Memento Mori (band)

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Memento Mori
General information
Genre (s) Epic Doom
founding 1992
resolution 1998
Founding members
Mike Wead (Mikael Vikström)
Jan "Messiah" Marcolin
Snowy Shaw (until 1996)
Marty Marteen (Mårten Sandberg)
guitar
 Nikkey Argento
Last occupation
singing
 Messiah Marcolin
guitar
 Mike Wead
guitar
 Nikkey Argento
bass
 Marty Marteen
Drums
 Tom Björn (from 1997)
Miguel Robaina
former members
singing
 Kristian Andren (1995–1996)

Memento Mori ( lat. , Remember that you die ', see memento mori ) was a Swedish supergroup around the King Diamond / Mercyful Fate- - guitarist Mike Wead. The band played a mix of Doom Metal and Power Metal known as Epic Doom .

history

Memento Mori began in late 1992 as a project by guitarist Mike Wead, who had previously played with Candlemass , King Diamond and Hexenhaus . For the singing he was able to win Messiah Marcolin (ex-Candlemass). The first line- up also included drummer Snowy Shaw (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate), bassist Marty Marteen (ex-Hexenhaus) and the previously unknown guitarist Nikkey Argento. The band signed a recording deal with Black Mark Production and released their debut album Rhymes of Lunacy in 1993 .

For the following tour , Marcolin Thomas Lyon (ex-Hexenhaus) was hired as a singer and keyboard player due to other obligations. In the summer of 1994, the second studio album, Life, Death and Other Morbid Tales , appeared, in which Miguel Robaina was involved as a keyboardist. After the album was released, Marcolin and Shaw left the band, for the 1995 tour in the opening act of Morgana Lefay , Stefan Carlsson (vocals) and Billy St. John (Johan Billerhag, drums, ex-witch's house) were hired as session musicians. Singer Kristian Andren (ex- Tad Morose ) can be heard on the third album La Danse Macabre , while Tom Björn (ex-Hexenhaus, later Nightingale ) took over the drums . 1997 Messiah Marcolin returned to the band, which recorded their fourth and last album Songs for the Apocalypse Vol. IV with him and broke up a little later.

Discography

Albums

  • 1993: Rhymes of Lunacy ( Black Mark Production )
  • 1994: Life, Death and Other Morbid Tales (Black Mark Production)
  • 1995: La Danse Macabre
  • 1997: Songs for the Apocalypse Vol. IV (Black Mark Production)

literature

  • Holger Stratmann (Ed.): RockHard Encyclopedia . RockHard-Verlag, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 244 .

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