Blasphemy are a black

Black metal

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/death metal

Death metal

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 band formed in Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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 in 1984. The band released a demo titled Blood Upon the Altar in 1989 and their debut album, Fallen Angel of Doom

Fallen Angel of Doom

-Track listing:#Winds of the Black Gods – 1:20#Fallen Angel of Doom – 3:40#Hoarding of Evil Vengeance – 2:22#Darkness Prevails – 3:32#Desecration – 2:27#Ritual – 3:18#Weltering in Blood – 2:27#Demoniac – 2:45#Goddess of Perversity – 4:28...

, the following year through Wild Rags

Wild Rags

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, a record label they had signed to while touring the United States. The band's vocalist later stated the label did not pay them as much as promised. Their second and so far last full-length studio album was the 1993 Gods of War released through Osmose Productions

Osmose Productions

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. In 1993, Blasphemy also took part in the "Fuck Christ Tour" and toured through Europe with Immortal

Immortal (band)

Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1990 by current frontman/guitarist Abbath Doom Occulta and former guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta...

 and Rotting Christ

Rotting Christ

Rotting Christ is a Greek black metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene.- Line-up :...

. The band's July 2001 concert in Vancouver

Vancouver

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 was released as a live album titled Live Ritual - Friday the 13th

Live Ritual - Friday the 13th

Live Ritual - Friday the 13th is the first Blasphemy live-album released in 2002.-Track listing:#War Command – 1:45#Blasphemous Attack – 1:44#Gods of War – 0:35#Demoniac – 3:16#Goddess of Perversity – 4:11#Fallen Angel of Doom.....

in 2002.

They were inactive until 2009, when they played two concerts; one in Montreal

Montreal

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 and one in Helsinki

Helsinki

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, in the Black Flames of Blasphemy festival, with Proclamation, Black Witchery, Revenge and Archgoat

Archgoat

Archgoat is a black metal group that formed in Finland in 1989. There are three band members: Angelslayer , Ritual Butcherer and Blood Desecrator . Their first demo, Jesus Spawn, was released in 1992...

. In 2010, Blasphemy headlined the second installation of the Nuclear War Now! festival in Germany.

Blasphemy's song "War Command" has been covered by Beherit

Beherit (band)

Beherit is a black metal band from Finland. The band was formed in 1989 by Nuclear Holocausto , Black Jesus and Sodomatic Slaughter , with the purpose of performing "the most primitive, savage, hell-obsessed black metal imaginable." "Beherit" is the Syriac word for Satan...

 and the cover appeared on Beherit's 1999 compilation album Beast of Beherit - Complete Worxxx. Blasphemy's "Winds of the Black Gods" was the opening track on the 2004 compilation Fenriz Presents... The Best of Old-School Black Metal

Fenriz Presents... The Best of Old-School Black Metal

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.

Current line-up

• Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds – Vocals
• Caller of the Storms – Guitars
• Deathlord of Abomination and War Apocalypse – Guitars
• Three Black Hearts of Damnation and Impurity – Drums

• V.K. (of Diocletian/Vassafor) live session Bass

Past members

• Ace Gestapo Necrosleezer and Vaginal Commands – Bass
• Black Priest of 7 Satanic Rituals – Guitars
• The Traditional Sodomizer of the Goddess of Perversity – Guitars(Witches Hammer/Tyrants Blood)
• Bestial Saviour of the Undead Legions;bass and backing vocals

Albums

• Fallen Angel of Doom
  Fallen Angel of Doom
  -Track listing:#Winds of the Black Gods – 1:20#Fallen Angel of Doom – 3:40#Hoarding of Evil Vengeance – 2:22#Darkness Prevails – 3:32#Desecration – 2:27#Ritual – 3:18#Weltering in Blood – 2:27#Demoniac – 2:45#Goddess of Perversity – 4:28...
  
  (1990)
• Gods of War (1993)

External links

• [ Blasphemy] at Allmusic
• Blasphemy at Discogs
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• Blasphemy at Encyclopaedia Metallum
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