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Agathodaimon (band)

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Template:Infobox musical artist Agathodaimon ("benevolent demon" in Greek) are a gothic/symphonic black metal band from Mainz, Germany. Their early material can be categorized as Symphonic Black Metal and their later musical pieces can be categorized as Gothic/Black Metal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

HistoryEdit

The band began in September 1995,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> when guitarist Sathonys and drummer Matthias got together to assemble a dominant death metal band with harmonic arrangements, creating melodic death metal music. They put adverts in several music magazines in the hopes that they would find suitable musicians to play with them. In answer to the advertisement, they were joined by bassist Marko Thomas and keyboardist and vocalist Vlad Dracul. The last member of their initial formation was the second guitarist, Hyperion, who joined them by the end of that year. With this formation the band recorded the Carpe Noctem demo tape, which received fair reviews from the German specialized press. It also attracted the attention of one of Century Media's executives, who began keeping track of the band.

Agathodaimon proceeded to play minor gigs and support other European bands, eventually receiving an offer from Century Media to fund the recording of their second demo tape. This demo was recorded in early 1997 and was named Near Dark. It attracted the interest of quite a few recording labels, and in the end the band opted to sign with Nuclear Blast.<ref name="Huey">Huey, Steve "[[[:Template:Allmusic]] Agathodaimon Biography]", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation</ref>

After successfully composing the songs for their debut album Blacken the Angel, band member Vlad, was forced to quit Agathodaimon due to problems with immigration. After returning to his native Romania, he was denied re-entry in Germany.<ref name="Huey" /> The situation involved the fact that he had left the country during Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime. The band therefore was forced to make use of guest musicians to record their debut. Akaias (from Asaru) did the vocals and Marcel "Vampallens" (from Nocte Obducta) took the role of the keyboards. Vlad's participation on the album was restricted to the solo song "Contemplation Song", which was sent to the band via air mail.

The CD caused some impact, and Agathodaimon proceeded to tour with bands such as Children of Bodom and Hypocrisy. At the height of the album's success they opened gigs for Dimmu Borgir, Lacrimosa and other bands.

In 1999, Vampallens decided to quit the band in order to dedicate himself fully to his main project Nocte Obducta. He was replaced by female keyboardist Christine S.

To record their second album - Higher Art of Rebellion - the band travelled to Romania, in order to be able to play together with Vlad. The vocalist Akaias also participated in the recording of this album,<ref name="Huey" /> as well as singer Dan Byron performing clean vocals. Recordings took place at Magic Sound in Bucharest. A European tour as headliner with Graveworm and Siebenbürgen followed.

After a short hiatus, the band recorded the album Chapter III in 2001 at the Kohlekeller Studio in Germany.

Some changes to the band's structure followed, with Vlad definitely quitting the band, soon followed by Marko and Christine.

Marko did leave because of health problems and quit making music, while Christine formed her own band Demonic Symphony, where she handles bass guitar and vocals. Marko and Christine were replaced by Darin Smith and Felix Ü. Walzer.

In 2004 the band released the album Serpent's Embrace, which again was recorded at Kohlekeller Studio with Kristian Kohlmannslehner as producer.

In early 2006 personal differences led to the split of Eddy and the rest of the band. A new bass player named Till (formerly active in Misanthropic, where Matthias also played drums for a while) joined the ranks, and the song writing for the next album took place. Singer, guitarist Frank "Akaias" Nordmann left in January 2007 to carry on with other musical interests.

Matthias and Jonas left the band in 2008, with Manuel Steitz taking over on drums, and in October 2008, the band announced that they had recruited a new singer, Ashtrael.<ref>AGATHODAIMON - finally revealed their new vocalist!, Nuclear Blast</ref>

In 2009 the band released their fifth studio album Phoenix. The next album In Darkness was released in 2013 on Massacre Records.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On 28 October 2014 the band announced that they had broken up due to some members not being fully dedicated to the band, but that they could possibly reunite in the future.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In February 2020 the band announced that they had reunited.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They released their seventh album The Seven on 18 March 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

MembersEdit

Current membersEdit

  • Martin "Sathonys" Wickler – guitars, clean vocals (1995–2014, 2020–present)
  • Chris "Ashtrael" Bonner – lead vocals (2008–2014, 2020–present)
  • Michael "Nakhateth" Wöss – guitars (2020–present)
  • Max Jansch – bass (2020–present)
  • Oliver "Mortos" Kraus – drums (2020–present)

Past membersEdit

  • Matthias "Matze" Rodig – drums (1995–2008)
  • Carl "Hyperion" Lang – guitars (1995–2002)
  • Marko Thomas – bass (1995–2002)
  • Rusu "Vlad Dracul" Andrei – keyboards (1995–1999), vocals (1995–2002)
  • Frank "Akaias" Nordmann – vocals (1998–2007), guitars (1998)
  • Christine Schulte – keyboards (1998–2002)
  • Felix Ü. Walzer – keyboards (2002–2010)
  • Darin "Eddie" Smith – bass (2003–2006)
  • Jan Jansohn – guitars (2007–2010)

Live membersEdit

  • Shoggoth – vocals (2000)
  • Thilo Feucht – guitars (2001–2010)
  • Sebas – drums (2006)
  • Nicolao Dos Santos – guitars (2012–2014)

TimelineEdit

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</timeline>

DiscographyEdit

Studio albums
Compilation albums
Extended plays
  • Bislang (1999)
Demo albums
  • Carpe Noctem (1996)
  • Near Dark (1997)

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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