| Algol was created in the winter of 1998, by 16 year old Dalkiel (vocals, guitar, keys, songwriter) and 19 year old Sarnath (bass), in hopes of bringing a newer style of "black metal" into an already existing American scene. Algol's first demo "Forgotten Paths" put their name out there, enabling them to share the stage with such bands as Garden of Shadows, Black Mass, Pessimist, In Flames, and Moonspell. Their demo also gave
them the opportunity to release their first album "Gorgonus Aura" on the small Italian label 12th Planet Records. Although the band is disappointed with certain aspects of that release, they received an abundant amount of good press. Algol received many rave reviews from such magazines as Ill Literature (USA), INFERNO mag (fin), Grind Zone (Italy), Heavymetalonline (Norway), and many others. With the release of "Gorgonus Aura", this allowed Algol to concentrate solely on playing live and getting their name out to a wider audience. Unfortunately Algol was plagued by severe line-up changes and thus forced them to cease playing live for the time being.
During this hiatus, Dalkiel and Sarnath grew increasingly disenchanted with the back-stabbing and name dropping of the American Black Metal scene. This allowed Dalkiel and Sarnath time to discuss what they wanted for the band and for themselves. Ultimately, this led them to the decision of dropping the term black metal from their music and incorporating the more appropriate term "Dark Vinlandic Art". This allowed them the opportunity to add more of their non-metal influences (i.e. Sigur Ros, Sopor Aeternus, Slowdive, HIM, Ulver, etc...) to their music without being pigeonholed by the shallow thinking, herd mentality often associated with black metal. The greatest addition to the band came a few weeks later in drummer MBOC from ,Maryland based and Wicked World signee, Garden of Shadows. Algol was officially back! They played out for a good year and a half, while working hard on recording the material for there anticipated split with Shroud of Despondency entitled "Whispers From and Empty Room" and also the beginnings of their new album "Vinlandic Evocations of an Anti-Christ".
The music to the upcoming album "Vinlandic......" is 100% finished and around 60% recorded. The band has spent all of it's own money in the recording process totalling over $6,000 and they have taken their time in the recording studio ensuring the best sound quality they possibly can. This now brings us into 2004, where the band has solidified it's line-up with keyboardist Cthulu and taking the place of their drummer MBOC is 19 year old drum prodigy Xos. The band is now focused and ready to dedicate all their time to taking Algol to the next level. With the right backing and the right promotion there is no doubt that Algol will become the biggest band to come out of the underground American
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