Belphegor biography

The group released its first demo "Kruzifixion" in April of the year, and "Unborn Blood" a little later. At some point, before or after the release of this demo, Maxx left the group, as a result of which Helmuth took on his role at the same time vocalist and guitarist. In years, the role of the bassist sessionly played A-X, after which Mario "Marius" Klausner as a permanent participant joined the group.

For some time, the group had a contract with the Perverted Taste Records label, on which the Demo Obscure and Deep was published in the year. At this time, the group’s logo was also changed: two inverted crosses surrounded by blood were included in it. The second album, Blutsabbath, was released in October with a session drummer Man of Mastic Scum. This event was followed by an eighteen -day tour of Europe with Behemoth and Ancient in April and May.

The group’s debut album, The Last Supper, was released in a new design and included 6 additional compositions with EP "Obscure and Deep". The next year, the Third Album, Necrodaemon Terrorsathan, was published by the Last Episode label now known as Black Attakk, Man was again a session drummer on it. In the end, the group left Last Episode and subsequently spoke of it as a "predatory label." In the year, Belphegor had performances at Summerbreeze, Brutal Assault and Morbide Festspiele, followed by concerts in December in Germany.

Also at about this time, the group first hired the Torturer Mor Dagor and the BARTH bassist for the first time. After the release of the concert album "Infernal Live Orgasm" on their own Phallelujah Productions label, they signed a contract with the Napalm Records. After signing the contract from the vocalist and guitarist Helmuth, Sigurd guitarist, Basist Barth and the Torturr drummer, the fourth album "Lucifer InceStus" was recorded, which was the producer of which was the ALEX KRULL from ATROCITY.

The album was published in December, and followed by a tour of Europe. In the Mastersound Studio studio in Fellbach during September, Belphegor recorded their fifth album "Goatreich - Fleshcult", the producer of which was again Alex Kruull. In February, "Goatreich - Fleshcult" was published in various formats, including a limited vinyl edition from copies. In the DJpak version, the instrumental track "Heresy of Fire" was added as a bonus.

In the same month, the Torturr drummer left the group, and NEFASTUS Tomas Janiszewski came to replace it. Soon, the group left Napalm Records, for the reasons that the label “does not support them enough” and that they are “fed up with disrespect”. Having played the bass parties for six of the nine tracks of the new album, the Barth bassist was forced to leave the group and end his career after receiving a hand injury.

Belphegor was forced to refuse to participate in the tour with Hate Eternal in April of the year, and Helmuth was forced to record the remaining bass parties for the new album himself, while for concert performances in April and October, the Basist Robin Eaglestone Ex-Cradle of Filth.

Black. In October, Serpenth was taken to the place of a permanent bassist. In the same month, Nuclear Blast released a special version of the album in the form of a cartridge box, limited by only copies, and includes a disk in digipaca, a strip, a belt and an “emergency ration”. The vinyl version of the album also had a restriction in copies. Belphegor's next participation in the X-Mass Festival was planned in December, but the festival was canceled.

Despite this, they were among the groups supporting Danzig in their Blackest of the Black tour of North America in December January, and then again toured America in February-March of the year with Unleashed, Krisiun, and Hatesphere. The group also played at the famous Wacken Open Air festival in August. In September, along with Gorgoroth, the group headed the tour of South America.

In January, one of the founders of Belphegor, Sigurd, transferred the eyes to surgery, and therefore it was not known whether it would continue to play in the group. However, a few months later, Helmuth announced that Sigurd decided to leave the group after the European tour at the end at the end of the North America tour in February, he was replaced by Anthony Paulini, and he was ultimately replaced by Morluch.

In April, the album "Bondage Goat Zombie" was released, where Helmuth simultaneously performed the roles of a vocalist, solo and rhythm gitarist, a bassist was a serpenth, and the drummer- Torturer. Along with the standard CD release, several versions of the album were released, including a limited edition in Dijipak, supplemented by a DVD disk with video clips, concert and backstage shooting, studio materials and the fan section "Freak" Section.

This was followed by a performance at the Hellfest Summer Open Air festival in France in June in June, as well as support for Nile and Grave in a tour of Europe dedicated to the ITHYPHALILIC album, in October, the group again toured in North America with Amon Amarth.In January of the year, an announcement was made that the group was working on a new album and that Nefastus was responsible for the shock.

It was reported that the record began in February, and Nefastus finished the record of the drums. The album was previously called "Hexenwahn - Totenkult". The musicians spent about 10 days, rehearsing the new material, after which they started directly to the recording. In October, the group announces the name of the opus - "Blood Magick Necromance". The legendary Peter Tagtgren took up the producing of the album, and Jonas Kiellgren took care.

The frontman and founder of the group, Helmut Lener, after returning from the North American tour suffered the most difficult and difficult operation. As a result of this, the group canceled all the show until May. In February, the guitarist and vocalist of the team, Helmut Lenner, said that work is underway on fresh material, the release of which is planned at the end of the year.

The execution of shock parties for the new album is again taken by the Marthyn sessioner, as in the last album.