NEFAS was born in 1995 after the meeting of Tom Pagotto(drum) and Dario Pagotto(guitars and back-voc.) with Fabio Coviello(bass and vocals).The line-up never changed and never found more members. The band approached to the extreme scene through a fast swedish-style death metal (as bands such as old Grave, Dismember, Crematory, Putrefaction, Hetshead, Liers in Wait...) and after two years NEFAS produced the debut demo tape "He was Born"(1997) with the cover artwork drawn by Paolo Parente and an 'incantationesque' music touch. The demo immediately started collecting good reviews (from Headfucker, Corpse Gristle, Brutalized . . .) and was distributed worldwide through Morbid, FullMoon, Brutalized, Wild Rags, Fadeless etc. The tecnical and extremistic growth of the band brought NEFAS to a twist, intricated and more cruel attitude and brutal playing-style, and to the debut MCD "Transfiguration to the Ancients form" (1999), produced with the collaboration of Michele Toscan of Nuclear Abominations rec.(once again with the cover arwork by Paolo Parente). An hyperfast obscure and asphyxianting brutalic sound joined with lirics imagined as hymns concerning the cult of Ancient abysmal Babylonian and Sumerian deities of the underworld, that's the new way the band chose for his music! NEFAS found supporter and distributors all around the world (Relapse, Bones Brigade, Razorback, Displeased, Uxicon, Cudge Agency, Headfucker, Bruchstein, Shindy, Obscene,..)devoted itself to an intense livelife, with tons of gig played with the most extreme italian bands (like Mind Snare, Bastard Saints, Awful, Braiwash, Morbus, Dysmorfic..) with the mexicans DISGORGE, with the dutch CENTURIAN in Belgium and, in 2001, a small summer european tour (playing also at Brutal Assault Festival ..6 in Czec Republik) with the friends Bastard Saints for the promotion of their new split MCD , "Ropes above an Abyss of Fury" released for the italian new born label 'the FLOOD Rec.' also organizing some german gigs with PURGATORY. At the beginning of the year 2002 NEFAS found a wonderful deal with the french BONES BRIGADE, well known European label devoted to the extremest way of grind and brutal death! The band recorded the first full CD "Seven Times Seven" during the spring-summer 2002 in the Avatara Studios, with Tom (drummer of the band) as sound engeneer.
The CD, with the cover paint and artwork design by Tomasz "GRAAL"Danilovicz, is the new concept concerning the sumerian-babylonian apocalyptic myth, connected with the prophecy of a God-demonologic new era.
In october 2002 NEFAS toured Poland for the "Grind Manifesto 2002", together with ANTIGAMA, PIGNATION and BASTARD SAINTS.
Finally in April 2003 the Seven Times Seven came out, and the worldwide opinion was really amazing; The distribution of BONES BRIGADE brought the CD all around the world, from Canada to Japan, from USA to Scottland, from Brasil to Australia;
The 2003 saw NEFAS engaged in live promotion, playing across Iatlya together with Corpse Fucking Art, Bastard Saints, Cadaveric Crematorium, etc. For the end of 2003 NEFAS toured Italy together with the mighty DESTROYER 666, HANDFUL OF HATE and VII ARCANO.


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