HECATE ENTHRONED emergedas one of the most intense bands to come out of the Black Death Metalscene. Dedicated to delivering their ownbrand of truly evil metal with little regard to politics or the trends of populardemand.



FIRST OUT OF THE BLACKNESS OF HELL



1995: The now legendary demo AN ODE FOR A HAUNTEDWOOD was recorded in The Academy Studios - Yorkshire under producer Mags and wasquickly spread throughout the burgeoning underground scene. This genuinely brutal and haunting demo gavefans the first doorway into HECATE ENTHRONED’S twisted and dark world; a demoninhabited world of black witchcraft and despair backed by the bands early andevocative live shows. 1996: Thenewly initiated didn’t have to wait long for their next fix when later thatyear the band went back into The Academy Studio to re-mix the demo as the EPUPON PROMEATHEAN SHORES – UNSCRIPTURED WATERS, released the following year byBLACKEND RECORDS to rave reviews and enthusiastic fans. This release saw the start of the BLACKENDyears and the video AN ODE FOR A HAUNTED WOOD accompanied the release on MTVbeing one of the first Extreme Black Metal bands to be featured on this channel.



ASTRIDE THE DRAGON



1997: With an expectant and hungry fan baseestablished from those first raw releases HECATE ENTHRONED entered The WindingStudios in North Wales during January 1997 with legendary producer Andy Sneap. This enthusiastic partnership produced theclassic first full length album THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENCE, A REQUIEM FOR THEMIGHTY. With its iconic cover from the lens of Simon Marsden and music focusedby the isolated North Wales environment and the bands inner dark hatred, a trueclassic of Orchestral Black Metal was born along with the art of BlastingSymphonic Destruction.



INFLICTING INFERNAL INJURIES



1998: Seizing on the success of the first fulllength attack, mid 1998 see’s the release of the second full length album; theopus DARK REQUIEMS AND UNSILENT MASSACRE. This album takes the craft and mood from THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENCE… andintensifies it. Faster, darker, heavierwith bigger orchestration, each track oozes satanic hatred for all that manbelieves sacred, a masterpiece of blasphemy. Back in The Winding Studios with well respected producer Pete ‘pee wee’Coleman gave the album a rich and dark production projecting the listener in toa shadowed world of black witchcraft and sexual power. Taking these early releases to the stages ofEurope built HECATE ENTHRONED’S reputation as a destructive live act,delivering performances drenched with hate.



This year also saw there-release of the first EP UPON PROMEATHEAN SHORES – UNSCRIPTURED WATERS,re-packaged and re-mastered with a reworking of the track DANSE MACABRE fromTHE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENCE…album and a new track the fearsome, LUCIFERIAN DEATHCODE. This re-release showed the metal scenes affinity to this legendaryrelease.



A SEXUAL COPULATION BETWEEN BLACK AND DEATH METAL DEMONS



1999: With the art of Blasting SymphonicDestruction nailed to the HECATE ENTHRONED banner the bands desire forbrutality and carnage is sated with the 3rd full length album KINGSOF CHAOS. This album showed their diversenature and skill along with the bands ‘FUCK YOU!’ attitude to drive forward andproduce the music that eats away at the blackest of souls. With Pete Coleman at the helm again this timein Parr Street Studios - Liverpool, this album gave metal fans a heavy slab ofdiseased meat tenderized in a ritualistic chainsaw armed blender. A mirror image of the epic live shows of thattime.



One of the finestBlack/Death crossover albums of the decade!



EXPERIMENT TO EVISCARATE



2001: The desire to create and evolve saw HECATEENTHRONED in The Elevator Studios – Liverpool, again with long term producerPete Coleman. The collaboration thistime resulted in 6 tracks of a more experimental nature for the aptly titled EPMIASMA. Blending the art of darksongwriting and the satanic mind set to produce a breathless attack on thesenses, all out brutality tempered with a more twisted ponderous approach toshow the bands fearless attitude to move between the realms of creativity andpure musical heresy.



ARISEN AGAIN, DARKEST MOON



2004: Recorded in Blue Room Studios – Manchester andProduced by Phil Green along with the band; REDIMUS shows a distinctly nastyedge, an aggressive album echoing HECATE ENTHRONED’S live performances. Full of venom and fury the tracks thunderalong a familiar path of anti-Christian ideology and the intent to destroy allin their way. Huge orchestration againto match the vicious guitar assault keeping true to the bands sickening legacywhile delivering a fresh approach to the song writing with thoughtfularrangements amidst the malevolent maelstrom.



This album was the lastfor BLACKEND RECORDS and currently the last HECATE ENTHRONED release. The band continue to play intenselyaggressive live shows all over Europe while plotting further desecrations andtheir next dark opus from the underground.



BEWARE THE TRIPLE GODDESS THE MOTHER OF DEATH, YOU ARE FOREVER BENEATH HER GAZE



HECATE ENTHRONED - BESM