Legen Beltza was born in 1998, inmediately they released Ziztu bizian, their very first demo. After a year playing shows around the basque country they recorded a new demo, leading to a deal with the basque label “IZ Rock†for their debut album Istorio Triste bat (2001-IZ Rock). In the promotion tour of this album they began growing step by step in the basque metal scene. They also got very good reviews from the nationally known metal magazines.
Sharing stage with some famous local bands opened their eyes and they decided to change the language to english, expanding horizons to the world. After recoding some demos in English and sending them to worldwide labels, Jeff Waters was interested on working with Legen Beltza, and at the same time they closed a good deal with Arizona based Crash Music Inc.(USA), releasing their debut album in English Insanity (2003-Crash Music). With this new album, they had the chance to open for bands like Napalm Death or Exodus, establishing their thrasher status in Spain and catching the eye of the international media.
A really poor distribution in Spain of Insanity lead to re-edit it in Spain with a bonus live DVD called Total Insanity (2005-El Diablo). With this release they reached whole Spain, and in the promotional tour they played some festivals with bands like Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater, etc.
With the experience obtained with this tour and due to the poor relationship with Crash Music, they decided to change of label once more, this time signing a two album deal with the legendary Belgium based Mausoleum Records, releasing their third work Dimension Of Pain (2006 – Mausoleum Records). DOP has been distributed in Europe, USA and Canada, and has received really good reviews, especially in Germany, Netherlands and Spain. The first part of the promotional tour of DOP concluded with about 25 gigs before summer, headlining most of them through all Spain, Thrash Attack 1 (Madrid), Thrashcelona (Barcelona)…, and opening for other great bands in others, just to mention the apotheosic night with the German thrash masters Destruction in Durango.
After a break they are in the second assault of the DOP tour, having already played in Albacete, Thrash Attack 2 (Seville) and some other cities. There are some gigs to confirm yet, but they’re playing some very interesting gigs opening for the Swedish metal bros Nightrage through Spain, and some festivals here and there, one in France, another one in HMH 5 in Valencia…
We are waiting for the day they jump to Europe and kick some asses out there. Soon…. THRASH TILL DEATH!!