CANDLELIGHT DEBUT FROM ONE OF THE UK UNDERGROUND’S FINEST BANDS. A TRULY UNIQUE MYRIAD OF MUSICAL STYLES TETHERED TO A BLACK METAL SPINE!
After three well received demos the band signed to Supernal Music in 2000, and the debut album, ‘The Excommunication of Christ, appeared in 2001. The narration/ intro was voiced by AC Wild of cult Eighties Italian Black Metal band Bulldozer. Here began the bands long association with Hawkwind, as Huw Lloyd Langton played lead guitar on two tracks, including a cover of Hawkwind ‘Assault and Battery’. Whilst musically the Meads veered away from the icy monotone fuzz blasts of what could be cited as traditional Black Metal music, lyrically the band were, and are Black metal. The second album, Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua’, was released in 2003 and featured, Guest musicians, Huw Loyd Langton and Alan Davey (Hawkwind), Deorth (Ragnarok UK), Mirai (Sigh) and Paul; Carter (Thus Defiled). During late 2004/ early 2005 the band crafted the ‘Damascus Steel’ album with input from Mirai (Sigh), Max Rael (History of Guns), and new associate, Alisa Coral from Russian Space rock band ‘Space Mirrors’. The albums concept concerns the evil in human kind and the wanton slaughter in the name of God or whatever reason. The brand new album 'The Murder of Jesus The Jew' details the historical life of Jesus (Yeshua) the Jewish rabbi who was slaughtered on a tree by the Romans on a cold winters day 2000 years ago, and thereafter his people condemned to be pariahs of the earth due to Christian hatred. It is ironic that the Jewish roots of the Christian church have been erased and the blame of their man-god’s death cruelly placed upon a people already broken by the yoke of Roman imperialism. Truth is often blinded by faith, none more so than the story of Jesus and his maligned people.