Grandiosa Muerte
Band: Grandiosa Muerte
Album: Egregor
Country: Costa Rica
Genre: Death Metal
Label: Bitume
Release: January 27th, 2023
The Death/Black Metal and obscure project Grandiosa Muerte presents its first single “Sibila” inspired by Hypatia of Alexandria, a pagan scientist and symbol of free thought.
After the pandemic and as a result of mental struggles, distortion and frenzy, Max Gutiérrez Sánchez, Costa Rican musician (Advent of Bedlam and Dusk) presents his first solo material, recorded and produced by himself, at Cavan Studio in Heredia, Costa Rica under the pseudonym of “Hermes”.
Through operations programmed on the drums, Grandiosa Muerte materializes an intense and direct percussion, his guttural voice recites lyrics in Spanish accompanied by the metallic harmony of a power trio and synthesizers, all tuned to the frequency of 432 Hz instead of the usual 440 Hz frequency.
Their themes honestly evoke occult forces that alter the ego and connect us to a powerful and personal sound experience.
Two official videos have been released for the songs “Destino” and “Sibila” which are part of the album “Egregor”, released by Bitume Productions (France) in January 2023. “Egregor” is made of eight tracks in total, mixed and mastered by the experienced Colin Marston (Gorguts, Imperial Triumphant) in his studio Menegroth - The Thousand Caves (New York, USA).
Max Gutierrez Sanchez is a Costa Rican musician and producer born under Scorpio in 1980, founder member of Ravensouls, December’s Cold Winter, Advent of Bedlam and Grandiosa Muerte and owner of local studio and rehearsal rooms Cavan Studio and Cavan Records.
This journey into Metal music began in Barcelona (Spain) back in 1996 when Max´s electric guitar founded his first band Velatory (Heavy Metal) sprouted for some few months. Later in 1997 the band Ravensouls (Black/Death Metal) emerged and recorded a never-released demo called “Burning Flesh into Raven´s Possession” in 1999.
When the electric guitar was back in Costa Rica, a new band emerged from 2000 to 2009 under the name of December’s Cold Winter (Black/Death Metal), releasing 2 single: “In Aqua Scribis” (2002) and “The Alabaster Corpse” (2005) and 2 full albums “Decaying Recollections” (2006 - Cavan Records) and “Ablaze all Shrines'' (2008 - Cavan Records), being the latest one Max´s first fully produced album that won the “Best Metal Album'' award from ACAM, also sharing stage with bands like Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Dismember, Fear Factory and Sepultura. During this decade Max also played live as guitar player with Costa Rican bands Theriomorph supporting Avulsed (Spain) and Sight of Emptiness supporting Dark Tranquility (Sweden) and collaborated as guest guitarist in a recording for local act Deznuke.
In 2009 year Cavan Studio was born and the band Advent of Bedlam appeared in scene releasing 3 albums produced by Max: “Behold the Chaos” (2010 - Cavan Records), “Flesh Over God” (2012 - Cavan Records) and “Human Portal Phenomenon” (2018 - Cavan Records) as well as the single “Creatures of Yore” (2016 - Cavan Records), sharing stage in North, Central and South America as well as Europe with bands like Destroyer 666, Dying Fetus, Exhumed, Malevolent Creation, Napalm Death, Obituary and many others.
In 2019 Max joins Dusk (Industrial Black Metal) as Implacable in the guitars and released 2 albums: “The Hermit” (2020 - Ritter Records) and “Relic” (2022 - Ritter Records) and 1 EP: “Threnody” (2018 - Ritter Records) as well as supporting act for Samael. Max was also a guest guitarist in a recording with local act BZK.
In 2022 the one-man-band Grandiosa Muerte debuted with the single “Sibila” (2022 - Cavan Records), being Hermes the alter-ego behind all instruments for the upcoming debut album “Egregor” (2023 - Bitume Prods) recorded in Cavan Studio, mixed and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Imperial Triumphant, etc).
As a music producer since 2006 Max has worked with bands like Abrasive (Germany), Advent of Bedlam (Costa Rica), Black Whispers (Costa Rica), Corpse Garden (Costa Rica), December’s Cold Winter (Costa Rica), Deformity (Costa Rica), Equinoxio (Panama), Humanizer (Costa Rica), Insepulto (Costa Rica), Paganus Doctrina (Costa Rica), Purifying Torture (Costa Rica), Requiem of Malediction (Costa Rica) and many others.
Max´s Gear:
Guitar: LTD EC-407 Black
Bass: Epiphone Thunderbird E1 Bass Vintage Sunburst
Drums & Synths: Ipad Mini 2 + IK Multimedia iRig Keys Mini
Vocals: Audix i5
DAW: Logic Pro X
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