Afterdeath

Afterdeath was a Portuguese death/trash metal band formed in May 1990 by Sérgio Paulo, vocals, Nuno Maciel and Rui on guitars, Sérgio Filipe, bass and Fernando on drums, both Rui and Fernando left and Ricardo Rolases a drummer joined the group in October that year, it was with this formation they recorded their promo track "Death Is Calling" and played a couple of shows, in 1991 Ricardo "Dick" Jorge replaces Sérgio on bass and the group goes on a national mini-tour which ends with them playing at the "Festival Diz Sim Á Vida" for around 3.000 people. The band goes to studio in August 1991 to record their demo "Behind Life" which was only released in March 1992 and the band goes on another mini-tour with Miguel Mourão as their drummer, the group has a tumultuous time with most of it's members leaving the group with Sérgio Paulo remaining the sole member for while until he is then joined by Virgilio Neto on guitar, Roberto Monteiro, bass and Filipe Martins on drums, the line-up that recorded "5407653" tape, released in 1994. The following year sees the band reforming once again with Nuno Maciel returning to guitar duties and they are also joined by José Santos and Mário Rui, bass and drums respectively, with this formation they record and release their first album "3499001" issued in compact disc in 1995 by Sérgio Paulo's own Guardians Of Metal, but Maciel leaves the group shortly after and is replaced by Vitor Silva on the album tour, in 1996 the band once again dissolves and Sérgio Paulo reforms the group with its final line-up, as the members of the Nameless, Ricardo Ferreira, guitar, Jorge Lisboa, bass and Bruno Filipe, drums, join Sérgio Paulo to record the group final track "World Deformed By Man" included in the 1997 compilation "Guardians Of Metal Vol. IV".