Gorgoroth

Norwegian black metal band from Bergen, Norway



The band was founded in 1992 by Infernus (who's also the only original member remaining), and the name was derived from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings in which Gorgoroth is a dead plateau of evil and darkness in the land of Mordor.







On February 1, 2004, during a recording for DVD concert in Kraków, Poland, the band displayed sheep heads on stakes, a bloodbath of 80 litres of sheep's blood, Satanic symbols, and four naked crucified models on stage. A police investigation took place with allegations of religious offence (which is prosecutable under Polish law) and cruelty to animals.[27] Though these charges were considered, the band was not charged as it was ruled that they were unaware of the fact that what they were doing was illegal, although the concert organiser was eventually fined 10000zł in 2007 as he knew about it and neither informed the band that it was against the law nor intervened.[28] The whole controversy led to the band being dropped from the roster of the Nuclear Blast Tour and the footage of the concert being confiscated by the police.[29] Following this controversy - and with Gorgoroth also having achieved a satisfactory degree of worldwide recognition through Nuclear Blast's distribution facilities - the contract between both parties was terminated bilaterally. Gorgoroth supposedly further secured a reputation as a band with a vehement anti-Right Hand Path agenda, of which select employees in the company were alleged to have felt uneasy with due to their own personal beliefs.[11]



Carving A Giant





Revelations Of Doom (live)





Posessed ( by Satan ) - From the album Antichrist