Artist: MIRROR OF DECEPTION
Album: SHARDS (CD)

Year: 2006
Media type: CD

Mirror of Deception was founded in summer 1990 near Stuttgart and are meanwhile considered one of the best known Doom Metal bands from Germany and Central Europe. Initially influenced by the founding fathers of the genre such as Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Count Raven, Trouble, Pentagram, Saint Vitus, the band has crafted their own unmistakable sound and style. Mirror of Deception are the epitomy of pure Doom Metal in the most indivdualistic sense, wearing their influences on their sleeves proudly yet always trying to find their own niche to occupy.

After a couple of demos and a mini-CD the immensly delayed debut album, „Mirrorsoil“ was released on the UK label The Miskatonic Foundation in early 2001. The leading national metal magazine, Rock Hard called it „the best piece of Doom Metal that has ever been recorded by a German band”. A mini-CD, „Conversion“ followed in spring 2003, again on The Miskatonic Foundation and it was critically acclaimed as well. The second album, “Foregone” was issued by Belgian label Final Chapter in September 2004 and received raving reviews once again, topped by a 10 x Dynamite (the section for the best 10 album of a month) review in Rock Hard magazine.

On the live sector, Mirror of Deception has played loads of shows, both in Germany and other European countries such as The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Finland and the UK. They`ve been on tour with bands like Reverend Bizarre, Count Raven, Revelation, Warning, Solstice (UK), End of Green, The Lord Weird Slough Feg and participated in a number of festivals such as Summer Breeze 2002, Doom Shall Rise 2003 + 2005, Dutch Doom Day 2003, Belgian Doom Night 2005, Bretthart 2005 and Headbangers Open Air 2005.

Their third album ’Shards’ will be released in October 2006 by German label Cyclone Empire (COUNT RAVEN, TIMO RAUTIAINEN & TRIO NISKALAUKAUS, THE SCOURGER).

TRACKLIST:

1. Haunted
2. Ghost
3. Swamped
4. The Eruption
5. Insomnia
6. Dead Pledge
7. The Capital New
8. Pyre
9. Frozen Fortune
10. Enigma