Founded in summer 1999 by Stephan Fehr (Guitars),Claudio Furrer (Drums),Adrian Vogel (Guitars) as they playied a couple of jam sesions. After a long searching time, Rene Barthoulot join the band in January 2001 and being to a good addiction. In October 2001 Cropment start their live activities around Switzerland and Germany. The band record their first three songs in jul. 2002 to release a mini-CD called Braindrain Timeslavery before going on "Chaos Tour" with Censored (CH) through eastern europe. Cropment released the "Cockclocked Humanity 7" split-ep with Vaginal Incest(Ger) on Blutwurscht Productions in January 2003. In the same time Cropment completes with Patrik Wawrzyniak (Bass) the line up. In April 2003 the band were on "Back To Humanity" tour with Scalpel (CH) through eastern europe. In August Cropment was recording their full "Spiral Of Violence" at the Crackords Studios near Brig,Switzerland. Due organisational problems the album was not released before 2004 after the "The end of violent system tour across Spain and France with Baalphegor(ESP) and Censored(CH). In September Cropment was on tour with Torture killer and Poppy Seed Grinder across north west europe. After two local gigs in 2004/2005 Cropment will have a creative break to working on the new songs,but in the same time Adrian leave the band friendly. Cropment is still write new shit. In Autumn 2005 Toby join Cropment as the new guitar player. The band were back on stage in January 2006. With some local shows they presented a few new songs that being planned for an upcoming album. In August 2006 Claudio deciede to leave the band to spent his time for the family. Also Stephan deciede to leave the band for end of 2006. during family and job reasons. Mountains Of Death 06 was the last show with this lineup. For beginning of 2007 Chris Fox joined the band as the new part behind the drumkit and Chris Sandrock as part oft the guitars in mid. of 07. Cropment is working hard in this time by writing new stuff for the upcoming 2nd full lenght calling DEADSOIL that will be release in Feb.09. Three songs of it were homerecording as a promo 08 disc. Mutilation Through Contamination In beginning of the recording for the DEADSOIL album,the band deciede to quit the membership with Chris on guitars.
Cropment would like to thanks all the bands played together with,all the promoters,distributors and organizers and to YOU!!! who dig our shit. Thanks for your support.
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