Septicflesh

Septic Flesh
Origin	Athens, Greece
Genres	Death metal, symphonic metal (now) Melodic death metal, gothic metal, death/doom (early)
Years active	1990–2003 2007–present
Labels	Hammerheart Records Season of Mist
Associated acts	Chaostar Firewind Nightfall Nightrage Rotting Christ
Website	www.septicflesh.com
Members
Sotiris Vayenas Spiros "Seth" Antoniou Christos Antoniou Fotis Giannakopoulos

Septic Flesh (or Septicflesh) is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, which was founded in 1990.

1 History
- 1.1 Reunion
2 Line-up
3 Discography
- 3.1 Albums
- 3.2 EPs
4 References
5 External links

History [link]

Septic Flesh was formed in March 1990 by Sotiris Vayenas (guitar), Spiros Antoniou (bass and vocals), and Christos Antoniou (guitars), and quickly released a debut EP, Temple of the Lost Race in December 1991.^[1] The band recorded their first full-length album Mystic Places of Dawn, in April 1994 at the Storm studio with the co-production of Magus Wampyr Daoloth (who previously was the Rotting Christ keyboardist).^[2]

From the band's formation in 1991 until 1997, the line-up was stable, but on The Ophidian Wheel (1997) and A Fallen Temple (1998) a female vocalist, Natalie Rassoulis, was added.^[3] The group split up in October 2003, and after the breakup, its members moved on to different or existing projects: Chris Antoniou continued involvement with Chaostar, which he formed in 1998, and Katsionis played guitar for Nightfall and keyboards for Firewind. TheDevilWorx formed a year after Septic Flesh's disbanding, and featured some members from Septic Flesh's original line-up. In March 2007, guitarist Sotiris Vayenas revealed his plans for a new solo project called Aenaos.

Reunion [link]

On February 19, 2007, Septic Flesh announced a reunion for Greece's Metal Healing Festival featuring Orphaned Land, Rage and Aborted, set to take place July 20–22.^[4] On April 3, 2007, Blabbermouth.net reported the band reunited for a seventh full-length CD, for French record label Season of Mist. According to guitarist and composer Christos Antoniou, the release would feature a full orchestra and a choir, totalling 80 musicians and 32 singers.^[5] Septic Flesh finalized the new album, Communion, in Studio Fredman in Sweden; it was released in April 2008. By this time the band had changed its name from Septic Flesh to Septicflesh. According to guitarist Christos it looks better and states a new phase in the band.^[6]

On September 10, 2009, the band announced that they had begun work on a new studio album, tentatively planned for release in the beginning of 2011.

On December 17, 2010, the band released the first single from the new batch of material titled "The Vampire From Nazareth" and announced that the new album will ship April 28 in the UK, and April 29 In the USA.^[7] ^[8]

As previously announced, SEPTICFLESH's forthcoming album "The Great Mass" will hit the stores on April 28 (one day later in North America). It is time to unveil the cover artwork of the album's jewel case edition, designed by Seth Siro Anton himself: Seth explains: "This is a small fragment of the artwork that will dress the new artistic experiment of SEPTICFLESH, 'The Great Mass'. It is a small part of an occult machine made from marble and flesh, fantasy and reality, order and chaos. A great machine composed from the blasphemous union of strange figures, creations of Man, the creator of the gods and demons. Their grotesque purpose will be revealed soon, when all the cover editions of the new album will be presented and will be combined together… Let the great self-cannibalistic symposium begin." The Greek demons' new opus will be available in the following formats: CD + Blu-ray Digipak Collector's book including 2 CDs + Blu-ray 12" gatefold LP CD jewel case Digital download The main artwork for "The Great Mass" will appear on the limited Digipak edition, the gatefold LP and the dust jacket of the collector's book. To be revealed later!