August 1990 - DECAYED was born

The idea behind DECAYED came from the mind of 2 friends who were tired of playing in projects without real goals.
Therefore, J.A. and Nuno joined their guitars under the name DECAY and started writing material along with the search for the rest of a line-up. In September, Pedro (drums) and Carlos (bass) joined J.A. (vox/guitar) and Nuno (guitar) for the first rehearsals. In November Jorge was invited to growl and accepted.
Some promo rehearsals were recorded with this line-up and spreaded throughout the Underground. These showed a band trying to perpetuate the 80’s Metal feeling in a mix of Black, Thrash and Speed Metal.
In March 1991 Pedro and Jorge left due to some musical differences, to be replaced by Mike and J.M. At this time the band name was changed to DECAYED and the music started to become more aggressive towards Death Metal.
This line up lasted until October and in November J.A. (guitar/vox) and J.M. (vox/ bass) joined forces with J.B. (drums).

January 1992 - The demo "...Thus Revealed"

Although the demo received some good reviews, most of the material had been written with the previous formations and within the band there was a feeling that this wasn’t how the band should sound. So, the sound changed again towards the Black Metal domain. In April V.J. (guitar) joined in and after the release of the promo track "Nocturnal prayers" Dark Rex contacted us for the release of a 7".

March 1993 – The single "The Seven Seals"

This has now become an Underground rarity and due to the good reviews and good live critics we decided to start working for what would become our debut album. This was recorded in September and it was followed by the departure of J.M. leaving J.A. in charge of the vocals and V.J. of the bass.

January 1994 - The debut "The Conjuration Of The Southern Circle"

This one took everyone by the throat! An attack of ruthless aggression. it was very well reviewed everywhere, the first pressing of 1000 copies by Monasterium Records was fast sold out. The band was going great but then J.B. decided also to leave and this stopped the band’s progress. In October due to some rumours that the band was dead, J.A. and V.J. asked Rogerio (drums) to help them out in a new recording of DECAYED. In November the "In Lustful Mayhem" cassette EP was recorded.

July 1995 - "In Lustful Mayhem/ The Seven Seals" CD

Although advertised by Skyfall Records as the band’s second album, this was viewed by the band as just a MCD with some extra tracks. After this release, unable to find a decent drummer, the band decided to start using a drum machine and to go even further into the roots of Metal. With this line up a second album began to be composed and JM returned.

August 1996 - The second album "Resurrectionem Mortuorum"

Finally the band was going somewhere once again. This recording showed a different band in all aspects. This was what DECAYED should always have been, a band totally influenced by the old Metal bands. As an untrendy release and due to the drum-machine, it received some inferior reviews but also excellent by those who understood it.
Unfortunately due to no promotion and almost no distribution, the result was a very poor sales number.

September 1997 - A second single "Behold The Wrath"

The band decided to start looking for a new label and started composing new material for the third album. In the meantime, a single was self released limited to 500 copies. Once again, this was a high acclaimed release by almost everyone.

November 1998 - Split CD with ALASTOR "Sacrifice Of The New Born"

With the demise of Evil Omen Records, supposed to release the third album and with the aim of not letting the name of the band disappear, another self-release (also limited to 500 copies) was put forth with the mid 1996 recordings under the title "A Sacrifice To Darkness".

To celebrate our first gig abroad we decided to release a MCDR with a very old song (actually the first song ever written for DECAY) and 4 live songs recorded at the Ritz in Lisbon in April 2000. This release was limited to 69 copies, hand numbered and signed by the band.

July 2000 - The tapes "Live 9/9/99" and "Ataque Infernal"

A cassette EP with the rehearsal of the 9^th day of the 9^th month of 1999 was released in June by Impaler Of Trends alongside with another cassette EP ("Ataque Infernal") released by Lucy Distro with some old recordings.
In August, VJ decided to leave the band due to a lack of time for rehearsals and overall commitment to the band.

November 2000-The first European tour

With IMPIETY and ABIGAIL and promoting the third album, we stormed Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Holland in 16 shows receving a good critic in most of them.

December 2000 – Split Single "Supreme Evil"

In December, "Supreme Evil" a split single with CORPUS CHRISTII was released by Hiberica under the title"Decadentia Christii" featuring, 3 new songs of Merciless Black Metal, our most brutal material and recording ever.

July 2001 - The fourth album "Nockthurnaal"

This is once again a step backwards into the roots of Real Metal. This album breathes the 80’s spirits all over it, be it the music, the lyrics or the overall feeling. Undoubtedly this is the band’s best work ever.

August 2001 – Another split single

Released by the Italian label Warlord Records, a split with ABIGAIL in the BULLDOZER tribute series with the song "Ride hard, die fast".

September 2001 – Another split single

Sombre records released the 4 way split single "Black Metal Endsieg II" with a new song to be featured on the next album with a different version and lyrics.

March 2002 - "Demon Blade" the first LP!

Finally, after so many years trying to release an LP, it was once again by Sombre Records, a vinyl release that includes material (remixed and remastered) taken from the anno 2000 Tapes. Limited to 500 copies.

May 2002 - "The Conjuration Of The Southern Circle" on LP.

Back in 1993 we were negotiating with a label for an LP release. It never happened but the wholle album was recorded (side A, side B, length - it was supposed to have more songs but the label said that we had to record around 40 minutes) for an LP version, and now, more than 8 years have passed, through Hiberica the original idea comes to life! Limited to 500 copies, for all die hard fans!