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P-Guitars H-Battery E-Vocals
Live members:
Whorth - Bass Guitar
John - Rythm Guitar
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| Sworn
To The Dark |
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CD/LP |
| Casus
Luciferi |
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LP/CD/MC |
| The
Ritual Macabre |
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Tape |
| The
Misanthropic Ceremonies |
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Split
7" EP |
| Rabid Death's
Curse |
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LP/CD/MC |
| The Essence
of Black Purity |
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EP |
| Black Metal
Sacrifice |
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Tape |
| Go Fuck Your
Jewish God |
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Rehearsal
Demo |
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WATAIN crawled into existence in 1998.
Conceived out of the will to take the members' previous
musical attempts to a higher level, the band quickly
established itself as a hard-working underground phenomenon
of most sinister kind. About a year later, a 7'' EP
entitled "The Essence of Black Purity" was
released on Swedish Grim Rune Productions.
The EP eventually found its way to the French label
Drakkar Productions, who offered WATAIN
a deal for two full-length albums. Much material had
already been written, so the band soon entered the ritual
chambers of Necromorbus Studio to record the much praised
debut "Rabid Death's Curse", a release of
relentless Black/Death Metal lunacy which was received
with a roar of appreciation from the worldwide underground.
The impact of the album together with WATAIN's
merciless devotion to their creation elevated the band
to the higher realms of the underground metal hierarchy
in a quick pace.
Following the release of the debut album, WATAIN
began to hit the European stages with full force, performing
together with bands such as ROTTING CHRIST,
DARK FUNERAL, MORTUARY DRAPE, ANTAEUS, MUTIILATION,
etc. It didn't take long until the band had gained a
vast reputation or their intense, ritualized live-performances
embodying every aspect of traditional Black/Death Metal
sorcery, violent ceremonies of blood, fire, death and
magic. The first complete European crusade - the Black
War Tour- was done early 2002.
WATAIN once again entered Necromorbus
studios in June 2003 to record their second full-length
album, which after three years of composing finally
had grown into its full abominable shape. The end result
became "Casus Luciferi", a fanatical monument
of magical Black Metal. Since then the album has been
hailed as one of the most relevant underground Black
Metal albums of the new millennium. An album proudly
revealing the horrifying glory of the true, dangerous
and by many shunned Black Metal legacy, without a hint
of irony, doubt or uncertainty. At the same time as
the release of the album, the "Stellar Descension
Infernal" Tour is done throughout Europe together
with SECRETS OF THE MOON and
AVERSE SEFIRA.
In 2004, WATAIN continuously stroke
stages in Czech Republic, Italy, Great-Britain and Scandinavia,
building further upon their now global reputation as
one of the most passionate and eye-opening live acts
of extreme Metal. When the darkness of winter began
to fall upon the trembling plains of Europe, the band
embarked on a two-month tour together with DISSECTION,
marching victoriously through eighteen countries.
It took WATAIN again three years to
define the nature of the work that became their third
full-length album. With the combined force of four labels
releasing the album in different territories of the
world, WATAIN is now preparing for
the immense discharge of Magic and Death that will mark
the release of the ultimate Black Metal monolith "Sworn
To The Dark".
Pulverised Records will unleash "Sworn To The Dark"
in Asia and Australia on the 17th of March 2007. |
