Infernal (Swedish band)

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Infernal
General information
origin Stockholm , Sweden
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 1996
resolution 2013
Last occupation
David Parland
guitar
 Martin Halfdan
Carl Engström
former members
Drums
 Matte Modin
Impious
Vocals, guitar
 Themgoroth
Drums
 Alzazmon (Tomas Asklund)
Vocals, lead guitar
 Typhos (Henrik Ekeroth)

Infernal was a Swedish black metal band.

Band history

Blackmoon formed Infernal in 1996 after leaving Dark Funeral . In 1999 he brought out the self-titled EP as the fifth release from his own record company Hellspawn Records .

Alzazmon, who had also played on Dark Funeral, became the drummer on Infernal. Matte Modin, on the other hand, switched from Infernal to Dark Funeral after the EP and a few concerts. The band also rehearsed with Typhos by Dark Funeral, and both bands rehearsed in the same building.

The band announced an album for March / April 2002 and signed with Hammerheart Records , where the EP Summon Forth the Beast was released as a foretaste of the planned album. In addition to two own songs, it contained one each from Morbid Angel , VON and Bathory . The material from the first EP was also released via Hammerheart Records in 2002 as a split release with the first Dark Funeral EP , but this is not listed in the discography on Dark Funeral's official website. The announced album never came out. In 2010 the EP The Infernal Return was released, in which Blackmoon with his real name David Parland appeared and played all instruments except the drums; Tomas Asklund von Gorgoroth , who had previously worked under the name Alzazmon, helped out as a drummer. The back of the EP introduces Martin Halfdan as guitarist and Carl Engström as drummer.

Parland died in 2013. He had announced a new Infernal album shortly before. Since the band consisted only of him at the time of his death, it is unclear whether he was able to complete the album.

Music genre

The music is faster compared to Blackmoon's previous band Dark Funeral and was described by Daniel Ekeroth as "[t] devilish, brutal and incredibly precise Black Metal". Abbas from Teufel's Tomb described the first EP as a worthy successor to the Dark Funeral debut album The Secrets of the Black Arts , which shows that the good compositions of the band came from Blackmoon. Nhashi from Voices from the Darkside described Summon Forth the Beast as mediocre and reminiscent of Dark Funeral in his own compositions. Gunnar Sauermann from Metal Hammer compared the style of the EP with that of Dark Funeral and early Marduk . Brother Cle from Rock Hard, on the other hand, described their own compositions as "musically competent, beaten down, fast death / black metal pieces from the Belphegor / old Morbid Angel brand , which, thanks to the rich production, are really bang, but also not exactly bursting with originality" Self-labeling as "Satanic Holocaust Metal" as "verbal nonsense".

ideology

Blackmoon announced a concept album on the theme of Armageddon in 2001 . He called Infernal "Satanic Holocaust Metal" and the songs as invocations of the end of this world and all living things; the end of Jehovah , Christianity , humanity and all life. The texts are like apocalyptic paintings that describe dark and sinister atmospheres, and not like Deicide texts, but rather like dark, satanic and very apocalyptic poetry. The term "Satanic Death Black Metal" is used on the EP The Infernal Return .

Discography

  • 1999: Infernal (EP)
  • 2002: Summon Forth the Beast (EP)
  • 2010: The Infernal Return (EP)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936878-18-9 , pp. 364 (English: Swedish Death Metal . Translated by Andreas Diesel).
  2. ↑ Hellspawn Records ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 20, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.swipnet.se
  3. ↑ Dark Funeral - Biography. Dark Funeral, 2007, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on April 20, 2013 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Ryan Harding: BLACK MOON 2001 Interview. Feo Amante's Horror Thriller, 2001, p. 2 , accessed April 20, 2013 (English).
  5. ↑ a b Hellspawn Records News 08-20-02 ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 20, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.swipnet.se
  6. ↑ Dark Funeral - Discography ( Memento of March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 21, 2013.
  7. ↑ Marco Götz: Former Dark Funeral / Necrophobic guitarist has died . Cause of death unknown , March 25, 2013, accessed April 20, 2013.
  8. ↑ Noctir: A Tribute to David Parland (Mar. 2013). Rites of the Black Moon Webzine, accessed April 22, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Ryan Harding: BLACK MOON 2001 Interview. Feo Amante's Horror Thriller, 2001, p. 1 , accessed on April 20, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Abbas: Infernal (Swe). Infernal. Teufel's Tomb, accessed April 22, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Nhashi: INFERNAL. Summon Forth The Beast. Voices from the Darkside, accessed April 22, 2013 .
  12. ^ Gunnar Sauermann: Infernal . Summon Forth The Beast . In: Metal Hammer , February 2003, p. 93.
  13. ↑ Brother Cle: Infernal . Summon Forth The Beast. In: Rock Hard . No. 189 ( rockhard.de [accessed April 22, 2013]).
  14. ^ Infernal: Infernal , Hellspawn Records 1999.
  15. ^ Infernal: Summon Forth the Beast , Hammerheart Records 2002.
  16. ↑ Infernal: The Infernal Return , GoatHorned Productions 2010.