Phantasma

History

Phantasma was founded by two pagan creatures, Andy "Amriel" Duc (guitars, vocals, keyboards) and Roland Najmik (drums) in 1992 Anno Daemoni. Together with Radoslav they recorded their first demo called 'Destroyed 'Cause He Believed', released by themselves. It was a 4-song creation of raw death metal.

Radoslav left the band. Enter guitarist Eduard "Leviathan" Pastor and bassist Richard "Jesus" Dermek. It was time for the debut album. The album was named 'Welcome to Heaven' and it was released by Metal Age Productions in 1994. The album contained 11 songs include 3 instrumentals.

Phantasma's sophomore album 'Jazz for Jesus' was created in 1996. The band changed label and this 10-song album was released by Black Labyrinth Productions.

In 1996 Mr. Ryhak came in to fill the place that Roland left behind drums, and guitarist Rudolf Kurilla replaced Eduard Pastor. The sound of Phantasma was enriched by Rastislav Fabian's keyboards.

The third album 'Jahve' was released in 1999 under Rock Extremum Records.

In 2002 the fourth full length album 'Gospel' was releasd by Swedish label Downfall Records.

In 2002 Richard Dermek left the band and Darzagh was the new bassist. Rudolf Kurilla and Rastislav Fabian left the band, too. Andy Duc, Mr. Ryhak and Darzagh played tens of concerts, did interviews and began to work on next album.

The introduction to new album is EP 'Alternativa 666', which contains 3 songs, and was released by US extreme metal label Apocrypha records.

(source: Phantasma, arch 2010, edited by AM)