Alastis
Alastis was a Swiss black metal band that was formed in 1987 in Sion.
History
The original members of the band consisted of War D. on guitar, Zumof as a singer, Acronoise on drums and Masmiseim on bass. However Masmiseim left the band early to join the group Samael and Zumof ended soon after its affiliation with Alastis. Today's singer and guitarist of Samael, Michael Locher, stepped on the Alastis demo Black Wedding on guest vocals. The first album of the band, The Just Law, was published with the Norwegian label Head Not Found 1992. After another line-up changes they signed a contract with Adipocere Records, where in 1995 their second album, ... And Death Smiled published. In 1996 the band signed a contract with Century Media, which distributed the work of the band in the USA. Their album The Other Side was released in 1997 and the following year came the fourth album, Revenge, to the public. At this time there was a cast of War D. (guitar, synthesizers and vocals), Acronoise (drums ), Nick (guitar) and Raff ( bass).
In 2000, Sebastian (drums) and Graven X came (Keyboard ) new to the band. The last work of the band was the ten songs full album Unity, which was released in 2001 on Century Media. After that, the band began to build his own studio, which should serve to accommodate pre-written pieces for the sixth album. Nevertheless, the band broke up in 2004.