Crackdust is a
death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, feat ...
band from
Botswana. Crackdust plays an aggressive style of death metal. Their themes are the undead, hatred and violence.
History
Crackdust was founded at the beginning of 2006 by Roth (vocals, electric guitar), S'Bond (bass) and Dlax (drums). The band released the first single ''Deranged Psychopath'' the same year. Their debut album, ''Dented Reality'', was published in December 2007. Mid-2008, Lee came as the new bassist for the band. The previous bassist S'Bond became the second guitarist of the band.
In early September 2008, Crackdust was the opening band of the Botswana Woodstock. In 2011, they released a second single ''Return of the Gods''.
They are referenced by Lance in season two of ''
Detectorists'' on
BBC.
Style
Crackdust is known for the slower tempos of their songs. Stylistically, the songs resemble a mixture of
Bolt Thrower
Bolt Thrower were an English death metal band from Coventry. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. The band then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling b ...
and
Dan Swanö
Dan-Erland Swanö (born 10 March 1973), also known as Dan "The Man" Swanö, is a Swedish musician and record producer who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale, lately vocalist, keyboardist and ...
's slower works.
The music of Crackdust has been compared to the works of
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988, now based out of Tampa, Florida. The band has released fifteen studio albums, two box sets, four video albums, and two live albums. The band has had little radi ...
.
Discography
;Singles
*''Deranged Psychopath'' (2006)
*''Return of the Gods'' (2011)
;Albums
*''Dented Reality'' (2008,
Core Riodic)
References
External links
*
Official MySpace page
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Botswana death metal musical groups
Culture of Botswana
2006 establishments in Botswana
Musical groups established in 2006
Musical quartets