Danish band Blazing Eternity was formed in 1993 in the suburbs of Copenhagen on the ashes of a few different less important bands. The first (and classic!) line up starred Peter “Nattevogter/Nat Inc.” Mesnickow (vocals) (Black Wreath), Morten “Sauron”Lybecker (guitars), Lars Korsholm (drums) and Bilal Sarac (bass). In the autumn of ’93 a very primitive demotape called “Tragedies” was released, but soon forgotten. And burned.
However, the first real example of the melancholic and gothic-ridden black metal of Blazing Eternity was unveiled on the “Over Sorte Heder” demo-tape of summer 1995. The demo-tape received very good response in national and international metal magazines, and was even the best selling demo-tape (after Konkhra's classic “Malgrowth”) in the 90’s in the now defunct Metalized store in Copenhagen. The demo was produced by Jonas Chonovitsch, and shortly after the release, Blazing Eternity signed a contract with Intromental Management.
In the summer of 1997, the band recorded another demo “Der Hviler En Nat Under Sorte Vinterbøge” with new bassist Magnus “Darkenfald” Ringling. This demo wasn’t released until the summer of 1998, and showed an even more progressed, melodic and atmospheric band, but still within the black/death genre with lots of goth and doom influences. In 1998, the band played a handful of different liveshows, such as supporting Satyricon at Vega in Copenhagen. Furthermore, the band was assisted on recordings and at concerts by Kim Larsen and Anders Ro Nielsen from Danish premiere doomsters Saturnus.
In 1999, Blazing Eternity signed a record deal with German Prophecy Productions and geschäftsführer Martin Koller. This German label were the perfect home for Blazing Eternity, since the label was specialized in atmospheric and melancholic metal acts such as Nox Mortis, Paragon of Beauty, and Empyrium.
In 1999, Blazing Eternity entered the Studio E (owned by Prophecy) with producer Markus Stock (from Empyrium) for the recordings of the very first album. Very soon, it became clear that Markus Stock were the excellent studio partner for Blazing Eternity, as both parts had the very same ideas and view on music. The result were the album “Times and Unknown Waters”, that consisted of live favorites such as “Dark Summernights of Eternal Twilight” and “(Still) Lost in the Autumn Of Eternity”, but also new epics such as “Of Times and Unknown Waters”, “Dead Inside” and the more experimental “End/Midnight”.
“Times and Unknown Waters” was released in the middle of June 2000, two weeks after the band played at the legendary Roskilde Festival, and interestingly, only two days after the Pearl Jam Roskilde concert in which nine people were killed in a stampede.
Blazing Eternity played a handful of concerts in Denmark and Germany, ending of with the respected goth rock festival Wave Gotik Treffen in the summer of 2001, sharing the Haus Aunsee stage with Theatre Of Tragedy among others. The album is still a classic of dark danish atmospheric metal, as far as we are concerned! The band also played a small tour in Denmark with Borknagar and Malignant Eternal.
In the end of 2001, Magnus Ringling were replaced by Anders I. Kristiansen – and rehearsals for a new album began. The decision for a new and less hard metal style were made. If the band should develop, growling vocals would not be the future! And after all, the band finally agreed that Morten Lybecker should handle the vocals on the upcoming album, but still leaving Peter Mesnickow in charge of the lyrics.
“A World To Drown In” was recorded at the Studio E, Zeltingen, Germany with good friend Markus Stock in July 2002 with additional recordings at Soundzone Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2002. The album was released on Martin Koller's Prophecy Productions in 2003, and the album was a step away from extreme metal towards more clean melancholic rock/metal. But songs such as “(Don’t) Tell the World” and the epic title track “A World To Drown In” are still very heavy with an absolute presence of dark atmospheric and heavy guitars, not to mention melodic melancholic beauties such as “Cover Me With Your Eyes” and “Monument”, and the instrumental Korsholm-track “Procession”. Blazing Eternity played only two gigs after this album – at Stengade 30 in Denmark and again at the Wave Gotik Treffen in Germany.
They reformed for 4 concerts in 2011/2012, motivated by several requests from Danish cult festival Metal Magic. After several years of silence again, Blazing Eternity performed in November 2023 at Nocturnefest in Copenhagen, and announced that a brand new album would be released on April 19th 2024.
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