Sulphur Aeon

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Sulphur Aeon
Origin Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Genres Blackened death metal
Years active2010–present
Labels Ván
MembersTorsten Horstmann
M.
Daniel Dickmann
Sascha Schiemann
Andreas Koort
Website van-records.com/Sulphur-Aeon_1

Sulphur Aeon is a German death metal band founded in 2010. [1] The band has released three full-length studio albums. The first album, Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide was released in 2013 and the most recent, Seven Crowns and Seven Seals in 2023. [2]

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History

The band was founded in 2010 by Torsten Horstmann. [1] [3] Along with the producer Simon Werner the first demo was recorded and released. Simon Werner and Torsten Horstmann had previously played together in the band December Flower.

The band's albums thematize the Cthulhu Mythos, which can also be found in the artwork of the albums. [4] [5] [6]

In 2013, Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide was released on the Imperium Productions label. [7] After signing to Ván Records, the second album Gateway to the Antisphere followed in 2015. [8] In the January 2019 issue of German Metal Hammer magazine, the album The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos , released in 2018, [9] [10] was voted "Album of the Month" by the editors. [11] [12] The album received many positive reviews upon its release with the reviewers of powermetal.de website calling it a "Meisterwerk" (masterpiece). [13] [14] [15] Also the Rock Hard magazine called the album a "masterpiece" and rated it 9 out of 10. [16] Musikreviews.de rated the album 13 out of 15. [15] A music video was released for the song Yuggothian Spell, based on Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark . [9]

The band played at the Rock Hard Festival in 2016 and it is booked for the Metal Hammer Paradise and the Party.San  [ de ] festivals in 2019 among others. [17] [18]

Discography

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References

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