Kaiaphas

Biography

Lord Kaiaphas (currently known as Zhyin) was born in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. When he was six years old, he went to live in Washington D.C., U.S.A., where he grew up. Most of his family members were musically inclined. His grandmother, on his father’s side, was a very famous soprano opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

singer during her youth. It was not surprising that Zhyin would develop a strong passion for music. Throughout his teenage and adolescent years, Zhyin played drums

Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

and sang for numerous rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

and metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

bands, recorded several demo tapes, and played dozens of gigs.

1995-1998

Zhyin began his professional music career when he joined the Norwegian black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

band Ancient

Ancient (band)

Ancient is a Norwegian black metal band from Eidsvåg, Nesset, formed in 1992. The band has released six full-length albums released by Metal Blade Records and a variety of mini-albums, EPs and special releases. Ancient used to have the classic raw black metal sound, similar to Darkthrone's works...

in 1995. The band’s leader, Aphazel, was impressed by the work Zhyin had made with his prior American black metal

Black metal

bands - Grand Belial's Key

Grand Belial's Key

Grand Belial's Key is a black metal band formed in 1992 by guitarist Gelal Necrosodomy and vocalist Lord Vlad Luciferian. Lord Vlad Luciferian was later ejected from the group due to internal differences and joined the formerly Norwegian band Ancient that had moved to the USA, using the new stage...

and Thokk

Thokk

Þökk is a giantess in Norse mythology, presumed to be Loki in disguise, who refuses to weep for the slain Baldr, thus forcing him to stay in Hel.-Prose Edda:...

, so, therefore, Zhyin (then known as Lord Vlad Luciferian) became the obvious choice to replace Ancient

Ancient (band)

’s previous member, Grimm. At this time, Zhyin changed his name to Lord Kaiaphas and began performing solely as a vocalist/frontman. Drumming duties then became strictly for studio recordings. Thus, a drummer was always hired for live shows.

During his time with Ancient

Ancient (band)

, he recorded two full-length albums for the well-known American metal label, Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

. These albums were The Cainian Chronicle and Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends. Zhyin also appeared in three music videos from Ancient

Ancient (band)

, Lilith’s Embrace, Willothewisp, and Um Sonho Psycodelico. In 1997 the band went on a European tour with Bal Sagoth and Dark Funeral

Dark Funeral

Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal....

. Later that year, the label Mordgrimm Records released the Of Rape and Vampirism CD from Zhyin’s former project, Thokk

Thokk

Þökk is a giantess in Norse mythology, presumed to be Loki in disguise, who refuses to weep for the slain Baldr, thus forcing him to stay in Hel.-Prose Edda:...

. The material from this CD came from their A Trance for the ever-toiling Witch demo which was recorded in 1995. In 1998, he went on an Ancient

Ancient (band)

mini tour in America as well as another extensive European tour alongside Belphegor

Belphegor (band)

Belphegor is a blackened death metal band from Salzburg, Austria. They originally formed in 1991 under the name Betrayer before changing their name in 1993. They are named after the demon Belphegor.-Early years :...

and Behemoth

Behemoth (band)

Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate....

. Shortly after this tour, Zhyin left Ancient

Ancient (band)

1998-2001

In the fall of 1998, Zhyin moved to New Orleans, where he later formed a tribal gothic rock

Gothic rock

Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

psychedelic

Psychedelic

The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...

rock

Rock music

band, called Oroboroshttp://web.archive.org/web/20050725083614/http://www.geocities.com/chaoticcrit/reviews200203.html, with his friend, Nicholas Syracuse. They recorded two demos and played several shows in New Orleans. Oroboros also played at the Burning Man Festival in 1999 and 2001. In this band, Zhyin played the drums

Drum kit

, doumbek, djembe

Djembe

A djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant played with bare hands....

, and did some Tuvan/Mongolian style throat-singing

Overtone singing

Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, or harmonic singing, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out the lips to produce a melody.The partials of a sound wave made by the human voice can be...

. Their live shows consisted of tribal body paint, firedancing and fire breathing

Fire breathing

Fire breathing is the act of creating a fireball by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame. Proper technique and the correct fuel create the illusion of danger to enhance the novelty of fire breathing, while reducing the risk to health and safety...

. Some of their tracks were later included in the soundtrack of the Canadian independent film, Monolithia. The band broke up in 2001.

Back in 1996, Zhyin discovered psychedelic goa trance

Psychedelic trance

Psychedelic trance, psytrance or just psy is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high tempo riffs. It appeared in the mainstream in 1995 as with reporting of the trend of Goa trance. The genre offers variety...

, and, through the years, his passion for electronic music grew immensely. By 1999 he had become a trance

Psychedelic trance

DJ. Unfortunately, New Orleans was not a trance town. Therefore in 2002, Zhyin moved to Brazil

Brazil

, where the trance scene

Psychedelic trance

was growing rapidly, in hopes of achieving a successful career as a DJ and producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

. By this time he had already started learning the art of audio engineering

Audio engineering

An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

and began producing electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

of his own.

Minimal Criminal

In 2003, Zhyin started a minimal/progressive psy-trance project called Minimal Criminal with Bruno Echoes. Their sound often has a dark atmosphere and almost all of their tracks have a little story or concept behind them. Their tracks also generally contain bizarre and obscure samples taken from films or other sources which further enhance the ideas behind the music.

In 2005, Minimal Criminal had their debut released track Reefer and Barbeque, a collaboration with established Swedish artist Krumelur, on the Intelligent Manipulation compilation CD http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=4599. This track was released through Zenon Records, a label owned by Tim Larner from the well-known project, Sensient

Sensient

Tim Larner, also known by his stage name Sensient, is a psytrance act from Melbourne, Australia. His music can be described as his own unique style of dark, deep and funky progressive psytrance...

. Later that year, Cosmic Conspiracy Records released the tracks Eulenschrei and "Disco Shit live remix on a compilation CD called Contact Lenshttp://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=4780. In 2006, Cosmic Conspiracy Records released another track, Zulu Pazuzu on the The Lurker http://www.cosmicconspiracy.co.nz/home.htm compilation CD.

Minimal Criminal has played in several parties and festivals throughout Brazil

Brazil

. Zhyin has also DJ'd in many parties across the U.S.

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

as well as in countries such as Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, and Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

In 2003, Zhyin created a project of dark ebm/futurepop/electro

Electronic body music

Electronic body music or industrial dance is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music...

called KAIAPHAS

Kaiaphas

- Biography :Lord Kaiaphas was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. When he was six years old, he went to live in Washington D.C., U.S.A., where he grew up. Most of his family members were musically inclined. His grandmother, on his father’s side, was a very famous soprano opera singer during her youth...

, with his friend, Victor Salles, and female singer, T.A.T.I. In the beginning of 2006, the line-up had changed. Zhyin invited guitaristLienhard, and new singer Lady Omega, from Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, into the band.

A year before meeting Zhyin, Lady Omega had sung on one of the songs from Ancient

Ancient (band)

’s Night Visit CD, released in 2004. Coincidently, Zhyin had also made a guest appearance on that same album in the track, Rape the Children of Abel. He also performed as a special guest in a couple of Ancient

Ancient (band)

’s gigs in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

in the European summer tour of 2003. While in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, Zhyin recorded some guest vocals on a few tracks from the Greek black metal

Black metal

band, Crossover, which ended up in their 2004 CD, Dogmahttp://www.sleaszyrider.com/html/bands/bands_crossover.htm.

KAIAPHAS

Kaiaphas

has performed a good handful of gigs in the cities of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

, São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, and Curitiba

Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...

. On May 13, 2006, KAIAPHAS played their best gig at the annual Thorns Gothic Rave Festival in São Paulo

São Paulo

, alongside gothic rock

Gothic rock

legends, Clan of Xymox

Clan of Xymox

The band Clan of Xymox, also known as Xymox, formed in the Netherlands in 1981. Clan Of Xymox featured a trio of songwriters - Pieter Nooten, Ronny Moorings and Anke [also Anka] Wolbert - and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on a prestigious independent UK label, a...

. That same year, KAIAPHAS

Kaiaphas

was featured in the November issue of the Orkus magazine, and their track, Always Invisible was included in the Orkus Compilation 24 CDhttp://shop.orkus-online.de/themes/kategorie/index.php?id=335&katId=39&parentId=63&action=detail#, which came with the magazine. A promotional CD was put together that year strictly for radio stations, magazines, and DJs. The band is currently working on material for their debut album, planned for release sometime in 2007.

Thokkian Vortex

In 2006, Zhyin started his black metal solo project, Thokkian Vortex. This project was something he had dreamed about for many years but was never able to do previously because he did not have the ability to play a stringed instrument and had very little knowledge of studio and computer music production

Computer music

Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition...

. The music from this project is influenced by the early works from Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

n black metal

Black metal

bands such as Darkthrone

Darkthrone

Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

, Emperor

Emperor (band)

Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...

, Dark Funeral

Dark Funeral

, and Limbonic Art. There are also elements of classical/orchestral and dark ambient music. A split CD with the Hungarian band Aetheritus Obscuritas as well as a full length album should be available in 2007.

Zhyin

Also in 2006, Zhyin started another solo project called simply - Zhyin. This is the project where he can express himself through electronic dance music

Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment...

genres such as electro

Electro (music)

Electro is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling...

, tech-trance, and minimal techno

Minimal techno

Minimal techno is a minimalist sub-genre of techno. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition, and understated development. This style of dance music production generally adheres to the motto less is more; a principle that has been previously utilized, to...

. The track True Type Format was released on the Freeze magazine Night Vision compilation CD in 2007.

Grand Belial's Key

Goat of a Thousand Young - demo tape - (1992).
Triumpth of the Hordes - demo tape - (1994).

Ancient

The Cainian Chronicle
The Cainian Chronicle
The Cainian Chronicle is Ancient's second full length release. The album has some sort of twisted legacy towards it with the gruesome case of Jarno Elg, a Finnish devil-worshiper that listened to some songs from this album while instigating others to torture the victim and having others eat parts...

- (Metal Blade records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

) - (1996).
Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends is Ancient's third full-length release.The album was recorded, mixed and mastered in Cue Recording Studios, Falls Church, Virginiaduring September 1997.- Track listing :Music as indicated....

- (Metal Blade records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

) - (1997).

Minimal Criminal

Reefer and Barbeque -Intelligent Manipulation - (Zenon Records) - compilation CD - (2005).
Eulenschrei – Contact Lens - (Cosmic Conspiracy Records) - compilation CD - (2005).
Disco Shit (live remix) - Contact Lens - (Cosmic Conspiracy Records) - compilation CD - (2005).
Zulu Pazuzu – The Lurker - (Cosmic Conspiracy Records) - compilation CD - (2006).
Trukket i Lyden (Minimal Criminal Moses remix) - The Plot Thickens - (Cosmic Conspiracy Records) - compilation CD - (2007).
Dark Lord of the Synth – The Plot Thickens - (Cosmic Conspiracy Records) - compilation CD - (2007).
Graverobbers from Outer Space – V.A. Halu Beats Vol. 1 - (Halu Beats Records) - compilation CD - (2008).
Phat - Ozone remix – Cherokee (Pure Perception Records) - compilation CD - (2008).
Product Placement - Natalia (Minimal Criminal remix) – Tall Poppy Syndrome - (Cosmic Conspiracy Records) - compilation CD - (2008).
Red Mongolian Deathworm – Primordial - (Bio-Sine Records) - compilation CD - (2008).
Minimus Maleficarum - http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=8612 - (Cosmic Conspiracy Records) - Full-length album - (2010).

KAIAPHAS

Demo CD - (2005).
Promo CD - (2006).
Always Invisible - Orkus compilation 24 - (2006).
Vile Vermin - Synthetics Magazine Get the Bombs of Music 2 compilation CD - (2007).

Thokkian Vortex

Thokkian Vortex/Aetherius Obscuritas The Saturnine Alliance split CD - (Sleaszy Rider Records
Sleaszy Rider records
Sleaszy Rider Records is an independent record label which was founded in 1999 by Tolis G. Palantzas. The head office of the label is located in Greece. The label is mainly distributed in Europe by Sony Music/EMI...

) - (2007).

Guest appearances

Crossover
Crossover (band)
Crossover is an American electroclash duo from New York City. Their first full-length album, fantasmo, was released in 2001.-Biography:Vanessa Tosti and Mark Ingram met in NYC and worked at Smylonylon, selling deadstock vintage clothing...

-Hatred Dogma - Dogma - (Sleaszy Rider Records
Sleaszy Rider records
Sleaszy Rider Records is an independent record label which was founded in 1999 by Tolis G. Palantzas. The head office of the label is located in Greece. The label is mainly distributed in Europe by Sony Music/EMI...

) - (2004).
Ancient
Ancient (band)
Ancient is a Norwegian black metal band from Eidsvåg, Nesset, formed in 1992. The band has released six full-length albums released by Metal Blade Records and a variety of mini-albums, EPs and special releases. Ancient used to have the classic raw black metal sound, similar to Darkthrone's works...

- Rape the Children of Abel – Night Visit - (Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

) - (2004).
Aetherius Obscuritas - The Moon Shield - Black Medicine-Fekete Orvosság - Black Medicine-Fekete Orvosság -(Paragon Records) - (2009)
Arcane Asylum/Zebulon Kosted - Atrocity is Silent - Shadow Project Omega - Shadow Project Omega (Ziekte records) - (2009)

Ancient

Lilith's Embrace - (Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

) - (1996).
Will-o'-the-wisp
Will-o'-the-wisp
A will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus , also called a "will-o'-wisp", "jack-o'-lantern" , "hinkypunk", "corpse candle", "ghost-light", "spook-light", "fairy light", "friar's lantern", "hobby lantern", "ghost orb", or simply "wisp", is a ghostly light or lights sometimes seen at night or twilight over...

- (Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

) - (1997).
Um Sonho Psycodelico - (Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

) - (2001).

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