2001: In this year,
the infernal warrior Lord Aeshma was playing in
a black metal horde, but it didn't meet his the
obscure longings and truthful satanic ideology.
Then, in October, Lord Aeshma left the horde, ready
to give life to an ambitions project called Blackmass.
Lord Aeshma was ready to create a horde with extreme
technics, blasphemy, and fast songs, transforming
his dark ideals into songs with truthful satanic
essence.
2002: After many tests, Magus Dux Adramelech joined
the horde as vocalist in January and became a permanent
member in March. Thenceforward the unholy duo Aeshma/Adramelech
let the infernal gears of Blackmass work well.
With few rehearsals, Blackmass wrote songs to record
their first cd, self-financed, but the horde didn't
have a drummer yet, therefore, Magus Dux Adramelech
decided to record the drums even without any experience
on playing it.
In May, the horde entered in Veronese Studio to
record the demo-cd Diabolical Ritual which Lord
Aeshma recorded guitars and bass, and Magus Dux
Adramelech recorded vocals, drums, and keyboards.
This one have five tracks: An intro, a slow song
"Ravenous Demonium", and three fast songs
which one of them stands out, "Diabolical Ritual",
this one was going to guide Blackmass' sonority.
With this demo-cd, Blackmass appears as a revelation
and great promise of black metal. The horde appeared
in several magazines with prominence. The cd had
a great response in the underground scene, mainly
in Brazil, showing the power of the band since Blackmass
released Diabolical Ritual in a very high sonority
quality and powerful cover-art.
As soon as Diabolical Ritual hits the black metal
scene, Blackmass received in September a proposal
to be featured in a compilation by Black Hole Magazine,
thus Blackmass, with Diabolical Ritual began to
be respected as a professional horde and several
contacts made the band known through underground.
2003: After a long time looking for a drummer, Verberibus
Necare was added as a permanent member and Magus
Dux Adramelech started to make both vocals and play
bass. Eventually Blackmass' line-up was complete,
and it brought a new level of aggressiveness, technic,
and speed. Blackmass now can write more satanic
songs and faster than the first album.
With many rehearsals and dedication of the members,
in August the horde entered again in Veronese Studio
to record the EP Episcolum, Servo Servorum Satanii,
this one had two hyper-fast and obscure songs, with
the track "I Call Upon Thee" being the
stand out which many people considered as a Blackmass'
masterpiece. Once again the response was great and
Blackmass was consolidated as a great brazilian
black metal horde.
With this EP, in December Blackmass featured in
a compilation called Extreme Underground I by Avernus
Records, with the song "Daemonarchetypes",
and again the horde appeared in several magazines.
2004: The year began with many gigs. Blackmass played
in lots of brazilian states. During this time the
horde concentrated to write new songs to show the
true inferno's face in an album never saw before
in the brazilian black metal scene.
In June Blackmass had nine tracks to record their
first full-length album for a label. In this same
month the horde received the contact of Black Metal
Mafia, a label from So Paulo, offering a contract
to release the new Blackmass' work. This contract
was signed down, but a little time after it, Blackmass
announces the BREAK of the contract, because the
label didn't accomplish the contract-clauses. The
horde made many concerts and new proposals started
to come from Canada, USA, and Europe, but they weren't
good enough for the band, so they kept working with
their own forces.
2005: In May a brazilian label called Blasphemy
Productions gave a very good proposal to release
the new horde's work. Thus in July Blackmass entered
at Poly Studio to record an album with very high
quality, faster, obscure, technical and most satanic
possible.
The album titled Gloria Diaboli has nine tracks,
which stand out the ultra fast songs "Gloria
Diaboli" and "Necrologies", the technical
"Xes Lehahiah Plegas", "Infernal
Horned God" and "Alae Nocturnae",
sang in Latim. To close an infernal circle, Blackmass
invested a lot in the artwork, which was made by
Svartr (Lys Aeon), who created something with the
obscure quality as the magnitude of the album. The
full length was released in December 10th in Brazil
with many concerts being made. In December 20th,
Gloria Diaboli is released in Brazil through Blasphemy
Productions.
In the end of April Gloria Diaboli will be released
worldwide through Sinister Sounds, and in the end
of May will be distributed in Benelux through IR
Distribution. Non-brazilian fans who have interest
to order your copy of the album should click in
the following banner to visit the website of Sinister
Sounds.
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