Inquisition (metal band)

2008 Inquisition was formed in 1988 in Cali, Colombia, by Dagon as a thrash metal act named Guillotine. The band changed their name to Inquisition in 1989. The name, frontman Dagon later explained, was chosen because it represented humanity's "need to establish dominance, control and order based on a particular period of our world's history." Debandt departed the band shortly after the release of Inquisition's full-length debut, Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult, in 1998. As revealed to be in the public record by metal news website MetalSucks, Dagon pleaded guilty to Unlawful Display of Sexually Explicit Material and Obstructing a Law Enforcement Officer in a plea bargain after the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children detected an account uploading sexually explicit photographs of "young females in their early teens or pre-teens" to the photo-sharing website Photobucket in November 2006, the account being traced to Dagon. A subsequent investigation of his computer revealed as many as 2,000 files recovered depicting Inquisition, Dagon and his wife, and more child pornography, involving both young girls and boys. Enough of the latter category existed to fill four DVDs with images and videos. The charges did not require him to register on the Washington Sex Offender Public Registry. Recent efforts In the aftermath of the resurfaced allegations against Dagon, the band went silent on their social media for the majority of 2018, however in late December of that year the band announced on their Facebook that they had started working on new music. A year later in late December 2019, they announced they had completed recording their next album. On November 11, 2020, the band released a music video for their song "Luciferian Rays" to promote their next album. The band's eighth full-length album Black Mass for a Mass Grave was released on November 20, 2020, through Agonia Records.{{Cite web|url=http://label.agoniarecords.com/index.php?a=0NhEiQBw88lAHpRQgBf4v%2B6K3alK%2B%2FkGXYXvg9spPM1lEcX87SUnSw%3D%3D == Musical style ==

Inquisition started as a thrash metal band in the vein of Sodom and Kreator, Inquisition's recordings have not featured a bass guitar since their debut, Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult. Dagon explained that he and Incubus "had too many problems finding a bass player years ago" and gave reasons ranging from drug addiction to the absence of a complementary ideological orientation. While some critics have described Dagon's singing style as "reptilian", Metal Hammer journalist Robert Müller compared Dagon's voice to Kermit the Frog. Responding to the comparison, Dagon described the intent and history of his approach: Dagon cited early Graveland and Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas as influential to his vocal approach. Another notable element of the Inquisition sound is Incubus' blast beat style, in which the snare works together with the hi-hat or ride while alternating the two bass drums, as opposed to alternating the snare and kick, the more traditional form. This style is somewhat uncommon in black metal, being used much more prevalently in death metal. Over time, the band's compositions have become increasingly complex. Dagon has referenced Baroque composers as among his greatest inspirations: == Religion and ideology ==

Dagon defines black metal as "music that speaks for Satan, prov[ing] the existence of its force...Black Metal in essence must begin with the recognition of Satan as the foundation of the Black Metal code. This is where Black Metal began and this is how it must be, always, there should be no doubts." 88MM was included on the compilation called Declaration of Anti-Semetic [sic] Terror with the track "14 Showerheads, 1 Gas Tight Door". The compilation was released by white supremacist record label Satanic Skinhead Propaganda. Antichrist Kramer, who owns the label, has also drawn the cover art of all Inquisition albums from 2004 to 2010. Inquisition also appeared on a compilation CD called From Colombia with Hate by Sylphorium Records. In the booklet of the CD, there is an image of the band in front of a Nazi flag. == Band members ==

Current • Dagon – guitars, vocals (1988–present) • Incubus – drums (1996–present) Past • John Santa – drums (1988–1994) • Endhir Xo Kpurtos – drums (1996) • Debandt – bass (1998) • Cesar Santa – bass (1989) • Carlos Arcila – keyboards, flute (1996) == Discography ==

Studio albums • Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult (1998) • Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan (2002) • Magnificent Glorification of Lucifer (2004) • Nefarious Dismal Orations (2007) • Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm (2010) • Obscure Verses for the Multiverse (2013) • Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith (2016) • Black Mass for a Mass Grave (2020) • Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence (2024) Live albums • Demonic Ritual in Unholy Blackness (2018) EPs, demos, splits and compilations • Anxious Death (1990, EP) • Forever Under (1993, demo) • Incense of Rest (1996, EP; later released as a split with Profane Creation) • Summoning the Black Dimensions in the Farallones / Nema (1996, split album with Profane Creation) • Unholy Inquisition Rites (2004, EP; preview of Magnificent Glorification of Lucifer featuring two raw mixes, a rehearsal track, and a live song) • Anxious Death/Forever Under (2004, compilation) == References ==