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Sanguinary Misanthropia

Purveyors of existential Nonbelief, the ominous SANGUINARY MISANTHROPIA channel the Great External Chaos and the Sinister Acausal Energy to create Traditional Satanic Black Metal. Their inspired musical creations are presented in the guise of extreme, militant Black Metal, performed with a conviction and a passion that frequently transcends the mundane realm to lurk upon the threshold of Gnosis. Hir who has ears to hear ought to listen...

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Drowning the Light

Following the split of Australian black metal band Baal Gadrial in 2003, vocalist Azgorh created Drowning the Light. Four demo tapes were recorded and given extremely limited distribution, being given out only to close friends. From 2003 to 2009 Azgorh has recorded 10+ demos, 10 full-length albums (5 of which were released in the same year: 2007) and material for a number of split albums under the Drowning the Light moniker.

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Lycanthrope

There are 3 bands with the name Lycanthrope 1) Lycanthrope from Vacaville, Ca, USA is a Melodic Death Metal group.
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/lycanthropeofficial" rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com/lycanthropeofficial</a>
<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/lycanthropeofficial" rel="nofollow">http://www.reverbnation.com/lycanthropeofficial</a> 2) Lycanthrope from Hungary is a mostly instrumental black metal group.
This artist is often mislabeled as <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Vorgrow" class="bbcode_artist">Vorgrow</a>, which is a fake name.
<a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=46471" rel="nofollow">http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=46471</a>
<a href="http://lycanthrope.uw.hu/" rel="nofollow">http://lycanthrope.uw.hu/</a> 3) Lycanthrope from Maribor, Slovenia is a Death/Black Metal group
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/lycanthropewolves" rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com/lycanthropewolves</a>

Finntroll

Finntroll is a finnish folk metal band that combines black metal with a Finnish form of polka called Humppa. Although they are from Finland, Finntroll's lyrics are in Swedish (the country's second official language), because Swedish sounds "damn trollish", according to the band's first vocalist, Katla (whose native language is Swedish). History Finntroll was founded in 1997, by Teemu "Somnium" Raimoranta (R.I.P. March 16th 2003), guitarist of Impaled Nazarene, and Jan "Katla" Jämsen. Their first demo, Rivfader, was recorded about a year later, in 1998.

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Devastator

There are several bands called Devastator. There is a thrash/death metal Devastator from Newfoundland, Canada; thrash metal band Devastator from Malaysia; death metal Devastator from Poland; two American bands - one a black/thrash band from Florida and the other a speed metal band from California; thrash metal band from Italy and lastly a German death metal Devastator, for which the following biography was written.

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The Archivist

There are three bands called The Archivist; 1. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/iamthearchivist/" rel="nofollow">The Archivist</a> makes songs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2. A solo black metal project from Australia, by Witch (Oisyz)
3. Craig Tattersall (<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hood" class="bbcode_artist">Hood</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Remote+Viewer" class="bbcode_artist">The Remote Viewer</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Boats" class="bbcode_artist">The Boats</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/the+humble+bee" class="bbcode_artist">the humble bee</a>) has released one album under this name.

Ne Obliviscaris

http://www.myspace.com/neobliviscaris
A 6 piece metal band consisting of violin, 2 guitars, bass, drums, clean and extreme vocals; Ne Obliviscaris hail from Melbourne, Australia, and include a vast array of influences within their sound from progressive to black, thrash, death and melodic metal, and even western art music, jazz and flamenco. Creating music of many extremes, and with compositions often exceeding ten minutes in length...

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Destruktor

Destruktor was formed in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia in 1995 by Glenn and Jarro, out of the ashes of their previous band "Aphasia" their genre can be catagorised with death metal, black metal and thrash metal, Making it Blackened Deathrash! the first Destruktor demo “the holy trinity… denied” (1997) consisted of 3 tracks of high energy black metal, with much higher pitched shrieking vocals as opposed to the more typical death metal growls of their latter material. Shortly after the release of this demo the band would recruit Regan on bass duties.

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Mother Eel

Mother Eel is a metal four piece that formed, firstly as a three piece, in 2004 in the Cold, Dark and Evil, Blue Mountains Australia. The sound has been described as one being gang raped by clowns on smack. They have been well received by audiences with mixed musical tastes and have therefore played at a variety of venues including: Candy's Apartment, Club 77, UWS Kingswood (including the Saturate Festival), The Sandringham Hotel, The Fitzroy Hotel (Windsor), The Oriental Hotel, The Lansdowne, Above the Spanish, The Mandarin Club and The Gearins Hotel.

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