Insidiöus Törment is a Danish heavy metal band with Eastern-European roots. Also known as IT, and often misspelled Insidious Torment. They are well-known for the fact that the heavy metal umlaut in their band name, which usually has a purely decorative function, is actually pronounced. In a musical genre that is sometimes described as proto-fascist [1], they are also noted for being one of the only overtly socialist heavy metal bands, along with a few other notable examples, such as Accept. Like Accept do in the lyrics to Balls to the Wall, Insidiöus Törment also call for the oppressed people of the world to rise and rebel in such songs as "Metal Balls", "The Enticer" and "Call to Arms".[2]
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The Encyclopedia Metallum lists them as a Danish heavy metal band.[3] However, on the band's Facebook-based fanclub, they are listed as residing in Schwartzdorf, Liechtenstein.[4] It appears that their more recent exploits have concentrated on the city of Århus, Denmark.[5] They recently headlined a concert in Århus (April, 2009).[6] In a 2005 interview, they talk about their problems touring in Denmark and their search for a manager.[7] In a concert review from the same year, their music is described as, "Good with coffee".[8] In a newspaper interview from 2007, guitarist "Killer" sentimentally describes his old, moldy Czech coffee machine and complains that Denmark is too clean.[9]
The band had their biggest success in the late 80’s culminating with “The Iron Curtain Tour” in ’89, where they played big stadium concerts in Moscow, Berlin, Gorkij Park, Moldova, and Bratislava among other places. Their biggest hit was titled “Great Cocks of Rock and Roll”.[10] After the fall of the Berlin wall the band tried for success in Western Europe. This ended in failure, after a fall out with the fans, during which the lead singer "Jake the Scream" was infuriated for being taken as kitsch or a comic band, and was quoted saying "I’m very unhappy for not being taken seriously. Our music is great art, but people of the west think only western music is great. I’ll not be clown of capitalism!
After the fall out with the Western European fans, the band withdrew from public for a number of years before making a second bid for success beginning in the late 90’s. The band has called this “The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal",[11] with mottos such as “Evil – Sexy” and “Heavy or Die”.
The Orange Revolution of Ukraine sparked the band's Eastern European come-back, as the band played in Kiev every night three weeks straight supporting the protesters.
Today the band have a strong fan base in Eastern Europe but are still struggling to achieve recognition in Western Europe, where the band have only attained a cult status among liberals - mainly university students.[12]
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