Crematory (band)

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Crematory are a death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.

The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990's as tourmates of My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity. Much like the latter two groups, the band had begun as traditional death metal, then evolved with an industrial music and gothic metal musical direction on later albums. The band's success would also lead to appearances at various extreme metal festivals, including Germany's Wacken Open Air in the years 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2001, in addition to inclusion on Nuclear Blast compilation samplers.

The band re-signed to Massacre Records in 2006 after a 10 year stint with Nuclear Blast; Massacre had also been the band's first label.

Active for 15 years (with a brief split between 2001 and 2003) they are among one of Europe's longest running bands affiliated with the gothic metal genre.