Hibernus Mortis

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Hibernus Mortis

Origin Miami, Florida
Years active 1995—present
Genres Death metal
Labels Abort the World Records

Contents

[edit] Biography

Hibernus Mortis was started in December of 1995 by founding members Cesar Placeres and Ralf Varela. The band took its name from the ancient latin translation for "Dead Winter". Starting out, the South Florida band's primary goal was to create some of the most crushing and extreme music ever recorded. Taking influence from a variety of sources, musically the band took inspiration from the old-school death metal bands like Incantation, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Death, Dismember, Immolation, Entombed, Obituary, Vader and Suffocation just to name a few.

The band's sound is mainly categorised as death metal, with definite black metal and doom metal influence. Hibernus Mortis has been a staple of the legendary Florida death metal scene for over a decade and have fans all around the world from as far away as Germany, Norway and Iceland, to South Africa, Singapore, and Australia. The band has always retained an underground low-key status, but definitely sporting a modest cult following. The band is currently based out of Pembroke Pines, FL.

[edit] Members

Over the years the band has gone through several line-up changes, with the only core member being Cesar Placeres.

(2005 - ) Alex Campbell - Vocals and Guitar David Miller - Guitar and Vocals Adrian Esquivel - Bass Cesar Placeres - Drums

(2004 - 2005) Ralf Varela - Vocals and Guitar Alex Campbell - Guitar David Miller - Bass and Vocals Cesar Placeres - Drums

(2000 - 2003) Ralf Varela - Vocals and Guitar Doug Humlack - Guitar David Miller - Bass and Vocals Cesar Placeres - Drums

(1999 - 2000) Ralf Varela - Vocals and Guitar Doug Humlack - Guitar Cesar Placeres - Drums

(1998 - 1999) Ralf Varela - Vocals and Guitar Doug Humlack - Guitar Yasser Morales - Bass Cesar Placeres - Drums

(1996 - 1998) Adam Fleury - Vocals Ralf Varela - Guitar Doug Humlack - Guitar Yasser Morales - Bass Cesar Placeres - Drums

[edit] Subject matter

The band's lyrics as well as overall presentation and imagery have always been set in a bleak and morose atmosphere. The band's songs deal with a wide variety of topics including the apocalypse, death, suffering, revenge, solitude, and hatred.

On rare occasion the band has been known to get lyrical inspiration from movies, 2 movies in particular the band has written songs about are The Prophecy and Urotsukidoji: Legend Of The Overfiend.

[edit] Guitar sound

Since the beginning, one of the band's most distinguishing qualities was their ridiculously de-tuned and ferocious guitar sound. Hibernus Mortis was one of the pioneers in tuning to "G" which was totally unheard of back then and still pretty rare even to this day. Aside from the ultra low tuning, the band achieves their trademark guitar sound through lots of tedious knob tweaking, obscenely thick strings and the use of unconventional equipment which the band jokingly likes to keep secret and is something the band has been perfecting through the years. Even though this sound has been praised by many, there are still certain detractors who try to dismiss it as muddy noise.

[edit] Discography

  • Into The Thresholds Of Dead Winter (1998)
  • Live Manslaughter (2000)
  • The Existing Realms Of Perpetual Sorrow (2002)
  • Hail The Apocalypse! (2004)
  • Anthems Of Disgust: The Complete Discography (2006)

The band also plans on releasing a couple more albums in the near future including a couple split/7' inches and CDs.

[edit] Concert history

Even though the band rarely performs, Hibernus Mortis has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in the genre, including:

[edit] Related bands

The members of Hibernus Mortis have played in several previous bands, as well as current side projects. Here is a list of some of the bands Hibernus Mortis members have been linked to.

  • Murder 101
  • Enemy Against Enemy
  • The Sonny Chiba Death Cult
  • Acrimonium
  • Devastator
  • Capra Hircus
  • Tyranny Of Shaw
  • Tomb
  • Black Spit Prophecy
  • Jinchu

[edit] External links

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