History

Enchantment formed in 1993 in the midst of the UK death/doom metal movement alongside the likes of Paradise Lost, Anathema, and My Dying Bride.

In that year, they released a self-funded demo, 'A Tear for Young Eloquence', and were subsequently signed to Century Media Records before recording and releasing their debut album.

The debut album, 'Dance the Marble Naked', was released in early 1994. It was recorded at Academy Studios, West Yorkshire, in February 1994, by Robert "Mags" Magoolagan (Anathema, Cradle Of Filth, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Primordial etc. etc.).

The band played alongside many great death metal bands of the era including Bolt Thrower, Anathema, Cancer, and Cradle Of Filth before disbanding in 1995, leaving behind the compositions of an entire second album that had yet to be recorded.

Fast forward nearly 25 years. With the reissue of their debut album on vinyl for the first time (and after numerous successful reissues earlier on CD), Enchantment officially regrouped in 2019.

In 2020, the band started the unenviable task of resurrecting all the original rehearsal tapes and lyrical content from that lost second album and started working on demoing the tracks. This caught the attention of both Transcending Records and Cosmic Key Creations with whom the band ultimately decided to sign with, with the prospect of finally recording and co-releasing their sophomore full-length. It is unknown if any other similar band can claim to have written almost a full album in the peak of the British death / doom metal explosion and for it to have never been recorded or released. Yet nearly twenty-eight years to the day exactly that 'Dance The Marble Naked' was first released, the band are now about to unveil 'Cold Soul Embrace' album in 2022.

(source: Earsplit PR; edited by AM)