LIAR

LIAR SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY(1995)
Before Liar started out there was this band named 'Wheel Of Progress', the members where: Hans-Drums, UxJ-Bass, Josh-Guitar and Rob(born from pain)-vocals...they recorded a 7" on the Canadian label Arm's reach, ltd to 1000 pieces and now a wanted item it seems...there's no line-up notes on the record, so it's rather an unknown pre h8000 band, then called 8000 crew. Liar started out as a project at the end of W.O.P...The name has been taken after the song 'Liar' from the Rollins Band, an inspiring person and the song talks about hypocrisy in every form possible. Liar stand for society that wants to fuck you over and for relegious groups and individuals commiting crimes in name of their God. The band has members involved of Congress, Blindfold and Regression. It was the start of where WOP ended..brutal and metal inspired hardcore with a sXe message...Hans took the vocal duties and we got Raf from regression on drums. Liar was ready to suprise friend and foe.

FALLS OF TORMENT RECORDINGS (1995)
We recorded our debut 'Falls Of Torment'to be released on GoodLife Recordings... after 10 rehearsals and a few shows. 8 songs that will be burned forever in the history of H8000 straight edge metallic hardcore. Non compromising hard-hitting lyrics and music with a record-sleeve made and designed by the same person who did sleeves for metal acts such as Marduk and Immortal..a sleeve that has been called 'awefull' by most standard hardcore magazines around, the shock effect had been reached. Liar played tons of shows everywhere around, the project turned into a real band.

BERT REPLACES RAF ON DRUMS (1996)
This would be our real first tour, together with Blindfold and Congress, two other acts that are pretty active in the local and the international hardcore thing...the tour would go for 3 weeks, on a big touring bus...a hell of an experience. The summer 'Steel Against Steel' tour will also be the beginning for Bert. Hailing from the band Sektor on drums for Liar. Raf left the band to do other things in life, he turned into a professional snowboarder and played in a punk band called Red Lobster, together with some Spirit Of Youth members. Bert's real first Liar show was the DRAGONS BLAZE festival with Cradle Of Filth.

INVICTUS (1997)
1997 was a very hectic year for Liar. We made a recordlabel change, from Goodlife to Genet, and the 'Invictus' recordings saw the day of light in February 1997 Some other songs appeared on the ltd split 7" that was involved in the last issue of the legendary H8000 zine. Liar played a massive amount of shows and toured alot during this year. Invictus has been called the best effort of Liar so far...it is currently out of press and will be re-done with a new lay-out and some re-mastering probably, more news later on...

LIAR PLAYS FESTIVALS AND LOTSA SHOWS (1998)
It's also a very important year for the band, we do play most of the cool festivals and shows locally and all across Europe.

LENNART JOINES LIAR (1999)
The idea of getting a 2nd guitarplayer in the band took shape in 1999. The more than busy Josh was preparing for his family-life and the taking over of his dad's business. We found our man in Lenno, in fact Lennart, who was Firestone's lead guitarplayer. We played a crazy amount of shows and prepared for the recordings of 'Deathrow Earth'.

DEATHROW EARTH (1999)
The sessions are completed at the Midas studios. Unfortunately, we had to deal with another recordlabel change, back to Goodlife... More shows were done, overwhelming everyone with the more metallic sound of the Deathrow Earth songs. Many metalheads started to appreciate Liar, and we were able to play some metal shows. Gig to remember was the gig with Bolt Thrower. Did a cool tour with Earth Crisis and Facedown.

CHRISTOPHE REPLACES JOSH ON LEAD GUITAR (1999)
Somewhere in May 1999, we played a gig with metalbuddies Aborted, in which Christophe was doing guitars. After the show, Lenno asked him if he would be interested in becoming one of us. Josh was too busy with Congress and the start of his own business, so Christophe considered the opportunity and finally agreed on joining us. Soon after that, we started rehearsing with the new line up and played several gigs. One of them being the Dour Festival. Christophe finished Aborted and joined Liar full time!

MATTHIAS REPLACES LENNO ON RHYTHM GUITAR (2000)
Right before the Easter 'Deathrow Europe' tour, Lenno decided to quit the band. We were able to arrange a second guitarplayer pretty soon, being Firestone's other guitar stringer Ward. But he was just staying temporary to help us out. After the tour, we started looking out for another guitarplayer. Hans introduced Matthias to the band, left handed riffer from the band Empathy. Lennart plays guitar currently in the Belgian Succesfull act JANES DETH

LIAR'S HELL (2001)
With the new line-up, it took us a while to find our way around. New songs were written, combining more heavy elements with the earlier sing along parts. In the winter of 2K, we recorded the Liar's Hell album at the CCR studios. The record contains 8 brandnew songs, and reactions have been more than positive. This one is released on the German Alveran records.

SPLIT WITH SUNRISE (2002)
The Liar's Hell record is out for awhile and Liar made the step to a bigger label called Lifeforce to put out their split with SUNRISE. 3 New songs were recorded + the classic Shatter from the Falls Of Torment record.

WARD REPLACES MATTHIAS (2002)
In the meantime Matthias has left the band and has been replaced by Vegan Ward from firestone, the guy played allready with us on some tours and fits perfectly in the band. We are currently working on a new full length record with a more than cool title, not to be revealed yet...stay tuned.

Lineup

UxJx - Bass (Tyrant's Kall, ex-Dreft, Congress, Street Rock Rebels, ex-Caducity (live)
Tim Jult - Drums (ex-Empathy, ex-Your God Is Dead, ex-Trenchfoot, The Mars Model, ex-Congress, ex-Sledgehammer)
Filip Maelbrancke - Guitars (ex-Empathy, ex-Hive Destruction, ex-Your God Is Dead, ex-Blood Redemption)
Matth - Guitars (RDS 220, ex-Empathy, ex-Hive Destruction, ex-Your God Is Dead, Stormwind, ex-Sledgehammer)
Hans Verbeke - Vocals (ex-Your God Is Dead, The Mars Model, ex-Blindfold, ex-Marky Ramone & Speedkings, ex-Nations on Fire, ex-Rise Above, ex-Shortsight, ex-Sledgehammer, ex-Spirit of Youth)

Release

Falls of Torment ' Full-length 1995    
Invictus ' Full-length 1997    
Liar / Family of Dog ' Split 1997      
Deathrow Earth ' Full-length 1999    
Liar's Hell ' Full-length 2001    
H8000 Hardcore ' Split 2002      
Decontaminate ' Split 2004      
Murder Manifesto ' Full-length 2005