The Amenta

Band members

• Current line-up
  • Endrin (bass)
  • Diazanon (drums)
  • Ethion (guitar)
  • Chlordane (keyboards)

• Former members
  • Cessium 137 (vocals)
  • Astennu (guitar) 2004
  • Andrew Lilley (guitar) 2003

Website

theamenta.com

Formed

Sydney, NSW, 2002

Band information

The Amenta is an extreme Sydney act with a sound encompassing death, black and industrial elements. The band evolved from an earlier act called Crucible of Agony, although almost no one from that band except Endrin is involved in The Amenta anymore. Members are drawn from several other well known bands, but exactly who they are was deliberately obscure for several years, although it was known that Andrew Lilley of Psi.Kore and Infernal Method and journeyman guitarist Astennu were members for brief periods, and that Dave and Joe Haley from Psycroptic are also members.

The Amenta had their debut album released through French label Listenable in 2004 almost a year before playing live for the first time. Occasus was voted into the top five Australian metal albums of 2004 by the listeners of the Triple J network's Full Metal Racket program and The Amenta won Best New Band at the Australian Heavy Metal Music Awards in February 2005.

The Amenta played live for the first time in mid-2005 and then toured with Alchemist and played shows with Dismember and Nile. Early in 2006, Cessium left The Amenta, but the band continued to work on the follow-up album due for release in September 2007.

Discography

Albums:

	2004	Ocassus	Listenable
	2007	Non	Listenable

EPs:

	2002	Mictlan	self release