2009 |
PHERETRUM gets born in 2009 keeping in mind the idea of playing death metal mostly influenced by the 80's and 90's wave.
Spontaneously formed with the following line-up; Danilo Zimermann in guitars, Damián Acevedo at drums, Virginia Aldasoro in bass and Federico Seijo in guitars. After the first rehearsal with no previous experiences we felt it went out pretty good so we considered keeping active with this project. After some rehearsals we decided we were tight with the current members so the idea of getting a vocalist was disposed of, so Federico ended up doing vocals.
2010 |
After many rehearsals we started recording ourselves to check how sounded what we were doing, that's how we ended up releasing our first demo, a couple of months before doing our first gig, so the ones interested in the name of the band could know what we were doing at the time. That demo was named "Rehearsal Demo".
2011 |
That demo sound accomplished the objective for being a demo but we wanted to improve, to follow we opted to record new stuff with better sound and we released "Sentenced Until Dying Out", it sounded better but sacrificing a real drum and foolishly using a digital one.
2013 |
After the first live gig in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where we distributed that previous Single, we kept in touch with SHP. This Label offered us the opportunity to release an EP on tape which it was entitled "From the Underworlds". Up to this point that was the best quality sound the band ever recorded, and thanks to the underground movement it had great distribution abroad.
2015 |
We counted with enough tracks of our own to record an album, it was the aim after that previous EP. We recorded our first LP named "Still Being Maggots". It was really tough work to finish it, that tough that even the band split up.
These first five years of the band's existence achieved to release independent music, edited music and play outside Uruguay as it was in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Brasilia, Brazil.
This LP was mainly distributed throughout South America thanks to SHP (Argentina) and Proselytism Records (Chile), this last who also distributed it in their Music Store in Santiago.
Throughout these five years we played lots of gigs in Montevideo mainly, enough time to know some excellent people and lots of gig organizers, betrayers, hyporcrites,etc... It was not only a time of changes for the band internally but also we felt we had the moral obligation to expose this reality. At this point we stopped being part of the so called "metal scene". We started getting in touch with other bands from other genres where the underground values were the first thing in mind.
2016 |
Bruno Pastorelli, who recorded and mastered the first LP joined forces as lead guitarist.
Due to not having a drummer, we had a recorded rehearsal with the previous line-up so we release it independently on tape as promo, those tracks were going to be part of our future LP with the new line-up.
Joe Red joined forces as a drummer.
2017 |
We were fully dedicated to recording our first well done album. It was entitled "Alienated Demons".
It was released under our own label Extreme Resurrection Records.
We did official live presentations of it in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Asunción, Paraguay and we did it even in a self-organized gig at our neighbourhood in Shangrilá, Uruguay.
This new LP's Flyers, the distribution of our fanzine and live gigs abroad helped to rapidly make our moniker known in the global underground.
2018 |
The Argentinian Label Escafismos Records released "Beyond the borders of Sanity", an Split with the Greek band ECTOPLASMA. This helped us to be known on their territory too.
Other three Argentinian labels (Locuras Records, Despreciable Realidad, SHP) along with our own label Extreme Resurrection Records released a 100 copies 7" vinyl. It was an Split with the Uruguayan legend ANGKOR VAT. It was the best proposal for us because we used to play "I want to know" in our shows around 2015.
It was named by SHP, "A new beginning... The Black Shit of Uruguayan Depths"
The Japanese Label Deathrash Armageddon Records re-released "Alienated Demons" on PROCD with massive distribution.
Lots of trades among different labels and metalheads from the globe made the name of the band to appear in different fanzines from many countries, getting in the hands of more people involved in the movement.
2019 |
10 years of activities almost with no long interruptions have passed. Locally we are still a new band, unaccepted by the majority due to our extreme visions of anti hypocrites and we will remain like this.
"Alienated Demons" opened the door to the Legion of Death Records proposal of recording a 4 track EP on 7" vinyl which was named "Inwards Lunacy". Also with massive distribution globally. This EP counts with the appearance of some guests, like Andrea Pereira from the local band PANDEMONIUM and Victor Rued from the mighty GRAF SPEE.
At this point some other Argentinian labels were interested in keep supporting this band. Alokolik Holocaust Records offered us to release our first LP including the 2013 EP as bonus.
And another Argentinian label is in charge of releasing our next EP still without release date.
2020 |
To begin with bad news, Joe Red decided to leave the band so we frozen the project for a while. We released a Compilation with all our stuff for free, mainly for labels from abroad, so they could know our project and may be we could arrange something to go to play somewhere.
Federico spent the whole year trying to play drums, we thought a drummer would never appear.
In the mean time, Joe Red recorded the new stuff we had composed by the time, so we could invest our time in recording a new EP which got fully done and not released due to economical problems by the labels involved.
2021 |
Well, to our suprise Marcelo from BEATRIZ CARNICERO joined forces and we instantly kept rehearsing, composing,etc... in parallel we also finished recording some pending tracks that Joe left for us, so another unreleased EP got done. The future of these EP's is still unknown to us. But don't you think we are dead, fuk! we are here more agressive than ever!
2022 |
One of those pendings EP's got released by Goat Vomit Productions from Bolivia, got entitled "No Human Heritage" and it includes our first song written in Spanish as bonus. At the very same time the label Metallian Onslaught Records from Chile reissued our "Inwards Lunacy" on tape and the argentinian label Alkolik Holocaust Records reissue both of them together on CD. During the time that was happening we recorded another EP with marcelo on drums which will be splitted in half, one for a Brazilian compilation and the other for a Split. Let's see if those finally happen.
2023 |
Since the end of 2022 and this year, this is shit, rehearsals zero, marcelo and bruno are no longer part of the band. But few ideas for new tracks are still ongoing. Hopefully vik and federico will keep this struggle till the end of times.
After months trying with no luck, our great friends from JPI VIO-LENS KOMMAND, killer deathrash beast, joined forces to let us continue with this. Rehearsals are taking place, ideas are endless. Back on the road!
2024 |
After approximately one year, we achieved rehearsing enough tracks for a live gig, that's our aim this year, and we also recorded our latest two tracks for an Split!
For now you will be able to check some tracks of the previous unreleased EP recorded with Bruno and Marcelo on a new split CD with NIDAROS DESECRATION from Paraguay done by Alkoholik Holocaust Records.
To close this piece of crap year, we are once again without drummer.