Necromantia
| Necromantia | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Black metal |
| founding | 1989 |
| Founding members | |
| Magus Wampyr Daoloth | |
8-string bass |
Baron Blood |
| Current occupation | |
Electric bass, vocals |
Magus Wampyr Daoloth |
8-string bass |
Baron Blood |
| Fotis Benardo | |
| Former session musicians | |
| Slow death | |
| Yiannis "The Worshipper of Pan" Papayiannis | |
| Divad | |
| inferno | |
Drums |
George Panou |
Synthesizer, piano |
Iraklis Yalantzides |
guitar |
John Fiorentis |
Keyboard |
Lambros Sfiris |
Drums |
Nick Adams |
Necromantia is a black metal band from Greece . The name stands for necromancy , but is explained by the band as a prophecy from the innards of the dead ( hieroscopy ). With Rotting Christ and Varathron, she is one of the most important representatives of Greek Black Metal.
Band history
Necromantia was founded in November 1989 by Magus Wampyr Daoloth and Baron Blood. Since they were both bassists, they thought it would be a good idea to use an eight-string bass instead of a rhythm guitar. After a demo and a promo recording, the split release The Black Arts / The Everlasting Sins with Varathron appeared on Black Power Records in 1992 . Due to the great demand, Daoloth made sure that it was re-released with a different cover and additional titles in 1994 on Unisound as Black Arts Lead to Everlasting Sins . The debut album Crossing the Fiery Path was released in 1993.
The song Spiritforms of the Psychomancer , which was first published in 1995 on the Greek metal hammer supplement Hammer Holocaust Vol I , appeared through Daoloth's contacts with the post-industrial and neofolk subculture in 1996 as the only song by a metal band on the compilation The Pact: Flying in the Face… with musicians like Eric Owens , Death in June , Fire + Ice and Blood Axis ; the following year the song also appeared on the compilation World Domination II and the limited version of the EP Ancient Pride . After the album IV: Malice (2000) the band was inactive for a long time. In 2007 she released the album The Sound of Lucifer Storming Heaven , followed in 2008 by the single People of the Sea and the split EP with Acherontas .
Music style and ideology
In contrast to many other metal bands, Necromantia does without rhythm guitars and instead uses two basses and occasionally non-metal instruments such as saxophone and percussion . Some of her titles are settings of works of symbolism such as Rémy de Gourmont's Oraisons mauvaises ( Evil Prayers ) and Émile Verhaerens La mort . The band is ideologically close to Anton Szandor LaVey's Form of Satanism .
Discography
- 1990: Promo Tape (Promo)
- 1992: Vampyric Rituals (demo)
- 1992: The Black Arts / The Everlasting Sins ( split with Varathron ; Black Power Records)
- 1993: Demo '93 (Demo)
- 1993: Promo 1993 (Promo)
- 1993: Crossing the Fiery Path ( Osmose Productions , Morbid Noizz Productions)
- 1994: Black Arts Lead to Everlasting Sins (re-release of The Black Arts / The Everlasting Sins with additional titles; Unisound Records, Hellion Records)
- 1995: From the Past We Summon Thee ( EP ; Dark Side Records, Spellbound Records)
- 1995: Scarlet Evil Witching Black (Osmose Productions, Morbid Noizz Productions)
- 1995: Spiritforms of the Psychomancer on Hammer Holocaust Vol I (supplement to the Greek Metal Hammer ; re-released in 1996 on The Pact: Flying in the Face ... and 1997 on World Domination II )
- 1997: Ancient Pride (EP; Osmose Productions, SPV GmbH )
- 2000: IV: Malice (Black Lotus Records)
- 2001: Covering Evil (12 Years Doing the Devil's Work) (Best of; Black Lotus Records)
- 2002: Cults of the Shadow (re-release of the first two albums; Osmose Productions, Фоно)
- 2005: Necromantia (box set; Black Lotus Records)
- 2007: The Sound of Lucifer Storming Heaven (Dockyard 1)
- 2008: People of the Sea ( single ; Dark Side Records)
- 2008: ... For the Temple of the Serpent Skull ... (Split with Acherontas ; Dark Side Records)
- 2009: De magia veterum (re-release of Promo Tape 1990 and The Black Arts ; Dark Side Records)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Biography - Necromantia. Archived from the original on September 9, 2002 ; accessed on January 8, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Arto Lehtinen: Metal-Rules.com Zine - Varathron - Stefan NecroAbyssious. (No longer available online.) August 19, 2006, archived from the original on October 26, 2011 ; accessed on January 8, 2010 (English). 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.
