Tormentor (band)

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Tormentor
Origin Budapest, Hungary
Genres Black metal [1]
Years active1985–1991
1999–?
2017–present
Members Attila Csihar
Attila Szigeti
Machat St. Zsoltar
György Farkas
Past membersMugambi Zoldun
Zeno Galoca
Márton Dubecz
Tamás Buday
Website tormentor.hu
Attila Csihar performing with Mayhem at the Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway in April 2010 Mayhem-with-Attila-Csihar-Infernofestival-2010.jpg
Attila Csihar performing with Mayhem at the Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway in April 2010

Tormentor is a Hungarian black metal band formed in 1986 in Budapest. They recorded their first album, Anno Domini, in 1988, but were unable to release it until the end of communist rule in Hungary. [2] The album reached Norway through the tape-trading community. Following the suicide of Per Ohlin, Mayhem invited Attila Csihar from Tormentor to join the band; he was to perform the vocals on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas . [3] Tormentor split up in 1991. After a long break they reformed and released the more experimental Recipe Ferrum through Avantgarde Music in 2001, [2] going on a long indefinite hiatus afterwards.

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Reunion

In 2017, Tormentor reunited after several years to re-emerge on the stage for a highly publicized reunion show on 21 April 2018, in Budapest, [4] followed by an appearance at the Brutal Assault in Josefov, Czech Republic and the Beyond the Gates festival in Bergen, Norway, [5] with later performances at festivals in France and Canada to cap off the year.

The band reunited in the classic lineup from 1988 with Csihar on vocals, Tamás Buday and Attila Szigeti sharing guitar duties, György Farkas handling bass guitar, and Machat St. Zsoltar on drums. The band's own recording imprint, Saturnus Productions, has also reissued both the cult classic debut album Anno Domini and The Seventh Day of Doom demo on CD and vinyl.

Band members

Current line-up

Former members

Live members

Discography

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References

  1. Tormentor biography @ MusicMight Archived 19 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 "Tormentor @ Myspace" . Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  3. Kovács, Marcell (17 May 2007). ""Emberen túli" (Csihar Attila – Mayhem)" (interview in Hungarian). Magyar Narancs. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  4. "Tormentor: Anno Domini 30, Cult of Fire (CZ), Perihelion – A38 Ship". A38 Hajó. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
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