Faster than satan has been around for
quite a while, but the first "serious" lineup was formed around September
2001 with founding members INO(guitars) and ERNEL(bassist),
and then new members ND(guitars), AKELLE(vocals), and
JOHN(drums). Since then, they have undergone relentless gigging,
and have recorded a few demos. They have also made a video of the song
Painting the Darkness in the process. The band played mostly in
Quezon City, where most of the band members are based-- particularly the
now defunct Player's Cafe in Katipunan Avenue where they became regulars.
The members of the band had one common
goal: play extreme metal and push it to its so called limits. They share
the common interest of extreme aggresive music (hardcore and metal esp.
Pantera, Slayer, Metallica, Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse), as well as
technical stuff (classical, jazz and progressive).
After a series of sound
alterations, lessons learned, deeper research, more influences,
experimentations, and further line-up changes, HANS (Tomb) joined
the band and took over the drumming duties. The band further formulated
and formed its sound and identity, which categorically, belongs to the
most extreme within the metal genre, while exerting effort to not be
limited to and boxed into it.
The band has relentlessly experimented,
further improved its technical profficiency, ability and philosophy. At
the same time, it has allowed space for the band and its memebers to grow,
experience and improve its agression and tightness.
The lineup chnges occured prior to
ERNEL's leaving the band to study somewhere else. His last gig was the NU
107 Summer Shebang in 2002, and he has since been replaced by
MICHAEL. INO, on the other hand, has been busy with his law school
studies, and therefore, has not been able to play in the band regularly.
He has also been busy with his other musical project, although he plays
whenever possible. BONG(ex-Guardian Crucifix)was the session
drummer while HANS was in Japan.
Currently, FTS is still in pursuit
of destroying all barriers that limit itself in pursuit of extremity,
technicality and immense brutality. FTS is a metal band that pushes itself
limitlessly to overcome stagnation, with an objective as unit, to be
tighter, more agressive, brutal, while not compromising technicality,
songwriting, its message. In the band's pursuit of growth and overcoming
stagnation, it will further experiment, and will not slow down... exactly
like what it's name speaks of.