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GENRE:
Power/Doom Metal
ORIGIN:
Greece (Athens), 1998
CURRENT LINE-UP:
Dimitris Koutsouvelis (vocals)
Lefteris “L.V.” Vourliotis (lead guitar)
Michail Vlavianos (rhythm guitar)
Yiannis “Blackclad” Moraitis (bass)
George Tsinanis (drums)
BIOGRAPHY
HEATHENDOM was founded by Lefteris Vourliotis (lead guitar) and Michail Vlavianos (rhythm guitar) back in 1998. The concept of the band was power/doom metal with a strong mixture of KING DIAMOND/MERCYFUL FATE style. In September 1998 Giannis Fillipaios (drums, member of DECEMBERANCE) and Yiannis Moraitis (bass, member of SAVANON and ex-member of CHOIR MACABRE and DECEMBERANCE) joined the band. Songs composing and rehearsals followed for a year, until the band decided to split because no appropriate singer could be found at the time.
In September 2000 Vourliotis met with Dimitris Koutsouvelis (vocals, ex-member of FADED MEMORY) and they started working on some material, but various obligations prevented the group from reforming, till September 2004. Moraitis was called once again to fill in the bass position and drums post was taken on by Dimitris Sakkas.
In June 2005 the band released their first demo, “Heathendom”, containing 5 songs plus an intro of seer power/doom music (over 33 minutes), that was accepted with great enthusiasm in the underground scene. After some line-up changes HEATHENDOM played their first show in 2006, supporting SOLITUDE AETURNUS in Athens and in April 2008 at Up The Hammers festival, together with bands such as MANILLA ROAD, OMEN, MEMORY GARDEN and CAGE.
Power/Doom Metal
ORIGIN:
Greece (Athens), 1998
CURRENT LINE-UP:
Dimitris Koutsouvelis (vocals)
Lefteris “L.V.” Vourliotis (lead guitar)
Michail Vlavianos (rhythm guitar)
Yiannis “Blackclad” Moraitis (bass)
George Tsinanis (drums)
BIOGRAPHY
HEATHENDOM was founded by Lefteris Vourliotis (lead guitar) and Michail Vlavianos (rhythm guitar) back in 1998. The concept of the band was power/doom metal with a strong mixture of KING DIAMOND/MERCYFUL FATE style. In September 1998 Giannis Fillipaios (drums, member of DECEMBERANCE) and Yiannis Moraitis (bass, member of SAVANON and ex-member of CHOIR MACABRE and DECEMBERANCE) joined the band. Songs composing and rehearsals followed for a year, until the band decided to split because no appropriate singer could be found at the time.
In September 2000 Vourliotis met with Dimitris Koutsouvelis (vocals, ex-member of FADED MEMORY) and they started working on some material, but various obligations prevented the group from reforming, till September 2004. Moraitis was called once again to fill in the bass position and drums post was taken on by Dimitris Sakkas.
In June 2005 the band released their first demo, “Heathendom”, containing 5 songs plus an intro of seer power/doom music (over 33 minutes), that was accepted with great enthusiasm in the underground scene. After some line-up changes HEATHENDOM played their first show in 2006, supporting SOLITUDE AETURNUS in Athens and in April 2008 at Up The Hammers festival, together with bands such as MANILLA ROAD, OMEN, MEMORY GARDEN and CAGE.
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GniewGrzybiarza wrote:
Epic stuff
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Ugly13 wrote:
Killer Epic Heavy Metal from HELLAS... Great vocals in the vein of King Diamond...
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RavenousGunther wrote:
Stellar stuff, love The Symbolist!
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Arcanewolf wrote:
Just discovered these guys. Thank hell there's an actual Power Metal band still writing good and dark material. Seriously right up there with the best of Iced Earth, Nevermore and Evergrey (plus the King Diamond influence helps).
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Doedskvad666 wrote:
Awesome band.
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Darmer_91 wrote:
those riffs are insane!
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doomrider77 wrote:
Fucking Killer! Deserves more Plays!!!
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JimmySteroid wrote:
Their use of dissonant harmonies is pretty awesome.
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Witchfynder1982 wrote:
One of the best Bands in Greece, I ve seen them live. On Their appearence on UTH III fest really got me. Since then i haven;t missed a single show of them! A Great mixture of Sanctuary, Memory Garden, Memento Mori... Prepare the new album is coming ....
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Damaged69 wrote:
A shame that their awesome 2005 demo isn´t on Last.fm...
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JackTorranceCR wrote:
Late discovery from last year, it would have easily made into my top ten list, what an amazing album, simply incredible!!!
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Peluchini wrote:
Great Band, great album...amazing!!
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mpeta3e2fores wrote:
finally i am proud of being greek as far as the music concerned
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TeRRorBld wrote:
it's obviously power/doom and not doom metal.. as for the tag, Mastodon have a metalcore one, so...
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EmotiveFM wrote:
Having seen them open for Amon Amarth live, I can't help but wonder - where the fuck did that doom metal tag come from?
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Implications wrote:
Really impressive album, especially for a debut. I'd recommend it to any fans of King Diamond, Candlemass and bands related to both of those.
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Tijami wrote:
They are so great!
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doomrider77 wrote:
Impressive
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Celticknife wrote:
Nescience is fucking great
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beer_snob wrote:
Good stuff \m/
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News
First wave of reviews for "The Symbolist" (Out on February 7)
3 Feb 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/heathendom
Metal Hammer (Greece) (No 313) 8/10HeavySound.fr webzine
(France) 9/10 (in French only)Metalzone.gr webzine (Greece)
95/100 (in English/Greek)Oblivion.de webzine (Germany)
8/10 (in German only)
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First wave of reviews for "The Symbolist" (Out on February 7)
3 Feb 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/heathendom -
26 Dec 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/heathendom -
26 Dec 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/heathendom
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StanislawBM and 2 other people added Heathendom to their libraries. Wednesday evening
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MetalCobalt tagged Heathendom with power metal and doom metal. last month
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GniewGrzybiarza tagged Heathendom with progresive power metal, heavy metal, power metal and one other tag. December 2011
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- Heathendom posted a news item ‘First wave of reviews for "The Symbolist" (Out on February 7)’. November 2011
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