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Soul Inquisition
2+ albums
black metaldeath metalold school death metaldoom metalBlackened Death Metal
about
Members: Rapture - guitars, bass, vocals AD - drums Recording label: The Dread Lair Soul Inquisition was started in 1996 by Rapture with the purpose of creating dark music inspired by a lot of the European black and death metal bands. The first two demos ("Living Corpse" and "Messe Noir") were heavily influenced by bands like Hypocrisy, Entombed, Dismember, Grave, Emperor, Darkthrone, and Immortal. At the time a lot of the black metal bands were not well known and hardly anyone in America was creating this kind of music. The music and sound was raw and brutal mixing in elements of both death metal and black metal which at the time few had done or tried. In 1998 Soul Inquisition released its third demo, "Locust", which featured some different approaches than the previous albums. There were the black/death songs but also more doom metal inspired songs influenced by My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Candlemass, etc. These first three demos generated a buzz for Soul Inquisition that would be short lived due to production problems and other issues with the fourth demo, "Followers Of The Apocalypse". While this demo contained some of the strongest Soul Inquisition songs it was plagued by poor production causing off time drums and other issues. Not to give up so easily Rapture went back to the drawing board and released in 2000 the critically acclaimed "In Darkness They Hunt". This release was a huge hit on MP3.com and the song "Nightmare" went all the w
