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Mannaz

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Mannaz was founded in january 2004 by Michael Eijk, who asked his longtime musical partner Wilmar Taal to join him in an old school death metal band. Old school meaning in the vein of Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Necrophagia, early Death and Obituary. The duo started recording at Studio KingFisher in Krommenie. The first lifesign was the Celtic Frost cover 'Dethroned Emperor' which was featured on the tribute page on www.celticfrost.com. Mannaz recorded some self written material and a bathory cover of '13 Candles'. The purpose was to release a mini-CD. On september 24th Mannaz performed their first and only gig at De Kade in Zaandam. On bass they had a guest bassist: Arno van Goor. After that Mannaz kinda went on ice.In september 2005 plans were made to revive Mannaz. Mike and Wilmar decided to record in Wilmar's own studio and to release a full length album. As we speak the band is working hard on new material, on which Arno will make his songwriting debut for Mannaz with a mindblowing effort. When the album will be recorded, is uncertain, we are doing this for the fun of it, not because we have to. In december 2007 Mike decided he wanted to spend more time with Midian, for whom he was starting to play bass. He wished Mannaz the best of luck. Mannaz approached drummer Marco Anjos with the question if he wants to play drums, and he is very enthousiastic. We only have to match agenda's to see if things work out fine.During 2008 Mannaz will continue to work on new material, which will slightly differ from the original idea of old school death metal. Nevertheless it will be very heavy, very dark and very metal!

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Shape of Sins to Come, live at "De Kade" Zaandam, The Netherlands, 29 september 2004There is no God, live at "De Kade" Zaandam, The Netherlands, 29 september 2004


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Member Since: 18/10/2006
Band Website: You're looking at it...
Band Members: Wilmar Taal: guitars/vocals - Arno van Goor: bass - Will Marco be the new drummer of Mannaz?
Influences: Early Venom, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, Bathory, Death, Obituary, Necrophagia, Dream Death, Slaughter (Ca)
Sounds Like: The music you always loved, but what does not appear nowadays...
Record Label: Conventional Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Mannaz quits forever

After Mike leaving we were looking for a new drummer, and we were thinking about changing the style a bit. But the direction Arno wanted to go was not the direction Wilmar wanted to go. This means tha...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Mike decides to leave Mannaz

Drummer Mike has decided to leave Mannaz and to put all of his time in Midian, in which he plays bass. Mike wasn't keen on the drumming. He wishes Mannaz the best of luck for the future. And the futur...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:18:00 GMT

Chainsaw, Flesh and the huge amount of Blood

There is a tiny update about the mini-CD we intend to release in january 2008. I (Wilmar) spoke Arjan Brusche last saturday at café Fishline. Arie told me that they are still looking for the original ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:11:00 GMT

Mannaz announces new leadsinger

Rinus 'sicksixsix' Peereboom is the new leadsinger of Mannaz. Rinus is also known of his work with MIDIAN and TASTOE, allthough death metal fans don't want to know about the second one. You can l...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:46:00 GMT

Mannaz reunites

The members of Mannaz have spoken about reuniting under certain conditions. One of the conditions was: no obligations. On which we all agreed. Rehearsal once or twice a month. Also agreed. Sometimes a...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:29:00 GMT

Wilmar leaves Mannaz

Due to various disappointments in his musical carreer, Wilmar has decided to quit bands alltogether. This does not mean that Wilmar is quitting music or playing music, he just doesn't want the project...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:08:00 GMT

New songs, matching agenda's and summer holidays

Mannaz is laying low again, due to busy schedules with our own bands Midian and Staring to Nowhere. During June Arno is going to Scandinavia to get inspired and to do research into satanic rites. Duri...
Posted by on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:36:00 GMT

Mannaz is BACK!!

Last friday Mannaz rehearsed in the original line up since two years. There have been some talks about the new album. Well here is the deal: - The album is going to be partially recorded at Studio Vio...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:13:00 GMT

Mannaz new album update

Coming saturday march 31st Mike, Arno and Wilmar will get together again to rehearse old and new Mannaz songs. The idea is to record an album with brand new tunes, mix and master the old songs an...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:30:00 GMT

Final mix

It seems that KingFisher is finishing up the recording of their album. This means that we could finally make a final mix of our former five recordings over there. Actually we recorded six songs. One i...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:39:00 GMT