• It's time, I think, that metalheads should pay a little more attention to the extreme metal scene of Greece, cause these bands worth the recognition and their music has the potential to help them spread their names. Here we present you one of the many promising Greek bands,w hich answers to the name Rotting Flesh...

• The band was formed , in 1993.Since then we have release 6 demos .We have given several live performances, the most important of them was when we supported   MARDUK, THE HAUNTED and SEPTIC FLESH. Our line up is the following: Blackmass:guitars/vocals,Madarab:guitars,Darkmark:drums,Amon:bass,Lina:keys/vocals.

• Blackmass was inspired by the name of the group in 1993 because it sounds gore like our music.We think that the name of a band is only the first impression. The most important  thing in a band is the music, if you don’t play good music you will not survive in the music field for a long time.

• It is very difficult for us to describe our music in a few sentences. Every member in the band has his personal influences, so the result is a mixture of extreme Metal and we prefer to just say that we play DARK METAL.

• Our releases are the following:
• "Necromancer" demo tape in early 1994
• "Underground conspiracy" demo tape in late 1994
• "Temple of rage" demo tape in 1995
• "Realms beyond heaven" demo tape in 1996
• "Follow the end" demo CD in 1998
• "Death will come" demo CD in 2000
• and our latest release "Dreaming the underworld" CD in 2002

5.TELL US SOME THINGS FOR YOUR LATEST CD "DREAMING...THE UNDERWORLD". FROM WHICH LABEL WILL IT BE RELEASED? HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE MUSIC?

• "Dreaming the underworld" is our most professional work and we are very satisfied. It will be re-mastered in Germany and it will be released from the Germany record company "KMG/SYSTEM SHOCK"

• First of all we record the Drums, then the guitars, the bass, followed by the synth and finally the vocals.

• We could consider them spiritual, we try to create images in the audience’s mind. Our inspiration and its absence comes from our daily lives Lyrics are written by Lina and Darkmark.

• The reactions are usually very encouraging and satisfying. Our worst review was when they compared us with ‘Rotting Christ’ and ‘Septic Flesh’ confusing our name with theirs. So we had to prove that our music and name had nothing in common, not even the slightest influence.

• Always things were and still are very difficult as many sacrifices of all the group members are needed but we never thought of quitting.

• In our opinion, Greece has one of the most powerful Metal scenes in Europe. The fact that groups don’t support one another is up to a point true. We believe that this is caused by the competition out there which is very disappointing.

• Our last live was in December of 2001.If you have money to book a place then it is very easy to perform a live but usually expenses are quite demanding.

• This is used as a way to impress and advertise themselves because if they actually believed this they wouldn’t seek for fans and popularity they would sit at home and play for their own entertainment.

• Unfortunately this is true, but not in extreme Metal as Death/Black/Grind. This is obvious especially in the New Metal scene.

• We are musicians so it is very difficult to imagine something like that unless we have special guidance from someone experience on this.

• We liked the new albums of: ENGORGED, KING DIAMOND, TANKARD, UNLEASED and our 5 all time classic albums are: DEATH "Sound of Perseverance", and "human", MORBID ANGEL "formulas fatal of the flesh", OZZY "bark at the moon", EMPEROR "Promitheus".

• Thanks for the interview.

•  No, you’ve covered everything. Stay true!!
•                                                                                          Nick  "William_Kidd"  Parastatidis