Biography
Maat is a Death Metal band from Berlin, Germany, that flavors athmospheric Death Metal with oriental elements.
Founded in November 2009, MAAT first was just an idea of guitarists Scaradeus and Felix W, to combine Death Metal with the ancient Egypt. With the first complete line-up with Thot on vocals, Friedel S. on bass and Hendrik „Tempest“ W. on drums MAAT recorded the first EP “Born In Sand” which was released in October 2010. From 2011 MAAT was more and more around on club shows, support gigs and festivals in Germany and Poland.
In April of 2013, with “Horus” on Bass and Alex “Em-Ra” on lead guitar, MAAT recorded their first full length album “As We Create The Hope From Above” at the Soundlodge Studios (used also by Bands like God Dethroned, Dew Scented, Defeated Sanity and many more), and realeased it in May of 2014, after deciding to sign with the label Aural Attack Productions. Meanwhile, Alex “Em-Ra” left the band after the recordings and got replaced by “Morguloth“ for guitar duties.
Two years, a Germany tour with Six Feet Under and a bunch of shows and festivals in 8 different countries later, it was time to record the second full length album. So MAAT again entered the Soundlodge Studios in autumn 2015 to record “Monuments Will Enslave”, which has been released in March 2017, also by Aural Attack Productions. Meanwhile again, MAAT played several shows and festivals in 5 different countries.
In February 2018, founder Scaradeus and long time lead vocalist Thot decided to leave MAAT as friends. For the following shows in UK, Slovakia and Germany, Rezvelk joined as Guitarist, and Onuris and Dennis P. as session and live vocalists. New songs where started to be written, accompanied by questions about the future of maat without the founder.
End of 2020, long time drummer Tempest decided to leave MAAT to focus on private topics and his family, but staying friend, consultant and designer for the band. Fortunately, high talented drummer Björn Schellinger, aka Sokar, and vocalist Phil Arlt, aka Baal, joined short hand to complete the lineup again. In 2022, MAAT and Horus decided to go separate ways. Thyros, as Friend of Baal, joined instantly to complete the lineup for the first post-pandemic MAAT show on Swampfest Berlin.
After completing the songwriting and preproduction, MAAT entered Soundlodge Studios in 2023 for the third time to produce the long awaited third album “From Origin To Decay” and signed with label FDA Records to release it in 2024.
