About Benighted

There are multiple artists with the name Benighted: 1) Benighted is a French Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore band. They formed in 1998 in Balbigny, France. Benighted has slowly evolved from a blackened death metal sound, to a newer sound of brutal death metal. This is considered to be a fusion of several styles: combining groovy death-thrash riffs with black metal-ish sections, and various different styles of harsh vocals throughout their songs. Benighted have 5 albums under their belt: 2000's Benighted, 2002's Psychose, 2003's Insane cephalic production, and 2005's Identisick. They released their recent effort in 2007, titled Icon. Their official website is www.staybrutal.com 2) Benighted is a symphonic US black metal band which was formed in 1999. Members included: Joseph Demoniaque - Vocals (Cernunnos (USA), Dreamscapes Of The Perverse, Omniscient, A Vision Grotesque) Dagon - Guitar TotenGeist - Guitar Methyric - Bass Zacathus - Drums, Keyboards Adina Blase - Keyboards (Acheron (USA), Lilitu, Cernunnos (USA), Blood Stained Dusk) The band has split-up. Discography: Harbringers of the Victorium Aeternus (2000) 3) Benighted: is a Swedish black metal band. They formed around 2001 by Aho, as he had just left Immemoreal and wanted to start something of his own, and be able to have full control of the productivity. Salle was the obvious choice of a drummer, since they had been playing together before in several death and black metal bands, and had also been friends since years back. So far this Benighted has released two demos entitled "Heljarför" and "Avgrundshjärta". 4)Benighted: Old School Death Metal band from Sweden. One demo- Recorded in 26-28 February 1993. The Master of Darkness 1. Dreamweaver 2. Crushing the Light 3. Master of Darkness 4. I Am God 5. Altar of Sacrifice