Anonymus is a

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band from

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, founded in 1989. Its members are Carlos Araya (drums), Oscar Souto (bass and vocals), Daniel Souto (guitar) and Jef Fortin (guitar).

History

The five musicians (the current members plus Marco Calliari) grew up together in Montreal and started their band in high school. In 1992, they independently released the EP ''The Dream That Lies'' and, in 1992, the EP ''Anonymus''. In 1994, also independently, they released their first album, ''Ni Vu, Ni Connu'' (Not Seen, Not Known). In 1995, they were signed to the new Montreal label Disques MPV, which paired them with the band Overbass to release the 10-track split ''Live Crash''. In 1996, they re-released ''Ni Vu, Ni Connu'' which, despite being all in French, had received excellent reviews. At the 1996 MIMI (Montreal Independent Music Industry) awards, the band won Best Metal/Rock Group. In 1997, Anonymus released the album ''Stress'', whose songs are in English, Spanish, Italian and French. In 1998, they played Quebec's Festival Polliwog; their performance was included on the concert's compilation CD. That November, they toured Mexico with

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, aka Mononc' Serge, to record the album ''L'Académie du massacre'', which Robert released independently."ANONYMUS, MAIS PAS INCOGNITO"
''Voir'', 2004/12/09/ They would do this again in 2008, with Robert releasing their joint album ''Musique Barbare''. It was nominated for Best Metal Album at the 2009 GAMIQ Awards. Their fifth studio album, ''

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'', was released by

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in 2006, to mainly positive reviews. The band was nominated for a

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Indie Award for Favorite Metal Artist/Group Or Duo of the Year in 2008. Still without a label, Anonymus decided to release their own music and formed Groupe Anonymus. They released the 2009 compilation album *''XX Metal''. That was followed in 2011 by ''État Brute'' and, in 2015, ''Envers et contre tous'' (Against All Odds). In 2016, Anonymus collaborated with the poets Bertrand Laverdure, Roger Des Roches, Erika Soucy, Thierry Dimanche and

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to create "Poésie Oralité Métal Musique Écrit" (Poetry Orality Metal Written Music). They toured France in support of it, then took park in

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's poetry festival, VERSeFest. In 2019, Anonymus released the album ''Sacrifices'' then, in 2020 and on the new label Bam&Co-Heavy, ''La Bestia'', their first album which is entirely in Spanish (all band members but Fortin are of

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an descent). It includes one new song and 11 songs from previous albums which the band members translated into Spanish. The concept came from their desire to move into Latin America, South America and Spain. Founding member

Marco Calliari Marco Calliari is a singer-songwriter born in Quebec from Italian parents. He began his career in 1989 in forming the thrash metal group Anonymus alongside Carlos Araya and brothers Daniel and Oscar Souto. Since 2003, he pursued a solo career ...

left the band in 2003 to pursue a solo career in

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music but, for this album, he returned to re-record the song "Tierra", which is sung in Spanish and Italian. The album, which was released via livestream, won the 2020 GAMIQ Award for Metal Album of the Year. It also won the first-ever "Piggy Award", named in honour of the late Voivod guitarist

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, aka 'Piggy', and awarded in recognition to those who have forged successful careers in the Quebec music industry. Aside from the band, Fortin is a producer and the other members have played with several other bands. Oscar Souto is featured in two songs, "Inner Capsule" and "Tunnel Effect" on the

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", for which he also does guest vocals on the studio versions. The band can be seen in B.A.R.F.'s DVD ''From The Grave''. Carlos is on the drum for half of the show and the band members make an appearance in "Taper Du Pied".

Discography

Albums

*''Ni Vu, Ni Connu'' (1994), Independent. Reissued 1996. *''

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'' (1997), Disques MPV *''Instinct'' (1999), Disques MPV *''Daemonium'' (2002), Kafka/Disques MPV *''L'Académie Du Massacre'' with

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aka Mononc' Serge (2003), Mononc' Serge Independent *''

'' (2006), Galy Records *''Musique Barbare'' with

aka Mononc' Serge (2008), Mononc' Serge Independent *''XX Metal'' (2009), Groupe Anonymus *''État Brute'' (2011), Groupe Anonymus *''Envers et contre tous'' (2015), Groupe Anonymus"En Entrevue : Anonymus – 27 ans de Metal !"
''Thorium Magazine'', Feb 1, 2016 *''Poesie Oralite Metal Musique Ecrit'' (2016), Productions Rhizome *''

Sacrifices Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Greeks, and possibly exis ...

'' (2019), Groupe Anonymus *''La Bestia'' (2020), Bam&Co - Heavy

EPs

*''The Dream That Lies'' (1992), Independent *''Anonymus'' (1993), Independent *''Live Crash'', split with Overbass (1996), Disques MPV

References

External links

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