Magus Wampyr Daoloth

Magus Wampyr Daoloth (real name: George Zaharopoulos ) is a Greek keyboardist , bassist , singer and music producer who is involved in a number of musical groups.

biography

George Zaharopoulos first used the pseudonym Morbid before appearing as Magus Wampyr Daoloth and The Magus . His first metal band was Rot, a thrash metal band. He also played in the black metal band Mortify and the death / thrash metal band Necromancy. In November 1989 he founded the band Necromantia with Baron Blood , which to this day has four albums and various other releases. From 1992 to 1994 he joined the group Rotting Christ . He can be heard on the EP Passage to Arcturo , the debut album Thy Mighty Contract and the successor Non Serviam . He left the group in 1994 because he did not like the band's new direction, which was more oriented towards Gothic Metal . In 1993 he formed the side project Thou Art Lord with Sakis Tolis from Rotting Christ , in which he also took over the bass, and briefly became bassist for the band Zemial , to whose EP For the Glory of UR he also contributed intro and outro. He also composed the intro to Varathron's debut album His Majesty at the Swamp , on which he also worked as a producer and sound engineer.

From 1994 to 1996 he had the electronic project Diabolos Rising with the Finnish singer Mika Luttinen ( Impaled Nazarene ) and was also involved in the successor RAISM. In 1993 he also founded the NAOS industrial project, which was active until 1999.

In 1994 he co-produced the debut album of the group Septic Flesh , in which he played keyboard for a short time. He also produced numerous records from other Greek groups such as Legion of Doom's second album For Those of the Blood . With Hypervorea Records, from which Black Lotus Records would later emerge, Magus Wampyr Daoloth supported the Greek black metal scene. He was no longer involved in the successor. He also edited the Greek occult magazine Promethean Circle and contributed to the first issue of Filosofem magazine , which also included Michael Moynihan , David Myatt , Kerry Bolton , Varg Vikernes and Vidar von Herske.

He was a founding member of Danse Macabre with Gunther Theys of Ancient Rites and Sotiris Vayenas of Septic Flesh . However, there are only two songs from this line-up for an EP that was never released . The songs are included in the debut album Totentanz , which was released in 1998.

He was a member of the Gothic rock project Wampyre Shadow Wolf, whose only album Wampyricon was released in 1996; on this Ian Read from Fire + Ice can be heard as a guest singer (in the first song Invocation of My Demon Brother ).

ideology

Zaharopoulos' texts are based on Satanism ; like his band Necromantia, he is ideologically close to the Church of Satan , which takes an atheistic point of view and interprets the figure of Satan as an archetype . His compositions are mostly based on the texts that determine the atmosphere and direction of the songs and to which the music is tuned.

Zaharopoulos sees Attic democracy as the perfect political system and speaks out against both universal and women's suffrage ; he calls for a conservative political revolution because, in his opinion, people need tyrants . He sees the connection between right-wing extremist ideology and the black metal scene or Satanism as logical, since in his opinion they have some similarities and a return to old values ​​implies a “Europe for Europeans”. Rumor has it that he is a member of the far-right band Iron Youth, but vehemently denies this.

Discography

With Necromantia

• see Necromantia # discography

With Rotting Christ

• Passage to Arcturo (1991)
• Thy Mighty Contract (1993)
• Non serviam (1994)
• Aealo (vocals with ... Pir Threontai , 2010)

With diabolos Rising / RAISM

• see Diabolos Rising # discography

With Thou Art Lord

• see Thou Art Lord # discography

With NAOS

• The Final Harvest (1995)
• Iron Youth (single, 1996)
• Melancholia (1996)
• Communion (1999)

With Danse Macabre

• Dance of Death (1998)

more publishments

• Necromancy Rehearsal (Demo, 1988)
• Necromancy · Visions of Lunacy (Demo, 1989)
• Mortify Dizziness of the Occult (Demo, 1990)
• Sadistic Noise The Crush of Heaven (Single, 1990, sound engineer)
• Mortify · … And Darkness Was Upon (Demo, 1993)
• Nightfall · Macabre Sunsets (1993, sound engineer)
• Varathron · His Majesty at the Swamp (1993, producer and engineer, composition of the intro)
• Tatir · Dark Autumn Nights (Demo 1995)
• Kawir · The Adored Cry of Olympus / Eumenides (Single, 1995, producer and engineer)
• Elysian Fields Adelain (1995, producer and sound engineer)
• On Thorns I Lay Sounds of Beautiful Experience (1995, sound engineer)
• Septic Flesh · Esoptron (1995, producer and engineer)
• Varathron · Walpurgis Night (1995, sound engineer)
• Septic FleshMystic Places of Dawn (1996, keyboards and co-producer)
• Agatus · Dawn of Martyrdom (1996, producer and engineer)
• Obsecration The Inheritors Of Pain (1996, sound engineer and guest keyboards)
• Tatir · Fons Archeron (demo, 1996)
• Wampyre ShadowWolf Wampyricon (1996)
• Zemial · For the Glory of UR (1996, intro and outro)
• Legion of Doom · For Those of the Blood (1997 production)
• Varathron · The Lament of Gods (MCD, 1999, sound engineer)
• Varathron · Crowsreign (2004, producer)

Web links

• Magus Wampyr Daoloth at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Yiannis DK .: Interview with The Magus of Necromantia. December 14, 2007, archived from the original on January 2, 2010 ; accessed on January 8, 2010 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Interview with Magus Wampyr Daoloth in Fanzine Chaotik ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2009 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. , August 1996 
3. ↑ BIOGRAPHY 1989-2008. February 29, 2008, accessed January 8, 2010 . 
4. ^ Matthias Herr: Black Metal Lexicon . Berlin: Self-published 1998. p. 407.
5. ↑ Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos . Satanic Metal: The Bloody Rise from the Underground. Extended and revised edition 2005. 6th edition. ProMedia GmbH, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2005, ISBN 3-936878-00-5 , p. 375 .
6. ↑ Javi Metal: NECROMANTIA: “¡Nuestra misión no es entretener a la gente!” , Accessed on May 24, 2013.