Biting The Bullet - Infernal

There are nine artists with the name ‘Infernal’:

1. A Danish dance/pop duo. They first met in 1991 through mutual friends and formed a band in 1997, with Søren Haarh leaving the group in 2000. The duo now consists of Paw Lagerman (born 1977) and Lina Rafn (born 1976), both from Copenhagen, Denmark.
So far, they have released 4 studio albums and a remix album. But it was only recently with the release of their third album ‘From Paris to Berlin’ that they received international success. Despite hailing from Denmark, shortly before the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany they released a song playing on the title of their popular dance hit, ‘From Paris to Berlin’, changing the title to ‘From London to Berlin’, which was in support of the England national football team.

2 .Infernal a Swedish Black Metal band comprising of ex-Dark Funeral members. INFERNAL garnered international exposure through their shared 2001 album with DARK FUNERAL ‘Under Wings Of Hell’. The original formation, being assembled in 2000, comprised DARK FUNERAL members vocalist / guitarist Typhos (a.k.a. Henrik Ekeroth) also of FUNERAL MIST tradition, guitarist Blackmoon (David Parland), singer Themgoroth (Paul Mäkitalo) and drummer Matte Modin plus IN AETERNUM’s Impious (David Larsson) on bass. Equinox briefly occupied the bass position in 2001 before the project trimmed to a trio of Typhos, Blackmoon and drummer Demon Alzazmon (Tomas Asklund), the latter another DARK FUNERAL veteran.

INFERNAL’s 2002 EP ‘Summon Forth The Beast’ included cover versions of MORBID ANGEL’s ‘Bleed For The Devil’, VON’s ‘Devil Pig’ and BATHORY’s ‘Of Doom’. In January of 2003 the former DARK FUNERAL triumvirate of vocalist / guitarist Typhos, guitarist Blackmoon and drummer Alzazmon had resurrected the band for a planned EP ‘Summon Forth The Beast’. Asklund would also be operational with DAWN and joined DISSECTION in 2004.

3. Columbian Black Metal band formed in early 90's that relocated to Spain. They have released 3 full-lenghts, 3 splits(with Exelsus Diaboli, Ereshkigal & Infernal Kingdom and with Thy Antichrist , 1 EP, 1 demo and one compilation wich gathers first two albums to one CD

4. There is also a Infernal (death/thrash metal) from Curitiba, Brazil. In 1986, Paulo (vocalist), Marcelo dos Anjos (guitarist), Danilo (guitarist), Covero (bass) and Jonas (drummer), make a band.

5. A German combo featuring Lukas Pitz (lead g.), Moritz Nixdorf (dr.), André Klocke (rhy. g.) and Dominik Gutt (voc.). Their music is mainly influenced by metal acts such as Pantera or Children Of Bodom.

6. Infernal is also a New Orleans based Thrash Metal/Metalcore band that was formerly called Infernal Aggression.

7. A death metal side project by Nasty Savage frontman Nasty Ronnie started in 1995.

8. Black Metal act from Sarpsborg, Norway that is now defunct. Formed from the ashes of Baalberith (Nor), Infernal(Nor) came into being early 1997. The band recorded three demos (of which the second one was re-released on a split-album with other local bands), before calling it quits somewhere in 2000/2001.

9. Sri Lankan Thrash/Speed Metal band from Kandy. Started out in 2009 the band released their EP Downcast in 2011 and continues to play in the local metal circuit.

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