Pyogenesis

Pyogenesis
Pyogenesis in 2002
Background information
Origin	Stuttgart, Germany now located in Hamburg, Germany
Genres	Death metal,gothic metal,pop punk, alternative metal
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Nuclear Blast Hamburg Records Osmose
Website	pyogenesis.com
Members	Flo V. Schwarz, Gizz Butt, Malte Brauer, Jan Räthje

Pyogenesis is a German band, based in Stuttgart, that played different genre of music such as melodic death metal, alternative metal and punk rock during their career and are one of the originators of gothic metal in the early 1990s.

Pyogenesis originated from the local band Immortal Hate and singer/guitarist Flo V. Schwarz in Summer 1991. The band members met in Rockfabrik, a club in the wider area of Stuttgart, Germany, that covered all Rock and Metal styles. The owners gave the yet young Grindcore and Death Metal scene a place, similar to children’s disco on Sunday afternoon 3pm to 9pm. At that time a numberless amount of bands of the genre were found there, some of them became pretty big. Pyogenesis released their first 7" Single 'Rise of the unholy' on the Mexican Label Mephitic Productions. The recordings were previously released as the band’s first demo tape. Short time later the second single, 'Sacrificious Profanity' with new recordings was released on Symphonies Of Death Records from Columbia. Of both singles, only 1.000 each were available and due to the band’s deep entanglement in the underground scene, these first issues were sold out just within weeks. But due to its success, there were rereleases, which were marked as such.

In just 5 days, late September/early October 1992 the debut album 'Ignis Creatio' to be released on the French label Osmose Productions was recorded and mixed. Containing 4 songs plus an outro and a total playing time of just 31 minutes it was a Mini EP, nevertheless it was marketed and sold to the same price as a full-length album. The development of the music included both, clear and guttural vocals for the very first time. It was released on 12“ vinyl and CD in Europe and from 1993 on also on tape in America. The Canadian independent Encyclopaedia Metallum calls it a 'breathtakingly master-piece', 'a must, not only for Metal-fans' and 'an essential album that should be in everyone’s collection'. The writer also comment’s that he has never heard a record like this before. This derives from the fact that back then the genre Gothic Metal did not exist and Pyogenesis were the co-founders of this genre.