Greek Black Metal Update: Tatir, Mortify & the Storm Studio Legacy

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Greek Black Metal Update: Tatir, Mortify & the Storm Studio Legacy

We have just added two Greek black metal demo collections, so it's a good chance to highlight some other Hellenic bands all linked through Athens Storm Studio.

TATIR - Cave of Ephyras... To the Infernal Fields CD

Cave of Ephyras... To the Infernal Fields (an unreleased EP recorded in 1996), Dark Autumn Nights (1995), and Fons Acheroni (1996).

MORTIFY - The Way of All Flesh CD

Dizziness of the Occult (1990), ...And Darkness was Upon (1993), and Promo 96.

Both TATIR and MORTIFY recorded at Storm, the studio owned and operated by George Zacharopoulos. George is bassist and vocalist in NECROMANTIA and THOU ART LORD, he was also keyboardist (as Morbid) with ROTTING CHRIST during their best early period.

Zacharopoulos' production work at Storm Studio helped the developing, now instantly recognisable, 'Greek black metal' sound of the early-mid 1990's. Bands including THOU ART LORD, VARATHRON, and ROTTING CHRIST created some of their most enduring material at Storm Studio.

Other bands that recorded at Storm Studio include:

AGATUS for their debut LP in 1994

KAWIR's early recordings, up until their first album

NERGAL for some of their early demos and debut album The Wizard of Nerath

ROTTING CHRIST's classic Non Serviam

VARATHRON recorded several classics at Storm including His Majesty at the Swamp, and Walpurgisnacht