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Artist
Mephistopheles
12+ albums
Technical Death Metaldeath metalmelodic black metalblack metalBrutal Death Metal
about
There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Mephistopheles was a Melodic Black Metal band from Germany, whom later became more Symphonic Black. They were formed in 1994, in the same year of releasing their self-released demo. The demo was a brief three-piece work, intended for label approval. In 1997, they seeked a good starters label called Adipocere Records, prior to their release "Landscape Symphonies" which was a concept album based off of ancient landscape fantasies. The lineup for this album was: Ferun on guitars, Friirr the bassist, Nordischer Künstler on keyboard/synths, Eike C. Kroeger on vocals and Selphratus, the drummer. Since Mephistopheles was now done with this label and was promised to be endorsed and have a better salary with this new label, they joined Last Episode Records, in 1999 - whilst releasing their album "Songs of the Desolate Ones" a followup album to Landscape Symphonies. This one accumulated the same Mephistopheles sound but, put aside the lyrical themes and made this become a harsher, angrier album pertaining to despair and darkness. Now - in 2001, features a new line-up filled with three synthesizer players including Christoph Greger, Bernd Ammermann, Garvin Bösch whom also does bass along with; Eike-C. Kröger on vocals, Jury Kowalczyk on lead guitar and Hanno Weihe on backup guitar and symphonic backup vocals. In this year, they released "Modern Instinct's Purity" which was a concept album as well. It was based off of themes of future an
