The Abyss (band)
| The Abyss | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Black metal |
| founding | 1994 |
| resolution | 1998 |
| Founding members | |
| Mikael Hedlund | |
Guitar, vocals |
Lars Szöke |
| Peter Tagtgren | |
The Abyss was a black metal side project by the band Hypocrisy . It was founded in 1994 by Peter Tägtgren , Lars Szöke and Mikael Hedlund and was under contract with Nuclear Blast .
Band history
The band members had different positions than in their main band Hypocrisy. So Peter Tagtgren switched to the drums and took over the bass . Hypocrisy drummer Lars Szöke switched to guitar, as did bassist Mikael Hedlund.
The debut album The Other Side was released on March 10, 1995. A year later, Summon the Beast was released . Both albums were combined in a digipack in 2001 . In 1998 the band participated with Armageddon on a tribute album for Bathory called In Conspiracy with Satan . Then they concentrated again on the main band.
Music genre
The first album The Other Side was heavily based on the Thrash / Black Metal of the first wave, such as Bathory. The next album, Summon the Beast, was more oriented towards Swedish Black Metal around bands like Dark Funeral and Marduk and kept it up-tempo .
Discography
- 1995: The Other Side (Nuclear Blast)
- 1996: Summon the Beast (Nuclear Blast)
- 1998: Armageddon on In Conspiracy with Satan - A Tribute to Bathory ( No Fashion Records , Hellspawn Records)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, 2009, archived from the original on October 22, 2008 ; Retrieved September 29, 2010 . 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.
- ↑ Andreas Stappert: Criticism. In: 272. Rock Hard , accessed December 29, 2010 .
