Background information
Origin	France
Genre(s)	Heavy metal Death Metal
Years active	1987—1997
Label(s)	Shark Records Phonogram

Massacra was one of France's leading technical death/thrash metal bands in the early nineties. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... “Heavy metal” redirects here. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Phonogram Records was started in 1962 as a joint venture between Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon. ...

After recording three demos in the 1980s, they finally landed a deal with Shark Records from Germany, and released their famous debut, 'Final Holocaust' in 1990. Unfortunately, they found that this was a label that follows trends too much, and after two more successful albums, Enjoy the Violence and Signs of the Decline, they terminated their contract in 1993. Enjoy the Violence is the second album by the French death metal band Massacra. ... Signs of the Decline is the third album by Massacra. ...

They signed a new deal with the major label Phonogram. The band decided not to rehash the same songs over and over on later releases -- by the time of their fourth album (1994's Sick) the band had transformed rather remarkably to a groove-laden mid-paced thrash album, sounding at times almost like recent Metallica musically, with the vocals more along the lines of a more aggressive Ron Broder of the mighty Coroner. An interesting listen, but doubtless a disappointment to early fans of the group expecting more death metal. Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... Coroner is a Swiss thrash metal band. ...

The band broke up after vocalist Fred Duval died of skin cancer on 6 June 1997 at the age of 29. Some members of the band went on to form an industrial side project called Zero Tolerance in 1996, and released one album through Active Records. Skin cancer is a malignant growth on the skin which can have many causes. ...

Discography

• Legion of Torture (Demo, 1987)
• Final Holocaust (Demo, 1988)
• Nearer from Death (Demo, 1989)
• Final Holocaust (CD, 1990)
• Enjoy the Violence (CD,1991)
• Signs of the Decline (CD, 1992)
• Sick (CD, 1994)
• Humanize Human (CD,1996)
• Apocalyptic Warriors Pt. 1 (compilation CD, 2000)

Final Holocaust is the debut album by the French death metal band Massacra. ... Enjoy the Violence is the second album by the French death metal band Massacra. ... Signs of the Decline is the third album by Massacra. ... Sick is the fourth album by French metal band Massacra. ... Humanize Human is the fifth and final album by French metal band Massacra. ...

Members

• Vocals, guitars: Fred "Death" Duval [1986-1997]
• Guitars: Jean-Marc Tristani [1986-1997]
• Bass: Pascal Jorgensen [1986-1997]
• Drums: Chris Palengat [1986-1991]
• Drums: Matthias Limmer [1992-1994]
• Drums: Björn Crugger [1995-1997]