Barathrum
| Barathrum | |
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 Demonos Sova performing at Jalometalli 2008 in Oulu |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Black Doom |
| founding | 1990 |
| Founding members | |
| Demonos Sova | |
| Aki (until 1991) | |
| Ilu (until 1992) | |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, bass |
Demonos Sova |
bass |
Nuklear Tormentörr (since 2000) |
Bass, vocals |
G'Thaur (since 1998) |
Drums |
Agathon (since 2007) |
Electric guitar |
Raakalainen (since 2007) |
Electric guitar |
Anathema lignant (1998, 2000-2004, since 2006) |
| former members | |
Electric guitar
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Barathrum ( Latin for 'abyss') is a Finnish Black Doom band.
history
The band was founded in the winter of 1990 under the name Darkfeast, one year and two demos later the name was changed to Barathrum. After signing a record deal with Nazgul's Eyrie Productions , eight albums were released, the first letters of which in chronological order result in “ Heil Sova”, which refers to the singer's pseudonym. After the third album Infernal , the band switched to the record label Spinefarm Records on which the remaining five works were released.
In 1997 the band's only major tour took place with Countess and Sabbat through the Netherlands and Germany. A planned Finland tour with Countess, Wizzard and Babylon Whores in December 1997 had to be canceled.
In 2009 the live CD Long Live Satan was released via Ghul Productions; this is referred to by the band as their swan song .
In April 2017 a new album entitled "Fanatiko" will be released on the Finnish label "Saturnal Records".
Music style and ideology
In contrast to the chaotic, grindcore- influenced music style of other Finnish bands such as Beherit , Archgoat and Impaled Nazarene , that of Barathrum is characterized by the influence of Doom Metal and the use of up to three bassists; on handouts for the first demo Witchmaster , the band's style was described as "jetblack doom-metal". A symbol that the singer Demonos Sova designed and called Sigil Barathrum ('Seal of the Abyss') often appears on the publications ; He also wears this as a belt buckle. Sova sees Barathrum as a black metal band and satanic music, but distanced himself from a murder case that took place in Hyvinkää in 1998 and in which both the perpetrator and the victim came from the black metal scene. Sova tried to avoid any association of the murder with Black Metal and Satanism and was in turn attacked because he was concerned about the "good reputation" of Black Metal.
Discography
- Witchmaster (1991)
- Battlecry (1992)
- Hailstorm (1995)
- Eerie (1995)
- Infernal (1997)
- Jetblack ( EP , 1997)
- Devilry (EP, 1997)
- Legions of Perkele (1998)
- Saatana (1999)
- Occult (2000)
- Warmetal on Talvisota - Finnish Dark / Black Metal Compilation (2000)
- Venomus (2002)
- Black Flames And Blood (7 "single, 2002)
- Anno Aspera - 2003 Years After Bastard's Birth (2005)
- Sadistic Pleasure on Helvetin musta peto (2009)
- Long Live Satan (Live CD, 2009)
- Unholy Conspiracy (Split with Epäkristus , 2010)
- Fanatiko (2017)
Individual evidence
- ^ Concerts , accessed January 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b Biography , accessed January 6, 2013.
- ^ Barathrum. Retrieved April 29, 2010 (English).
- ^ Alchemist: Barathrum - Occult - Review. January 22, 2001, accessed April 29, 2010 .
- ^ Matthew Barzegar: Review: Barathrum - Battlecry (demo). April 21, 2007, accessed April 29, 2010 .
- ↑ Handout for the Witchmaster demo . (English, online ( Memento of February 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 29, 2010]). Flyer for the Witchmaster demo ( Memento from February 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Handout for the Witchmaster demo . (English, online ( Memento of February 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 29, 2010]). Flyer for the Witchmaster demo ( Memento from February 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Woodlum 666: Barathrum. (No longer available online.) 2007, archived from the original on April 29, 2010 ; accessed on April 29, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Worship Him! . In: Jon Kristiansen : Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, pp. 466f.
