Biography

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Members:

Lemy - bass, backing vocals	Dan - vocals, guitars

	Panther - drums

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TORTHARRY – the band's history

The band TORTHARRY was formed in August 1991. It's drummer M."Chuan" Jirman and bass guitarrist Martin "Mart" Vacek had already met in the band Imago in the year 1984 (they were 13 years old). During the autumn of 1988 came the guitarrist Jarda "Slave"Rubes.
In September 1991 the first TORTHARRY demo tape "Mezi nebem a peklem" ("Between Heaven And Hell") was recorded. In January 1992 the 17 year old guitarist Daniel Pavlík joined the line up of the band and TORTHARRY was this made complete. Another demo tapes have been recorded – "Flames Of Eternity" in 1992 and a very successful demo "Incriminated" in 1993. Today's exclusive TORTHARRY lyric writer Stefan Lezovic has joined the band in this same year, participating also on this material. At this time the first videoclip "Dirty Mind" was being made in cooperation with Petr Janda (legendary Czech rock guitar player). In the half of 1994 the first album "When The Memories Are Free" was recorded in the "Past" recording studio.
In the year 1996 the band got to know the recording studio "Hacienda" owned by Milos "Dodo" Dolezal (one of the best guitarists in Czechia who studied playing the guitar in LA cooperating with Z.Wilde and G.M.Dude) for the first time. TORTHARRY recorded here one track for the compilation "10 Years after …A Tribute to Cliff Burton".
In the year 1997 TORTHARRY recorded the second album "Book Of Dreams" in the "Hacienda" studio. The quality of sound helps this record to reach much higher level than the previous ones. This CD was coproduced with Taga Records editorial company and in May 1997 was made the band's second video "Stain".
After appearing on the stages in Switzerland and Portugal (here the band took part on very prestige fest in Penafiel), the band made appearances in Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia. TORTHARRY had also made two very interesting and successful mini tours to Lithuania and Latvia.
TORTHARRY appears on almost every important fest in Czech Republic-for example the "Dynamo North Power Jam". TORTHARRY played together with many well known bands, including two shows with the brilliant DEATH. The second of these two was organized by TORTHARRY management. TORTHARRY played several times with BENEDICTION and SINISTER, and it also played with bands like NAPALM DEATH, BEHEMOTH, VADER, SEPULTURA, BELPHEGOR, GORGOROTH, GRAVE, PESTILENCE, ROTTING CHRIST, HATE, DARK TRANQUILITY, ATROCITY, KRISIUN, FLESHCRAWL, DISBELIEF, DARKSIDE, and many others.
In February 1999 TORTHARRY are going into the "Hacienda" studio in Zirovnice, where recorded their third album called "Unseen". The album is out in May 1999 through new label CBR Records, that belongs to the owner of this studio "Hacienda" Milos "Dodo" Dolezal, which also worked like a producer of this album. This album have tons of positive reviews not only in the Czech Republic, but also in other countries. With a help of CBR Records and NSM Records, together with Wolfgang Sussenbeck, TORTHARRY make contacts in the USA. This cooperation helps them to appear on a sampler "Tribute to Death", which is out in December 1999 through the label DWELL Records in USA. TORTHARRY worked with a song from Leprosy "Pull the Plug" and have more experiences with the US market.
The recording of Tortharry's fourth CD takes place in Hacienda Studio during the year 2002, but this time without its firm drummer "Juan". Therefore, two new drummers – a student in an academy of music Milos Maier and a graduate of the same school Roman Lomtadze are invited to help. On September 28, 2004, a guitar player and a long-standing member Jarda Rubes leaves the band but he is soon replaced (December 2004) by talented Martin Hrubý called "Máca" from a regional band.
After a year and half lasting break, which is caused by personnel change, Tortharry comes back to life.

In spring 2006, the band starts to get new material ready for releasing a new CD. A young and promising drummer Jiri "Panther" Rosa is very much involved in the arrangements instead of Juan who cannot participate owing to his heavy workload.
A new CD album "Reborn" is recorded in Shaark Studio in Bzenec during August and September 2006, released on November 16, 2006 by REDBLACK Records.
In September 2006, TORTHARRY recorded the album REBORN.
On the same time, the founder member – Juan – announces his leaving of the band due to his working load. "Panther" becomes his logical successor
In September 2007 we have toured Brazil together with bands BELPHEGOR and GORGOROTH.
During the summer 2008, we have recorded songs for our 6th CD that will be called „Round Table of Suicide“. The idea behind this CD is to show different reasons that could lead a man to end his life deliberately. It is not meant to be a promotion of suicide by any means, rather an attempt to understand this complicated human decision.

In the summer of 2009 the band started working hard on a new album “Beneath”. The recording took place in July 2010 in the Sopa studio under the sound supervision of Stanislav Valasek. According to the opinion of many people, the up to now best Tortharry CD has been created there, which has the best sound our CD has ever had. The CD “Beneath” has been released in November 2010 and many concerts were played to support it.
During January 2012 the guitar player Maca left Tortharry. This was a complicated situation for the band, as we were unable, in spite of long searching, to find an appropriate replacement for him. Since then the band has only three members with just one guitarist.
With this line-up we played many concerts in 2012, the most interesting of which has been the tour with Sepultura and our appearances on the Brutal Assault, MetalGate Czech Death Fest and Gothoom Fest festivals.

In September 2012 the band starts working on the new material for 8th CD.

Past Members:

Martin "Máca" Hrubý Kytara 2004 - 2011

Jarda "Slave" Rubeš Kytara 1991 - 2004 Nyní kapely: Jesus Om, Asfalto	M. "Juan" Jirman Bicí 1991 - 2006 Nyní čestný člen Tortharry

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