The Dark Side Of Metal Trivia Quiz

Answer: Johan Edlund

'Tiamat' is a band from Sweden, with blacken death metal beginnings (on their debut album) who gradually matured into something more progressive. In 'Wildhoney' (1994) and 'A Deeper Kind Of Slumber' (1997) we find many 'Pink Floyd' leanings. Their 1999's album 'Skeleton Skeletron' is somewhat gothier.

Their first release was 'Summerian Cry' in 1990 from 'Metalcore'. Vocals, Guitars, Keys: Johan Edlund. Bass: Anders Iwers. Drums: Lars Skold.

Answer: Therion

'Therion' started as a death metal band (1st and 2nd album) and was transformed into an operatic-classical metal project. Christofer Johnsson, the founder of the band, is no longer a vocalist (quitars, keyboards) due to the several guest vocalists on the recent albums. 'Therion' comes from Sweden, as most of the best death metal bands. First album 'Of Darkness...' released in 1991 from 'Peaceville'.

Answer: Greece

A Greek band formed in 1990. In their early works they can be described as a death metal band fused with operatic vocals and classical elements, a combination of bestial brutality and beauty.

Answer: Lee Douglas

Formed in 1990, originally under the name 'Pagan Angel', with a heavy, doom metal sound. Their first demo was in November 1990 called 'The Iliad Of Woes'. In 1991 they changed their name to 'Anathema'. Their two last albums 'Alternative 4' and 'Judgement' are poles apart from their primary works, with influences from 'Paradise Lost' and 'Tool' in the first and 'Pink Floyd' in the last.

Answer: Demonaz

'Immortal' is a band with a Norwegian black metal style. Their first album in 1992 was the 'Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism'. Abbath and Demonaz were the founders. Demonaz was playing the guitar in 'Immortal' for the period 1990-97. He was forced to leave the band due to an arm injury. Now he writes the lyrics for the band.

Answer: Norway

They were formed in November 1996, under the name 'Purgatory'. In 1998 they recorded their debut-album 'Lake Of Sorrow'. It is an atmospheric-gothic metal band. Melancholic songs with female soprano vocals plus the occasional male death growl. Similar to 'Tristania', 'Trail Of Tears' and earlier 'Theatre Of Tragedy'.

Answer: Behind The Scenery

The song is the 'Lost Love' from their first album 'Nocturnal Beauty Of A Dying Land' released in 1997. The band founded in 1996 in Germany from the asses of thrash metal band that transformed into a melodic death metal band.

Answer: Bart Smits

'The Gathering' originally a doomdeath band from the Netherlands, released their first album 'Always' with Bart Smits in 1992. The band changed style, with the arrival of Anneke Van Giersbergen, to a melodic, atmospheric metal form.

Answer: In Flames

Anders Friden is the lead vocalist of 'In Flames' since 1996 and the album 'The Jester Race'. For the period 1993-95 he was the singer in 'Dark Tranquillity'. 'In Flames' style combines melodies (that remind me of Iron Maiden) with harsh death metal elements, such as the vocals.

Answer: A Rose For The Dead

The 'Der Tanz Der Schatten' is in the album 'Velvet Darkness They Fear'. The English version is the song 'As The Shadows Dance'. 'Theatre Of Tragedy', from Norway, might be the best representative of the atmospheric gothic metal scene and an influence to many similar bands.

Answer: Passage

'Samael' is a band best known as black metal, in spite of the fact that in relation with other black metal bands with high-pitched piercing vocals and fast riffings, 'Samael' has a darker and slower approach sometimes almost doom, but not quite. The debut for the band from Switzerland was in 1991 with the album 'Worship Him'.

Answer: Dusk... And Her Embrace

One of the most famous black metal bands that makes a difference: it is not from Scandinavia! The band was formed in England in 1991 and has many influences from: Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Venom, Celtic Frost, Slayer, Sodom e.t.c.

Answer: Lost Paradise

An other band from England generally regarded as a doom-death band, however they adopted a more goth-influenced mainstream sound (sometimes maybe not that metalic) in their latest works. Their debut album released in 1990.

Answer: Sleep Of The Angels

A Greek band started with a black-death metal sound in 1989 that shifted to a slower, dark metal style in 1996 with the album 'Triarchy Of The Lost Lovers'. 'The Sleep Of The Angels' was released in 1999 under the label of Century Media.

Answer: Andrea Ferro

Comming from Italy, 'Lacuna Coil' is a band of post-gothic style that is often compared to 'The Gathering'. The difference here is the male vocals of Andrea Ferro. The band started its career in 1998 with the E.P. 'Lacuna Coil'