Artist: Ephel Duath
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Rock
Discography:
The Painter's Palette
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Rephormula
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Phormula
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
One of Italy's to the highest degree ambitious toilsome metal bands, Padova's Ephel Duath coalesce the realms of end, black, and progressive metal (think Cynic meets Solefald), and were founded in 1998, ab initio as a studio apartment figure, by the multi-talented pair of Davide Tiso (vocals, guitars, keyboards) and Giuliano Mogicato (vocals, guitars, basso). After marketing over 1,000 copies of their "Opera" demonstration (and topping MP3.com's wakeless metallic element charts with over 20,000 free downloads!), the geminate released 2000's anything merely formulaic Phormula to match amounts of raving and panning (but never less than amazed) reviews -- later augmenting and reissuing it as Rephormula later sign language with Earache Records subsidiary Elitist. Ephel Duath's side by side feat was 2003's wildly eclectic The Painters Palette, which arguably took even greater creative risks by incorporating electronics and loose malarkey, among other sonic accents. But, like its 2005 follow-up, Pain Necessary to Know, it found Tiso encircled by new collaborators, vocalists Luciano George Lorusso and Davide Tolomei, bassist Fabio Fecchio, and drummer Davide Piovesan, Mogicato having touched on to shape with Fields of Asphodel.
