DEVASTATOR WAS FORMED BY GUITAR/VOCALIST TYLER SATTERLEE AND DEREK BEAN ON DRUMS IN THE FALL OF 2001 IN COLFAX, CA. THEY QUICKLY COVERED MANY SONGS FROM BANDS SUCH AS SLAYER, METALLICA, MEGADETH, IRON MAIDEN, MOTORHEAD, JUDAS PRIEST, AND BLACK SABBATH UNDER THE NAME ATROSITY. ALWAYS HAVING A REVOLVING DOOR OF MUSICIANS COMING AND GOING, THEY FINALLY SETTLED AS A 3 PIECE WITH THE ADDITION OF THE 4-STRINGER NECK WRECKER PAT HAMBY IN 2002. NOW HAVING A SOLID LINEUP, THEY CONTINUED TO COVER SHITLOADS OF METAL SONGS FROM THEIR FAVORITE BANDS AND TRIED GIGGING LOCALLY AS MUCH AS THEY COULD PLAYING LOCAL CLUBS AND BATTLE OF THE BANDS AND HIGH SCHOOL RALLIES. ON JANUARY 1ST, 2005, ATROSITY RECORDED A 5 SONG E.P. KNOWN AS "FUCK EVERYTHING" WITH SONGS LIKE "MARCH OF THE WICKED" AND "SPEED DEMONS". THEY QUICKLY SOLD OVER 100 COPIES LOCALLY AND IN THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA AND ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES AS THE THRASH METAL BAND IN THE NOR CAL AREA. 2005'S LOCAL "WRECKING ROSEVILLE" TOUR SAW ATROSITY ESTABLISH THEMSELVES LOCALLY AND LANDING OPENING SLOTS FOR BANDS LIKE KREATOR AND OVERKILL. IN DECEMBER OF 2006, ATROSITY WAS FORCED TO CHANGE THEIR NAME FROM ATROSITY TO DEVASTATOR DUE TO THERE BEING A FAMOUS ATROSITY FROM GERMANY (BUT WITH A "C" INSTEAD OF AN "S"). FOLLOWING THE NAME CHANGE, DEVASTATOR QUICKLY RECORDED THEIR NEXT 5 SONG E.P., ‘CRUSH AND KILL’ IN TWO DAYS COMPLETLY ‘LIVE’ IN THE STUDIO. WITH A NEW RECORDING AND A HANDFUL OF SHOWS UNDER THE BELTS, THEY THEN SIGNED TO THE NEW INDEPENDENT LABEL BASED OUT OF LOS ANGELAS CALLED A.T.A. RECORDS. THIS LICENSING AGREEMENT WAS FOR THE NEW ‘CRUSH AND KILL’ ALBUM, BUT AFTER 13 MONTHS OF WAITING AND NO PRODUCT IN HAND, DEVASTATOR DROPPED THE LABEL AND PUT OUT THE RECORD ENTIRELY BY THEM SELVES. RELEASED ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 13TH , ‘CRUSH AND KILL’ QUICKLY SOLD ALL OVER CALIFORNIA AND IN OTHER MARKETS ACROSS THE GLOBE INCLUDING GERMANY AND JAPAN. DEVASTATOR THEN SPENT THE REMAINDER OF2006 AND MOST OF 2007 TOURING ALL OVER CALIFORNIA PLAYING WITH OTHER THRASH BANDS SUCH AS MERCILESS DEATH, HATCHET, GHOUL,WARBRINGER, FUELED BY FIRE, MALICIOUS ASSUALT, DEKAPITATOR, AVENGER OF BLOOD AND NATIONAL ACTS LIKE KREATOR (TWICE!) , SODOM, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, NAPALM DEATH, DRAGONLORD AND OVERKILL(TWICE!). IN THE FALL OF 2007, DEVASTATOR ONCE AGAIN HEADED BACK INTO THE STUDIO, THIS TIME IN PETALUMA CA, TO RECORD THEIR FOLLOW UP E.P. ENTITLED ‘SLAUGHTERED LIKE PIGS’, WITH THE HELP OF SLAVE PRODUCTIONS. RELEASEDIN LATE OCTOBER ‘S.L.P.’ QUICKLY BECAME A NEW FAN FAVORITE, AND DEVASTATOR JOINED THEIR BROTHERS IN ARMS, HATCHET IN A WEEK LONG WEST COAST TOUR. THE TOUR WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS, CULMINATING IN A HOME TOWN GIG AT THE BOARDWALK IN SACRAMENTO. ALWAYS GIGGING ACROSS THE WEST COAST AND ALWAYS WRITNING NEW MATERIAL, DEVASTATOR IS SURE TO CRUSH, KILL AND SLAUGHTER WHEREVER REAL THRASH IS NEEDED!!!Slaughtered Like Pigs... 12-29-07 924 Gilman http://www.myspace.com/obscured_byclouds Props to Wayne Marsala.. -- -- -- -- -- -- CDBABY LINK for DEVASTATOR: Crush and Kill --
