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Ophidian Forest

About Me

OPHIDIAN FORESTis a Croatian/Dutch/US black metal collaboration between three individuals who create "chaotic Pagan black metal" by means of exchanging recordings over the net and by snail mail as they live thousands of miles away from each other. In fact, none have ever met each other in person, and without the current ease of global communication it's far less likely that this project would have been possible 10 years ago.
Guitarist/bassist Zaragil lives in Croatia, drummer Otrebor lives in San Francisco, and vocalist/keyboardist/lyricist Amalgamoth is from the Netherlands.

Band contact: [email protected]

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Member Since: 16/05/2007
Band Website: http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm9waGlkaWFuZm9yZXN0 LmNvbQ==
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Influences: Ophidian Forest's current source of inspiration is the most glorious time of the Frisian kingdom around the start of the 8th century CE (common era), led by the brave king Redbad (680-719). His last-minute rejection of getting baptized in favour of joining his Pagan ancestors in what the Christians call Hell has become a legend of its own and is in our day still commemorated by some people (The Pagan calendar mentions "Rey Redbad" Day, on August 9th).
King Redbad dared to stay true to his Pagan roots and his ancestors and made Frisia an important counterforce in Western Europe. In the centuries after king Redbad, the Christians destroyed or altered nearly everything that reminds us of Pagan Frisia, but they never managed to erase the legend from collective memory.
Apart from the Redbad theme the lyrics on our albums are also inspired by Nature, Norse mythology, history and Pagan mysticism.

Read the "Remembering king Redbad" article HERE .
Sounds Like: ...recorded in a forest. Nine songs, three from each album, are uploaded here so feel free to have a listen. Mere beginnings mean nothing. If you can, listen to complete songs. Christians need not bother.
Record Label: Ziekte Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ophidian Forest's third album, "Susurrus," completed

Another milestone for Ophidian Forest has come to pass with the completion of the group's third album, "Susurrus." The album contains seven tracks at 66:06 minutes. The album's title, which describes ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 May 2010 11:17:00 GMT

"Redbad" CD - how to get and why, plus other updates.

Our debut album "Redbad" was printed in the States and one half of the copies were sent to Ziekte Records in The Netherlands. Unfortunately, those copies were lost in mail and the label didn't get the...
Posted by on Thu, 06 May 2010 10:21:00 GMT

New Ophidian Forest "Plains" coming soon. Otrebors side project, Rubicon, completed.

Dear Ophidian Forest dwellers,The second Ophidian Forest album "Plains" will be completed in the following weeks. It contains 10 songs and is some seriously weird, fucked stuff. We promise you that th...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:11:00 GMT

Paganism vs. Nazism - Ophidian Forests statement.

Apparently some people have added us as friends, thinking we are a NSBM band, and deleted us when they realized we weren't. Well, too sad about them. To avoid further confusion in the future, thi...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:12:00 GMT

LYRIC LINKS ADDED TO SONGS ABOVE!

Dear Friends and Ents, At long last you can finally read what our songs are about!Select the "lyrics" link when listening to one of our songs.Hailz, Amalgamoth.
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:39:00 GMT

What is Christianity? This is what they told you:

The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove a...
Posted by on Sat, 17 May 2008 17:14:00 GMT

OPHIDIAN FOREST LOOKING FOR A LABEL

An initial and limited amount of 50 black CDRs of "Redbad" is currently being distributed to potentially interested labels. The discs are housed in cardboard sleeves with the full artwork and include ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:46:00 GMT

The album is finished!

The final mixes have passed the stage of mastering at the Atomic Garden studios in Palo Alto USA, and a selection of the tracks (in low bit-rate quality) can be heard here, on the OF MySpace sit...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:59:00 GMT