands.
In October of 2005 both Moyses and Francis along with their families coincidently moved back to Tampa, Florida, after the devastating effects of the powerful hurricane "Katrina", which destroyed their home town of Metairie/New Orleans in the state of Louisiana, and the Howard brothers has been living in Tampa ever since. During the fall of 2007, Francis and Moyses started to talk about a fourth Oprobrium record and from this meeting Francis started working on the new material for the new Opprobrium album. This was the first time in which Francis wrote by himself without Moyses.
In early 2008 Moyses and Francis started to rehearse the new songs, that's when Moyses started contributing once again with his arrangements, song structure and timing, as he always does since the band's debut album "Serpent Temptation" back in 1988. In July and August of 2008, the band recorded and mixed the new album in Tampa, Florida, and again, another album recorded by the 2 brothers, with Francis yet again doing all the guitars, solos, vocals and bass, and his brother Moyses on the drums.
Eight years later (2008 Europe/Worldwide - 2009 U.S.A./N. America) Opprobrium is back again with a vengeance with one of their most brutal and powerful album to date "Mandatory Evac" (produced by the band) through Metal Mind Records. Opprobrium is expected to tour soon in 2009 to support their brand new album and to play in as many cities worldwide as possible.
DISCOGRAPHY
Discerning Forces - 2000
Beyond the Unknown - 2008
Serpent Temptation - 2008
Mandatory Evac - 2008
Serpent Temptation - 2016
The Fallen Entities - 2019