C-187 Issue Studio Update
February 14, 2007, 17 years ago
C-187, the new act featuring former PESTILENCE leader Patrick Mameli (guitar), Tony Choy (bass - ATHEIST, ex-CYNIC), Sean Reinert (drums - Cynic, ex-DEATH) and Tony Jelencovich (vocals - M.A.N, ex-TRANSPORT LEAGUE, MNEMIC), have entered a German studio to begin recording their debut album, due out later this year via Mascot Records.
A recording update is as follows: "Sean Reinert finished the drum tracks a couple of days ago. The drumming will set a new standard in heavy fusion. The recording is being done at the Space Lab Studios in Oedt/Moers, near Düsseldorf in Germany, which is in the middle of nowhere! The songs now sound so amazing that it will be difficult to describe the style. Tony Choy has also done eight tracks of killer bass playing. It sounds thick and it has a crazy fucking groove!.. This is going to be sick, sick as hell. After that it's up to Patrick Mameli and Tony J.J. to take this project to the next level."
Seven MP3 demo tracks from C-187 can be heard here.
"After the Pestilence adventure way back in the eighties and nineties, it became clear to me that I had to change direction," Mameli commented recently. "Musically that is! Being a huge Allan Holdsworth fan also had a downside. Trying to combine metal and jazz turned out to be a disappointment both for fans and the band. Also realizing that it would be nearly impossible to reach such levels of skills making metalmusic made me quit playing guitar for more than seven years. Now, lightyears later, I'm back with a new found love for the guitar instrument and would love to share these musical ideas with music lovers all over the world. Recently I started my new project C-187. I will not discuss the style because words are not enough to describe it. Let your ears and brain be the judge. Certainly you will hear Holdsworth in there somewhere (coz he is the man!!!) but also some heavy guitar riffing and (gangstametal) fusion hiphop beats, making this style fresh and new. I hope that people will enjoy the new material (I know I will!!!) and who knows, maybe I'll be coming to a town near you."
