In-quest
Encyclopedia
In-Quest is a technical death metal
band from Belgium
. Formerly signed with Good Life Recordings
, they are currently unsigned. The band have been active underground since the Early 90s, with Sven de Caluwe as a singer from 2002 to 2004, when he left to focus on Aborted
; he was replaced by Swedish singer Mike Löfberg from Blockhead. They have released six albums to date, with a special edition Vinyl "Liquidation Files" to be released in 2010.
In-Quest have played at a number of festivals in Belgium and the Netherlands, such as Frostrock, Flanders Fields of Death, Arnhem Metal Meeting
, and (alongside bands like Slipknot
, Fear Factory
, Nile
, Motörhead, Saxon
, and Ensiferum
) Graspop Metal Meeting
in 2005 (Metal Dome), 2006 (Marquee 1) and 2009 (at Mainstage). Also in 2006, In-Quest opened for Fear Factory
, on their "Fifteen Years of Fear" tour. They also supported Nile in 2005 on their EU tour.
Guitars
Bass
Also In-Quest f.k.a. "System Shit" active from 1992–1994
consisted of members:
Technical death metal
Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...
band from Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
. Formerly signed with Good Life Recordings
Good Life Recordings
Good Life Recordings is a record label based in Belgium. It was founded in 1996 by Edward Verhaeghe who had been the lead vocalist in Nations On Fire. The label specializes in hardcore bands. It has released many highly significant bands of the second and third wave of hardcore, as well as the...
, they are currently unsigned. The band have been active underground since the Early 90s, with Sven de Caluwe as a singer from 2002 to 2004, when he left to focus on Aborted
Aborted
Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...
; he was replaced by Swedish singer Mike Löfberg from Blockhead. They have released six albums to date, with a special edition Vinyl "Liquidation Files" to be released in 2010.
In-Quest have played at a number of festivals in Belgium and the Netherlands, such as Frostrock, Flanders Fields of Death, Arnhem Metal Meeting
Arnhem Metal Meeting
Arnhem Metal Meeting was a heavy metal festival held in Arnhem, the Netherlands in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. It was booked by TMR Music Promotions and took place at the Musis Sacrum in Arnhem....
, and (alongside bands like Slipknot
Slipknot (band)
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...
, Fear Factory
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...
, Nile
Nile
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in North Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. It is long. It runs through the ten countries of Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Egypt.The Nile has two major...
, Motörhead, Saxon
Saxon (band)
Saxon are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As front-runners of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, they had 8 UK Top 40 albums in the 1980s including 4 UK Top 10 albums. Saxon also had numerous singles in the Top 20 singles chart...
, and Ensiferum
Ensiferum
Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...
) Graspop Metal Meeting
Graspop Metal Meeting
Graspop Metal Meeting is an annual metal festival in Dessel, Belgium that has taken place each year since 1996. Despite the small size of the festival grounds the festival draws a large number of international spectators, with a total of 142,000 visitors in the course of the 2011 edition...
in 2005 (Metal Dome), 2006 (Marquee 1) and 2009 (at Mainstage). Also in 2006, In-Quest opened for Fear Factory
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...
, on their "Fifteen Years of Fear" tour. They also supported Nile in 2005 on their EU tour.
Current members
- Mike "MiQe" Löfberg - vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
(2004-) - Gert Monden - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(1994-) - Douglas Verhoeven - lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
(1999-) - Korneel "Korre" Lauwereins (Prev. Bass) - rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
(2007-) - Frederick Peeters - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(2010-)
Former members
Vocals- NG "Noise Grinder" Ben Adams - vocals (1994–2002)
- Dimitri Janssens - (live) vocals (2002)
- Sven de Caluwé - vocals (2002–2004)
Guitars
- Laurent Swaan - guitar ("1992-"1994)
- Wim Roelants - guitar (1994-1999)
- Jan Geenen - bass/rhythm guitar ("1992-"2006)
- Ian van Gemeren (live)rhythm guitar (2006)
- Valéry Bottin - rhythm guitar (2006-2010)
Bass
- Manu van Tichelen - bass (1997-2005)
- Joël Decoster - bass (2005-2007)
- Jan Geenen - bass ("1992-"1997) '97-'06 Guitar
Also In-Quest f.k.a. "System Shit" active from 1992–1994
consisted of members:
- NG "Noise Grinder" Ben Adams - vocals
- Gert Monden - Drums "is the only original member" (1992–present)
- Laurent Swaan - guitar
- Jan Geenen - bass
Discography
- Xylad Valox (demo, 1995)
- Extrusion: Battlehymns (Album, Teutonic Existence, 1997)
- Operation: Citadel (Album, Shiver Records, 1999)
- Destination: Pyroclasm (Album, Soulreaper Records, 2003)
- Epileptic (Album, Good Life RecordingsGood Life RecordingsGood Life Recordings is a record label based in Belgium. It was founded in 1996 by Edward Verhaeghe who had been the lead vocalist in Nations On Fire. The label specializes in hardcore bands. It has released many highly significant bands of the second and third wave of hardcore, as well as the...
, 2004) - The Comatose Quandaries (Album, Dockyard1, Good Life RecordingsGood Life RecordingsGood Life Recordings is a record label based in Belgium. It was founded in 1996 by Edward Verhaeghe who had been the lead vocalist in Nations On Fire. The label specializes in hardcore bands. It has released many highly significant bands of the second and third wave of hardcore, as well as the...
, 2005) - Made Out Of Negative Matter (Album, Self-released, 2009)
- Liquidation Files (Vinyl EP, Self-released, 2010)