The Amenta
Band members
- Current line-up
- Cain Cressal (vocals)
- Dan Quinlan (bass)
- Erik Miehs (guitar)
- Tim Pope (keyboards)
- Robin Stone (drums)
- Former members
- Jarrod Krafczyk (vocals) 2006 - 2009
- Endrin (Dale Harrison) (bass)
- Diazonon (Dave Haley) (drums)
- Joe Haley (guitar)
- Scott Bernascone (guitar)
- Cessium 137 (vocals)
- Astennu (guitar)
- Andrew Lilley (guitar)
Website
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. Members were drawn from several other well known bands. Andrew Lilley of Psi.Kore and Infernal Method and journeyman guitarist Astennu were members for brief periods, and Dave and Joe Haley from Psycroptic were also members for a number of years up until 2007 when other commitments forced them to step down.
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, the original vocalist left The Amenta, but the band continued to work on the follow-up album originally due for release in September 2007. After this the band toured nationally with Festival of the Dead, with the guitar role being filled by ex-Switchblade member Scott Bernascone.
The long-awaited album nOn was released on October 20, 2008 and features contributions from various former members as well as others including Jason Mendonca from Akercocke, Alex Pope of Ruins and Nergal from Behemoth. In January 2009 The Amenta toured Europe with Deicide, Samael and Vader before returing to Australia for a three-month national tour with The Berzerker. Following that, the band then headed around Australia with Psycroptic. Dan Quinlan from Paindivision and Cain Cressal of Malignant Monster joined The Amenta in 2009. In April 2010 the band toured nationally with Behemoth, Job For a Cowboy and Goatwhore and is now preparing for the release of an EP.
Discography
Albums:
| 2004 | Occasus | Listenable | |
| 2008 | n0n | Listenable |
EP:
| 2002 | Mictlan | self release |