Stormcast
Encyclopedia
Stormcast is an Atmospheric Black Metal
band formed in Nicosia
, Cyprus
in 2007. They have released one demo album entitled "Scorched Earth", it was released on April 17, 2009 recorded by City Studios.
, Moonspell
, Samael
and Lord Belial
the band started out just as a jamming session, but soon started to form a foundation and get more serious. Initially some songs by other famous bands were covered and then the band started to write their own material, and slowly tried to find their style of music. After several live gigs with other local and foreign bands, and more and more songs being written, the band had their first release entitled "Scorched Earth".
After a small lineup change in the winter of 2008, the band is continuing to write new material, explore their musical influences, performing live and most of all express themselves through writing songs.
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 formed in Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...
, Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
in 2007. They have released one demo album entitled "Scorched Earth", it was released on April 17, 2009 recorded by City Studios.
History
Influenced by acts like Rotting ChristRotting Christ
Rotting Christ is a Greek black metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene.- Line-up :...
, Moonspell
Moonspell
Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band from Brandoa, Lisbon. Formed in 1992, the group released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before the release of their first album Wolfheart...
, Samael
Samael
Samael is an important archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore, a figure who is accuser, seducer and destroyer, and has been regarded as both good and evil...
and Lord Belial
Lord Belial
Lord Belial is a Swedish black metal band. The band formed in 1992 and released their debut album in 1995; placing them among the pioneers of Swedish black metal. Their sound has been compared with bands such as Dissection....
the band started out just as a jamming session, but soon started to form a foundation and get more serious. Initially some songs by other famous bands were covered and then the band started to write their own material, and slowly tried to find their style of music. After several live gigs with other local and foreign bands, and more and more songs being written, the band had their first release entitled "Scorched Earth".
After a small lineup change in the winter of 2008, the band is continuing to write new material, explore their musical influences, performing live and most of all express themselves through writing songs.
Current Line-up
- Mike Angastiniotis - VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
/GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s - George Masouras - GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s - Mark Mcdonald - KeyboardsMusical keyboardA musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
- Tomash Ghzegovsky a.k.a Erus Fatum - BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Andrew Lagos - DrumsDrum kitA 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 ....