After the departure of Robin nothing happened and only 3 quarters of a year later, in October 1993, the band found a new drummer. His name is Rolf. Now they were able to restart under the new moniker KADATH, that Holger found on the third album of German BLOOD. The change of name was due to the fact that several other bands ran under CATALEPSY. And in November of the same year, Marc replaced Tanya on bass, so that the line-up was complete again: Holger (v), Kai (g), Robert (g), Marc (b) and Rolf (dr).

Now began the first interesting phase of the band. In only 5 months of rehearsing, they were able to create a program of 8 songs that were recorded on their first demo “Face your Death”. This first strike came out in April 1994 and sold/traded over 400 times. This tape was recorded on 4 tracks and got good responses in the underground-scene. The band qualified their music as Death Metal with Thrash and Grind influences. In February KADATH performed their first gig in Aachen with ZSK-5, a local German-punk band and friends of them. More gigs followed in ‘94 with ASMODINA, INQUISITOR, GUTWRENCH, DAWN and Argentina’s VIBRION. The 2 gigs with VIBRION were possible because RISING NATION’s bassplayer wounded himself and gave KADATH the opportunity to play for them.

One year after “Face your Death”, in April 1995, the second attack “Into the eternal depths of sorrow and desolation” saw the light of day. It was a 16-track recording in an improvised studio and the sound was quite okay. This demo contained 4 new songs of more brutal and faster Death Metal with more Grind influences than before, but also with new melodic parts. 900 copies reached the Metal-freaks through selling/trading and sending it out to labels and mags. WILD RAGS from the USA did another 600 due to a licensing deal. Both tapes got good responses from the worldwide underground and made it possible to appear on diverse CD- and tape-compis, such as the 3-CD Compilation from SHIVER Records that featured 51 bands!

Immediately after the recordings of “Into ...”, the guitarplayer Robert was kicked out of the band, cause of massive differences between him and the band. He is an incredible lyer, so it was not possible to work with him any longer!

Only 3 months later, a replacement was found in the person of Marcus “Mockel”. A crazy and cool guy! And in November ‘95 the drummer left the band due to personal differences. He left the band from one day to another without talking with his bandmates. The situation culminated into accusations and legal proceedings - he stole equipment of the band and refused to give it back. He never answered on phone-callings and letters and didn’t want to speak with the other guys when they visited him. For about 5 months, KADATH didn’t find any new drummer and was condemned to stop rehearsing and playing. Very frustrating, cause they had to cancel some interesting gigs. Luckily they knew vagely a guy, Erling, from Belgium who was playing drums and they contacted and asked him if he wants to play in the band. After some testings, he agreed and now he still is the mad grinding drummer of KADATH.

So in April 1996 the line-up looked like: Holger (v), Kai (g), Mockel (g), Marc (b) and Erling (dr).

In ‘95 more gigs were performed with bands such as FLESHLESS (our czech brothers!), DERANGED and SKULL CRUSHER on the Underground Competition in Ludwigshafen, NYCTOPHOBIC, ORTH, DISFIGURED CORPSE and more. The mini-tour with Fleshless & Disfigured Corpse was a catastrophe, because the first gig was broken after half an hour, the second gig was canceled and there remained only the gig in Hamburg on the “Rehperbann”.

In the turbulent period after the second demo only 4 new songs were written and finally recorded in September/October ‘96 in a much more professional studio in Aachen. The recordings first came out as a promo-tape in the hope to find a label interested in signing the band. But, unfortunately all efforts were vain. 250 copies were send all over the world, responses were positive, but nothing happened with the promo, except that Kai left the band shortly after the recordings. The lack of interest was the cause for his decision. Since than, KADATH is playing as a quartet. Cause the band didn’t want to loose the songs on the promo-tape, they decided to release them as a mini-CD. This became the “Twisted tales of gruesome fates”-MCD that was released by their own in November 1997. More than 1000 copies of the CD were made and they are sold out by now. Before the CD two split-singles were released by Stuhlgang Records (with IMMURED) and Paranoia Syndromes (with EVOKE), containing 3 of the 4 songs from the MCD. Both singles (500 & 700 copies) are as well sold out by now. In addition to the EP’s, they produced a T-shirt with t