Dagorlad was founded with the Belgian duo of Patrick De Vidts (aka AOD, vocals) and Philippe Gandibleu (aka Count number Zaroff, electric guitar, bass, keyboards, programmed percussion), whose self-described “dark, atmospheric, medieval rock” was initially presented to modern-day human beings via 1999’s Incantations record. Immediately drawing evaluations to similarly dark metal-based and Dark Ages-fascinated serves such as for example England’s Bal-Sagoth and Austria’s Summoning, Dagorlad released another, more ambitious record entitled THE FINISH from the Dark Age range in 2002 — where period Gandibleu was dealing with a fresh vocalist called Frederic Mercier.