Amon (Swiss band)

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Amon
General information
origin Zurich , Switzerland
Genre (s) Death metal , black metal
founding 1991
resolution 1998
Last occupation
Dan B. Zahed
Pete Schuler
Lothar
Patrick "Frugi" Hersche
Electric guitar
 Reto Ehler
former members
Drums
 Reto Macek
Electric guitar
 Nick Alguacil
Vocals, electric bass
 Dorian Nellen
Electric bass
 Satorius
Singing, initially also electric guitar
 Reto hunter
Electric guitar
 Moritz Thuerig
Electric guitar
 Markus Hasselbach
Electric guitar
 Gareth John
Electric guitar
 Gregor Luther

Amon was a Swiss black and death metal band from Zurich that was founded in 1991 and disbanded in 1998.

history

The band was formed in 1991 by guitarist Dan B. Zahed, with the band members also being members of the Church of Satan . In 1993 the first EP was released under the name The Shining Trapezohedron . In September of the same year, a permanent line-up formed around Zahed, consisting of the singer and guitarist Reto Jäger, the bassist Satorius and the drummer Pete Schuler (ex- Messiah ). Satorius was also a member of the Black Order of Lucifer . This was followed by appearances inside and outside Switzerland together with groups like Deicide , Suffocation , Samael , Pyogenesis and Disastrous Murmur . In 1995 the debut album Shemhamforash was released . On television and at universities, the band was given the opportunity to express their religious views, which led to controversial discussions and complaints. In 1998 the band split up. Satorius had already founded the black metal band Helvete in 1994, which was to be renamed Mountain King in 2002.

style

According to Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 5 , The Shining Trapezohedron is a “mid-tempo horror soundtrack” with sinister vocals. Shemhamforash offers solid Death Metal with clear Black Metal influences. The singing is dark and groaned. In an interview in Rock Hard by Kai Wendel, Pete Schuler, Dan B. Zahed and bassist Satorius stated that the band wanted nothing to do with the Scandinavian black metal culture, because “[t] the vulgar paganism of it Vikings […] have nothing in common with modern Satanism , eg that of La Vey ”. This scene is averse even to the Church of Satan. The band thinks nothing of mixing Germanic cults with fascist views, since Satanism has something to do with individuality and not with the ideology of the Third Reich . LaVey says the opposite: he speaks out against prejudice and advocates an individual way of life. All gods and demons are an invention of man, so that the band only see Satan as a symbol. For LaVey there is no good or bad as in other religions such as Christianity or Islam and he advocates living out human urges. In the Church of Satan, violence plays a subordinate role and is only used in rituals to reduce aggression. The goal is free personal development without restricting anyone else. Robert Müller from Metal Hammer found it strange in his review of Shemhamforash that on the one hand the lyrics of the songs were important to the band, but on the other hand you couldn't understand anything straight away. For him, the songs are only "extensive thanks". Otherwise, the album offers "heavy-blooded Black Metal", which is musically respectable. According to Kai Wendel from Rock Hard , the album offers average Death Metal that has black metal elements.

Discography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Info. Facebook , accessed October 14, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 5 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1996, p. 21st f .
  3. ↑ Bio. Myspace , archived from the original on December 10, 2011 ; accessed on October 13, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Kai Wendel: Amon . In nomine Satanas? In: Rock Hard . No. 96 , May 1995, pp. 50 ff .
  5. ^ Robert Müller: Amon . Shemhamforash. In: Metal Hammer . May 1996, p. 63 .
  6. ↑ Kai Wendel: Amon . Shemhamforash. In: Rock Hard . No. 115 , December 1996, p. 50 ( rockhard.de [accessed on March 8, 2020]).