MORGUE was put to life back in late 1997. As purveyors of a death grind fame, MORGUE begun its campaign on the very first day of October 1997 when a guy decided to form a new band. This guy was Max Lobier. Rapidly, he asked fresh friend Fred Bouchet to join the band as bassist. Back in the day, Death Grind music wasn't fashionable like it is nowadays and such a task as to find out a drummer was hard but MORGUE finally picked up one crazy drummer around. Around a trio formula, MORGUE begun composing and writing. Fred switched to the guitar duties pretty quick. The search for a bass player was already on but not fixed until late. So MORGUE practiced a lot, played some local shows until they got confidence in the stuff and evolved on its own as a Death Grind act.

After a little time, offers begun to fall upon them, but the first ones were kind of rip-off experiences. The years after 2000 were such a turning-point in MORGUE career. It witnessed the deals with both Spain's Fleshfeast Productions and Cleveland's Ablated Records through which MORGUE released under license both "Bonecrunch" MCD and "Artgore" debut full CD. Later on, France's Evil Biker Records approached us to split a 7'' vynil with LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY and Singapore's Incise to Excise proposed us to split with W.T.N. In April 2001, MORGUE left off France to join Ablated Records.

The band went on tour with BRODEQUIN and VOMIT REMNANTS (rip) on the North American Extermination Tour and played shows in Ohio and Indiana. In October, MORGUE decided to drop out Ablated Records for some reasons. Now in November 2002, we signed a deal to Adipocere Records.

The line-up has been the same since the debut, but has been staying firm and is really completed since the arrival of Cyril Blandino in early 2001. Morgue runs as follows: Max Lobier on vocals and guitar, Fred Bouchet on guitar and Jean-Michel Marlier on drums and Cyril Blandino on bass guitar. This line-up proved its coherence and stability, which was a feature that MORGUE was missing before due to the lack of bassist.

1997: birth of MORGUE as a trio.
1998: abortion of the sole 4-track demo ever "Acts Of The Macabre".
1999: coit and rejection of the 4 tracks contained in both seven inches.
2001: "Bonecrunch" CD, then "Artgore" CD.
2002: The Process To Define The Shape Of Self-Loathing
Words written September 2002.

The band has been up since about 6 years. With hindsight, I'd say we're about to enter the year 2003 and I feel like the band was born again from I don't know what exactly. First and foremost, we went through a bunch of deals with labels, half of them ending in one-way shots. Secondly, it seems like we will never have a bass player who could last a significant time. Yet, we always had the opportunity to release our stuffs and play gigs. Now that the new deal has been signed with Adipocere, we go on as a trio, as we've been playing so during the major part of the band career from its inception until now. Along with the new CD comes a new direction for the band. Months prior its release have been spent for a revision of the band imagery in its entirety, due majorely to the journey in the USA and its consequent opening to other genres, people and art in general. Musically the band stays firmly on its tracks. Yet, you will never see again gore arts in whatever image supports that will be released from the band. Also, in order to vent our musical thirst, we sat up some other project-bands that are now released. To give some sort of conclusions, I'd say that we, as individuals, gained much in consciousness. It could appear wise to say that we now compose much more with our feel, instead of following a fictitious belonging to a certain style. That's merely the ever on-going question of Metal as a genre: many will stay, many will open. We definitely opt to open. All that said and weighted, I don't think it is necessary to make it longer than that.