Evil Masquerade

Evil Masquerade
Background information
Origin	Denmark
Genres	Heavy metal
Labels	Marquee/Avalon Nightmare Records Escape Music
Website	www.evilmasquerade.com
Members
Henrik Flyman Apollo Papathanasio Daniel Flores Johan Niemann

Evil Masquerade is a Danish heavy metal band.

Biography

Evil Masquerade was founded in the summer of 2003 in Copenhagen by guitarist Henrik Flyman (Lacrimosa, ex Wuthering Heights, Moahni Moahna, ZooL). He hooked up with Dennis Buhl (ex Hatesphere) behind the drums, Kasper Gram on bass and Henrik Brockmann (ex-Royal Hunt) on vocals to record the band's debut album. It was released early 2004 under the name "Welcome to the Show". It almost immediately received worldwide recognition and made the charts in Japan at # 8. One year later it was followed up with their second album "Theatrical Madness". A couple of line up changes took place and new singer Apollo Papathanasio and bass player Thor Jeppesen entered the studio with Flyman and Buhl to record the album "Third Act" which took the band to a new level of fame when it was re-released 2007 (a year after the original release date in Europe and Asia) in the US. Flyman never left the studio and wrote their fourth studio album "Fade To Black" which was recorded by yet a new lineup, with only vocalist Apollo and Flyman himself as the remaining members. New drummer was Daniel Flores (Mind’s Eye, Tears of Anger, ZooL) and new bass player Johan Niemann (Therion, Evergrey, Hubi Meisel, Demonoid, Mind’s Eye). In 2009 Henrik Flyman and Evil Masquerade won the prestigious Just Plain Folks Music Awards in the category Best Metal Song with "Bozo the Clown". Then Flyman brought back the "Third Act" lineup and spent a large part of 2010 composing the band's fifth album Pentagram which is now recorded and waiting to be released.

Members

• Henrik Flyman - guitar
• Apollo Papathanasio - vocals (since 2005)
• Dennis Buhl - drums (2003–2008, 2010–present)
• Thor Jeppesen - bass (2005–2008, 2010–present)
• Artur Meinild - keyboard (2011-)

Former members & guests

• Tony Carey - keyboard (2008)
• David Rosenthal - keyboard (2006)
• Mats Olausson - keyboard (2004)
• Richard Andersson - keyboard (2004–2007)
• André Andersen - keyboard (2004–2005)
• Daniel Flores - drums (2008–2010)
• Johan Niemann - bass (2008–2010)
• Kasper Gram - bass (2003–2005)
• Henrik Brockmann - vocals (2003–2005)

Discography

• Welcome to the Show (2004)
• Theatrical Madness (2005)
• Third Act (2006, 2007 USA)
• Fade To Black (2008 Asia, 2009)
• Pentagram (tba)

Videos

• "Black Ravens Cry" (2007)

see the video on YouTube: [1]

• "Desire and Pain" (2009)

see the video on YouTube: [2]

External links

• Evil Masquerade Official Website
• Henrik Flyman Official Website

References

• Just Plain Folks Music Awards
• Henrik Flyman Official website/biography
• Henrik Flyman Official website/live
• Marquee Avalon
• Nightmare Records
• Frontiers Records
• Escape Music
• Escape Music
• Evil Masquerade Official website/lineup