Armagedda is a Swedish black metal band that was founded in 1999.
Armagedda | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norrland, Sweden |
| Genres | Black metal |
| Years active | 1999–2004, 2020–present |
| Labels | Agonia Records |
| Members | Graav, A. |
| Past members | E. Danielsson, Necromorbus, Hor, Patrik Högberg, Roger Markström, Winterheart. |
| Website | [1] |
By 2004 the band had split-up[1] but was reformed in 2020.
History
editArmagedda was created in the mind of A in early 2000, but then went by the name Volkermord. Their idea was to create some spiritual disease through music that would infect and destroy human minds. A few months later, A spoke with Graav and Phycon about this idea and all were in agreement. A rehearsal tape was recorded, but remained unreleased until 2008. The band entered the studio in mid-2000 for the recording of the Volkermord demo which enjoyed a grim and raw production; released in October, limited to only 30 copies. This demo was to be released on MCD format, but postponed indefinitely. In the very beginning of the year 2001 they entered the studio once again for the recording of their debut album The Final War Approaching.[2][3]
At this time the band changed their name to Armagedda (translates to 'Jehova's Hell'), and soon recorded some rehearsal tracks which were ended up on a split with suicidal Swedish act Svarthymn called In Blackest Ruin and released through the Swedish underground label Deathcult Productions. Armagedda was originally signed to Akhenaten's label Breath of Night Records for CD release in 2002, with a vinyl LP version licensed to Sombre Records Germany. A new member, Mord, joined the Armagedda horde during early Summer of 2001 to complete the Swedish line-up.[2] This all lasted until 2004, when Graav and A decided to disband and start something new, thus creating Lönndom. The band issued a final statement:
"As you all may know, Armagedda will not bring you any future experiences. We decided after the release of Ond Spiritism that it was for the best to put this phenomenon of ours to the past, we felt that we had achieved everything we needed and seen in our dreams. To continue would have been a move in the wrong direction. Graav has chosen another path in life and is forever gone. But as certain as the end came hand in hand with Ond Spiritism a birth and beginning of something else grew in shape. However, that’s another story and it will speak for itself somewhere else...."[4]
The band reformed in 2020 and released a new album with the following statement: "And so it was told that in the seventeenth year, things that were thought to be dead begun to stir again in the earth, as if awoken by the stench of man-fear penetrating deep beyond the reach of sunlight. Reanimated by some nameless and cursed source of vitality they say it has begun pouring and trickling from the dark crevices of the North, like an ancient curse into the veins of the world. And with the same fearful fascination that we behold something full of life being robbed of its vitality and pulse, we shall now bear witness to that which ought to be forever dead but by unnatural impulse and eager invocation is again given life, to haunt and to stalk the night of the world."[5]
Primary members
edit- Graav – vocals, guitar
- Anderson Peterson– guitar, bass
Session members
edit- Roger Markström – drums
- E. Danielsson – drums
- Winterheart – drums
- Necromorbus – drums
- Hor – drums
- Patrik Högberg – bass
Related bands
edit- LIK – A and Graav's black metal band.
- Lönndom – A and Graav's folk metal band.
- Leviathan – Former member Roger Markström's soloproject, with A on session-strings.
- Watain,[6][7] Fucking Funeral,[7] Bloodsoil,[6] Dissection[7] – E. Danielsson's bands.
- Demented – Patrik Högberg
- Maleficium – Roger Markström session drumming.
- Sterbend, Nyktalgia, Total Hate, Tairach, Krieg, Hunok, Flagellator, Kataplex, Misery Speaks – Winterheart
Discography
edit- Volkermord (2000), Self-released – Demo
- In Blackest Ruin (2001), Split
- The Final War Approaching (2001), Album
- Armagedda / Woods of Infinity (2002), Split
- Black Metal Endsieg III (2002), Split
- Strength Through Torture (2002), EP
- Only True Believers (2003), Album
- In Blackest Ruin (2004), EP
- Ond Spiritism: Djæfvulens Skalder (2004), Album
- Echoes In Eternity (2007), Compilation
- I Am (2010), EP[8]
- Live in Nurnberg (2012), Live DVD[9]
- Svindeldjup ättestup (2020), Album[10]
References
edit- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b "ARMAGEDDA "Final War Approaching, The"". BlackMetal.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2002.
- ^ "Armagedda". Forum. Metal Archives. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
- ^ Armagedda: Echoes in Eternity, Agonia Records 2007.
- ^ "Armagedda (Official)". Facebook.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Biography". 4 February 2002. Archived from the original on 4 February 2002. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ a b c ERIK DANIELSSON of WATAIN Archived 23 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Previously Unreleased Armagedda Tracks To See The Light of Day : Armagedda News". Antimusic.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ "NORDVIS – Poor Music for Poor People – ARMAGEDDA – Live in Nurnberg DVD". Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ "Svindeldjup Ättestup, by Armagedda". Armagedda.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.