Artist description ABBEY Of The Ancient Ones - Epic Heavy Metal -

Music Style Epic Heavy Metal

Musical Influences Cirith Ungol, Slayer, Manilla Road, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath

Similar Artists hahahaha - hear for yourself!

Artist History ABBEY of the ancient ones, was originally founded back in the year 1983 under the name of "ANKH", which became later ABBEY of the ancient ones. BoneDevil/MarkusBonn (guitars, vox) and Durandir/Claus Brettschneider (bass, drums, programming) and Villy/WilfriedBraun (guitars) decided in these early years to play heavy metal in an traditional, epic way. Influenced by Bands like Judas Priest, Metallica, Cirith Ungol, Manilla Road, Celtic Frost, Black Sabbath and Slayer, ABBEY of the ancient ones recorded several demotapes and rehearsals and played some live-gigs. After 2 Demotapes and several gigs, the band broke up in 1985. There were different reasons for the split. Villy and BoneDevil left to play in a Band called LAVATORY, which recorded 1 Demotape and got a record-deal with inline-music/hamburg and changed the bands name into POUNDING DEMISE, death/thrash metal like DarkAngel/Slayer. Durandir unfortunately had to left, because of his jobbings around germany for 9 years. In this time he only jammed with other metalheads, but he never had the time to play fulltime in a band again..., until 1994, the year when BoneDevil and Durandir met again. They directly joined together and recorded an 7"ep, which is called "777" with 3 tracks on it and limited to 333 ep's. Unfortunately Durandir had to leave again for some years and so BoneDevil played in different local Bands. After a gig in Magdeburg with DAKRIA BoneDevil founded KANDOR in 1997 - experimental weird Blackmetal. KANDOR released 2 fullenght Albums, 1. "AfterAntichrist" & "The Nameless Cult". In 2001 BoneDevil and Durandir met again and decided to go back to the roots and made the concept for their first complete Album together clear: They want to transfer the songs of 83-85 to the 21st century! Soon the tracklist was clear and also 2 brandnew songs written. The Album is called "IMMORTAL METAL" and it is dedicated to the heavy metal crowd around the world. Dedicated to the eternal power of heavy metal music - the cosmic wave. The basistracks are finally recorded and the album will be released in spring 2003! To create your own opinion of the music, you can download the title track "Abbey - Of The Ancient Ones", which is an instrumental, in roughmix-version. Also available for download the opener "The Dead alive" in roughmix-version. Stay sick. Stay heavy.

Group Members Fulltime Members: BoneDevil - Guitars, Vox Durandir - Bass, Programming, Drums Session / Live Members: Drums - Drummer wanted! 2nd Guitar - wanted! Keyboards - B. Gaus

Instruments Guitars, Bass, Drums, Drummachine, Keyboards

Albums Immortal Metal

Press Reviews Our 1st appearance is here @ MP3COM!

Additional Info There is an earlier release from 1995. 3-Track EP "777"!

Location bergheim, nrw - Germany

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).