Sear Bliss
Sear Bliss is a Hungarian metal band from Szombathely in western Hungary. The band was founded in 1993 by singer András Nagy and Csaba Tóth by bassist. Characteristic of the unusual Sear Bliss in Metal use of brass instruments is a large part of their texts deals with the spiritual side of human thought, the Black Metal assigns Nagy however, due to their different orientation not to.
Band History
1993 - 1994
Sear Bliss was founded in the autumn of 1993 by singer András Nagy and bassist Csaba Toth, who has previously played with Extreme Deformity. For the guitar Janos Barbarics was for drums and Norbert clothing Binger is found, both of which have previously played with Animosity. In the spring of 1994, there has been a substantial change in the composition. The bassist Csaba Toth left the band and András Nagy played bass in his place. Zoltan Csejtei took over for the vocals and his brother Csaba Csejtei was added as an additional guitarist. Furthermore, the band found a keyboard player with winter and with Gergely Szucs the first trumpet player. The songwriting for their first demo The Pagan Winter began.
1995 - 1996
In April 1995, the drummer Norbert Keibinger left the band, so the demo recordings with the session drummer Bertalan, who is as well Csaba Toth member of the band Extreme Derformity, had to be carried out. The demo was released in May 1995 and received good reviews. Zoltan Csejtei, who was by then in charge of the vocals, the drums and András Nagy again took over the vocals next to the bass playing. The keyboardist winter left the band and was replaced by Gergely Szucs, now in addition to the trumpet plays the keyboard. The first concert of Sear Bliss took place in Budapest in August. Three months later, the band signed their first record contract for three albums with Mascot Records and the former keyboardist winter rose again. In August 1996, she released her first album Phantoms, the Phantom really only meant, but this was changed by Mascot Records. With the Phantoms actually chose to be less hard metal styles aligned Dutch Metal magazine Aardschok the first time a Black Metal album album of the month.
1997 - 1998
It was released in February 1997, a re-release of the demo The Pagan Winter as the album version with a bonus track. Sear Bliss toured it together with Marduk and Tsatthoggua through Europe. The cast remained unstable in March rose Csejtei Zoltan and his brother Csaba Csejtei and in April, the keyboardist Winter, who had two years earlier suspended for half a year. Shortly thereafter, with Zoltan Schönberger a new guitarist was a new drummer and with Viktor Scheer, who was co-producer of The Haunting already and it will later be of Glory and Perdition found. Gergely Szucs was playing keyboard. In August, the second album, The Haunting was recorded and mixed without the band. Since the band was very dissatisfied with the result, it has been re-mixed it in September. After February 1998, the album was released, the band was a three-week European tour with Ancient offered in March, which canceled the band due to complications with the study.
1999 - 2000
In March 1999, the band announced the Vertrtag by Mascot Records. Viktor Scheer left the band in August and shortly afterwards Gergely Szucs and Janos Barbarics did the same. It took three months to Andras Horvath with a new guitarist was found. For the keyboard and the trumpet had session musicians are hired. Istvan Neubrandt worked as an additional guitarist from April 2000 Sear Bliss. After a short European tour in the summer of Destiny was taken in winter and Grand Zoltan Pal became the new trumpeter at Sear Bliss.
2001 - 2003
Andras Horvath left the band after a year and Krisztian Varga took over the guitar on stage. In April 2001, Grand Destiny was released by Nephilim Records. András Nagy participated in Forest Silence, a project of former Sear Bliss Members winter and Zoltán Csejtei. His brother Csaba Csejtei who had gotten four years earlier at the same time at Sear Bliss, now the band joined again. In November, the band joined the label Red Stream, Inc., the first Grand Destiny re-released before the fourth album Forsaken Symphony published in October 2002, followed by a European tour with Skyforger, Grief of Emerald, Obtest and Bestial Mockery joined. In 2003, the band toured in the Benelux countries and played two concerts in Budapest, one among others with Marduk. End of the year began recording for the fifth album Glory and Perdition.
2004 - today
Ten years of band history prompted Sear Bliss to give an anniversary concert, which took place in the capital of their homeland Budapest on 22 February 2004. Published in June 2005 by Pagan Flames Productions DVD containing various live recordings and studio reports, but not the recording of the anniversary concert. This appeared on the Ghost -of- Perdition DVD at Red Stream. 2006 Sear Bliss began work on a music video for Two Worlds Collide from the album Glory and Perdition. Vic Records bought the rights to the first three albums were re-mastered re-released in 2005. In September, Sear Bliss, however, decided to and signed a contract with Candlelight Records. In July 2007, the album The Arcane Odyssey was finished and was recorded in October in the trade. This includes many foreign elements of style; However, András Nagy has the innovation of previous bands like Bathory, Venom and Hellhammer / Celtic Frost back, he saw " nothing wrong genre to process other people's ideas ."