Insidiöus Törment is a Danish heavy metal band with Eastern-European roots. Also known as IT, and often misspelled Insidious Torment

Insidiöus Törment

Insidiöus Törment is a Danish heavy metal band with Eastern-European roots. Also known as IT, and often misspelled Insidious Torment. They are well-known for the fact that the heavy metal umlaut in their band name, which usually has a purely decorative function, is actually pronounced...

. They are well-known for the fact that the heavy metal umlaut

Heavy metal umlaut

A metal umlaut is a diaeresis that is sometimes used gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of hard rock or heavy metal bands—for example those of Mötley Crüe and Motörhead...

 in their band name, which usually has a purely decorative function, is actually pronounced. In a musical genre that is sometimes described as proto-fascist , they are also noted for being one of the only overtly socialist heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 bands, along with a few other notable examples, such as Accept

Accept

Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes. Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s...

. Like Accept

Accept

Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes. Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s...

 do in the lyrics to Balls to the Wall

Balls to the Wall (song)

"Balls to the Wall" was the lead single from Accept's fifth studio album with the same name. The album's best known song, which became Accept's signature tune, is the anthemic title track, for which a music video was shot that received American airplay on MTV....

, Insidiöus Törment also call for the oppressed people of the world to rise and rebel in such songs as "Metal Balls", "The Enticer" and "Call to Arms".

Recent history

The Encyclopedia Metallum lists them as a Danish

Denmark

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 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band. However, on the band's Facebook

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-based fanclub, they are listed as residing in Schwartzdorf, Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein

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. It appears that their more recent exploits have concentrated on the city of Århus, Denmark. They recently headlined a concert in Århus (April, 2009). In a 2005 interview, they talk about their problems touring in Denmark and their search for a manager. In a concert review from the same year, their music is described as, "Good with coffee". In a newspaper interview from 2007, guitarist "Killer" sentimentally describes his old, moldy Czech coffee machine and complains that Denmark is too clean.

Early history

The band had their biggest success in the late 80’s culminating with “The Iron Curtain Tour” in ’89, where they played big stadium concerts in Moscow, Berlin, Gorkij Park, Moldova, and Bratislava among other places. Their biggest hit was titled “Great Cocks of Rock and Roll”. After the fall of the Berlin wall the band tried for success in Western Europe. This ended in failure, after a fall out with the fans, during which the lead singer "Jake the Scream" was infuriated for being taken as kitsch or a comic band, and was quoted saying "I’m very unhappy for not being taken seriously. Our music is great art, but people of the west think only western music is great. I’ll not be clown of capitalism!

After the fall out with the Western European fans, the band withdrew from public for a number of years before making a second bid for success beginning in the late 90’s. The band has called this “The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal", with mottos such as “Evil – Sexy” and “Heavy or Die”.

The Orange Revolution

Orange Revolution

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of Ukraine sparked the band's Eastern European come-back, as the band played in Kiev every night three weeks straight supporting the protesters.

Today the band have a strong fan base in Eastern Europe but are still struggling to achieve recognition in Western Europe, where the band have only attained a cult status among liberals - mainly university students.

Band members

• Jake "the Scream" – lead singer
• Eik "Killer" – guitar
• Rëd Rock – guitar
• Sonny von Rostock – Sword
• Olaf Jan "OJ" Jantzen – bass
• Laszlo "Donkey" Wickitz – drums

Past band members

• Carlos "The Buff" Lorenzo - drums, guitar, keyboards
• Mortor Pates - lead guitar, bass guitar
• Gölem - Chains, lead guitar, vocals
• Dave "Steel" Steel - sword
• Ronnie Gamboa - Drums, drum machines, programming

Heavy Metal

Music:

1. Your Ass Belongs to Me
2. Metal Balls
3. Who Calls the Shots
4. Hey, hey, hey Heavy Metal
5. Enticer (Live)
6. Jack-in-a-box (Live)

Videos:

1. Hey, hey, hey Heavy Metal
2. Metal Balls

Published in 2009

The Rock, The Claw and the Steel

Music:

1. Moon Trooper, Trooper of the Moon
2. The Duke of Liechtgenstein
3. The Great Cocks of Rock and Roll
4. Prometheus

Videos:

1. Great Cocks video
2. Cocks Live video

Published in 2006.

Live at Die Budi Kate

1. Introduction
2. Call to Arms
3. Prometheus
4. Wolf Cry
5. The Duke of Lichtenstein
6. Der Enticer
7. The God of Casual Slaughter
8. Break Out and Rage
9. Space Marine Death Machine
10. Great Cocks of Rock ‘n’ Roll
11. Heed the Call

Published in 2003.

The Moors of Harshness

1. Call to Arms
2. WolfCry
3. The Enticer
4. Heed The Call

Published 2001.

External links

• http://stiften.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060531/AAS/605310643/
• www.bandbase.dk/insidioustorment/
• http://stiften.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051214/AAS/512140406
• http://stiften.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051214/AAS/512140601
• http://stiften.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050730/AAS/507300327
• http://stiften.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050212/AAS/502120403
• http://stiften.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050118/AAS/501180346
• http://jp.dk/arkiv/?id=291626&eceExpr=t%F6rment%22%20/%3E&eceArchive=o
• http://www.brutalism.com/insidioustorment_r.html
• "OK!" http://www.bandbase.dk/InsidiousTorment/Track/72669/Heavy-Metal/
• "Insidious Torment: 80'er Helterock: Ja! Hårdt: Ja tak!" http://www.bandbase.dk/InsidiousTorment/Track/9150/Wolfcry/
• "Iron Maiden møder Abba i en Böhmisk rhapsodi" http://www.bandbase.dk/InsidiousTorment/Track/72670/Moon-Trooper-Trooper-of-the-Moon/
• http://www.bandbase.dk/InsidiousTorment/Track/45575/Prometheus/
• http://www.bandbase.dk/InsidiousTorment/Track/27516/The-Great-Cocks-of-RocknRoll/
• www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540256151
• www.revelationz.net/index.asp?ID=974
• www.soundvenue.com/artist/insidioustorment
• www.insidioustorment.com