Sear Bliss
| Sear Bliss | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Extreme metal |
| founding | 1993 |
| Website | http://www.searbliss.hu/ |
| Founding members | |
| András Nagy | |
| Csaba Tóth | |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, bass, keyboard
|
András Nagy |
| István Neubrandt | |
guitar |
Péter Kovács |
| Zoltán Pál | |
| Zoltán Schönberger | |
| former members | |
singing |
Singing by Zoltán Csejtei (1994–1995) |
bass |
Csaba Tóth (1993–1994) |
guitar |
János Barbarics (1993–1999) |
guitar |
Viktor Scheer (1997-1999) |
guitar |
András Horváth P. (1999-2001) |
guitar |
Csaba Csejtei (1994–1997, 2001–2005) |
synthesizer |
Winter (1994–1997) |
Trumpet, synthesizer |
Gergely Szücs (1995, 1997-1999) |
Drums |
Norbert Keibinger (1993–1995) |
Drums |
Zoltán Csejtei (1995–1997) |
Sear Bliss is a Hungarian metal band from Szombathely in western Hungary . The band was founded in 1993 by singer András Nagy and bassist Csaba Tóth. Sear Bliss is characterized by the unusual use of brass instruments in metal. Most of her lyrics deal with the spiritual side of human thought, but Nagy does not assign them to Black Metal due to its different orientation.
Band history
1993-1994
Sear Bliss was founded in the fall of 1993 by singer András Nagy and bassist Csaba Toth, who previously played for Extreme Deformity. Janos Barbarics was found for the guitar and Norbert Kleibinger was found for the drums, both of whom had previously played at Animosity. In the spring of 1994 there was a major change in the line-up. The bassist Csaba Toth left the band and András Nagy played bass instead. Zoltan Csejtei took over the vocals and his brother Csaba Csejtei joined as an additional guitarist. The band also found a keyboard player in Winter and their first trumpet player in Gergely Szücs. The songwriting for their first demo The Pagan Winter began.
1995-1996
In April 1995 the drummer Norbert Keibinger left the band, so the demo recordings had to be made with the session drummer Bertalan, who, like Csaba Toth, is a member of the band Extreme Derformity. The demo was released in May 1995 and received good reviews. Zoltan Csejtei, who until then was responsible for the vocals, took over the drums and András Nagy took over the vocals in addition to the bass. The keyboardist Winter left the band and was replaced by Gergely Szücs, who now plays the keyboard in addition to the trumpet. The first Sear Bliss concert took place in Budapest in August. Three months later, the band signed their first record deal for three albums with Mascot Records and the former keyboardist Winter got back on track. In August 1996 their first album Phantoms was released , which should actually only be called Phantom , but this was changed by Mascot Records. With Phantoms , the Dutch metal magazine Aardschok , which is actually geared towards less heavy metal, chose a black metal album as album of the month for the first time.
1997-1998
A re-release of the demo The Pagan Winter appeared in February 1997 as an album version with a bonus track. Sear Bliss then toured Europe with Marduk and Tsatthoggua . The line-up remained volatile: Zoltan Csejtei and his brother Csaba Csejtei left in March, and keyboardist Winter, who had already stopped two years earlier for half a year, in April. Shortly afterwards, a new drummer was found in Zoltan Schönberger and a new guitarist in Viktor Scheer, who was already co-producer of The Haunting and will later also be of Glory and Perdition. Gergely Szücs played the keyboard again. In August the second album The Haunting was recorded and mixed without the band . Since the band was very dissatisfied with the result, it was remixed in September. After the album was released in February 1998, the band was offered a three-week European tour with Ancient in March , which the band canceled due to complications with their studies.
1999-2000
In March 1999 the band canceled their contract with Mascot Records. Viktor Scheer left the band in August and shortly afterwards Gergely Szücs and Janos Barbarics followed suit. It took three months until a new guitarist was found in András Horvath. Session musicians had to be hired for the keyboard and the trumpet . Istvan Neubrandt joined Sear Bliss in April 2000 as a further guitarist. After a small European tour in summer, Grand Destiny was recorded in winter and Zoltan Pal became the new trumpeter at Sear Bliss.
2001-2003
András Horvath left the band after a year and Krisztian Varga took over the guitar on stage. In April 2001, Grand Destiny was released on Nephilim Records. András Nagy was involved in Forest Silence, a project by former Sear Bliss members Winter and Zoltan Csejtei. His brother Csaba Csejtei, who had left Sear Bliss at the same time four years earlier, has now rejoined the band. In November the band switched to the label Red Stream, Inc., which initially re-released Grand Destiny before releasing their fourth album Forsaken Symphony in October 2002 , followed by a European tour with Skyforger , Grief of Emerald, Obtest and Bestial Mockery . In 2003 the band toured the Benelux countries and played two concerts in Budapest, one with Marduk among others. At the end of the year, the recordings for the fifth album Glory and Perdition began .
2004-present
Ten years of band history prompted Sear Bliss to give an anniversary concert, which took place on February 22nd, 2004 in the capital of their home country Budapest . The DVD released in June 2005 by Pagan Flames Productions contains various live recordings and studio reports, but not the recordings of the anniversary concert. These appeared on the Ghost of Perdition DVD on Red Stream. In 2006 Sear Bliss began work on a music video for Two Worlds Collide from the album Glory and Perdition . Vic Records bought the rights to the first three albums, which were re-mastered and re-released in 2005. In September, however, Sear Bliss decided to change and signed a contract with Candlelight Records . In July 2007 the album The Arcane Odyssey was finished and went on sale in October. This has numerous foreign style elements; András Nagy, however, points to the innovation of earlier bands such as Bathory , Venom and Hellhammer / Celtic Frost , he sees “nothing wrong with processing ideas outside the genre”.
Discography
- 1995: The Pagan Winter (demo)
- 1996: Phantoms
- 1997: The Pagan Winter (re-release as album)
- 1998: The Haunting
- 2001: Grand Destiny
- 2002: Forsaken Symphony
- 2004: Glory and Perdition
- 2005: Decade of Perdition (Live-DVD)
- 2007: The Arcane Odyssey
- 2012: Eternal Recurrence
- 2018: Letters from the Edge
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sickman: Sear Bliss - Grand Destiny - Review .
- ↑ a b c d Erik: Sear Bliss - Interview with Chief Andras on "The Arcane Odyssey" ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. .
- ↑ Moritz: INTERVIEW: Setherial ( memento of the original dated November 1, 2012 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. (dated June 23, 2006).
- ↑ a b Sear Bliss - The Band - Biography ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Erik: Sear Bliss - The Arcane Odyssey - Review .
