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Marthus (birthname Martin Škaroupka) was born on 20th January
1981 in Czech Republic (living in Newcastle/England and in
Brno/Czech republic recently). From his childhood he was raised
to love music. Father, who is himself is active in music from
his early youth up till now (band Dogma Art), has always been
taking his son to majority of concerts and rehearsals which
took place in the city that days.
Since he was 6, Martin started attending piano
and singing lessons at LŠU Brno (attendance until 13). Because
there were no drums lessons at any of the music schools of
that time available, he began to take private lessons from
prof. Cupák (member of Janáček opera in Brno).
When 15 years old, he was admitted to Leoš Janáček
Conservatory, where he graduated in drums and as an additional
instrument - piano.
Marthus began playing with various bands of
various music styles when he was 15 (1996). In the same year,
his first studio enterprise is released (band Animal Farm),
which is followed by another studio CD with band Pink Chubby
Cigar.
In 1997 Marthus and his long-time friend Khaablus
are founding band Inner Fear, where Marthus is responsible
for all compositions, keyboards and drums. In the same year
the first demo comes out and until 2003 two more mini-CDs
and three full lenght albums (out of which the first was never
released officially).
Let us stay in 1997 for a while when Marthus
is playing live shows with bands Monastery, Pluggulp (also
1 CD recorded), Inner Fear, Happy Death and Scharnhorst. In
the last band mentioned he meets guitar player Ashok (recently
Root, Equirhodont) for the first time and participates on
recording of CD.
In the years following (1997-2000) plays live
not only with Happy Death (2 CDs recorded) and Inner Fear,
but also appears as a guest drummer on Melancholy Pessimism
minitour (r. 2000), in a project of Root singer Jiří "Bigboss"
Valter, BigBoss (r.2000) and in 1999 recording CD of project
Entrails (where he meets Root guitar player, Petr "Blackie"
Hošek).
In the beginning of 2001, Marthus takes place
on drummer-stool in Pandemia, setting out on a spring european
tour, after which the cooperation is finished.
A very fruitful Inner Fear period follows and
in 2003 first cooperation with bands Equirhodont and Galactic
Industry. Besides active playing with these 3 bands Marthus
is also did studio and live session work with bands of various
genres.
In summer 2004 Marthus filmed his first drumming
DVD and moved from Czech Republic to England.
In autumn 2004 Marthus joined English band
Mantas (legendary Venom guitarist Jeff "Mantas"
Dunn) and in summer 2005 started his cooperation with Czech
power/speed/symphonic metal band Symphonity (ex Nemesis).
In January 2006 Marthus recorded drums for
a new Symphonity album at House of Audio studios in Germany.
Herein I would like to thank my parents, without whose
love and support I could never fully realize in what I like
most in the whole world - music.
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