This is a big piece of totally non relevant history , but for who'se got the nerves to read it all be our guest,answered by Lolo......Well,first i've been democraticly delegated to write down a boring biography of VISIONS OF WAR, in order to offer you something more clear.so here we go!!VISIONS OF WAR was formed october 96 (it's such a long time ago !)in the flemish part of hellgium (dutch speaking part) with the following line-up : Davy : bass,Filip : drums,Stef : guitar,Steffen : vocals.Shortly afterwards Steve joined the band , after attending a rehearsel and offered to shout a bit with them,as 2nd vocalist , and a 10 song demo was recorded in april 98,then a second one in december 98 (after an offer to do a release for filth ear records),5 songs where 3 where used for the split EP with OKOTTA (Hellgium) in 2000 (now you can find the full second demo as a bonus on the split CD/K7 with MASS GENOCIDE PROCESS).After around 15 or 20 gigs,and when a few members where supposed to join the band , VISIONS OF WAR had a break (a split-up if you want) in may 2000.But the nightmare started once again,exactly 4 months later with a brand new line-up in september.When Davy and steffen left the band , Filip,Stef and steve kept their instruments , 3 (not so) sexy boys joined the crew : Arno from the french part of Hellgium as 2nd guitarplayer,Lolo from France-id as 2nd sinker,and Tom from flanders as bass-tard player.But this last one left the band in october 01 after a few tours in France,Germ-money,Hole-land and Hellgium.unfortunatly nothing has been recorded during this line-up.Immediatly after Toms departure ,Boris "Gro",from Wallonie (frenchspeakin' part of Hellgium) full-time wife of Arno and V.O.W.-groupie,took the bass.Then back on the road for lots of small tours,and finally recording in april 2002 in A'doom by DEJAN M.O.K. at the "Kaptain Kaos Studio"!
From this recording ,a part was remastered and taken for a spli lp with OLHO DE GATO in 2003.Later the loosers where ready for a tour in Germ-money,Switserland when Boris announced the day before leaving he was too sick to tour (he really was!!!). Our friend Gork was coming along with us ,and he could play bass , so he learned the songs in the van on the road and managed to play with us!!But bad luck and a doom cloud kept hanging above our heads,Filip had to stop drumming with the band in march 2003 shortly after a tour in Hole-land,Germ-money and Denmark coz his ears where getting pretty damaged because of the noise we played (tinnitus strikes again).Than Dejan from OLHO DE GATO accepts to be the new (temporary)drummer!!Despite the impossabillitys to rehearse (Dejan lives in A'doom ,which is quite a while from Liege),the tours kept going on,but without new songs.At the end of 2003 ,VISIONS OF WAR (except Dejan) are embarked on a new (fun)project:PISSEDCHARGE,which was a DISCHARGE cover band ,using only songs from 80-82.We took Azill (who played drums ) as d-beater , then the massacre:14 hits from the dudes from Coke-On-Trend,and PISSEDCHARGE ,which was supposed to be a "one show band"followed VISIONS OF WAR for 2 short tours (Alkmaar,Utrecht,Liege and Leipsig,Potsdam,Berlin).After the last show in Kopi , Azill was asked to join VISIONS OF WAR as the new drummer since it was easier to practice with him living in Liege.The dude agreed since he had no other band to play drums in,and in february 2004 he's an official loser like the rest of us.
Then again new songs (finally) and tours came it was time to drown PISSEDCHARGE,the last gig was in Liege,april.During that year ,2004,we played several countries (Luxembourg,Holland,Hellgium,Germ-money,Denmark,Sweden,Tsjec
hia,England) and record in september 12 songs with Zeff in a schoolbasement in Liege.
The session appears on a split lp with MASS GENOCIDE PROCESS from Tsjechia and a split 12" with dear friends COP ON FIRE from Spain,Suisse and the U.S. ,both in 2005.The split with MASS GENOCIDE PROCESS was put out on tcd and as we speak tape with unreleased bonus tracks from both bands.The cd , just out now ,with our split with COP ON FIRE has COP ON FIRE's first lp as bonus and our side from the OLHO DE GATO split.
In 2005 we played a bit less and toured in april/may,9 dates in Hellgium,Germ-money,Switserland and France.Than we recorded again with "M.O.K." Dejans studio 5 songs for a new 7",but this one we have to go back for since we where doomed again,so still have to play solos and do the vocals again (they sounded friggin' death-metalish).
Still in 2005,after a few month break (vacation time),we played London and Bradford after that an extensive almost all weekendgigs for 2 months from Hellgium to France and Germ-money .........VOW played around 170 gigs till now in around 12/13 countries and the drunkness continues!!!!!
In may/june were back on the road as we made a longer tour in germoney,
den(skid)mark,sweden,norway,czech and austria with our friends the mighty bands NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR,INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL and GUIDED CRADLE..12gigs in 7countries!!!RELEASES;U.P.S. the record 7";1 song (totally wrong mastered ,not by us!!)with BOYCOT.SIN DIOS,SHEARS,P.C.P.,POINT OF FEWVISIONS OF WAR/OKOTTA split 7"VISIONS OF WAR/OLHO DE GATO split lpVISIONS OF WAR/MASS GENOCIDE PROCESS split lp/cd/tapeVISIONS OF WAR/COP ON FIRE split 12"/CDin the (near) future;VISIONS OF WAR 7""VISIONS OF WAR/NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR/
INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL/GUIDED CRADLE" LP(..the rise of apocalyptic crust!!!)
