It's a bit hard to pin down where IMPLORE are really from. The band members live mainly in Hamburg these days, but lead vocalist and bass player Gabriel Dubko was born in Argentina, and has lived in Barcelona, LA and Hamburg. This is where he met guitarist Daniel at the train station, after a gig at the legendary Rote Flora - squat, and this random encounter gave birth to IMPLORE. A few weeks later, Heaven Shall Burn's Christian Bass joined the band as a drummer, and this was the first line-up of the three-piece. Due to his commitments to HSB, Bass couldn't record IMPLORE's first EP "Black Knell", so Dubko got Suffocation's Kevin Talley to track drums instead - not a 2nd rate replacement at all. ,Black Knell", released on July 4th 2014, was furiously ... mehr lesen