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1991: David Bugeja, Chris Brincat and Marcel Scalpello teamed up to form the first Death Metal band in Malta. The first years served the band to establish itself in the local scene and to come up with a steady line-up. It proved to be a difficult task to find the right musicians in a scene that was heavily influenced by rock and speed metal. With members joining and leaving, Beheaded managed to perform several shows and acquire a distinct place in the Maltese scene. When the line-up problem seemed to be overcome, Beheaded concentrated on releasing a demo tape, with the aim of exposing itself to the foreign Death Metal scene. 1995-1997 - Four songs were completed and the demo was recorded in March 1995 with Marcel Scalpello (vocals), David Bugeja and Tyson Fenech (guitars), David Cachia (bass), and Chris Brincat (drums). The demo 'Souldead' scored high points in several underground publications that reviewed it. The main comments underlined the professional quality that the demo boasted; from the great cover artwork and layout, to the individual musical abilities and production in evidence throughout the 23 minutes. A slab of technical and aggressive death metal combined with atmospheric guitar and keyboard passages. In August the same year Omar Grech replaced Tyson Fenech on guitars. Beheaded signed a record deal with Swedish label X-Treme Records to release its debut CD. The songs that were to appear on the CD were recorded in June 1996, but the release was severely delayed due to problems with the cover layout and several other shortcomings. Beheaded took a trip back to the studio late in 1997 to re-master the whole recording again, making the songs sound fresher being the main purpose. - 1998 - 'Perpetual Mockery' was finally released in June 1998, and once again the work was praised by many publications including renowned magazines like UK's Terrorizer. The music in the CD again emphasized on the ingredients highlighted in the demo, this time in the form of better structured songs with a clearly more mature direction. Beheaded took full advantage of the good contacts acquired within the European scene and set up 14 shows across the Czech Republic and another 2 shows in Germany and Slovakia. These took place during September with great bands like Vader, Dying Fetus, Deranged and Defaced Creation. On returning back from the successful live debut abroad, Marcel Scalpello left the band for personal reasons and was replaced with Lawrence Joyce. 1999 - The songs completed after the release of 'Perpetual Mockery' gradually started to outline a change in musical direction. This was something the band had been after; the need to move onto something different. The new 'less atmospheric' approach has resulted in highly technical and brutal compositions, with lower tuning compared to the material in the previous releases. Beheaded has also brought to an end their record deal with X-Treme Records after friendly discussions.

Beheaded signed a new record deal with Danish label Mighty Music.The first official release was the devastationg M-CD 'Resurgence of Oblivion'. In 2002 the Maltese death metal gods released their most brutal effort so far - the amazing "Recounts Of Disembodiment". Beheaded also recently completed a big US-tour. Both "Resurgence.." and "Recounts.." have been licensed by American label Forever Underground.







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