Artist description To find a style description for our music is not easy. That way you could surely name it Gothic Metal, but you do not need to. As messengers of the Goddess ATARGATIS' will we would rather like to grab you by the hand and take you into the mysteriously shimmery mists of immense denseness and intensity, ascending from a moor of unforeseen mystic deepness. With us, follow the call of the Goddess and let yourselves be drawn into the maelstrom of emotions believed to be long-forgotten, come with us on a journey to the edges of being, thereabouts, where dream and reality are no longer to be distinguished, there, where you love and suffer, there, where shivers of teariness and euphoria likewise pass through you and shake you through, there, where you deeply immerge into a contrast bath of apathy and extacy, there, where you find yourselves caught inbetween fear and passion, only to deliver yourselves again in the end to reach a new dimension... Because all that is one, this is the reason for all living, the reason why we exist...

Music Style mystic dark metal / gothic metal

Musical Influences amorphis, finntroll, my dying bride, blind guardian, haggard, dimmu borgir, katatonia, in flames, megadeth, neurosis, crowbar, tool, a perfect circle, helloween, napalm death, godgory, dark tranquillity, cannibal corpse, stratovarius, waltari, tiamat, moonspell, empyrium, marduk, mayhem, savatage, opeth, hypocrisy, at the gates, sentenced, slayer, death, obituary, dream theater, the tea party, metallica, testament, six feet under, candlemass, carcass, samael, black sabbath, dark funeral, pantera, morbid angel, emperor, iron maiden, judas priest, immortal, soilwork, sirrah, on thorns i lay, flowing tears, the 3rd/third and the mortal, dreadful shadows

Similar Artists tristania/sins of thy beloved/therion/theatre of tragedy/lacuna coil/within temptation/the gathering/nightwish/after forever/dreams of sanity/sirrah/crematory/cradle of filth/paradise lost/anathema

Artist History The band ATARGATIS was founded in the end of 1997. The term ATARGATIS is derivated from Greek mythology and represents the name of a Syrian love, fertility and moon goddess. After the first concerts in 1999 the debut EP "Alba Gebraich" was soon released. The musical style of the band ranged from melancholic gothic and driven, grooving doom parts to aggressive thrash and death metal. This gloomy sound was completed by melodic keyboard passages, so that the whole song structures would spread an "endtime atmosphere" ("Mittelbayerische Zeitung" newspaper, 03/23/1999). The songs enclosed an emotional cosmos which was placed between dream and reality, rage and mourning, courage and despair. A lovely female voice alternating with a dark atmospheric male voice, which already nearly represented the all-determinating battle between good end evil, completed the varying sound of ATARGATIS. The lyrics treated subjects from fantasy and horror literature. Due to massive band member replacements however the band faced the challenge of a new beginning at the end of the year 2001. The changes also affect the style of the band, which now lets the female vocals come to the fore, while the keyboard creates a very mystical atmosphere. By the time much live experience could be made. That way, the stage was shared with big scene acts such as Agathodaimon, EverEve, Disbelief, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Westwerk, Cryptic Wintermoon, Darkwell, Ashes You Leave, Evenfall or Deep Inside Myself, and festivals were played with Doro, Tankard, Holy Moses, Night In Gales, Powergod, Iron Savior, Châlice, Grave, Defleshed, Haggard, Metalium, Hypnos, Gurd, Lacrimas Profundere or Profanity.

Group Members Jürgen (drums) Stephanie (vocals) Margit (synth) Florian (guitars) Michael (bass, vocals)

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, Synth, Female Voice, Male Grunts

Albums Alba Gebraich MCD (1999), Accurst From The Deep MCDR (2002)

Additional Info Accurst From The Deep MCDR now out!

Location Regensburg, Bayern - Germany

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