Eternity (metal band)

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Eternity
General information
origin Nordhausen , Thuringia
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 1994
Founding members
singing
 Forcas
guitar
 Diabolus
guitar
 mammon
bass
 Pazuzu
Drums
 basilisk
Current occupation
Vocals (since 2003) , bass (since 2010)
A. War
guitar
 Diabolus
Guitar (since 2010) , bass (until 2010)
M. Alicious
Drums
 basilisk
former members
Vocals, guitar
 Managarm (until 2010)
singing
 Psycho
bass
 Angel of Doom ( Patrick W. Engel )

Eternity is a German black metal band from Nordhausen .

history

Eternity was founded in 1994. In 1995, the band released their demo recording Born in the Mystical Forests of Sorrow and stepped on the first torture Records Open Air in Brohm with, among others, In the Woods ... , Dark Funeral , Enthroned , Mayhemic Truth , Osculum Infame , Ved Buens end and Dimmu Borgir on . After casting problems and other appearances with Eminenz , Cryogenic and Cryptic Carnage, among others , the band recorded Delictum Exceptum and a split EP with Dunkelgrafen in early 1996 , a 700 edition of which was published by Last Epitaph . The band had to stop their activities due to occupation and other problems.

In 2001 Eternity returned. Only drummer Basilisk and guitarist Diabolus were left of the original line-up. Eternity released a split EP with Wolfsmond on Sombre Records that same year. Wolfsmond was his newest band after Sebastian Schauseil left Absurd . There was a connection between the two bands. Basilisk was the drummer for both of them at the time, while Managarm helped out at Eternity as a guitarist. A year later there was a split with Luror at Blut & Eisen Prod. / WTC and live performances with Watain , Secrets of the Moon , Vilkates, Ad Hominem , Hell-Born and Zarathustra, among others .

In 2004 Eternity performed together with Magog , Ad Hominem and Absurd in Abbendorf. Security took over a neo-Nazi comradeship called Selbstschutz Sachsen-Anhalt, whose name could not be abbreviated to SS - SA by chance . In the course of the performance there were several Sieg-Heil shouts and the showing of the Hitler salute . In the same year the debut album ... And the Gruesome Returns with Every Night was released . This contained a text written by Schauseil with Nuklearer Sturm . In the same year, the split EP Black Metal Against the World with Funeral Winds , Leviathan and Ad Hominem was released, whose member Kaiser W. together with Basilisk in the multinational project Dead? plays.

In 2005 the band signed with Avantgarde Music , where in 2007 the second album Funeral Mass was released. Appearances at festivals at home and abroad and a tour with Corpus Christii and Lugubre followed. In 2011, Eternity split from Avantgarde Music and returned to the World Terror Committee. While working on their third album Pestiferous Hymns - Rev. II-XXXIII , Managarm left the band, according to Basilisk "extremely surprisingly", so that work on it had to be interrupted for the time being. The album features guest contributions by Nocturnus Horrendus from Corpus Christii, Drakh from Katharsis and Tyler Davis from The Ajna Offensive, among others .

Style and texts

Eternity sees itself as a “pure” Black Metal band that tries to “create a rough, dark and destructive atmosphere” and therefore does not use “harmonic keyboard sounds or female vocals”. Bands of the first and second Black Metal wave such as Bathory , Hellhammer / Celtic Frost , Darkthrone , Mayhem and Impaled Nazarene are given as influences. Antal from Whiskey-soda.de also draws comparisons to Norwegian bands of the second wave, with Pestiferous Hymns - Rev. II-XXXIII their “fans [...] could almost without hesitation, because there are all the ingredients that have shaped this special sound : a cutting guitar sound, the typical Black Metal disharmonies, a clattering drums and aggressive chanting, which is sometimes complemented quite effectively with chant-like passages ”. However, none of the songs force themselves "as a new genre classic". A riff from Waiting in the Abyss has "by the way, every Black Metaller heard", there were, depending on the reviewer, comparisons with The Wanderer from the Emperor album Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk and Stormblåst from the album of the same name by the band Dimmu Borgir . According to WTC Productions, Eternity has added new elements to the music on Pestiferous Hymns - Rev. II-XXXIII , but the band is still celebrating “nothing but blackest Metal”. Basilisk defines Black Metal on request as follows:

“Black Metal was and is still an above-average important part of our life and also a tried and tested means to realize oneself and to give shape and shape to one's visions soaked in hatred and disgust! Unfortunately it has degenerated into ridiculousness in many areas, but that shouldn't prevent us from continuing to follow our path consistently and undeterred. "

- Basilisk : Storm Gloss Webzine

According to Indymedia , the lyrics are "about black metal typical contempt for human beings, glorification of war, and have clear anti-Christian and pagan influences ". Eternity supports "every action that serves to harm the pathetic Christianity", such as "setting up a church or, if necessary, the murder of one or more of them". With the third album, there is for the first time "a kind of 'concept' [...] consisting of three interrelated songs or texts". In contrast to the pagan orientation of the early work, the band flirted with Satanism on their third album : the CD matrix and the rear inlay read “ Lucifer arise!”, The song titles include ... Of Satan's Blood and Reborn Through the Flame (Against the Creation) .

The band expressed themselves racist , xenophobic and in part also neo-Nazi , especially at the beginning of their musical career . She represented ethnopluralist positions, called immigrants "scrap" and, according to her own statements, looked back "with pride on our Germanic forefathers and on the fact that they made the Germanic empire what it once was". However, an Indymedia article mentions that “the name NSBM band ” is not applicable despite the “connections to the openly right-wing extremist camp”. The band moves "lyrically far removed from common NSBM bands". Nonetheless, Eternity sought proximity to the NSBM, performed with relevant groups and released split albums with them. In October 2010, Basilisk announced concerts with the Afro-Brazilian band Mystifier .

Discography

Demos

  • 1995: Born in the Mystical Forests of Sorrow
  • 1996: Delictum Exceptum

Albums

Split releases

  • 1997: Todesruh / On the Wings of Nocturnal Deathwinds (Split EP with Dunkelgrafen , Last Epitaph )
  • 2001: Wolfsmond / Eternity (split EP with Wolfsmond, Sombre Records)
  • 2002: Triumphant - We Walk the Infernal Path (split LP with Luror, Blut & Eisen Productions)
  • 2003: We Walk the Infernal Path (Split-LP with Luror, Shadows Toward My Sky and Darkmoon Warrior, WTC Productions)
  • 2004: Black Metal Against the World (split with Funeral Winds , Leviathan and Ad Hominem , Undercover Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f ETERNITY Ger. Myspace, archived from the original on March 3, 2013 ; accessed on April 28, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d 21.04. - NSBM concert prohibited. In: Indymedia . Antifascist Action Nordhausen, April 11, 2007, accessed on April 28, 2017 .
  3. ^ Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . council (series of anti-fascist texts), Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 173 .
  4. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . council (series of anti-fascist texts), Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 1767 .
  5. ↑ Dark Mark Doom at Discogs (English)
  6. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . council (series of anti-fascist texts), Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 175 .
  7. ↑ Archive for May, 2009. Amboss, 2009, archived from the original on August 11, 2011 ; Retrieved April 28, 2017 .
  8. ↑ AV: dead? –Dead? Schlachtenruf, May 9, 2009, archived from the original on October 6, 2015 ; Retrieved April 28, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Band interview: Eternity. Sturmglanz, accessed June 21, 2017 .
  10. ↑ a b c New Releases Out Now: Eternity CD, Thy Darkened Shade CD, Degeneration CD. WTC Productions, May 29, 2012, archived from the original on May 28, 2013 ; accessed on December 9, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Antal: Eternity - Pestiferous Hymns - Rev. II-XXXIII. (No longer available online.) Whiskey-soda.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2014 ; accessed on June 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whiskey-soda.de
  12. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances. Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . council (series of anti-fascist texts), Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 174-175 .