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About Me

Faustcoven was started in 2002 by Gunnar Hansen, who longed for the 80's approach to black metal. Out of a burning interest for the more riff based 80's style, and a general weariness of the trebly, synth-based, blast beat infested and tremolo-intense style of modern BM, Faustcoven was born. Aknowledging the enormous legacy of Black Sabbath and the heavieness and atmosphere of classic doom, these elements were thrown into the mix. The lyrics are typically inspired by occult/evil 80's metal and old-school horror movies and novels.Discography: The first Faustcoven release was the demo "Satanic Doom" released in 2002. It included the song "Castle of the Tyrant" and Venom cover "Warhead" among its 6 songs (counting an intro and outro). Next up in early 2003 was "The March of Cloven Hooves", a highly limited demo with tracks like "Under the Pagan Hammer" and "Phantom Sun". The limitation was due to a lack of interest in working as a distributor of music, Faustcovens main focus being writing and recording. After this Faustcoven signed with underground label Barbarian Wrath, home of a lot of great oldschool metal, with a philosophy very much in tune with that behind Faustcoven. The debut cd is called "The Halo of Burning Wings", and was the first release to feature a real drummer. Terje Kraaboel from bands like Bethzaida and Anti Depressive Delivery expertly handeled this duty. The cd contained 3 rerecorded songs from the demo-days and 7 other tracks (counting an instrumental).Then ensues a long silence, before a split 7'' with fellow norwegian black metallers Koldbrann was released by Greek label Cryptia Productions in late 2006. For this release, Faustcoven recorded the heartfelt tale of heavenly STD called "Orgy in Sodom", this time with Johnny Tombthrasher behind the drumkit. Johnny will also be the drummer of choice on the next Faustcoven album; "Rising From Below the Earth". The recording process has started and is well under way, but no release date is set yet. Due to the amount of material its still unsure which tracks will make it to the album, but titles include "Winged Messenger of Doom", "Onward to the Bloodfields", Curse of the Voodoo Priest" and "Throne of Bones". Stay tuned for this heavy and creepy journey into the deep, dark and lurid underworld of black and doom metal!

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Member Since: 5/29/2006
Band Members: Gunnar Hansen - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, etc : Johnny Tombthrasher - Hammers of Severe Judgement
Influences: Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Darkthrone, Bathory, Venom, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Cirith Ungol, Manilla Road, Mercyful Fate, Saint Vitus, Judas Priest.
Sounds Like: Darkthrone, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, Bathory. Riffs that could have been played in 1971; IN HELL.
Record Label: Barbarian Wrath
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Rising From Below the Earth - finally released!!!

Finally the second Faustcoven assault has been unleashed! 5 years after The Halo of Burning Wings, the 666 copies of Rising From Below the Earth has arrived at the Barbarian Wrath headquarter, fresh f...
Posted by Faustcoven on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:42:00 PST

Rising From Below the Earth: PREORDERS

Barbarian Wrath are now taking preorders for the album. Go to the following adress to get one of the 666 discs available;The Basar (Barbarian Wrath)And/or visit their myspace page (see my top friends)...
Posted by Faustcoven on Thu, 22 May 2008 01:05:00 PST

Two sample songs from Rising...

You can now preview two of the songs from Rising From Below the Earth: At Night They Rise From Below the Earth Caravan of Plague Bearers The first of these two tracks is in lower sound quality (112 kb...
Posted by Faustcoven on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:23:00 PST

"Rising From Below the Earth" is finally finished!

Yesterday, I finished the mixing of the album, meaning that virtually hundreds and hundreds of hours of work has finally come to an end. 67 minutes of black doom is ready to be unleashed. I can safely...
Posted by Faustcoven on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:04:00 PST

Status - recordings

There has been very little to report for a while. Moving has slowed down the recording sessions, to almost a grinding halt. Today, however I had taken a vaccation day, with the sole purpose of recordi...
Posted by Faustcoven on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:56:00 PST

Drum tracks for Rising From Below the Earth finished.

Thats right, yesterday the drums for the final two tracks for the album were finished. All that remain now is everything else. I expect to finish all of this during the summer. So now we have 15-16 tr...
Posted by Faustcoven on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:08:00 PST

Friend requests & comments: Basic rules

Allright. Some very simple rules for friend request and comments follows here, although all of these should not even be necessary to spell out, as they are just common sense; 1. If you are don't have ...
Posted by Faustcoven on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:27:00 PST

Faustcoven forum

Faustcoven has an official forum at; http://www.thebasar.org/phpBB2/index.php Those interested can register there for discussion on old school metal and such, and I recommend checking out all of the o...
Posted by Faustcoven on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:42:00 PST

Aerik Von / Faustcoven cooperation [Whisky Demon]

http://www.myspace.com/blackmoonrising Singer from Rampage / Black Moon Rising / a lot of stuff, will step up to the mic for Faustcoven on an alternative version of the track "Whisky Demon", to contri...
Posted by Faustcoven on Tue, 08 May 2007 11:41:00 PST

Faustcoven competition (finished)

SOLUTION is now removed 25/04 *** In keeping with my current good mood for upgrading my recording equipment, and gearing up the activity before recording the new al...
Posted by Faustcoven on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:42:00 PST