Kataklysm

Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. They call their style "Northern Hyperblast", referring to the extremely fast blast-beats the drummer fuses into the music. Formed in 1992, the lineup changed a few times. Their style fuses the European style of melodic death metal with the brutal U.S. death metal style. Bands that their sound has been compared to include At The Gates, Suffocation and Hatebreed.

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Current

• Maurizio Iacono -vocals, bass
• Jean-Francois Dagenais - guitar
• Stephane Barbe - bass
• Max Duhamel - drums

Former

• Sylvain Houde - Vocals
• Martin Murais - drums
• Nick Miller - drums
• Ariel Saied - drums

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Death metal: Death metal is a type of heavy metal music with thrash metal influences that emerged in the United States (especially Florida and California), Europe (especially the United Kingdom and Sweden) and Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s....

Blast-beat: Blast beat is a drum beat consisting of torrents of alternating or simultaneous snare and bass drums which increase the speed, density, and percussiveness of death metal, black metal and grindcore. The hi-hat or a ride cymbal is often played simultaneously with the bass drum and the snare drum at th...