Medieval Death
Medieval Death
Underground technothrash band from Thesaloniki, Greece. Active during the early '90s. From their roster, Kostas Exarhakis was once active in awful greek europower band Firewind. Their drummer, Apostolos Zaios moved to germany and later joined Human Fortress, which is another europower band I am not personally familiar with. It was him I had e-mailed a long time ago for info on Medieval Death and how to get their demo, and he wasn't very forthcoming. The demo was eventually tracked down by wom (who posts on this forum too) and whom I thank very much for it.
The zip below contains their 'Moments of Silence' demo, from which if I remember correctly a song was featured in one of Metal Hammers's compilations of greek metal acts, which was where I first heard of them.
Their music carries a strong Coroner and Voivod influence. One can hear the shape of 'traditional' thrash metal slowly reforming towards the technothrash of that time. Their vocalist, Tilemaxos (same name to mine!) Mousas, has a very distinctive semi-moaned delivery, owing more to I'd say, gothic rock than to any HM vocalist of that time. Though not technically amazing, his voice is the most endearing aspect of this band due to it's distinctive style. I hear he now fronts a jazz quartet as their guitarist and composer, and has also played with known mainstream greek bands such as Xaxakes and Ble. I wonder how he feels about Medieval Death now. Perhaps one day I'll track him down and find out.
Here be demo
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Helm wrote:This isn't Celticfrosty at all! Could it be another band? Perhaps Medieval Demon?
No, it's unquestionably Medieval Death, although the CF-comparison was mostly in reference to the vocals. Medieval Demon were a rather good Black Metal band who tried to mix that Greek sound with a commercial image, which ultimately became the reason for their demise.
I will download this soon to see whether it is the same recording, so thanks a lot in advance!
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Quite good technical thrash with a dark feeling and lots of references to Coroner. I agree that the vocals have a Celtic Frost vibe, not the early "Into the crypts..." style, but very close to "Mezmerised" as Ernest correctly pointed out, especially on "Eternal Death"! Personally, it reminded me of Rozz Williams' Christian Death type of vox, i understand what Helm means when he says that he owns a lot to gothic rock. Nice for what it is, not exactly my cup of tea though. Haven't heard it before, so thanks for the upload!
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Ok, I just listened to this. Although this type of stuff is not really my cup of tea I enjoyed most of the playing. But vocals were kinda mixed bag. Occationally good but most of the time annoyed me. I didn't like the whiny parts and especially on "Moments of Silence" the vocalist sounded like the singer from The Cure which definitely is not a good thing to me. Well it's a matter of taste ofcourse. I'm just usually disgusted by gothic rock elements and especially in vocals. Still wanted to give a fair chance to this and who knows.. maybe in time I get used to the vocals.
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Another gem of the Greek underground although this one is placed on the dark side. I always liked this demo it carries an obscure dark touch. In fact there was Medieval Demon and not Medieval Death that featured in early Metal Hammer compilation CD. But I got to check my lot to ensure it.
Medieval Demon was my favourite Black Metal band from Greece back in the mid 90s. I remember a member of them was working on a local Athenian Record Store called Unisound Records –yes the record label was behind it-. We did lots of trading back then.
Cool to notice many Greeks around the forum. Thessaloniki rules badly. Have spent the best years of my life in there!
Medieval Demon was my favourite Black Metal band from Greece back in the mid 90s. I remember a member of them was working on a local Athenian Record Store called Unisound Records –yes the record label was behind it-. We did lots of trading back then.
Cool to notice many Greeks around the forum. Thessaloniki rules badly. Have spent the best years of my life in there!
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I'm downloading with 3k from that website
P.S. nevermind, it downloaded eventually, thanks!
P.S. nevermind, it downloaded eventually, thanks!
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