Maniac Butcher are one of the Czech Republic’s foremost and notorious Black Metal acts. As their name implies Maniac Butcher deal in raw and unadulterated Metal with no concessions keyboards or female vocals. Indeed, the band state quite candidly ‘We use the mouths of girls for totally different activities’!

Although the band first emerged with the 1993 demo ‘Immortal Death’ Maniac Butcher can trace their history as far back as 1988. The debuting line up comprised of vocalist Barbarud Hrom, guitarist Vlad Blasphemer, bassist Thomas and drummer Michael.

The 1994 session ‘The Incapable Carrion’ saw Thomas being superseded by Jorg on bass. Maniac Butcher had their 1996 ‘Black Hordes Of Saaz’ single shared with Dark Storm. Following the band’s debut full length album Jorg decamped.

Second album ‘Lucan- Antikrist’ saw the inclusion of second guitarist Lord Unclean. This outing included a rendition of Master’s Hammer’s ‘Hell Abyss’. Line up troubles afflicted the band further when Michael left the fold, to found yet another uncompromising act Agmen, followed by Lord Unclean. By this stage Maniac Butcher was down to the pairing of Vlad Blasphemer and Barbarud Hrom for the ‘Cerna Krev’ outing.

1999 had session players Ramus on guitar and Butcher on drums filling the vacant positions for a split album shared with Inferno and Sezarbil. A full length effort ‘Invaze’, which included a cover version of a track by the same name originally recorded by Assessor, was also released the same year. Meantime the ‘Cerna Krev’ album was re-released on the Brazilian Mega Therion label with extra tracks and retitled ‘Sangue Negro’.