Black Messiah

Genre(S): Black Metal
Representative albums: Sceptre of Black Knowledge, Oath of a Warrior, Of Myths and Legends.




History

Having started as a pure black metal band, Black Messiah's sound has evolved to Viking metal with the release of their Oath of a Warrior album. Four full-length albums have been released so far.

Black Messiah was founded 1994 as a pure old-school Black Metal band and paid tribute to Black Metal idols like Venom, Celtic Frost, Bathory, and Possessed. The first demo, which is totally sold out, came out in 1995. In 1997, Zagan recorded the first album "Sceptre of Black Knowledge" with drummer Nabahm (known from bands like Innana Unveiled and Goat of Mendes) through Last Episode and experienced a world wide distribution. Many guest musicians, and most notably former Sodom-Kreator guitarist Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik, have added their contributions to the creation of the first Black Messiah CD.

In mid-1999 Black Messiah split up with Last Episode, in summer 2000, Zagan enters a self-rented studio to record a still unrevealed 3-track demo on its own, it carries on the solid tradition of the first album meeting up with traditional pagan elements which are represented by mandolin and/or violin. In the beginning of 2005 the band signed a deal under Einheit Produktionen. In Spring 2005 the band..s second longplayer "Oath of a Warrior" has been released by Soulfood. With this release the band managed to do an important step into international music business, responses have been predominantly good and many club gigs, some festivals and a small European tour with Irish pagan metal band Cruachan were done.

Shortly before the recording sessions of their third album "Of Myths and Legends" the band split with Einheit Produktionen. The band signed with AFM Records and "Of Myths And Legends" was released in November 2006.

Many Festival- and Live-Gigs followed in 2007 (Summer Breeze Festival, Ragnaroek Festival, Summer Nights Open Air.to name a few) which were already played by the Line-Up you have today and, in addition to that, Black Messiah began to work on new songs. In fall of 2007 the second European tour with Odroerir (Germany) and Tyr (Faroese Islands) followed.

In 2008 the band entered the studio again to record "First war of the world", a concept album about the war between the Aesir and the Vanir which was released on 20th March, 2009.

Members



current Line-up

• Zagan – vocals, guitars, violin, mandolin
• Meldric – lead guitars
• Zoran – guitars
• Agnar – keyboards
• Garm – bass
• Mike 'Brööh' Bröker - drums

Notable Members

• Surthur - drums
• Frohnleichnam - Guitar
• Drahco - bass
• Niörd - bass
• Evgeniy "Nabahm" Shestopalov - drums
• Reverend Heidenbluth - drums
• Surthur - drums
• Hrym - Keyboards

Discography
Albums
• Sceptre of Black Knowledge (1998)
• Oath of a Warrior (2005)
• Of Myths and Legends (2006)
• First War of the World (2009)
Demos
• Southside Golgotha (1995)
• Demo 2001 (2001)
• Roughmix 2004 (2004)
• Futhark (2004)