Date Posted: 13/01/2010
2009 was the busiest year yet for THE AMENTA. The band undertook our first ever European tour in the beginning of the year with DEICIDE, SAMAEL, VADER, DEVIAN and ORDER OF ENNEAD. Crowds, venues and bands were great and we returned home in excellent live form. We came back to Australia in late January and jumped straight into the INDUSTRIAL CORRUPTION tour with THE BERZERKER, which spanned approximately 20 dates throughout Australia and New Zealand. Following this we teamed up with our good friends in PSYCROPTIC and RUINS on the Unleashing the Extreme tour for a short winter tour across the east coast of Australia.
The rest of 2009 was set aside for writing the follow up to 'n0n' but when the offer came into tour again with our friends in VADER in the US and Canada we jumped at the chance. The MONSTERS OF DEATH tour was exhaustive and exhausting. It was great to share the stage again with VADER as well as make new friends in DECREPIT BIRTH, WARBRINGER, AUGURY, SWASHBUCKLE and ROSE FUNERAL. 38 shows in 40 days. We left a trail of destroyed minds everywhere we went. 2009 saw a change in the personnel of THE AMENTA, with the replacement of Jarrod Krafczyk and Dale Harrison by Cain Cressall and Dan Quinlan on vocals and bass respectively. Both threw themselves into the touring experience with a professionalism and an aggression which elevated our live show even further. THE AMENTA is in the best form of our career and we have no doubt that we can now hold our own against any band, anywhere.
We are looking forward to 2010. We have made sure we will have time to record the follow up to 2008's 'n0n' album. Small pieces have begun to come together and, while it is too earlier to say how the album will eventually sound, early sounds have indicated a return to aggressive guitar coupled with even more aggressive electronics.
