“Anguish Sublime” originated on one cold october day in a year 1998th in a small town of Temerin (20km northern from Novi Sad) in Vojvodina, Serbia. The founders of the band are Crni (Aleksandar Crnobrnja – giuitar, composer, etc.) and Arpad (Aprad Takacs – vocal, lyrics) who after several years of friendship decided to focus their ideas and creativity into one goal. For few succeeding years, we tried to gather musicians around band project, but had a little success. During the years of 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2001, the two of us worked and created many songs, such as “Among the Raven Skies”, “Where Leprous Angels Breed” and “Mesmerized in Asphyxiated Delight”, but we still didn’t manage to find the rest of the band member crew.


In the meantime, Arpad, with some of his friends (Nenad Stupar – Drums and Tino Mihajlović – Guitar) founds death-grind band named “Anus Dei” and a doom-black project named “Synthesis Diabolique” which was of short lifetime. In the beginning of year 2002, Arpad joins the “Tales of Dark”, doom / death band from Novi Sad. In the summer same year, Draško Pejović joins Anguish Sublime as a second guitar player.


Year 2003. will be remembered as the turning point for “Anguish Sublime”. The band finally found drummer – Vule (Vukašin Mandić – drummer from “Tales of Dark”), and started to rehearse the repertoire. Due to impossibility to play in both bands, Vukašin leaves “Anguish Sublime” and on the drummers place arrives Darko (Darko Stanojević – ex Tortura). After a short period, Nikola (Nikola Čavar – guitar player from “Tales of Dark”) joins the band as a bass guitar player, and Vule leaves “Tales of Dark” and returns to “Anguish Sublime”. In the meantime Arpad leaves “Anus Dei”.


In the May 2004 , after 6 long years, the band releases their first demo album named “Among the Raven Skies” consisted of 7 tracks (duration 36:09) and for the first time plays in public. The promotional gig took place at “NS Riders” underground club in Novi Sad, in front of about 180 people who accepted this burst of melodic death metal with obvious thrill and enthusiasm. “Anguish Sublime” played along with “Anus Dei” and “Tales of Dark” in the following lineup: Arpad Takacs (vocal), Aleksandar Crnobrnja (guitar), Draško Pejović (guitar), Vukašin Mandić (drums) and Nikola Čavar (bass guitar).
In the following period, the band plays in some festivals and gigs in many towns in Serbia, and competes in Demo Master Tournament of Radio Beograd 202 – in which it ends up 3rd in the super-finals of Serbian demo scene, which was broadcast live on the “Belgrade 202″ radio station, on the evening of Thursday the 24th, year 2005. The “Among the Raven Skies” demo was on the first place of Demo Express charts for 6 weeks.


In the April 2005, the band had a promotional live TV gig, recorded by TV Panonija. Not longer after that, Nikola Čavar leaves the band because of some obligations and personal problems. In the 8th of May, year 2005, Novelja Korać joins ANGUISH SUBLIME as bass guitar player and the band continue with rehearsals and preparations for the future gigs. During the years 2005, 2006 and 2007, the band played all over the country, in many gigs / small fests and guitar competitions (as guests in “Kula guitar competition”, Vrbas guitar competition, Metal Battle (qualified to finals), Exit Festival in Novi Sad, and biggest guitar competition in Serbia, Zaječar guitar competition (August 2007)). Soon after, Bojana Kovačević joins the band as a keyboard player. Last live gig the band performed in was in Novi Sad in club “Dvorište” along with friends from the Belgrade metal band RAIN DELAY. This was the first time that keyboard was used in band live performance. In the beginning of 2006, Draško joins Nekropolis, death metal band from Novi Sad, Serbia. Soon after band gave up on idea of having keyboards in the line-up that will perform live.


In the beginning of the year 2008, Novelja and Vukašin left Anguish Sublime. Andras Ispan Bandi entered the band as a new bass player in February, and Aleksandar Fekete Deda joined the band as a drummer in June 2008. The band starts rehearsing and recording a new EP. No gig was performed with this line-up, the EP recording / mixing was prolonged and finally put on ice for almost a year, due to many obligations of all band members. Draško declared himself to be “status quo”, due to his non involvement in the creative role of the band, and thus he committed his work to Nekropolis and personal obligations. In the year 2010, Aleksandar Fekete is kicked out of the band due to financial debts, for money he received as a help in April 2009, and that he (still) didn’t return (and it seems that he even doesn’t have the intention to).


In the second half of year 2010, Crni continued the work on new band website (started in 2007), and Arpad and Crni continued the work of Anguish Sublime’s second EP, named “Unveiling the Origin”. It will contain 5 tracks, 4 Anguish Sublime songs, some of them already known to Serbian audience like “Cycloneheart Vertigo” or “Worm’s eye-view”. Besides that, the EP will contain one cover track.


After 12 long years, Anguish Sublime metamorphosed back to the status of “project”, with no known plans for performing live again, but with clear intention to record all old and new material, and publish new releases more often for the future. As for the band members, besides Arpad and Crni, who still didn’t gave up on trying to make the idea alive, Bandi remains as “helping hand” for recording bass guitar, release recording, mixing, and potential live gigs if the band ever decides to perform live again.



Crni,
ANGUISH SUBLIME
Novi Sad, AUGUST 2010.