BiografieIn 1997 , Seb and Chris (ex DISGUST bassist) decided to create GERBE OF LIFE.Taking influences from and mixing several extreme musical waves such as Grind, Crust, Death, Black and Indus. They’re playing a music that’s sincere and without compromise.Immediately, french lyrics were choosed to show a symbiosis between brutal music and french lyrics is possible, but also not to take the easy opportunity to sing in english to follow the mass.



To underline the mix of influences and the rejection of convention, a name mixing both french and english was choosed : " Gerbe Of Life ". The "Gerbe" word, that´s french, means to vomit something, in this case the name means to vomit the life. An intriguing name that sums up the band’s state of mind : " Life is a sick individual that vomits the worst pestilencial horrors, the darkest and the more disgusting sides of the human being", that sums up the brutality of the music. Inspired by the news and some personal experiences, the lyrics shouts at us about the world that surronds us, about the individual and some obscures experiences of life.


The life of the band wasn’t a long and silent river, after 3 months of existence, Gabriel S., bassist, joins us. Unfortunately, 3 months later, the rehearsal’s material was stolen. The band had to stop it’s activities for a long year.In the middle of 1998, "Gerbe Of Life" starts to write songs again. But, sometimes later, Gabriel leaves for musical diferents. In 1999 and 2000, Michael and Vincent joigned us for the vocals and the 2nd guitar. But their later arrival didn’t allow them to take part in the conception and the recording of the album. We will all be ready for the forthcoming gis ( some new songs are ever appearing !).



"We would like to thank the bands that have influenced us and who have, in our point of view understood everythings about this kind of music": Napalm Death, Carcass, Terrorizer, Extreme Noise Terror, Disrupt, Godflesh, Pitshifter (their 1st 5tracks Mcd only), Defecation, Exhumed (for the first album), Morbid Angel, Nile, Suffocation, Dark angel, Immortal, Marduk (until "heaven shall burn"), Bathory and all those we forgot.



"We also would like to thanks the bands and kinds of music that relax our brain": the Young Gods (Bonjour la fumette!), J.Satriani, Steve Vai, Van Halen, Portishead, Massive attack, Björk, Mazzi Star, the Doors, Mozart, Dvorak, Ocean Machine, Morcheeba (for the 2 firstalbums), U2, the Cure, Enya, the non commercial techno.
Quelle: http://site.voila.fr/GERBE/nouvellepage3eng.htmDiscografiePromo (2002)

Gerbe Of Life (2001)
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