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Agathodaimon

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AGATHODAIMONs dark metal avantgarde is displaying a huge variety of styles combined to a new musical cavalcade. Poetic lyrics, misantrophic, yet darkly romantic and conterintuitive melancholic, sourrounded by devastating riffs, rooting in black- and deathmetal, decorated with modern keyboard elements, carrying earwick melodies and atmosphere.
Lifted up from the cradle in 1995, the band since then always strived for progression and evolution, beginning with the early works, their cult demos "Carpe Noctem" and "Near Dark", their milestone-debut "Blacken The Angel" that pressed forward more than expected and continued with the progressive "Higher Art Of Rebellion"-album, which widely crossed the borders of black metal. "Chapter III" then displayed the quintessence of their history and also the turning point for "Serpent's Embrace". Their latest opus showed a band that is operating on a high musical level, far away from following any trends or restrictions of genres. Guitarist/vocalist Sathonys explains:
"AGATHODAIMON has always been a band that tries to develop its style into something unique, while having an eye and ear on the song structures and steady progression of the band. We don't try to be different just for the sake of it. Our progression will always be a natural one. The songs became more mature with every release, some things simply shouldn't be rushed if you want to achieve a convincing result."
Therefore, "Serpent's Embrace" is a well worked out album, showing many elements of today's extreme metal, without denying the roots. AGATHODAIMON prove that they know how to deliver excellent songs and therefore should be a must for metal-gourmets that are looking for something special in this crowded scene.
Currently, the band is working on the successor of Serpent's Embrace, entitled PHOENIX. Sadly, vocalist/guitarist Frank "Akaias" Nordmann left the band in early 2007 as he moved to another country. A replacement was quickly found in Jonas Iscariot, but it turned out that Jonas couldn't invest as much time as it was needed due to job obligations. So, we're currently looking for a new vocalist to finish the works on PHOENIX. But we've got some good news: Manuel Steitz is the successor of our drummer Matthias (who also had to leave the band because he couldn't invest enough time), and he's awesome!
Stay tuned for more news shortly!


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Member Since: 3/29/2006
Band Website: agathodaimon.de
Band Members:
Jonas Iscariot
- vocals

Sathonys
- guitar, clean vocals

Jan Jansohn
- guitar

Felix Walzer
- keys

Manuel Steitz
- drums

Till Ottinger
- bass

Sounds Like: Agathodaimon
Record Label: Nuclear Blast GmbH
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Gig tomorrow in Nany, France!

A short reminder for french visitors:We’ll play tomorrow at the club Azimuth 854 in Nancy.And it’s gonna be the first gig with our new drummer... his identity will be revealed shortly!...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:22:00 PST

Gig in Sofia on Saturday!

Just a short reminder to all bulgarian people; we'll be playing on Saturday with bands like Edguy, Benediction, Amorphis etc. on the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Festival!Be sure not to miss ;)..>Location: ...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:29:00 PST

New line-up complete!

We're proud to announce our new line-up: It took us a while to fill the gap that our vocalist Frank "Akaias" Nordmann left, but after a bunch of rehearsals with the new guys, we feel that we now hav...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:52:00 PST

More than 100.000 plays and 50.000 visits.. AND...

First, thanks for the steady interest in the band!We meanwhile reached more than 100.000 plays of our songs on myspace. Not bad, we think ;) Especially as it's been a while since we last presented new...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:40:00 PST

The new year brings some changes....

After the short tour through Spain and Portugal in November (some pics from the tour can be seen in our gallery at www.agathodaimon.de), our vocalist/guitarist Frank "Akaias" Nordmann revealed that he...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:42:00 PST

Back from Spain and Portugal

So, we're meanwhile back from the tour through Spain/Portugal. A big thanks to Dark Embrace who made it possible, and to the other support bands we shared the stage with.A special thanks also to Sebaz...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST

Spanish/portuguese tour in November

Finally the tour dates for Portugal are confirmed as well! So, here's the updated list: AGATHODAIMON - GE - www.agathodaimon.de DARK EMBRACE - SP - www.dark-embrace.com (+local support acts on some sh...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:31:00 PST

New website and 20.000 plays on Myspace

Another month passed by, and meanwhile we have 20.000 plays of our songs here on myspace! And almost 10.000 profile views.That's awesome! Thanks for your interest ;)And in case you didn't know, our ne...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Mon, 29 May 2006 02:30:00 PST

10.000 plays in 1 month!

I just noticed that since we started our new myspace-page (after the old one got deleted by myspace without any comment), we reached 10.000 plays in one month! I think that's quite awesome, also our f...
Posted by Agathodaimon on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:19:00 PST

new myspace look

just finished the look for the new agatho-daimonic myspace pageand i hope you like it!please leave critique and kudos under comments!cheers, ~jonas~......
Posted by Agathodaimon on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:17:00 PST