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'''Septic Flesh''' is a [[death metal]] band from [[Athens]], [[Greece]], which was founded in 1990. |
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Septic Flesh is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, which was founded in 1990.
History
Septic Flesh was formed in March 1990 by Sotiris Vayenas (guitar), Spiros Antoniou (bass and vocals), and Christos Antoniou (guitars), and quickly released a debut EP, Temple of the Lost Race in December 1991.[1] The band recorded their first full-length album Mystic Places of Dawn, in April 1994 at the Storm studio with the co-production of Magus Wampyr Daoloth (who previously was the Rotting Christ keyboardist).[2]
From the band's formation in 1991 until 1997, the line-up was stable, but on The Ophidian Wheel (1997) and A Fallen Temple (1998) a female vocalist, Natalie Rassoulis, was added.[3] The group split up in October 2003, and after the breakup, its members moved on to different or existing projects: Chris Antoniou continued involvement with Chaostar, which he formed in 1998, and Katsionis played guitar for Nightfall and keyboards for Firewind. TheDevilWorx formed a year after Septic Flesh's disbanding, and featured some members from Septic Flesh's original line-up. In March 2007, guitarist Sotiris Vayenas revealed his plans for a new solo project called Aenaos.
Reunion
On February 19, 2007, Septic Flesh announced a reunion for Greece's Metal Healing Festival featuring Orphaned Land, Rage and Aborted, set to take place July 20–22.[4] On April 3, 2007, Blabbermouth.net reported the band reunited for a seventh full-length CD, for French record label Season of Mist. According to guitarist and composer Christos Antoniou, the release would feature a full orchestra and a choir, totalling 80 musicians and 32 singers.[5] Septic Flesh finalized the new album, Communion, in Studio Fredman in Sweden; it was released in April 2008.
On September 10, 2009, the band announced that they had begun work on a new studio album, tentatively planned for release in the beginning of 2011.
On December 17, 2010, the band released the first single from the new batch of material titled "The Vampire From Nazareth" and announced that the new album will ship April 28 in the UK, and April 29 In the USA.[6] [7]
As previously announced, SEPTICFLESH's forthcoming album "The Great Mass" will hit the stores on April 18th (one day later in North America). It is time to unveil the cover artwork of the album's jewel case edition, designed by Seth Siro Anton himself: Seth explains: "This is a small fragment of the artwork that will dress the new artistic experiment of SEPTICFLESH, 'The Great Mass'. It is a small part of an occult machine made from marble and flesh, fantasy and reality, order and chaos. A great machine composed from the blasphemous union of strange figures, creations of Man, the creator of the gods and demons. Their grotesque purpose will be revealed soon, when all the cover editions of the new album will be presented and will be combined together… Let the great self-cannibalistic symposium begin." The Greek demons' new opus will be available in the following formats: CD + Blu-ray Digipak Collector's book including 2 CDs + Blu-ray 12" gatefold LP CD jewel case Digital download The main artwork for "The Great Mass" will appear on the limited Digipak edition, the gatefold LP and the dust jacket of the collector's book. To be revealed later!
Line-up
Current
- Sotiris Vayenas - guitar, clean vocals, keyboards (1990–)
- Spiros "Seth" Antoniou - harsh vocals, bass (1990–)
- Christos Antoniou - guitar, orchestrations, samples (1990–)
- Fotis Benardo - drums, percussion (2003-)
Note: the band was inactive from 2003 till 2007
Guest members
- Natalie Rassoulis - soprano vocals (1997–1998)
- Androniki Skoula (Chaostar) - vocals (2011)
- iliana Tsakiraki (Meden Agan) - soprano vocals (2011)
Former members
- Alexander Haritakis - guitar (2003)
- Akis "Lethe" Kapranos - drums (1990–2003)
- Kostas Savvidis - session drums (1997–1998)
- George "Magus Wampyr Daoloth" Zaharopoulos - keyboards (2001–2003)
- Bob Katsionis - keyboards (2003)
Discography
- Temple of the Lost Race (EP, 1991)
- Mystic Places of Dawn (1994)
- Esoptron (1995)
- The Ophidian Wheel (1997)
- A Fallen Temple (1998)
- The Eldest Cosmonaut (EP, 1998)
- Forgotten Paths (Compilation, 1999)
- Revolution DNA (1999)
- Sumerian Daemons (2003)
- Communion (2008)
- The Great Mass (2011)
References
- ^ True, Chris. "Septic Flesh > Biography". Allmusic. Macrovision Corporation. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
- ^ "Time Catcher". Septicflesh. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
- ^ "Time Catcher". Septicflesh. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
- ^ "Septic Flesh to Reunite for Greece's Metal Healing Festival". Blabbermouth.Net.
- ^ "Reunited Septic Flesh to Record New Album for Season of Mist". Blabbermouth.net.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "SEPTICFLESH Hard At Work On New Material". Blabbermouth.Net.
External links
- Greek death metal musical groups
- Greek heavy metal musical groups
- Musical groups established in 1990
- Musical groups disestablished in 2003
- Musical groups reestablished in 2007
- Greek melodic death metal musical groups
- Industrial metal musical groups
- Blackened death metal musical groups
- Gothic metal musical groups
- Greek black metal musical groups
- Musical quartets
- 1990s music groups
- 2000s music groups
- 2010s music groups