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THE SETUP

Minister of Death

About Me

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. Fueled by the current violent state of the world and personal struggles, The Setup have embarked on a mission to create the perfect soundtrack for all hostility to come. Indifferent towards trends and scene antics, pissed off with the fear propaganda and disgusted by ignorance, The Setup are not afraid to take their stance, using intense musical and lyrical messages. Over the years The Setup have been earning street credentials with their breakthrough record “The Pretense Of Normality” and the steady touring that followed. Faced with the ordeals inherent to underground music and constant touring, members were bound to come and go, leaving the band behind with a line-up that’s the most efficient and confident to date.

Two years after their last album, and determined to continually progress while sticking to their trademark heavy-hitting and technically skilled sound , The Setup have returned to the studio with a take-no-prisoners approach. This new outing entitled “Minister Of Death” sees them evolving in their signature sound, whilst tuning down a notch and adding the rawest and most vicious riffs they’ve conjured so far, creating a dark, gloomy and above all heavy album, which is bound to pass the test of time.

After supporting their lauded debut album for GSR-Music and having toured with The Path Of Resistance and Ringworm among others, and despite constantly playing every stage possible, The Setup found the time to retreat to their familiar and confined rehearsal room, to create 11 new blistering hardcore tracks. For “Minister Of Death” the band once again took producer Ace Zec to the challenge, to put their rawest and most sincere tracks yet to tape, to emerge from the studio with all guns blazing. In addition to 11 blistering tracks, complex artwork by Holland's Dennis DamnEngine and a bonus-DVD, “Minster Of Death” is bound to burn ears and make heads turn.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/5/2004
Band Website: thesetupkills.com
Band Members: andries - guitar
raf - guitar
Michiel - bass
Krikke - vocals
serch - drums

Influences: Earth Crisis, Hatebreed, Helmet, Harvest, Damnation AD, VOD, Integrity, Snapcase, 108, Starkweather, Rain, Crown of Thornz, Unbroken, Turmoil...
Sounds Like: HARDCORE
Record Label: GSR / Reality
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

the dawn of a new era

Looking back at 2007 made us realise we had by far the most interesting year in the history of this band so It's easy to remember the highlights of these last 12 months. First there was the new recor...
Posted by THE SETUP on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:04:00 PST

MERCH ONLINE

Kids that want to rock our shirts and other merch, check myspace.com/thesetupmerchHard as nails and never out of style! ...
Posted by THE SETUP on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:01:00 PST

MORE REVIEWS

Hardcoretimes.netSometimes things at HT-HQ! get kinda stagnant, nothing that outstanding comes in for review, but when I saw the GSR package on the floor and opened it up and saw the new Setup CD, I k...
Posted by THE SETUP on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:58:00 PST

REVIEWS "Minister Of Death"

taketherisk.netSETUP, THE "Minister Of Death" (GSR Music)Since the day of their inception Belgium's THE SETUP belong to Europe's most recognized acts. The band received through and through positive re...
Posted by THE SETUP on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:15:00 PST

MINISTER OF DEATH RELEASE SHOWS

GET INTO IT! ...
Posted by THE SETUP on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:41:00 PST

Tour report pt. 2

23.11.2006 The nights are getting cold in the van. Last night I had to put a hoodie on to keep myself warm and even that wasn't enough. Because we are lazy assholes we refuse to figure out how the he...
Posted by THE SETUP on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:27:00 PST

Tour report pt. 1

20.11.2006 A small update on the Ramallah-Death Before Dishonor tour. Things have been going awesome so far. We played some great shows, met some cool people and last but not least had some good fun....
Posted by THE SETUP on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:20:00 PST

Studio Pt. 1

Hello Everybody A quick update about our first days in the studio and I 'm proud to announce that there were no problems during the first days, we recorded drums. Serch did a good job at the CCR studi...
Posted by THE SETUP on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:12:00 PST

Minister of Death

With the summer holidays coming to an end were also approaching the date where were gonna hit the studio to record our new full length. Within 6 weeks well be entering the CCR studios to record the dr...
Posted by THE SETUP on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:43:00 PST

Hail the Jacky

Its with great respect and regret, we have to announce the departure of drummer Benjamin Buschgens, long-time friend and co-founder of this band. When we started all this  3,5 years ago, Benjamin...
Posted by THE SETUP on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:29:00 PST