BELPHEGOR
COUNTRY: AUSTRIA GENRE: Supreme Death Black Metal Art
HELLFEST DRENCHED IN BLOOD, BONES AND DEATH MUSICK!
[05.07.2013]
Hellfest in France
conquered again, a magick night to remember! Thanks to Fred, Erik, Aggy,
Alexxx and the whole Hellfest crew for their hospitality. Regards to
all demons who glorified extreme Musick with us.
Thanks for the photos to Gwenn/ Negative Art. John Gallardo/
shootmeagain.com
BELPHEGOR TO SHRED GERMANIA AND BELGIUM!
We are proud to announce that we have been invited to bring our 20 Year
Anniversary Ritual to Rock Im Beton 25th July and Vlamrock in Belgium 27th
July! An honor - this horror!
BELPHEGOR - WORLDWIDE BOOKING! For booking 20 year anniversary show performances [2013] and beyond contact:
belphegor@aon.at
UPCOMING BELPHEGOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWS IN 2013!
25.07.2013 - DE -
Chemnitz Mittelbach, Rock Im Betonwerk
27.07.2013 - BL - Vlamrock Festival
08.08.2013 - CZ - Jaromer, Brutal Assault Festival
09.08.2013 - CH - Hüttikon, Meh Suff Open Air
10.08.2013 - SP - Villena Leyendas Del Rock
11.08.2013 - UK - Derbyshire, Bloodstock Open Air
31.08.2013 - DE - Crispendorf, Wolfszeit Festival
19.09.2013 - IT - Roma, Traffic Live Club
20.09.2013 - IT - Milano, The Theatre
21.09.2013 - AT - Braunau, Metal Orgy Fest
02.10.2013 - RUS - Rostov, Arena Hall
03.10.2013 - RUS - Krasnador, Arena - Hall
05.10.2013 - RUS - St. Petersburg, Arctica
06.10.2013 - RUS - Moscow, Moskva Hall
18.10.2013 - DE - Straubing, Metal Invasion Festival
15.11.2013 - DE - Luebeck, Metal Hammer Paradise
13.12.2013 - NL - Eindhoven, Eindhoven Metal Meeting
14.12.2013 - DEN - tba
27.12.2013 - tba
28.12.2013 - DE - Speyer, Satans Convention Festival
NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the first band of the NeKroWeek, they are
FACEBREAKER (Swedish Death Metal) , a killer Swedish band featuring members
of Grave, Scar Symmetry, Aktiv Dödshjälp and more, for fans of Grave,
Dismember, Unleashed, Entombed and more!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!
Facebreaker were formed in 1999, following a conversation between
Janne, Roberth, Mikael and Jonas. They had similar music tastes and decided
to start a brutal and straight-forward metal band.
A few rehearsal-sessions later they added lead guitarist Janos to their
line-up. Facebreakers first demo "Use Your Fist" was recorded at a
local studio in the beginning of the new millennium. In March 2001 they went
back to the studio to record a promo demo called "Hate and Anger". 2002
U.K. based Rage of Achilles Records got hold of their promo and offered
the band a deal.
A Rage of Achilles compilation album called "Conquest For The Empire"
was out in April, featuring Facebreaker along with other new signings
on the label.
In September Janos quit the band due to lack of time. Fortunately they
knew a guitar-player named Mika and a line-up change took place.
In June 2003 Facebreaker..s promo demo "Hate and Anger" was
released on seven-inch vinyl. In July the band entered Black Lounge Studios
to record their first full-length album "Bloodred Hell". "Boodred Hell"
was released in the beginning of 2004. It achieved great reviews and feedback
all around the world. Unfortunately Rage Of Achilles went out of business
somewhere between late 2004 and early 2005 and "Bloodred Hell" was never
given the right amount of exposure it deserved.
Without a record-deal Facebreaker made a new promo demo and started to
work on new material. Facebreaker got several offers from interested
labels but finally choose to work with Singapore based Pulverised Records.
2007 a new record-deal was closed with Pulverised Records and in July the
band went back to Jonas Kjellgrens Black Lounge Studios to record their
second full-length album "Dead Rotten and Hungry".
2008 Facebreaker released "Dead Rotten and Hungry" through
Pulverised Records. The album is being licensed to Cyclone Empire for
a limited edit. vinyl release. Facebreaker plays Party San Open Air
in Germany and is getting enthusiastic feedback.
Facebreaker does their first European tour in 2009 and a new album starts
to take form. Amazing show at the With Full Force-Open Air Festival in
Germany in front of more than 10,000 people. In September, “Bloodred Hell”
is being re-released by Cyclone Empire with additional bonus tracks.
A new worldwide record deal was signed with Cyclone Empire at the end of
2009.
On the first of January 2010 they started to record the new studio album called
”INFECTED”. This time they choose to work together with Jonas
Kjellgren at Black Lounge Studios and Peter Tägtgren at ABYSS
studios..... This is their most brutal and best played album yet, with the
intensity and horror that makes them Facebreaker. .... So be Prepared for
slaughter !!!
DEVILISH IMPRESSIONS COUNTRY: POLAND
GENRE: MODERN EXTREME MUSIC
NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the second band of the NeKroWeek band
DEVILISH IMPRESSIONS (Polish Modern Extreme Music) , a true excelent modern
and dynamic band from Polish soils for fans of Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir,
Vesania, Vader, old-Cradle of Filth and allot more!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!
Despite having only two albums under their belt Devilish Impressions
quickly managed to put their name out there. Critically acclaimed records and
intense touring along with some of the biggest names onto the metal scene made
them one of the most promising acts on the European map of extreme music. After
a row of personal problems that eventually caused several line-up changes and
temporary stage absence, the band strikes back with the brand new opus called
“Simulacra” and is
now ready to take the scene by storm again.
Considered as one of Poland’s leading and most innovative modern black / death
metal acts Devilish Impressions officially started in 2000 as a
three-piece, with founding singer / guitarist Quazarre remaining the only
member of the original line-up. Marking their presence with the 45-minutes-long
“Eritis sicut Deus; Verbum Diaboli Manet in Aeternum; Vox Vespertilio Act I –
Moon Var Dies Irae”, self-released in 2002, the band began the process of
shaping up its own spirit and self-consciousness, the long-time-hard work on
what would later evolve into the epic, extreme music phenomenon as the band is
being defined nowadays...
2005 saw them recording “Plurima Mortis Imago”, released in September
2006 on the London-based Conquer Records. The video for the song
“SataniChaoSymphony” was shot in London and two months later Devilish
Impressions hits the road along with AETERNUS as part of the European
“Ageless Void Tour”. In April 2007 they land a direct support slot on
MARDUK’s “Swords In The East” Eastern European run. After the
successful tours, in May 2007 the group enters Studio X for the
3-monthslong recording session of their second full-length album
“Diabolicanos – Act III: Armageddon”. While the record was being mastered by
Andy Classen at Stage One Studio,
Devilish Impressions appears at Red Alert Festival in the Crimea,
accompanying such acts as SUFFOCATION and VADER. Autumn 2007 sees
Devilish Impressions shooting the video for the song “Har-Magedon”,
set to promote the „Diabolicanos…” album. At the end of the year, the
band sets off for the “Verbum Diaboli Tour”, their first ever headlining
run across the Eastern European countries.
The “Diabolicanos...” album, released in January 2008 again on Conquer
Records, was widely praised in the international metal press and gave
Devilish Impressions the opportunity to open for BEHEMOTH and
SUICIDE SILENCE on “The Apostasy European Tour”, and then embark with
DISMEMBER for the “UK, Ireland and Northern Ireland Tour”. Meanwhile the
group was invited for selected shows of WACKEN ROAD SHOW 2008 yet, due to
abovementioned tours having been booked earlier, they eventually managed to join
the WRS bill, OVERKILL, TRISTANIA, SAMAEL and ENSLAVED, for a show
in Kiev only.
In May 2008 the album comes out in Poland licensed to Empire Records. The
same month sees Devilish Impressions joining forces with their home
country-mates HATE for their first time ever Polish invasion named
“Rebel Angels Tour” being forced to drop off from the tour’s last date, as
they had earlier been booked for the special show with SATYRICON in
Ukraine.
The summer of 2008 included the band's appearance at Pro Rock Festival
while coheadlining with RAGE and at Metal Heads Mission Festival
with bands like MOONSPELL, GORGOROTH and SAMAEL to name but a few.
After finishing over a half-year-long touring cycle in support to the
“Diabolicanos…” album, Devilish Impressions decide to continue their
crusade, despite facing many problems on both, professional and personal levels,
leading to further shifts in their line-up and temporary stage absence.
In the middle of 2009, Quazarre began to compose on what would later become the
“Diabolicanos...” successor, introducing even more of a thrash and heavy
metal influences in the song-writing process, and thus injecting a new dimension
of brutality and catchiness in Devilish Impressions’ music. Increasing
the use of clean vocals and further development of a melodic side of the new
songs, made their sound even more of an epic character, sound that eventually
turn into something the band themselves would describe as ‘MUSIC for the
EXTREME experiMENTAL generation ONLY’.
In the second half of 2010 Devilish Impressions enters few recording
studios, incl. Studio X and Hertz Studio in order to produce their
very best opus up-to-date named “Simulacra”. The long-lasting recording
session backed up by session synth appearances of Flumen (ASGAARD) and
Lestath (METransmissionAL), as well as special guests incl. Orion
(BEHEMOTH, VESANIA), Jacek Grecki (LOST SOUL) and Roman (LECTER), resulted
in extremely sharp and massive sound of the album, that along with the new
songs’ outstanding craftsmanship, breath-taking artworks and lyrical concept
based on works of the world’s famous poets makes the “Simulacra” record
one of the 2012 must-have metal offers.
05 DE OUTUBRO E 09 NOVEMBRO 2013
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Dia 05 de Outubro 2013 - Local: Side B - Benavente
BANDAS:
MASTER (USA ) + MATA-RATOS + HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL + MIDNIGHT PRIEST
+ KABALA (BRASIL) + GRANKAPO + MOTORPENIS + LEATHER SYNN
+ DJ NUNO THRASHER
PAX JULIA METAL FEST III
Dia 09 de Novembro 2013 - Local: Casa da Cultura - Beja
BANDAS:
HEAD:STONED + LVNAE LVMEN + CRUZ DE FERRO
11 de JANEIRO e
23 A 26 ABRIL 2014
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20º MANGUALDE
HARDMETAL FEST - MANGUALDE
Dia 11 de Janeiro 2014 - Local: MANGUALDE
BANDAS:
CONVULSE(FIN) + PAGAN ALTAR(U.K) + LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE (GER) + MATA-RATOS + SWITCHTENSE + MIND HOLOCAUST(ESP) + DEAD MEAT + INKILINA SAZABRA + DAEMOGORGON + ALBERT FISH + MINDFEEDER + HEAD:STONED + DJ OLD SCHOOL
SWR XVII BARROSELAS METALFEST 2014 - BARROSELAS
Dia 23, 24, 25 e 26 de Abril 2014- Local: Barroselas - VIANA DO CASTELO
CONCERTOS 2013
ConcertoS dia
06 E 13 JULHO
2013
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VEINLESS + SACRACY OF BLOOD
Dia 06 de Junho 2013 - Local: Side B - Benavente
ATTICK DEMONS + ALKATEYA + 15 FREAKS + HIPÉRION
Dia 13 de Julho 2013 - Local: Side B - Benavente
ConcertoS dia 20 JULHO 2013
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+ REVOLUTION WITHIN + PRIMAL ATTACK + ANNIHILATION + DIABOLICAL MENTAL
STATE + KAPITALSTAS PODRIDÃO
Dia 20 de Julho 2013 - Local: Side B - Benavente
Dawnrider e Oker fecham com Chave de Ouro o Cartel do Pax Julia
Metal Fest III .
Ambas as bandas estão a preparar o lançamento dos seus respectivos Terceiro
Album de Originais, com datas ainda por definir em Setembro!
Dawnrider, colectivo de Lisboa, são um dos melhores representantes de
Doom Heavy Metal tradicional e das bandas mais conceituadas e carismáticas a
nivel nacional, irão Liderar o Line Up do Evento, secundados pelos Oker,
provenientes de Madrid, Espanha, banda que tem vindo a fazer furor a
nivel Ibérico, com o seu Hard'n'Heavy, transportando influências dos anos 80 e
cantado em espanhol!
O colectivo de Espanha, liderado pela vocalista Carmen Xina, transmite
uma atitude, personalidade e energia imparáveis, que se poderá conferir a 9
Novembro, que será data única em Portugal, oportunidade imperdivel do publico
português assistir ao espectáculo desta excelente banda!
Com as primeiras partes asseguradas pelos Cruz de Ferro (Torres Novas),Lvnae Lvmen (Beja) e os Head:Stoned (Porto), esta será uma noite
memorável de puro Heavy Metal, na capital do Baixo Alentejo!
Mais informações e pormenores sobre o festival serão revelados atempadamente!
CONQUEST ICON COUNTRY: POLAND
GENRE: BLACKENED DEATH METAL
NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the first band of the NeKroWeek CONQUEST
ICON (Polish Blackened Death Metal) , this is an outstanding band featuring
Pyorrhoea and ex-HATE members and more. A band for fans of
Morbid Angel, Vader, Angel Corpse, Hate, Blood Red Throne, Decapitated and
more!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!
Conquest Icon was found in late 2009 by Andy Blakk (ex-Pyorrhoea,
Suicide Circle) and Empherion (Empheris, Hellish).
Band, supported by Imp from Saltus, started to work on debut album
in November 2009 and in April 2010 “Hellspire” was finished. Album was
mixed and produced by Andy Blakk (drums and vocals were recorded in
KPD Studio; guitars and bass were recorded in ABH Studio).
Music on “Hellspire” is an old school blackened death metal.
Album was released by 16th of July 2010. CDs are available through band's site
http://conquesticon.org/
After releasing debut album "Hellspire", band takes no rest. In August
2010 the lineup was completed and band started to work on the material for the
split "We Are The Ancients" (split is shared with Empheris, Wraith,
Necroist and Purifier). Split is soon to be released.
In May 2012 co-founder and band's vocalist, Empherion, decided to leave
the band due to personal reasons. He was replaced by Ronve. Current
lineup is following.
CENTURION COUNTRY: POLAND
GENRE: INTENSE DEATH GRIND
NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the second band of the NeKroWeek, they are
CENTURION (Polish Intense Death Grind), a killer band
for fans of Disgorge, Angel Corpse, Krisiun, Malevolent Creation, Cryptopsy
and several more!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!
CENTURION was found in the middle of 1998 by Bigos (guitar) and
Śliwa (drums). The band from the very beginning has played fast and brutal
kind of death metal (inspired by DERANGED and ANGEL CORPSE style).
After a couple of months Ostry (second guitar), Sobiech (vocals)
and Ziomek (bass) joined the band. In the beginning of 2001 CENTURION
recorded the first demo, called ”...and they will leave only remains”.
In the middle of 2002 the band entered DBX studio in Warsaw and recorded
first LP „Conquer&Rule”. It contains over 25 minutes of brutal death
metal and the cover of Morbid Angel „Day Of Suffering”. CENTURION
has officially signed three-record deal with Apocalypse Records. After
that CENTURION toured Poland two times (in March 2003 and February 2004)
with the company of well known polish death metal killers from YATTERING.
In March 2004 CENTURION was invited to play during one of the biggest
European metal festival METALMANIA 2004. In the beginning of 2005
Sobiech, Ostry and Ziomek decided to leave the band.
In the next year Caesar (known from SHRAPNEL) and AD Gore (PYORRHOEA,
GORTAL) took up their functions as vocalist and guitarist. In this form the
band started to work at the second album. In May 2007 Blacha (bass)
joined the band. In October 2007 Centurion entered Progresja studio
and recorded promotional stuff called "Sacrilege". Those three new
tracks are the most sadistic and brutal material in the career of the band and
it also shows how will be the upcoming LP album look like. „Sacrilege”
was also release as a split album with GORTAL by the French
Gorification Musix in 2008. In the same time Centurion and
Mittloff from Apocalypse Records decided to finish the cooperation.
In 2009 band started to work at the second LP, called "Serve To No One".
The band entered one more time Progresja studio in Warsaw, known from
cooperation with such great bands as AZARATH, MASACHIST or LOST SOUL. Mix
and mastering of „Serve No One” was finished in the beginning of 2011.
Piotr “Mittloff” Kozieradzki, a drummer of prog rock band RIVERSIDE
was responsible for mixing of the material and Andy Blakk (ex-PYORRHEA,
CONQUEST ICON) is an author of mastering. This release was also a farewell
album of Śliwa who left the band due to his personal life. He was
replaced by Domin, previously known from the the bands such as DEVILYN
and NOMAD. Throughout the whole period of activity CENTURION has
played a few concerts all over Poland supporting among others the bands such as
IMMOLATION, ASPHYX or VADER.
Line up:
Caesar – vocal AD Gore – guitar/backing vocals Bigos – guitar/backing vocals Demon – drums Blacha – bass
Discography:
”...and they will leave only remains” – demo 2001 „Conquer&Rule” – LP 2002 (Apocalypse Prod.) "Sacrilege" – promo 2007 “Sindecade/Sacrilege” – split z GORTAL(Gorification Musix) “Serve No One” – 2011 (TBC)
Here we are to present and review "Dedicated to the
Flesh", the
outstanding new album of Swedish death metal undead addicts Facebreaker!
Without any doubt one of the best death metal albums for 2013 and a great step
forwards for these Zombified meat-freaks! This album kills, slays, maims, will
drive you totally insane and you can't stop listening to it!Their sound is always getting better
and better on each new record, this time combining at best the most putrefied
European/Swedish death metal essence with the most rotten U.S. death metal
sound, all these with the add of some dynamic death n' roll groove. Imagine a catacomb pit infested with the most rotten sound of bands like
Grave, Dismember, Bolt-Thrower, Six Feet Under or Obituary! An absolute deranged death metal art at it's true best!
Be sure to get your hands into this Facebreaker death-cult album and
inhale one of the most rotten pieces to come out from Swedish death metal
crypts!!
Get ready to be mutilated by a swarm of Zombies; they hunger for your
tender human flesh!
NeKronos Promotion HELL
FACEBREAKER -
Deadicated to the Flesh - 2013 -
Cyclone Empire Genre:
Death Metal
"(...)Fourteen years since the outbreak
We are the living dead
A death metal militia
Ripping the ears from your head
Bloodred Hell in the front row
We crave the flesh from our crowd
We‘re Dead Rotten and Hungry
Infected, distorted and loud
Dedicated to the flesh(...)" FACEBREAKER - "Dedicated to the Flesh"
For all those not familiar with Facebreaker yet, I must say that
they are some of the most brutal and straight forwards Swedish death metal bands
around, formed in 1999 by Janne, Roberth Karlsson ( Scar Symmetry, Aktiv Dödshjälp,
Zombified and Tormented,etc),Mikael and
Jonas who combined forces to create this band and with it forge the sound they liked
at best! The band played already in great festivals like With Full Force Open Air, Party San Open Air,
Death Feast or Legacy Fest, etc. where they got the chance to play for more than
10.000 people! A dead, rotten and hungry band that captured
death metal fans ears since their debut "Bloodred Hell" (2004) achieving
great reviews from the most respected magazines!
The fourth album "Dedicated to the flesh" is another great step
forwards on these Zombified Meat-freaks career. Straight forwards death
metal, as putrefied as the old-school Swedish/European death metal and as rotten
as the cryptic U.S. death metal. Imagine yourself in a Zombie infested catacomb
pit with the sound of anthems from bands like Grave, Bolt-Thrower, Dismember,
Six Feet Under or Obituary! Hahaa... better to get your sharp hatchet and
start chopping some living-dead meat!
Yet you couldn't get a better soundtrack for such Walking Dead massacre!
Compared with the previous release "Infected", the sound has been
developed into an absolute outstanding new level, concerning the lyrics
by Janne Ivarsson(Guitars), all I can say is that they are at best,
exploring this Horror Movie atmosphere to it's absolute maximum, taking you
into outbreak undead infested lands where there is no way
out... unless you unleash madness and start Killin' your way to live!
"Dedicated to the Flesh" is a pure Zombie Holocaust in form of
Death
Metal art! One of the best pieces of the genre since some good pack of time!
Death Metal reborn in the most demonically possessed form! The adepts wouldn't
be disappointed, same to all those who are deep into horror, zombie movies... they will
find here the best original (rotten) sound track to listen to!
These living-dead carnage sound is a true trademark of
Facebreaker, the demonic possessed guitars by Mika Lagreen (Grave)
and Janne Ivarsson,
the dead-rotten voKills by Roberth K. as well as the dead-rotten atmosphere
created... Man, all this is death metal at its pure best, simply outstanding!
The recordings and production this time took place at Slowly Rotting Studios
(Guitars, Bass), Panic Room Studios (Drums) and Crypt Of Death Studios
(Vocals, Lead Guitars) and it was mixed and mastered by Plec at Panic
Room Studios (e.g. Scar Symmetry, Torchbearer, Watain, Warrior Soul), must
say it couldn't get better than it is, how rotten and slaying can you get?
The cover artwork this time has been done by Björn Gooßes of
Killustrations (Gloria Morti, Six Feet Under, Sodom, Aborted, Zyklon, Amon
Amarth, Norther). In fact a damn well fitting rotten Zombified art for this
Swedish killing machine, it seems splattered out of an old school undead movie!!
It's a hard task to pick up favourite tracks on such top quality dynamic release, yet
I'll try to describe it for you! With a slower death n' roll groove, tracks like
the opening "Meat Freak" or "Zombie Flesh Cult", "Mutilador" and
"Swarm of Zombies" bring Facebreaker with a refreshing morbid
dynamism. Yet the traditional band sound remains in hymns for the dead like the
addicting title track "Dedicated to the flesh" that is an anthem to
Facebreaker's 14 years of sick and twisted living-dead music, quickly
followed by the hell-spawned fast track "Catacomb". With the "Nuclear
Outbreak" all Hell breaks loose on another frenetic killing track, better to
grab your axes and start chopping some heads while listening to these one!
Bow down for the "Hellmaster", one of these albums best tracks with such
an addicting virulent grove and undead rotting sound reminding of Obituary
classics summoned from the grave!No time to breathe anymore,
infected Zombies hunger for your human meat, "Carving for Brains" is
another true death metal graveyard classic and another top track on this
release! "Legions of Doom" ( Bonus Track ) and "World Cremation"
are two more viciously demented fast and heavy tracks that shall be stuck to
your tortured ears for a good pack of time!The album ends up with
"Tomb of the hungry dead", an epic ending anthem for this Zombie holocaust!
In all "Dedicated to the Flesh" is an absolutely addicting
and killing album for all old-school death
metal addicts, here and then with the addition of some good refreshing Death n' Roll
groove into! The created sick n' twisted rotten sound is a true trademark of
the band. Facebreaker sound shall tear your flesh from bone and feed you
to the famine zombies who shall feast with your entrails and carve for your
brains! Horror death metal at its best, a killer death-cult
album for adepts. One of the best hell-spawn art of death metal for 2013 and one of the most rotten pieces to come out from Swedish death
metal crypts!! It Kills, Slays and can't get our of your ears!
Get your hatchet sharpen, become ready for the killing or be mutilated
by a swarm of Zombies. They hunger for your tender human life... they are
dedicated to the flesh!
RüPä - NeKronos Promotion HELL
RATE: 9,5/10
Here is the Tracklist for the album:
FACEBREAKER - "Dedicated to the Flesh" - CD 2013
01 - Meat Freak
02 - Dedicated to the Flesh
03 - Catacomb
04 - Zombie Flesh Cult
05 - Mutilador
06 - Nuclear Outbreak
07 - Hellmaster
08 - Carving for Brains
09 - Swarm of Zombies
10 - Legions of Doom (alternative version) - (Bonustrack for Limited 1st
Edition Digipack-CD and LP)
11 - World Cremation
12 - Tomb of the Hungry Dead Total playing time = 49m
Recording Line-up:
Roberth Karlsson - Vocals Janne Ivarsson - Guitar Jonas Magnusson - Bass, Backing Vocals Mika Lagreen - Lead Guitar Micke „Kniven“ Wassholm - Drums
NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the first band of the NeKroWeek, they are
BLACK ALTAR, a killer
Terrorizing Black Metal band for fans of Dark Throne, Immortal, Watain,
Tjuder, Mayhem, Tulus and more!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!
In the darkest abyss of chaos where time and space are impenetrable, Black
Altar came into existence. It took its earthly shape during blasphemous
Sabbath in the Night of Walpurgia Anno Bastardi 1996, when it was summoned by
the voice of Shadow. He, as the first guardian of Black Altar,
have started an unholy crusade, thus awaking fear and pain among the
hypocritical and hideous christian lambs.
The first stroke into their rotten system of values was a demo entitled "Na
Uroczysku..." which gained a special recognition among several groups of
listeners. It was recorded by Shadow in 1997 at Selani Studio with
the help of Doc, Vader's drummer, in the role of a music engineer and
drumS programming. Released under Shadow's own label - Odium Rec.,
the first issue of 500 copies was sold out rapidly, making the name of Black
Altar very popular in Poland and in other countries as well.
Where were many musicians involved, however none of them stayed long because
they could not meet Shadow's high musical and ideological requirements.
The turning-point came in the end of 1999 when two new musicians, who just like
Shadow had shown boundless devotion to the Black Metal Art, joined the
band.
In December 2000 a new, long-awaited EP entitled "Wrath ov the Gods" was
recorded. Although all the compositions included were rather old, this record
presented a new and more full-fledged face of the band. The EP was released in
2002, once again, by Odium Rec., this time as a limited to 666 copies
hand-numbered with blood split CD with promising band Vesania. In 2003
Odium Rec. re-released "Wrath of the Gods" in the form of limited to
500 copies, hand-numbered with corpse blood, 7" EP.
In September 2003 at Selani Studio Black Altar recorded their debut album
entitled "Black Altar". It was a great improvement in the development of
the band. All the compositions show an enormous potential of Black Altar.
The new hymns are still more extreme and more technical. They reveal the unknown
regions of Black Metal - an Art destined for the privileged. "Black Altar"
was mixed and mastered at Studio X. For the track "Fire
ov Immortal Self" a professional video was recorded. In April 2004 the
material is released in the form of CD and a gate-fold LP by the German
Christhunt Productions. Odium Rec. releases a limited to 666 copies
hand-numbered with corpse blood cassette version of "Black Altar".
After releasing the debut album Shadow parts with his musicians and as of
that moment Black Altar became a one-man band.
In 2006 WarKult Prod from Peru released remastered version of Black
Altar "Wrath ov the Gods" (with 4 bonus tracks) as split,slip case cd, with
Nebular Mystic (Nor).
In October 2006 Black Altar finished, at very good Studio X,
record session of their second album called "Death Fanaticism". It's a
killer Black Metal Holocaust! This unholy Masterpiece ov Black Art was
unleashed in March 2008 under the wings of Odium Rex.
Black Altar it’s going to record 7 brand new tracks for a split with
Shining and split with Varathron/Thornspawn.
