DECAPITATED(斩首)来自波兰,成立于1996年 Country of origin: Poland Location: Krosno, Podkarpackie Status: Active Formed in: 1996 Genre: Technical Death Metal (early); Death/Groove Metal (later) Themes: Death, Nihilism, Misanthropy, Anti-Christianity, Social critique, Evil Current label: Nuclear Blast Years active: 1996 (as Decapitated Saints), 1996-2007, 2009-present When first formed, the age of the band members ranged from 12 (Witold Kiełtyka) to 16 (Wacław Kiełtyka and Wojciech Wąsowicz). n October 29th, 2007, whilst traveling to a show in Gomel, Belarus, the band was involved in an automobile accident. Their tour bus collided with a truck carrying wood, injuring Witold Kiełtyka and Adrian Kowanek seriously. On November 2nd, 2007, Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka was declared dead due to injuries sustained from the bus accident. Since the band was without a permanent bass player at the time, Wacław Kiełtyka was left as the only member of Decapitated. He temporarily joined Vader in 2008, but later that year decided to reactivate Decapitated. The band finally reformed in 2009 with three new members. Jacek Hiro was only a live guitarist for Decapitated, hence his omission from the promotional pictures for "The Negation". Wacław Kiełtyka uses guitar model Vogg, created especially for him by RAN in 2004, after recording "The Negation". On Saturday, September 9th, 2017, all four members of Decapitated were arrested in Santa Ana, California, on charges of rape and kidnapping. All four band members were accused of gang-raping a woman on their tour bus after a concert in Spokane, Washington on August 31st. All charges were dropped on January 5th, 2018, and the band was released and allowed to return to Poland.