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Coffin
General information
origin Lappeenranta , Finland
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 1999
Founding members
guitar
 Shatraug
Current occupation
singing
 Hoath Torog
guitar
 Shatraug
Drums
 Horns
former members
Drums
 Lord Volos
?
 Gorsedd torture
?
 Makha Karn

Sargeist is a Finnish black metal band from Lappeenranta , Tampere , that was formed in 1999. The band name is based on the song The Old Coffin Spirit by Rotting Christ and is derived from the two words coffin and spirit . The group was only intended as a side project of the Horna founder and guitarist Shatraug. The statements about the founding of Sargeist are divided.

history

According to the bandleader Shatraug, the band was founded primarily to accommodate the demo material of the Horna album Sudentaival , and on the other hand to "formulate the ultimate satanic worship". Two years after their formation, the band recorded their first two demos, called Nockmaar and Heralding Breath of the Pestilence . The occupation at the time consisted of Shatraug and Lord Volos. This was followed by the demo Tyranny Returns with yet another line-up, until the final band members Hoath Torog and Horns from the Behexen group finally joined .

After a split CD with Merrimack , their first album was released in 2003, called Satanic Black Devotion . Shatraug tried his hand at the microphone for the first time and the lyrics of a song were written by members of the Swedish black metal band Woods of Infinity. In the following year three splits appeared with the bands Temple of Baal , Horned Almighty and Funeral Elegy.

Hoath Torog at the Barther Metal Open Air 2010

It should have a compilation appear until the band in 2005 their second album Disciple of the Heinous Path published. The album was written and composed in 2001, but it was not recorded until four years later. The reviews were mixed.

In 2006, another split was made with the American black metal band Bahimiron. In 2008 the band released an EP called The Dark Embrace . Towards the end of the same year, on December 10th, it was announced that the band was planning a The Heinous Path tour through Europe with Lord Sarcofagion and his Baptism live formation, as well as with the Norwegians of Celestial Bloodshed. However, the band only appeared live for the first time after the release of Let the Devil In .

In 2010, Sargeist released his third album Let the Devil In . In 2011, the song Crimson Wine , which was recorded when the EP The Dark Embrace was recorded, was released on a split release with Drowning the Light, and the EP Lair of Necromancy with two tracks that coincided with Let the Devil In originated and were recorded together with these, but did not fit on the album and were therefore released separately

Alignment

Shatraug describes Sargeist as pure Black Metal, which is the only philosophically descriptive term for their music. This could be described as "melodic, epic and triumphant in all its grim devotion". According to Shatraug, their third album Let the Devil In is characterized by a strong personal and musical development of the musicians, but should still be recognizable as a coffin album. Four guitars can be heard continuously on the album, the new bassist was given all the freedom to follow his tracks. The variety increased with the following album Feeding the Crawling Shadows . He describes the band's rare concerts as live rituals , which are an “(in) natural appendix to music”; Seeing Sargeist live is "both a ghostly and trance- inducing experience, definitely not the typical headbanger experience".

According to Shatraug, all members of Sargeist are satanists and believe in an iron will and discipline, in the driving force in their souls that would be guided by the black flame of Satan . When asked if he was influenced by Anton Szandor LaVey's ideas about Satanism and what he thought of the organization of religion, he replied that every occult group has some good ideas, but personally he feels closer to Thelema . He is not sure what the highest interests of the other members are. However, there is only one dark entity behind them. Shatraug sees in Satan the "all destructive, all creating force of both life and death that leads to enlightenment through spiritual engagement and cultivation."

In 2012 the band was booked for Party.San ; However, since the organizers received letters stating that individual members represented a neo-Nazi attitude, and the band declined to comment, the organizers assumed that “SARGEIST or their mouthpiece stand behind the political ideals they are accused of” and took them Band after the cast on January 5, 2012 again. However , the band said to the Sturmglanz webzine that this reaction was ridiculously hasty and that none of the organizers had ever contacted Sargeist, only the band's German agency; Sargeist understood their description to mean that the band had to "make false statements and crawl around the ass" in order to be allowed to play there. According to another version, the band Bolt Thrower was responsible for what, according to Sargeist, was not the first time that a festival was canceled for a black metal band.

Discography

Demos

  • 2001: Nockmaar
  • 2001: Heralding Breath of the Pestilence
  • 2001: Tyranny Returns (Warmoon Records)

Albums

  • 2003: Satanic Black Devotion (Moribund Records)
  • 2005: Disciple of the Heinous Path (Moribund Records)
  • 2010: Let the Devil In (Moribund Records)
  • 2014: Feeding the Crawling Shadows (WTC Productions)
  • 2018: Unbound (WTC Productions)

EPs

  • 2008: The Dark Embrace (Moribund Records)
  • 2011: Lair of Necromancy (Moribund Records)

Split releases

  • 2002: Merrimack / Sargeist (Moribund Records)
  • 2004: Sargeist / Temple of Baal (Grievantee Productions)
  • 2004: Sargeist / Horned Almighty - In Ruin & Despair / To The Lord of Our Lives (Hearse Records, Moribund Records)
  • 2004: Sargeist / Funeral Elegy (Paleur Mortelle Productions)
  • 2006: Sargeist / Bahimiron (Obscure Abhorrence Productions)
  • 2011: Sargeist / Drowning the Light - Crimson Wine / As the Blood Flows On (Moribund Records)

Sampler contributions

  • 2002: Sinister Glow of the Funeral Torches (Studio Track) on Jesus Wept / Black Arts comp # 1 (Black Arts Productions)
  • 2002: Rebirth of a Cursed Existence on Jatkosota - Finnish Dark / Black Metal Compilation (Woodcut Records)
  • 2003: Vorax Obscurum on Tormenting Legends (Blut & Eisen Productions)
  • 2007: Remains of an Unholy Past (Edit) on Moribund "Death Cult" Vol # 1 (Moribund Records)
  • 2008: Black Unholy Happiness on Finnish German Alliance (WTC Productions)

Other publications

  • 2005: Funeral Curses (compilation; Adversary Productions)
  • 2013: The Rebirth of a Cursed Existence (compilation; WTC Productions)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Demimortuus: SARGEIST - interview. Fobia zine, April 23, 2004, accessed October 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Diana Glöckner: Coffin. Hatred and devotion. Art of Malice, archived from the original on May 5, 2007 ; accessed on October 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Larissa Glasser: SARGEIST-Disciple of the Heinous Path. Maelstrom, accessed October 16, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Jason Jordan: Sargeist - Disciple of the Heinous Path. Metal Review, December 8, 2005, archived from the original on March 12, 2011 ; accessed on October 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ The Heinous Path Tour To Feature SARGEIST, BAPTISM, CELESTIAL BLOODSHED. In: Bravewords.com. December 11, 2008, accessed October 16, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b c An interview with Sargeit / Horna… In: MetalCast. March 28, 2014, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Sleepwalker: Coffin. In: Forbidden Magazine. October 20, 2010, archived from the original on April 25, 2011 ; accessed on March 3, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ a b Thurock: Band interview: Sargeist. Sturmglanz, 2012, accessed on October 16, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Diana Glöckner: With NILE, billing continues to grow. Party.San, January 5, 2012, archived from the original on March 8, 2012 ; accessed on October 16, 2015 .