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January: The founding of Exterminator by: Rudi Houben (bassguitar), Ronny Serdongs (guitar),
Bart Maarten (vocals), Jacky Cuypers (guitar) en Sigi Loots (drums).
November: First performance on Dirty Rotten Concert III with Deadhead. December:
The recording of their first demo "Circle Of Violence" at Gobi Sound studio
in Maastricht, Holland. This demo contains five songs: "Fragments Of An Agony Deranged","Circle Of Violence", "In My Sleep", "The Unknown Warrior" and "Criminal Act".
1992 -January: Fate strikes: Roadie Frank is killed in a tragic car-accident, bassguitarist Rudi
gets heavily injured. Nevertheless, "Circle Of Violence" gets released even if the band
slows down for a while.
May: After a few concerts (with a.o. The Gathering) singer Bart decides to leave Exterminator.
Jacky and Ronny take over the vocals.
1993 - Recording Of MiniCD
April: Exterminator doesn’t accept a recorddeal offerd by Inline Music from Germany.May: Exterminator decides to record a miniCD under the guidance of Andre Gielen
(Channel Zero, Deviate, Master, Keaton, Asphyxia, ...).
June: Sigi leaves Exterminator because he can’t cope with its high working speed.
July: With newcomer Mario Goossens the recordings are done over and the search
for a (better) recorddeal had started.
1994 - Death...Rebirth
May:
Exterminator decides after many concerts, but of the lack of a recorddeal, to split.A final concert was held on May 7th 1994, in the same place they played for the first time ever.November:
The new Exterminator is born: Jacky Cuypers (guitar/vocals),
Jeroen Lemmens (Bassguitar) and Jules Lemmens (drums).
1995 - MiniCD Finally Released
February: Tessa Records, a Belgian label, sees the persistence of
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“Hysteron Proteron”, “World Within” and “Erroneous Idiosyncracy”.
“Forgotten Souls” received good reviews at home and abroad and it sold very well for a miniCD
(1.000 pieces), this in spite of the boycott by Roughtrade
(so it wasn’t available in the Benelux-countries). May: Werner Geijsels becomes the new guitarist of Exterminator.
Exterminator takes a busload of people with them to the “With A Dragons’ Blaze”- festival.
August: Exterminator plays as warming-up act for Sadist.
December: Exterminator plays for the first time abroad.
1996 - The Year Of Tours
November: After 16 promotional concerts for the MCD, Jeroen decides to leave.
1997 - New Members And Videoclip
January: Ivan De Hondt replaces Jeroen on the bassguitar. Werner no longer seems to be
interested in Exterminator and decides after a while also to quit.February:
Kris Jacquemin becomes the new guitarist from Exterminator.
He has three weeks to learn all the songs.May: Exterminator plays as support for Benediction and again a busload of people joins them
to this concert. After this concert, suddenly Jules decides to quit.
July: Molly enters Exterminator as the new “drumbeast”. It will be September before the band
starts playing concerts.
November: Exterminator records a videoclip for “Hysteron Proteron”. The video gets dumped because
of the bad synchronisation of the sound and image and because of the insufficient quality
of the light.October: After a less period with only small concerts, Exterminator gets the opportunity
to support Cannibal Corpse, Infernal Majesty, Dark Funeral and Vader.
"Mirror Images" |
Even on this gig a busload of people joined them to support them. 1999 - The Recording Of Mirror Images
-February: Molly decides to quit. April: The final gig for Molly. July: Baruch Van Bellegem (Satyrus, Vae Victis) joins Exterminator as their new drummer.
September: A new CD gets (finally) recorded in Studio De Hautregard in Verviers.
2000 - The Release Of Mirror Images Janaury: Exterminator celibrates their 10th anniversary.
February:
Eccept for one proposition from Shiver, Exterminator doesn't receive any deal. But, the deal with Shiver means no Cd-release before September 2000.
March:
Exterminator decides to release "Mirror Images" on their own by I.M.F. June: The release of the new CD leads to many interviews.
Ads of the band appear in different magazines. Also 250 demo's have been send to organisers
to get some concerts to promote the new CD.
EXTERMINATOR
"Mirror Images"
(Selfreleased)
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