Massacra

Massacra is a French death metal and thrash metal band, originally from the Paris region. Founded around 1987 and disbanded in 1997, it was one of the pioneers and leading figures of this musical genre in France, along with Loudblast and Agressor. The band emerged in the late 1980s, a period during which it successively produced three demos influenced by the American and German thrash metal scenes. The German label Shark Records enabled it to make its first album Final holocaust (whose title has since been censored, the album becoming Massacra) in 1990, a concentrate of violence with still clumsy execution and weak production, but where the songwriting talents of the two guitarists Jean-Marc Tristani and Fred "Death" Duval can already be discerned. On June 6, 1997, Fred Duval died of cancer, marking the end of the band.