Tag Archives: Symphonic Black Metal

Perhaps one of the most unique and successful Italian rock bands from the 1990s, Opera IX was founded in 1988 by guitarist Ossian, who all caused various music artists leading in the saving of first demonstration tape, Gothik, 2 yrs later. Nevertheless, it wasn’t before arrival of feminine vocalist Cadaveria, …

Originally named Phlebotomy, Greece’s In Thorns I Lay began in 1992, recording a demo along with a 7″ EP below that name prior to making the name-switch with time because of their 1995 debut album, Sound of Beautiful Experience. Seriously influenced by loss of life/doom metal works like Heaven Lost …

Swiss extreme metallic group Samael quickly evolved from a run-of-the-mill dark metal music group into perhaps one of the most daring and eclectic sonic explorers of the generation; wanting to tamper making use of their audio by introducing commercial, digital, and gothic music components to their formative dark and death …

Among America’s most prolific and unapproachable underground metallic music artists, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Malefic continues to be responsible for six produces since 1995 under his nom de plume of Xasthur. Hardly ever keeping track of with outside help and along with his music mainly qualifying within the atmospheric dark metallic …

Dimensions Zero happened in 1996 once the acoustic guitar group from Swedish metallic juggernaut In Flames (Jesper Strömblad and Glenn Ljungström) made a decision to come up with a side task that would permit the set to pursue a few of their more aggressive music interests. Taking into consideration the …

Celtic Frost’s effect on the evolution of Western heavy metal can’t be overstated. Alongside power metallic kings Helloween (also to a lesser level, the occasionally cartoonish Mercyful Destiny), Frost’s long lasting impact on Europe’s rock landscape is probably much like Metallica’s standing in the us. Tagged by critics as “avant-garde” …

Having a solid fascination with the mythological areas of Norse history, Frode Glesnes (guitar) and Gerhard Storesund (drums) shaped Einherjer in early 1993 from their house country of Norway. The self-proclaimed forerunners of “Viking Metallic” first strike the studio down the road that yr with vocalist Rune Bjelland and bassist …

While black metallic fans might recognize Rotting Christ as Greece’s foremost contribution towards the genre, Elysian Fields (never to be confused with the identically named alternative group) could actually gain a global footing with a method that built within the chaotic, pseudo-symphonic experience of organizations like Emperor. An obscure debut …

Lake of Tears initial came together in 1992 when Daniel Brennare, Jonas Eriksson, and Michael Larsson still left the death steel band these were using in and installed with Johan Oudhuis. They documented a demonstration in early 1993 which captured the eye of Black Tag Productions, who agreed upon the …

Using their modest beginnings as roadies for avant-garde Swiss metallic legends Celtic Frost, the members of Coroner carved out probably one of the most unique careers within the European thrash metallic scene. These were originally pegged as a typical thrash music group, but their jaw-dropping musicianship and significantly complex, nearly …