AZAZEL
Azazel web site: http://members.xoom.com/AzazelBlack
BIOGRAPHY:
The band was formed in April
1995,Just when the black metal boom started and, obviously the music Azazel
played then was highly inspired by the dominant b.m. scene in Norway (i.e-fast
grinding drums, buzzing guitars in 'surfing-like' riffs etc.).
The band did some rehearsals
and started playing gigs (not before some line-up changes took place, with
the band changing a drummer and recruiting a keyboardist), which were very
chaotic and aggressive, plus highly acclaimed. Azazel then released the
first demo called 'Altar Of Sand' As time passed-by azazel's music got
more melodic, and started to incorporate some heavy metal ,as well as classical
music elements.
More gigs ,some T.V. specials
about the band, re-release of the first demo with some new songs, that's
pretty much what was going on in the Azazel camp for a while. But then
Azazel decides to record an album. (That's gonna reach azazel's musical
peak and fucking kick everybody's ass!!!)
The recording line-up was:
Assaf Enav -guitar and vocals
Roy Amar -bass
Barak Zait -drums
Gal Schuster-keyboard.
The time was early 1996.
Anyway, it came out great (at
least some people thought so), so a lot of copies were sent to record labels.
Some responds were very good but yet, the deals offered to the band at
the time did not suit the band's (ridiculously too high for their own good)
demands.
Some new line-up changes took
place: the bass player left and several others filled the spot, finally
to be replaced by Evil Haim, also relatively new to the band is Alex Schuster
on lead guitar.
Sound-wise Azazel drifted apart
from straight forward black metal and headed more into melodic N.W.O.S.D.M
(i.e.-dark tranquility, in flarnes, sacrilege...) inspired form of b.m.
Nowadays the band's working
on some killer new material, and as for releasing the aforementioned debut
album, which is called 'Ride through the horizon', the plans are for an
early 2000 release (self -release that is).
CONTACT:
Asaf Einav
37 bar rav hai david street
Haifa 35594
Israel
E-mail us at: azazel_il@yahoo.com
DISCOGRAPHY:
ALTAR OF SAND '96
(also re-relesed in '99)
MEMBERS:
Asaf enav - guitar & vocal
Barak zait drums
Gal schuster - keyboards
Guy - bass
Ilia bercowits - vocals on some
songs in the demo
Song: GOETIA
- from the demo "altar of sand"
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