| The second album with even rawer sound. Black metal inspired just by hate and misanthropy filled with the unique Blackdeath sound. Beware of the Fucking Fullmoon Foundation. Import from Greece.
The group was founded somewhere in early winter 1995. Its primal line-up was as follows: Abysslooker - guitar and vocals, Para Bellum - bass, Nightshadow - vocals. There was no drummer then, a drum-machine was used instead. At first the band called DRAUGWATH. The name was invented by Nightshadow, it is a composite word from "Draug" and "Gwath" which mean "The spirit of the Wolf" in Tolkien's language (but no member of the group was keen on this writer).
The first band's demo "Dwellers of the Cursed Forest" was recorded in October 1995. It was recorded in poor conditions but in spite of this fact DRAUGWATH managed to obtain the sound which was much better than the sound of some studio recordings. The label HUNGRY AK-47 PRODUCTIONS was founded by DRAUGWATH's members to release this and further works. Soon after the recording Nightshadow was kicked out from the group and Abysslooker became the only vocalist of DRAUGWATH.
In the beginning of 1996 the drummer Ereth joined the band. Soon after that DRAUGWATH added the word "Black" to their name. In September of the same year BLACK DRAUGWATH recorded some rehearsal songs in "Rubin" sports club and released them as a reh-demo "Apocalyptic Songs". In November Abysslooker and Para Bellum recorded the demo of their Darkest Cosmic Trance project CTHULHU which was called "Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'Lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn".
In February 1997 BLACK DRAUGWATH entered the Oranienbaum Studio to record new material. It was impossible to record live drums there so a drum-machine was used again. Two re-mixed songs from it were released in 1998 as a tampon-printed split-MC with French CELESTIA. The other songs from this session were planned for another split, but for some reasons it has never been released.
In spring of 1998 the band recorded their new album "Saturn Sector". Because of the Ereth's problems, who grew to use hard drugs without any control and several times became a patient of a lunatic asylum, the band had to record it without him. During the studio session Abysslooker and Para Bellum renamed their band. Ever since the group has named BLACKDEATH! The name doesn't mean only the plague epidemic in Europe in the Dark Ages, mostly it means the essence of death itself. All the group's works differ in their sounds and "Saturn Sector" hasn't become an exclusion in this tradition. The German label SOMBRE RECORDS signed on the band but by some reasons managed to release "Saturn Sector" only in the beginning of 2001. Before the LP the 7" "The Grave of the Light" was released by the label. It contains three unmastered tracks from the album. ISO666 Releases released "Saturn Sector" in 2002 with 2 new unreleased bonus tracks. |
