Since 1998 MY COLD EMBRACE from Cassel have been brawling through the underground mixing up fast, melodic Death Metal, brutal Thrash, Crust, vocalized Hardcore attitude and a proper portion of lunacy. We’ve been creating a highly individual, complex and brutal synthesis, which can hardly be categorized or pigeonholed.

After releasing our first demo “Raggabash” in 1999, and then one year later launching our debut album “The First Day” we burst onto the music scene. This was further enhanced when “The First Day” was used in a movie soundtrack.
The third record "...zurück aus Hölle", released in November 2002, finally dispersed a lot of underground dust:

The Metal Heart magazine declared us demo of the month,

Legacy magazine gave us a rating of 13 out of 15, while other magazines rated us even higher, with some declaring us “album of the month” (Bleeding, Mordor, Necroslaughter, etc.).

After a bunch of interviews, reviews and several radio airplays in Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, France and other countries we toured Germany together with Danish death metal heroes Withering Surface and the cult death-heads Iniquity.

MY COLD EMBRACE was used in various samplers and placed two songs as "Support the Grind" competition winners on The Sixth Incubator's "Inphonoir", released through the Cudgel Agency.

Despite this success we still have no label or distribution support and are 100% independent!

The growing list of shows at home in Germany and abroad with bands like Totenmond, Gorerotted, Spawn of Possession, Eisregen, Vader, Rotting Christ, Deranged, Centinex, Soul Demise, Agathodaimon, End of Green, Symphorce, Hate Squad, Jack Slater, Burden of Grief, Asterius, etc. shouts for further shows are always welcome!

After founding member Dominik had left the band, 3 years ago ex-Mind Seduction guitarist Timo was reborn in MY COLD EMBRACE. This inspired him to burn through the landscape of Metal and Core, whilst keeping his roots in Death Metal.

The 2004 release "Katharsis", which was mastered in Swedish Blacklounge Studios (whose other artists include Centinex, Katatonia, Uncurbed), features not only guest vocals from ex-Carnal Forge singer Jonas but also some surprises which recently cheered up the critics:

Rock Hard ("An up-and-coming newcomer at the extreme sector")

EMP ("Masses of brutally implement Hardcore influences can be found in this output, which battle merciless against energetically played Thrash-links to rule every aggressive discipline")

Legacy ("Highflyer of the German Sweden-Death-scene")

Metal Hammer ("Can easily stand up against the regular releases of the music industry")

Heavy oder was? ("without a doubt the spearhead of the German underground")

Vampster ("self-production of the year")

Eternity ("always straight to the face")

Amboss ("Amon Amarth meets Madball")

Necroslaughter ("one-of-a-kind CD of a one-of-a-kind band")

Walls Of Fire ("MY COLD EMBRACE are definitely one of those innovative Death Metal bands, which can save the genre even through bad times - this has to be rewarded")

Mordor ("the absolute burner, MY COLD EMBRACE brilliantly exhibit where they can stand out against others, which are the fine details on the record")

Since then further tracks have been released on samplers like Deathophobia Vol. VIII, Metal Message Vol. I, Joining Forces III and GUC 21. The 2005 released Split-LP with Crustcore legend Uncurbed still marks one of our career highlights and was sold out through Power-It-Up records within a few weeks!!!

2nd guitar player Timo left the band in January 2006 due to private reasons (his head fell off), but was soon replaced by Marco "Reidelrock" of Shattered Dream. In December 2006 another line-up change occured: Vocalist Ernie left due to job reasons (somebody actually gave him one). For him Dennis Hirth of Downtime joined the family as new member, giving the band new directions through his various but always brutal style. At the moment the recording process for the fifth record "Hausgeist" is about to be finished, which will be launched in autumn 2007. In addition to that we are negotiating which of the interested labels could release the new CD, to keep the good reputation of the "Death Metal Legion Cassel" alive and to play as many shows as possible.

Offers are always welcome!

Our new CD "Hausgeist" is available for 8 Euro plus shipping, inlcuding a Bonus CD and a Button! The last album "Katharsis", limited to 500 copies, comes with full-coloured booklet for 5 EUR plus shipping. 480 have already been sold! The vinyl single can be bought for 2 EUR at the links below or info[at]mycoldembrace.de.

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