Artist: ETERNAL OATH
Album: WITHER (CD)

Release date: 2005
Media type: CD

ETERNAL OATH guitarist Peter Nagy also has credits with HYPOCRITE, WYVERN and MORK GRYNING. The band came together during 1991 citing an inaugural line up comprising vocalist Joni Maensivu, guitarist Petri Tarvainen bass player Ted Lundstrom and drummer Ted Jonsson. A later addition saw the ranks swelled with the introduction of second guitarist Daniel Dziuba. This formation cut an opening three track demo in the December of 1992. However, shortly after Lundstrom took leave to join up with AMON AMARTH and a replacement on bass was found in Martin Wiklander. Because of this line up shuffle the demo remained consigned to the vaults.

A full year later the band set about recording a second demo, a five track session entitled 'Art Of Darkness'. This new material demonstrated ETERNAL OATH's drift away from the basic Death Metal approach. Peter Nagy took Dziuba's position that same year. In February of 1994 a further demo was laid down, prompting the interest of Rat Pack Records and resulting in recording of songs for the mini album 'So Silent'. The album never emerged on Rat Pack though, ETERNAL OATH severing ties with the label and industriously releasing the record under their own steam in June of 1996.

Wiklander lost interest and decamped and ETERNAL OATH pulled in Peter Wendin as substitute for the debut full length album 'Through The Eyes Of Hatred', issued by the Singapore based Pulverized label. The 2002 ETERNAL OATH outing 'Righteous', released by the Greater Arts label, would include a cover version of PARADISE LOST's 'Eternal'.

The band donated their rendition of 'The Fevered Circle' to the AT THE GATES tribute album, 'Slaughterous Souls - A Tribute to At The Gates' released in September 2004 through Drowned Scream Records.

TRACKLISTING:

01. Behind Tomorrow
02. Death's Call
03. In Despair For My Sins
04. Godsend
05. Second Life
06. Within My World
07. Act Of Fate
08. On Bitter Wings
09. Fallen Virtue
10. At Your Hands
11. A Face In The Crowd
12. Wither

LINE-UP:

Joni Maensivu (vocals)
Peter Nagy (guitar / drums)
Petri Tarvainen (guitar)
Peter Wendin (bass)
Par Almquist (keyboards)
Ted Jonsson (drums)