Future Tense Metalgrafia

Future Tense

Cock Van Drunen     Vocals

Reinier Schenk     Guitars

Rob Weber     Guitars

Tjerk Kiesel     Bass

Ruud Beunder     Drums

Future Tense started at the end of the 70s. The bandmembers played

in many bands before and played all types of rock. At a certain point

a new band was started and called New Spring Band, featuring Michiel

van Loef on guitars, Tjerk Kiesel on bass, Rico Hoek on drums and

Peter Ockhuyzen on vocals.

Soon they had to change the name, because the initials ‘NSB’ were

the same as the Dutch Naziparty in WWII.

After 6 month Rico was sent to another band and Ruud Beunder came

to replace him on the drums.

After some thinking Michiel came up with the name Future Tense.

‘Future’ was meaning their ambition to the future and ‘Tense’ was

the tension, which comes along the way.

Soon they played live in their region, which was around Woerden,

not really a big city, and it can described as a village in the

countryside. They rehearsed in a farm!

After some time a first demo "Future Tense" was made.

Some changes were made Rob Weber on guitar and Cock van Drunen

on vocals were invited to join the band.

From that time Future Tense created it's typical heavy-metal

sound and their typical Heavy Metal sound is in development.

The typical Future Tense was first to hear on their second demo

‘Protect Your Ears’. A few months later their third demo ‘Battle

of metal’ appeared. This one was issued in ’83 en sent all over

the world.

Also in America, where the manager from another Dutch band Together,

Jan Scheffers, made a lot of Future Tense promotion. The demo was

played at radiostations and ended up very high in the polls, even

before bands like Iron Maiden.

This attracted the attention of Brian Slagel from Metal Blade who

just started up this label. He issued some compilation LP’s under

the name of ‘Metal Masscre’ and for issue nr. 5, he was interested

in putting a song from Future Tense on this LP. The result was the

song ‘Nightmare’ and so became Future Tense the first European band,

which appeared on a release from Metal Blade (together with another

legendary band, Hellhammer).

At same time back in Holland the band signed a deal with Universe for

an MLP. Just before the recording the very young guitarist Reinier

Schenk joined the band to make the guitarsound heavier.

The recording just took two days in some kind of mobile studio. The

result, the MLP ‘Condemned to the Gallow’ were great, although the

band was not that pleased with the sound.

But songs like ‘Sword of Vengeance’ or ‘Condemned to the Gallow’

really marked their epic satanic Heavy Metal mage. The cover was

drawn by a streetjunkie, founded on the streets somewhere.

After the release of the Metal Massacre compilation and the MLP

the reviews were not that glorious.

Especially Cock’s voice had to stand a lot of critical notes.

In the meantime they played some great live shows.

Mostly they played on stage with two burning crosses

(the two ‘T’s in their logo).

A legendary live show was at Klarenpop where the guys were treated

like stars and the crowd went totally mad when they started. The

band had a very fanatic following. Especially some fans from Zeddam.

They followed Future Tense everywhere they played. One time the

band played in Geleen, which was for those guys almost the other

side of Holland. But after a very long trip on their mopeds (!!!)

they visited the gig.

Despite the releases they didn’t play as much live as they wanted

to and also the interest in the band didn’t increase.

The motivation went down by the months and so it happened that in

early ’85 the band split up.

The guys continued in lots of other bands, but it never had that

success and ‘magic’ as with Future Tense.

Over the years the band got forgotten by all the journalists and

label people, but never by the die-hards who still kept the band

in their hearts.

So it was no surprise that an initiative came from these die-hards

to approach Tjerk for an interview for the German underground

fanzine ‘That’s Metal’. Soon the HM Maniacs foundation, an

underground organisation asked the guys if they could put an old

Future Tense song on their compilation. Tjerk answered that he

rather put a new Future Tense recording on this album. In 2001

this sampler was released with a new recording of ‘Evil Attack’

and the never released demo song ‘Battle of Metal’.

On the CD released party the band played together after 16 years!!

Although it was without Reinier (he could not make the time) and

they played only 2 songs. The crowd and the band loved it!!

After a period it seems that also in the Black Metal scene Future

Tense had still a name. The Danish Black Metal

‘Denial of God’ announced that they wanted to cover ‘Sword of Vengeance’

on their coming MLP.

At the moment, 2004, the band exist again. The band just does it for

their own fun and to please the fans.

The band will play some gigs again, the American underground label

Doomed Planet will release old FT stuff on vinyl and the band itself

will release a MCD with new recordings of old songs.

And maybe, very maybe we can expect new Future Tense material.

So after so many years the band is back together and prove that

‘old school never dies!!!’

The Final Cut Compilation 2011

EXCELENTE SPEED/HEAVY METAL DE HOLANDA

Tracks 01-06 from "Battle of Metal" Demo '83

Tracks 07-11 from "Condemned to the Gallows" MLP '84

Tracks 12-14 from "Swords Of Vengeance" CD EP 2003

Track  15 recorded for a compilation CD in 2002

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01. Battle of Metal

02. Nightmare

03. Marquis de Sade

04. Damned Forever

05. Mephisto

06. Go to Hell

07. Go to Hell

08. Swords of Vengeance

09. La Guillotine

10. Condemned to the Gallows

11. Evil Attack

12. Swords of Vengeance

13. Nightmare

14. Go to Hell

15. Evil Attack

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