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Mephisto

FUCK THAT NOISE!!

About Me

Mephisto's goal since day one has been to create black metal that screeches darkness and screams brutality, while still being free to explore all of the other genres of metal that interest them.
The beginnings of Mephisto lay in August, 2003. Valafar had just quit the black metal band, Midnight Mass. A couple months later, Valafar received a call from Astaroth, who was responding to Valafar's ad for a Black Metal drummer.
Valafar soon went to hear Astaroth play and was blown away by his abilities as a drummer. Immediately Valafar knew that Astaroth was the drummer he was looking for. After a few practices, Astaroth brought Rahovart over to play bass, and thus, the core of Mephisto was born.
In the following years, Mephisto saw two rhythm guitarists come and go until December 2005 when the band received an e-mail from Lord Temptation (Valhom) asking if Mephisto still needed another guitarist. Lord Temptation auditioned for the band in late December and was officially hired in January 2006.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/2/2005
Band Members: Valafar - Guitar, Vocals, Keyboard

Astaroth - Drums

Lord Temptation - Bass, Backing Vocals

Pyrrhus - Guitar, Backing Vocals

Stolas - Keyboard

Previous Members:

Rahovart - Bass

Influences: Dimmu Borgir
Old Man's Child
Emperor
Cannibal Corpse
Cradle Of Filth
Tristania
Deicide
Immortal
Strapping Young Lad
Slayer
Nile
Decapitated
Behemoth
Dragonlord
Kataklysm
Dark Funeral

Sounds Like: Nothing I've heard!

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Old Song Up

We've uploaded "Noxious Scripture" to our myspace page.  This is the new recording that will be on our forthcoming album, Apices Abyssus.
Posted by Mephisto on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:51:00 PST

Independent Again

Mephisto was recently dropped from SINISTER SOUNDS.  The label's spokesman stated that SS simply couldn't handle the workload of Mephisto's album release.  So, we are now independent again a...
Posted by Mephisto on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:54:00 PST

!! IMPORTANT !! May 25th Show Change...

The May 25th show that was supposed to be at Penny Road Pub has been moved to the Clearwater Theater in West Dundee.Brutal Blessings-Valafar96 W Main St.West Dundee, IllinoisUSCost:$6Description:Mephi...
Posted by Mephisto on Fri, 23 May 2008 01:50:00 PST

March 7th Show Cancelled

Our show on March 7th at Just For Fun roller rink has been cancelled.  There was a problem with the booking; one of the agents there fucked up and double booked after we were scheduled to play.&n...
Posted by Mephisto on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:48:00 PST

Attention Bands...

Attention bands:I am no longer allowing friend requests to come in from bands that we do not know personally.  There's a couple factors that lead me to this.  First, it throws off our fan co...
Posted by Mephisto on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:14:00 PST

Keyboardist Found

We have added a keyboardist to our Hellish ranks!  Stolas has quite a few projects that he has been (and still is) involved with.Odins Forest (myspace.com/odinsforest1)Dead Faith (www.myspace.com...
Posted by Mephisto on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:12:00 PST

Guitarist Found

We have found a new guitarist for Mephisto, Pyrrhus.  He's very talented, so we expect great things from him.  I am currently teaching him the songs that we will soon be playing live (more o...
Posted by Mephisto on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:14:00 PST

Line-up Change

There's been a change in Mephisto's line-up. Rahovart is no longer playing bass for Mephisto. Lord Temptation has taken up bass now, so we are down to a three-piece band yet again. There wasn't any cl...
Posted by Mephisto on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:57:00 PST

Extended Absence Update

Ave!As most of you could tell, we haven't been online since mid-September. My appologies to all for not updating the profile to let everyone know. I needed to ditch as many distractions as possible to...
Posted by Mephisto on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:06:00 PST

New Song!

Ave!We've finished recording a new song for the album. The song, titled "End of Days", will be posted on MySpace for all to hear shortly!Brutal Blessings--Valafar...
Posted by Mephisto on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:20:00 PST