Finland's Beherit (the Syriac name for Satan, incidentally) was spawned in 1989 by spectacularly named vocalist/guitarist Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance. Along with bassist Black Jesus and drummer Sodomatic Slaughter, his express purpose was to perform the most primitive, savage, hell-obsessed black metal imaginable (no Viking themes to be found... [+] Read More

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Not to be confused with the 1960s group the Defenders, Defender is a heavy metal project of European bassist/guitarist Philip Von Segebaden. The project got underway in 1994, which was the year in which a band that Von Segebaden had been a part of, Afflicted, broke up. Formed in the early 1990s, Afflicted started out playing underground death... [+] Read More

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Led by singer/guitarist David Larsson, In Aeternum is among the many underground death metal/black metal bands that came out of Sweden in the early '90s. In Aeternum fits the stereotypical death metal image -- its songs are fast, amelodic, and blistering, and its lyrics often focus on the occult and Satanism. The trio was formed during the... [+] Read More

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