In-Quest Explained

In-Quest should not be confused with Inquest.

In-Quest
Background:	group_or_band
Origin:	Turnhout, Belgium
Genre:	Progressive death metal
Years Active:	1994–2014
Label:	Teutonic Existence Records, Shiver Records, Soulreaper Records, Good Life Recordings
Associated Acts:	Aborted, Leng Tch'e
Website:	www.in-quest.be
Current Members:	MiQe Löfberg Douglas Verhoeven Gert Monden Korneel Lauwereins Frederick Peeters
Past Members:	Noise Grinder Sven de Caluwé Laurent Swaan Wim Roelants Manu van Tichelen Joël Decoster Jan Geenen Valéry Bottin

In-Quest were a Belgian progressive death metal band. Formerly signed with Good Life Recordings, the band were active since the early 1990s, with Sven de Caluwe of Aborted as a singer from 2002 to 2004. He was replaced by Swedish singer Mike Löfberg from Blockhead. They released five albums and two EPs, with their final album called released on 8 August 2013. On 12 February 2014 the band split up.

In-Quest have played at a number of festivals in Belgium and the Netherlands, such as Frostrock, Euroblast, Xmass Festival, Flanders Fields of Death, Arnhem Metal Meeting, and (alongside bands like Slipknot, Fear Factory, Nile, Motörhead, Saxon, and Ensiferum) Graspop Metal Meeting in 2005 (Metal Dome), 2006 (Marquee 1) and 2009 (at Mainstage).^[1] Also in 2006, In-Quest opened for Fear Factory, on their "Fifteen Years of Fear" tour.^[2] ^[3] They also supported Nile in 2005 on their EU tour.

Members

Final line-up

Mike "MiQe" Löfberg - vocals (2004-2014)
Gert Monden - drums (1994-2014)
Douglas Verhoeven - lead guitar (1999-2014)
Korneel "Korre" Lauwereins (bass 2007-2010) - rhythm guitar (2010-2014)

Previous members

Vocals

NG "Noise Grinder" Ben Adams - vocals (1994–2002)
Dimitri Janssens - vocals (2002)
Sven de Caluwé - vocals (2002–2004)

Guitars

Wim Roelants - guitar (1994-1999)
Jan Geenen - bass/rhythm guitar (1992-2006)
Ian van Gemeren - rhythm guitar (session) (2006)
Valéry Bottin - rhythm guitar (session) (2006-2010)

Bass

Manu van Tichelen - bass (1997-2005)
Joël Decoster - bass (2005-2007)
Jan Geenen - bass (1994-1997), guitar (1997-2006)
Frederick Peeters - bass (2010-2013)

Timeline

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"System Shit" line-up (1988–1994)

Originally formed as Color Of Noise (1987) as a one-man-noise band,
Laurent (Vocals, guitar, drums)

Final "System Shit" line-up (1994)

NG "Noise Grinder" Ben Adams - vocals (1992-1994)
Gert Monden - drums, backing vocals (1992–1994)
Laurent Swaan - guitar (1988-1994), vocals (1988-1991)
Jan Geenen - bass (1992-1994), drums (1991-1992)

Former "System Shit" members

Peter Smeekens - Bass (1990 - 1991)
Koen Smits - Bass (1991 - August 1993)
Mark Nelissen - Drums (1990 - 1991)
Peter Cornelissen - Guitars (1990)

Discography

Studio albums

(Teutonic Existence, 1997)
(Shiver Records, 1999)
Epileptic (Good Life Recordings, 2004)
The Comatose Quandaries (Dockyard1, Good Life Recordings, 2005)
Made Out Of Negative Matter (Self-released, 2009)
CHRONiQLE (The best of...compilation) (Self-released, 2012)
Chapter IIX - The Odyssey of Eternity (Self-released, 2013)

Extended plays

Destination: Pyroclasm (Soulreaper Records, 2003)
The Liquidation Files (Vinyl EP, Self-released, 2010)

Demos

Xylad Valox (1995)

7inch vinyl

Rewarded with Ingratitude (1995)

External links

Notes and References

Web site: In-Quest artiestinformatie . Festivalinfo . 2008 . 2008-12-13.
Web site: Fear Factory, Misery Index en In-Quest op 4-5-2006, in 013, Tilburg . Metalfan.nl . 2006 . 2008-12-13.
Web site: Fear Factory, Misery Index en In-Quest live @ 013 in Tilburg, 4 mei 2006 . Slagwerkwereld . 2006 . 2008-12-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716082958/http://www.slagwerkwereld.com/nieuws/newsItem.php?n01ID=3119&type=6 . 2011-07-16 . dead .