KATAGORY V: Performance Footage Of New Lineup Available

January 25, 2010

Progressive/power metal band KATAGORY V has uploaded video footage of the group's comeback performance in its hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. The clips, which were filmed on January 9 at The Abyss, can be viewed below.

Commented bassist/songwriter and founding member Dustin Mitchell: "With pre-production [for the next KATAGORY V album] complete, and having some downtime before we start the recording sessions for our fifth album in early April, KATAGORY V decided to step out onto the stage.

"It [had] been well over a year since the band has performed live, and with a some of the guys of the current lineup being fairly new and having never performed with KATAGORY V on stage — Kris (Krompel, guitars) and Bizzarro (Matthew Bizzaro Lefevre, drums) — it was high time to test the waters and see how we would fare in that environment. After being cooped up in the studio for the last 10 months writing and working on the next album, everyone was suffering from severe cabin fever. After all, KATAGORY V is not a studio project, but in fact a live band!

"Marc (Hanson, guitar),who recently returned to the band in December, secured a date for us at a local venue in our hometown of Salt Lake City, opening for the talented all-female tribute band THE IRON MAIDENS.

"Overall, it was a fantastic show… sold out, in fact! Granted, I feel that the majority of the audience was in attendance due to the other amazing acts on the bill. However, I believe by the end of our set, we were able to win over a whole new legion of fans. After all, there is no better way to stage a comeback than to a packed house of raging metalheads!"

KATAGORY V's current lineup is as follows:

Dustin Mitchell - Bass
Albert Rybka - Vocals
Matthew Bizzaro Lefevre - Drums
Marc Hanson - Guitar
Kris Krompel - Guitar

KATAGORY V's most recent album, "Hymns Of Dissension", was released in September 2007 in Europe through Burning Star Records and in October 2007 in the U.S. on Nightmare Records.

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