User:TheLumbersmith/Samurai Pizza Cats (Band)

Samurai Pizza Cats are a Metalcore-Band from Castrop-Rauxel founded in 2021.

The band name is a reference to the Anime show of the same name from the late 1990s.

Band History
an Fischer, guitarist Daniel Haniß, bassist Stefan Reufer, and drummer Stefan Buchwald as founding members. Some of the musicians knew each other from prior projects. Haniß and Fischer played together in the band Her Smile in Grief, the predecessor of Electric Callboy. Fischer later played with Buchwald in the band Fall of Gaia while Reufer was active in Eleven Years. Haniß also worked as a producer for both bands.

For the first singles, the group was able to win well-known names from the scene, such as members of the bands Future Palace and For I Am King. On June 23, 2023,Samurai Pizza Cats played at Full Force, officially opening the music festival.

On July 10, 2023, the group announced the release of their debut album You're Hellcome, Which was released on September 22 of the same year by Easthaven Records. On the day of the album's announcement, a new music video The Wolf in Me, was also release. From October 2nd to 8th, 2023, the group will accompany Annisokay on their concert tour through Deutschland and Austria. The group will play their first German tour as a main act between January 5th and 21st, 2024.

Pia-Kim Schaper of Powermetal.de places the group's music on their debut album under Metalcore, which is peppered with plenty of trance elements and thus evokes comparisons with Groovenom. Similarities with Electric Callboy are also noted, although Samurai Pizza Cats' stylistically complex music justifies its existence. This is characterized as "pleasant, groovy, fast and with a good protion of brutality". Gary Trueman describes the music as a crossover between metal and dance, although he sees the musical basiss of the album as more rock music.

Weblinks

 * Samurai Pizza Cats at Exact Management
 * Samurai Pizza Cats on Facebook