Kurb Saatus is a melodic doom/death metal band from The Netherlands and has been around since 1994. It started out as a four-piece formation, but pretty soon a second guitar player was added.
In August of 1995 the first recording was released. This by a demo simply called "Kurb Saatus". This demo contained four tracks on which the band tried to mix different styles of metal in some sort of new form. To a large extent they succeeded at that point. Responses on the demo were diverse, but mostly positive.
In December of 1996 the vocalist left the band. A new vocalist was found soon, and this was pretty important too, because recordings were scheduled for February of 1997. Some hard work had to be done, but in February of 1997 5 songs were recorded, 3 of which were released, with some delay, on a self-financed 3"MCD Called "Never Forgotten". This MCD sounded a lot different than the demo, this mostly because of the better instrument-handling and the quality of songs. Also the recording-quality of a real studio like Excess made a lot of difference. After the recording of "Never Forgotten" came a long period of no productivity at all, this was mostly caused by a growing tension between band members. This had to be stopped and in September of 1997 a guitar-player was kicked out of the band.
After some time a replacement was found. New blood gives new inspiration so some old songs were re-written and new songs were created, every song being more melodic and up-tempo. 3 tracks were recorded for a promo-MCD in 2002. In the following years we had our ups and downs, creating new songs took a lot of time. There were too many personal problems within the band so we had to take some action to stop this. In 2005 one of the founders of the band, Eric, moved to Ireland and had to stop with the band. At first we tried to play with just one guitarist, but that was no option for our music, so we had to find another one.
After a couple of months we asked Corné of KKE to join us and he did. It took some time learning the repertoire but we are now in the process of writing new songs again and we soon hope to find a new man or woman on mic since vocalist Peter retired (thanks & take care!) in 2006.
