Decapitated

Waclaw Vogg Kieltyka – guitar
Rafal Rasta Piotrowski – vocal
Pawel Pasek – bass
Michal Lysejko – drums
 
Decapitated is a death metal band that formed in Krosno, Poland in 1996. The group comprises guitarist, founder and composer Wac?aw &Vogg& Kie?tyka, vocalist Rafa? Piotrowski, bassist Pawe? Pasek, and drummer Micha? ?ysejko. Decapitated have gained recognition as one of the genre's most widely respected bands and one of the finest exponents of technical death metal. The band earned an international fan base in the underground music community, and became an innovating act in the modern death metal genre.
 
Vogg and his younger brother, drummer Witold &Vitek& Kie?tyka, founded Decapitated along with vocalist Wojciech &Sauron& W?sowicz in their mid-teens, joined by bassist Marcin &Martin& Rygiel a year later. After releasing two demos, the band signed with Wicked World (subsidiary of Earache Records) and, in 2000, released their debut album, Winds of Creation. In 2002 and 2004 the band released the albums Nihility and The Negation, respectively. The band's ambitious fourth album, Organic Hallucinosis, was released in 2006 with a new vocalist, Adrian &Covan& Kowanek.
 
In late 2007, the band was involved in an automobile accident. Vitek died at the age of 23 on November 2, 2007 of the injuries he suffered from the accident and Covan survived, but he slipped into a coma as a result. After a period of disbandment, Vogg decided to continue the band and reformed Decapitated with new members. The fifth album, Carnival Is Forever, was released on July 12, 2011. Blood Mantra is to be released on September 26, 2014.