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Ulf Söderberg is the creative talent behind Sephiroth.
He relates stories about the inexorable and destructive power of Time, mankind's futile attempts of resistance, and the sunken cities, fallen towers, and overgrown ruins that this has resulted in. Dark eerie soundscapes and ritualistic drums are combined with his own field recordings from places like Cairo, Iceland, and gloomy Nordic forests.
Ulf's music whispers about the Gods we are desperately trying to appease, only to find ourselves dying before the monuments we spent our lives building. Ulf bids you welcome into the ruins and down to the deep forgotten catacombs. .
Dunderbeist has been at it for 6 years with the same amount of releases together with extensive touring. The Norwegian six headed locomotive embarks on their sixth release, their second one outside of Norway that follows their first international effort this year, “Black Arts & Crooked Tails” , with an album of great depth and sharper edges.
“Songs of the buried” continues where "black arts.." left off, but this one is darker, heavier and more progressive, both musically and lyrically.
Not all that end is buried. Death is a recurring theme on this album, with the end of something and...
VORKREIST was born in 1999 from the unholy meeting of 5 unpure minds with the will to spread their hate towards humanity and dedication to the black war cult.
Mixing death metals brutality and bestiality to black metals aggressivity and rawness, VORKREIST is delivering an uncompromising SATAN dedicated death-black metal.
In 2000 the band has released a promo-demotape consisting of 4 hymns of hate. The demo received a very good response within the underground scene, chaos started to spread.
VORKREIST has delivered his hate on stage for gigs with various black and death metal acts, such as Belphegor, Antaeus, Kaamos,...
From his Myspace.com page:
"in 1998 i received my first MIDI recording / editing software. it was Voyetra's Digital Orchestrator Plus... i had no MIDI instruments, but i found i was able to construct entire songs by using only my mouse and the computer's keyboard. in 1999 i bought my first synthesizer, a Roland XP-80. i have since bought and sold many other keyboards and sound modules... but the XP is still my main synth, and MIDI controller. when i first started composing i was very much into orchestral arrangments and piano pieces. as time has progressed however, i have...