Aeba
| Aeba | |
|---|---|
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 Aeba 2012 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Black metal |
| founding | 1992 |
| resolution | 2013 |
| Website | http://www.aeba.de/ |
| Founding members | |
| Isegrim | |
Guitar , vocals |
Shadow storm |
| Last occupation | |
singing |
Isegrim |
Guitar, vocals |
Shadow storm |
guitar |
Warmaster (2013) |
| Exul | |
| Infernal disaster | |
| former members | |
| Hellischer (2002-2004) | |
Keyboard |
Daemonia (1996-2002) |
Drums |
Nidhögg (1994-2000) |
guitar |
Xsaahr (until 2012) |
Aeba was a German black metal band from Kiel .
history
The band was founded in 1992 by Isegrim and Schattensturm under the name Eternal Suffer, two years later they were renamed Aeba. The name Aeba is a combination of the first letters of the arch demons Astaroth , Eurynome , Bael and Amducias .
After the publication of Flammenmanifest, Aeba paused for some time to “collect ideas and later compose further material”. After a while there were rehearsals again and later concerts. After problems and disputes with drummer Nidhögg, the band separated from him. Since Aeba had difficulties finding a new drummer, the band began to work with a drum computer and, since they could not find a replacement, ultimately "despite some concerns" recorded the album Rebellion - Edens Asche . After the recordings and a first appearance with a drum computer, the band Infernal Desaster took on as a drummer.
Aeba could claim to have been one of the first foreign black metal bands to play in Israel .
In 2011 the band made their first three albums and their demo recording available for free download and released the album Nemesis in 2012 .
On September 16, 2013, the band announced on their website that they had ceased to exist after their last appearance, which took place on September 7th of that year at the Rock for Roots Festival in Nauen . Nevertheless, the band played again at the Ragnarök Festival in Lichtenfels in April 2016 .
Music style and ideology
In the beginning, Aeba was influenced by the first albums by Samael , Acheron , Morbid Angel and Darkthrone , after which the musicians had "only a few unconscious musical influences" according to Isegrim. The band used a keyboard to create or support melancholy or dark passages ; it would have given her music "simply the atmosphere without which everything would only sound half as good"; Allegations that the band would "paste up 'their songs with keyboard sounds" did not interest Aeba according to their own statements.
The lyrics of the band are mostly in a satanic context, Aeba renounced clichéd provocation in favor of a philosophical-individualistic poetry. Isegrim describes himself as a Satanist, but speaks out against religion and the worship of supernatural deities at the same time; his philosophy of life lies “beyond the imagination of people”, who mostly comment on the term Satanism from “a cheap and one-sided point of view”. He also speaks out against a connection between Aeba and political content; these are "completely inappropriate and out of place" in Black Metal, and National Socialism has nothing to do with Black Metal. Infernal Desaster also emphasized that he was "boycotting [...] largely [sic!] NSBM bands".
Discography
- 1995 - The Rising (demo)
- 1997 - In the realm of shadows
- 1999 - Flame Manifesto
- 2001 - Rebellion - Eden's Ashes
- 2004 - Shemhamforash - The face of hatred
- 2008 - Code V
- 2012 - Nemesis, Decay of God's Grandeur
swell
- ↑ a b c d Markus Eck: Dripping with hatred .
- ↑ a b c The Renewal: Aeba - Black Metal, no more, but also no less (Interview, 2002) .
- ↑ aeba.de ( Memento from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ): "After the final gig AEBA stopped to exist on September 7th, 2013 at 5:55 pm."; Retrieved November 28, 2013
- ↑ a b Stefan: INTERVIEW: AEBA (July 16, 2004) ( Memento from November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Official website ( Memento of February 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )