Scarred has been on the road constantly for the past two years supporting the release of their latest album Gaia-Medea released May 10th 2013 by Klonosphere/Season of Mist.
They've opened for bands such as Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, Decapitated, The Black Dahlia Murder, and many more.
Since end of 2013, Scarred's guitarist Diogo Bastos has been working as session musician for Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.
Wacken Open Air (DE), Metalcamp 2009 (SI), Mammothfest (UK), Durbuy Rock Festival (BE), Metal Assault Festival Switzerland (CH), Chaulnes Metal Fest (FR), Bloodstock Open Air (UK), Eurosonic Festival (NL), Haunting the Chapel Festival (FR), Europavox Festival (FR), Inferno Festival (NO), Metal Days (SI), Roko Naktys (LT),...
: PRESS QUOTES
"When technical excellence meets melodic talent: Gaia—Medea has everything a great album should have!" - La Grosse Radio (FR)
"A band with great songwriting quality to whom we can predict a great future." - Metallian (FR)
"Shut up and take my money ! Scarred is all kinds of amazing!" - Overdrive.ie - Bloodstock Open Air review
"These harmonies, how incredibly full and grooving the drum parts are, and how delicious the almost chaotic reared atmospheric songs are. This is what metal needs: fanatic, special and excellent new blood." - Aardshok (NL)
"Scarred can pretend to have written an exciting album and that’s the truth." - LEGACY (DE)
"The chunky grooves and technically charged riffs are colossal." - The Midlands Rocks (UK)
"Powerful, technical, inventive, groovy, ambient and well written." - Pavillon 666 (FR)
"An authentic, solid and exciting album that has deserved to be bought, heard and loved!" - Twilight Magazine (DE)
"Gaia/Medea banks on the listener being able to hang with its dynamic ability to cull from the death metal/modern metal potpourri. If one can do that, then consider Scarred your next viable option in the European Metal derby." - Dead Rhetoric (USA)
"Gaia/Medea is a riff fest from start to finish. If you’re hungry for tasty riffs, this album is a must!" - Metal-Temple (UK)
: BIOGRAPHY
Crushing live performances, relentless energy and a tidal wave of melodic atmospheres and ear-catching hooks have made Scarred one of the standard-bearers for the Luxembourgish metal community. Originally a thrash metal project, the band was formed in 2003 by drummer Laurent Kessel and guitarist Diogo Bastos. Drawing on a broad range of influences from the periphery of the metal spectrum (Pink Floyd, Tool...), their sound has matured into a feral blend of technical extremes fused with 90’s metal, creating a proliferate buzz around this five-piece.
They released their first LP New Filth Order in 2009, a diatribe set to the backdrop of the digital revolution, and began to tour. With this release they represented Luxembourg at the W.O.A. Metal Battle (finishing second) and the Metalcamp festival, where their performance was given favourable reviews. They’ve also performed as an opener for many reputed headliners such as Mastodon, Lamb of God and Arch Enemy, to name just a few.
After three years locked in battle with the European metal scene, Scarred released Gaia/Medea in 2012. Now under the banner of Klonosphere and produced by Jochem Jacobs (Split Second Studio), this LP is a coarse social critique weighing the Homeostatic Hypothesis of Kirchner’s Gaia Theory against palaeontologist Peter Ward’s Medea Hypothesis. The album explores the recent uptick in recorded natural disasters and the proposed corollary extinction level event on the horizon of civilisation.
They put a lot of dedication into promoting this record, which took them to some of the major European festivals like Bloodstock Open Air and Forta Rock. While continuing to perform as an opener in local venues for international headliners, they’ve also been main support for Australian tech-death masters Psycroptic on their latest UK tour and circled the globe in fall 2016 for the Japan release of Gaia/Medea through Howling Bull Records.
To keep evolving as a band, they have added Yann Dalscheid on vocals and Vincent Wilquin (Fractal Universe - Metal Blade Records) on guitars. Their third album Scarred is the product of the transformation the band has gone through and is scheduled to be released in January 2021.
