Eminence (band)

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Your Eminence
General information
Genre (s) Black metal , death metal
founding 1989
Website www.eminenz-germany.com
Founding members
Leviathan
Karsten "dwarf" spread (until 1994)
Butcher
Heiko "Darkman" Müller
Iten (until 1999)
Current occupation
singing
 Leviathan
guitar
 Darkman
guitar
 Black Abyss (since 1995)
bass
 Mindworm (since 2006)
Lorenzo (since 2017)
Drums
 Bealdor (since 2012)
former members
Keyboard
 Benedikt Kern (1993–1994)
Keyboards
 Lorenzo (1995-2001)
Drums
 Heretic (1998-2006)
Drums
 Asmon (2006-2009)

Eminenz is a German black / death metal band from Annaberg-Buchholz .

Band history

Eminenz was founded in 1989 in the line-up of Karsten “Zwerg” Breit (guitar), Butcher (guitar), Heiko “Darkman” Müller (bass), Iten (drums) and Leviathan (vocals). Already in autumn 1989 there were first appearances in youth clubs. When the Norwegian band Mayhem came to Germany in 1990, Eminenz was the opening act. The Mayhem performance in Leipzig was later published under the title Live in Leipzig . By 1992, the group released a total of four demos before signing a recording deal with Lethal Records in 1993 . Before the recordings for the debut album, keyboardist Benedikt Kern came to Eminenz.

In 1994 the album Exorial was released . After the release, Breit got out to concentrate on his solo project Belmez . Kern also left the group. In 1995 Lorenzo (keyboards) and Black Abyss joined the group from Andras (bass). Together Eminenz released the second album The Heretic . In 1997, Eminenz was allowed to reopen for Mayhem as a reference to the 1990 concerts. In addition, Mayhem was supported by Marduk . Also this time a Mayhem performance was recorded and released as live in Bischofswerda on CD and VHS.

In 1998 Eminenz signed with Last Episode . Original member Iten left the group and was replaced by Heretic. In 2000 the fourth album The Blackest Dimension was released. The group then took a break and only appeared sporadically until 2006, including in the opening act for Rotting Christ .

With Sus (keyboards) and Asmon (drums) two new members were added. Black Abyss switched to guitar. In 2007 the last album to date, Eminenz, was released on Miriquidi Productions . The group currently includes Leviathan (vocals), Darkman (guitar), Black Abyss (guitar), Mindworm (bass) and Shardik (session drums).

In 2009 the Best of Two Decades of Blasphemy was published as a self- publication . The album was released in an A5 digipak and limited to 500 copies. In 2011 the album Nemesis Nocturna was released , also self-distributed.

Style and meaning

Although Eminenz, with its mixture of Black , Thrash and Death Metal, is more of the latter type of music, the band is considered a pioneer for the German Black Metal scene, not least because of their role as the opening act for Mayhem 1990 (at that time it was more to be assigned to Thrash Metal) and in 1998 at their first appearance after the re-establishment. The band itself describes their style either as Black Metal or attaches importance to the name Death Metal. Their debut is described by Metalmessage as “deep black Black Metal of the most hateful kind”, the third album Anti-Genesis in Nordic Vision as pathetic, unoriginal and too keyboard-heavy; According to the band, the dominance of the keyboard in the sound is "due to a small mistake in mixing and digitizing the disc".

Discography

Demos

  • Slayer of My Daughter (1990)
  • Necronomicon Exmortis (1991)
  • Ghost (1992)
  • Preacher of Darkness (1992)
  • Death Fall (CD compilation, 2001)

Albums

  • Exorial (1994)
  • The Heretic (1996)
  • Anti-Genesis (On the 8th Day I Destroy Godcreation) (1998)
  • The Blackest Dimension (2000)
  • Your Eminence (2007)
  • Two Decades of Blasphemy 2CD (2010)
  • Nemesis Noctura CD (2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two Decades of Blasphemy. Spirit of Metal, accessed January 1, 2012 .
  2. ↑ 1493 Eminence at Musik-Sammler.de
  3. ↑ Pascal Schubert: Interview with Belmez . In: Szene-Almanach 1998 . 1998, p. 22-23 .
  4. ^ Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 54 f .
  5. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Germany, your black metal bands . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 89 .
  6. ↑ a b c Markus Eck: Advancing into a new dimension. Retrieved October 6, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Turov: Your Eminence # The Heretic. Retrieved October 6, 2009 .
  8. ^ "Yet another German Black Metal band pathetic beyond words. Unoriginal music with lots of synth, boring vocals, a total lack of good riffs and the synth and vocals beyond higher in the production than the electric guitar. Belongs in the dustbin. ”Your Eminence. "Anti-Genesis" . In: Nordic Vision , No. 13, p. 48.