Septic Flesh
Encyclopedia
Septic Flesh is a death metal
band from Athens
, Greece
, which was founded in 1990.
, Temple of the Lost Race in December 1991. 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).
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. 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.
, Rage
and Aborted
, set to take place July 20–22.
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. 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.
As previously announced, SEPTICFLESH's forthcoming album "The Great Mass" will hit the stores on April 28 (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!
Note: the band was inactive from 2003 till 2007
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
band from Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
, 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 EPExtended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, Temple of the Lost Race in December 1991. The band recorded their first full-length album Mystic Places of Dawn
Mystic Places of Dawn
Mystic Places of Dawn is the first album by Septic Flesh, released in 1994. The album was later reissued with the Temple of the Lost Race EP as bonus tracks.-Track listing:All lyrics written by Sotiris V....
, in April 1994 at the Storm studio with the co-production of Magus Wampyr Daoloth (who previously was the 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 :...
keyboardist).
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. 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
Chaostar
Chaostar is a Classical, Opera and Vocal Orchestra from Greece started in 1998, composed of Christos Antoniou, Spiros Antoniou, Sotiris Vayenas, Nathalie Rassoulis, and Sapfo Stavridou. Several of the members are also members of Septic Flesh. They have released four albums on Holy Records, a label...
, which he formed in 1998, and Katsionis played guitar for Nightfall
Nightfall (band)
Nightfall is a Greek heavy metal band from Athens. Formed by vocalist/bassist Efthimis Karadimas in 1991, the group is currently signed to Metal Blade Records.- History :...
and keyboards for Firewind
Firewind
Firewind is a Greek power metal band. Formed in 1998, the group is currently signed to Century Media Records and was originally a small project created by guitarist, Gus G. to showcase his demo, Nocturnal Symphony in 1998. Firewind later became a full band over three years later when they recorded...
.
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 LandOrphaned Land
Orphaned Land is an Israeli progressive metal band, formed in 1991, that combines Death/doom, Jewish and Arabic influences.- History :In 1992, the band changed its name from the original Resurrection to Orphaned Land....
, Rage
Rage (band)
Rage are a German heavy metal band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild and Blind Guardian.-Background:...
and Aborted
Aborted
Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...
, set to take place July 20–22.
On April 3, 2007, Blabbermouth.net reported the band reunited for a seventh full-length CD, for French record label Season of Mist
Season of Mist
Season of Mist is a record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing...
. According to guitarist and composer Christos Antoniou, the release would feature a full orchestra and a choir, totalling 80 musicians and 32 singers. 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.
As previously announced, SEPTICFLESH's forthcoming album "The Great Mass" will hit the stores on April 28 (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!
Current
- Sotiris Vayenas - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, clean vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
(1990–) - Spiros "Seth" Antoniou - harsh vocalsDeath growlA death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...
, bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(1990–) - Christos Antoniou - guitar, orchestrations, samplesSampler (musical instrument)A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...
(1990–) - Fotis Benardo - drums, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
(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 KatsionisBob KatsionisBabis "Bob" Katsionis , born on February 17, 1977 in Athens, Greece, is the rhythm guitarist and keyboard player for the heavy metal/power metal bands Firewind, Revolution Renaissance and Outloud.-Appearances:...
- keyboards (2003)
Albums
- Mystic Places of DawnMystic Places of DawnMystic Places of Dawn is the first album by Septic Flesh, released in 1994. The album was later reissued with the Temple of the Lost Race EP as bonus tracks.-Track listing:All lyrics written by Sotiris V....
(1994) - EsoptronEsoptronEsoptron is the second full-length album by Septic Flesh, released in 1995. The actual title is ΕΣΟΠΤΡΟΝ or Εσοπτρον. The word is Greek for "mirror."-Track listing:All lyrics written by Sotiris V., all music composed by Septic Flesh....
(1995) - The Ophidian WheelThe Ophidian WheelOphidian Wheel is the third full-length album by the Greek death metal band Septic Flesh.-Track listing:All lyrics written by Sotiris V....
(1997) - A Fallen Temple (1998)
- Revolution DNARevolution DNARevolution DNA is the fifth studio album by the Greek death metal band Septic Flesh.- Track listing :All lyrics written by Sotiris V.- Personnel :* Spiros A. – bass, vocals, artwork, layout* Sotiris V. – guitar, vocals...
(1999) - Sumerian DaemonsSumerian DaemonsSumerian Daemons is the sixth studio album by the Greek death metal band Septic Flesh. It was released by Hammerheart Records in 2003....
(2003) - Communion (2008)
- The Great MassThe Great MassThe Great Mass is the eighth studio album by Greek death metal band Septic Flesh. It was recorded between July-September 2010 in Devasoundz and The Abyss and produced by Peter Tägtgren...
(2011)