| 1993 |
| Autumn: András Nagy forms Sear Bliss
together with former Extreme Deformity bassist Csaba Tóth. Former
Animosity musicians, János Barbarics (guitars) and Norbert Keibinger
(drums) join Sear Bliss. |
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| 1994 |
| January: Sear Bliss starts intense
rehearsals. |
Spring: Csaba Tóth quits Sear Bliss.
Gergely Szücs joins Sear Bliss as a trumpet player. Former Extreme
Deformity vocalist Csaba Csejtei joins Sear Bliss as a guitar player
and his brother Zoltán Csejtei, former Extreme Deformity guitarist
joins Sear Bliss as vocalist. Winter joins Sear Bliss on keyboards.
The work on the songs for "The Pagan Winter" demo begins. |
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| 1995 |
April: Norbert Keibinger leaves Sear Bliss.
"The Pagan Winter" is recorded (LMS Studio, Szombathely.
Engineered by Bertalan Domby) with Balázs Bertalan from Extreme
Deformity as session-drummer. |
May: "The Pagan Winter" is
released. Winter quits Sear Bliss. Gergely Szücs takes over the
keyboards beside the trumpet. Zoltán Csejtei takes over the drums and
András Nagy takes over the vocals beside the bass.
Sear Bliss starts working on new songs. |
| Summer: "The Pagan Winter" tape
gets surprisingly good reviews and responses. Some labels become
interested in the band. |
| August: Sear Bliss plays its first live
show, in Budapest. |
November: Winter rejoins Sear Bliss.
Sear Bliss decides to sign to Mascot / Two Moons Records for three
albums. More than 800 copies of "The Pagan Winter" are sold. |
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|
| 1996 |
| January: The first album, titled "Phantom"
is recorded (LMS Studio, Szombathely. Engineered by Bertalan Domby and
Ferenc Vida). |
| July: The label decides to change the
title of the album to "Phantoms". |
August: "Phantoms" is released.
Holland's leader metal magazine Aardshock awards it as "CD Of The
Month". It is the first (and only) time in the magazine's history
that the award goes to a black metal album.
The song called "Aeons Of Desolation" appears on the
compilation CD of the Dutch progressive rock magazine IO Pages. |
| September: Sear Bliss starts working on
new songs. |
| November: A new song, entitled "In
The Shadow Of Another World" is recorded (Nautilus Studio, Sopron.
Engineered by András Boda) for the CD version of "The Pagan
Winter". |
| December: The song "Aeons Of
Desolation" appears on the Extreme Rock´N´Roll Series I.
compilation CD, released by Mascot Records. |
|
| 1997 |
| February: "The Pagan Winter" is
released on CD together with the song "In The Shadow Of Another
World", as a bonus track. |
| February/March: Sear Bliss tours Europe
together with Marduk and Tsatthoggua. |
| March: Zoltán Csejtei is asked to leave
Sear Bliss. Shortly after Csaba Csejtei follows him. |
| April: Winter quits. |
May: Zoltán Schönberger (drums) and
Viktor Scheer (guitars) joins Sear Bliss. Gergely Szücs takes over
the keyboards again.
The work on the songs of ´The Haunting´ begins. |
| August: "The Haunting" is
recorded (Beaufort Studio, Holland. Engineered by Han Swagerman and
Viktor Scheer) |
| September: "The Haunting" is
mixed without the band. The result is disappointing so new mixes are
done shortly after. |
|
| 1998 |
| February: "The Haunting" is
released. Gigs follow later. |
| March: Sear Bliss gets an oppotunity for a
three-week-long European tour with Ancient in May but has to cancel it
due to studies commitments. |
| December: Sear Bliss celebrates its 5th
anniversary with an enormous gig in Budapest. |
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| 1999 |
| March: Sear Bliss leaves Mascot Records.
Shortly after, the band records four new songs for promotional
purposes (engineered by Viktor Scheer). |
| July: Sear Bliss plays a gig together with
Tormentor in Budapest. This was called the Tormentor Reunion gig. |
| August: Viktor Scheer is asked to leave
Sear Bliss. |
| September: Gergely Szücs and János
Barbarics quit Sear Bliss due to other commitments. |
November/December: András Nagy takes over
the guitar. Shortly after, András Horváth P. joins Sear Bliss on
guitar. Keyboard-players Attila Török (Amon Hen) and later Péter
Bokros and trumpet-player Róbert Pintér help Sear Bliss as session
musicians.
Sear Bliss starts negotiating with a couple of labels. |
|
| 2000 |
| February: Sear Bliss records two new songs
(Home Studio, Szombathely. Engineered by Bertalan Domby). |
| April: István Neubrandt joins Sear Bliss
on guitar. |
Summer: Sear Bliss does a small European
tour. The band signs to Nephilim Records for one album.
András Nagy is asked to write the lyrics and do the vocals for Olivér
Ziskó´s project called Cavum (Olivér plays the drums there). This
demo is recorded in Home Studio (engineered by Bertalan Domby). Cavum
plays experimental, progressive metal with András Nagy´s black metal
vocals and cosmic lyrics. |
November/December: "Grand Destiny"
is recorded.
Zoltán Pál joins Sear Bliss as trombone-player. |
|
| 2001 |
| February: András Horváth P. is asked to
leave Sear Bliss. Krisztián Varga helps the band as session guitar
player on stage. |
April: "Grand Destiny" is
released.
András Nagy writes music together with Winter and Zoltán Csejtei for
Winter´s project called Forest Silence. |
| May/June: Forest Silence´s three-song
promo is recorded (Home Studio, engineered by Bertalan Domby). András
Nagy plays the guitar. Forest Silence plays old school but slow black
metal with majestic keyboards. |
June: The song "Arx Idolatriae"
appears on Ablaze Magazine´s compilation CD.
The director of the Illyés Gyula Theater asks Sear Bliss to
co-operate in John Gay´s "The Beggar´s Opera". One month
long, very intense rehearsal starts with the theatrical company. Ziskó
Olivér joins Sear Bliss. |
| Summer: The live performance of the play
("The Beggar´s Opera-Metal Ballad") begins in Hungary. |
| August: Csaba Csejtei rejoins Sear Bliss.
Intense work on the songs for "Forsaken Symphony" begins. |
| November: Sear Bliss signs a deal with Red
Stream, Inc. for three albums. |
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| 2002 |
| March/April: "Forsaken Symphony"
is recorded. |
April: Red Stream, Inc. re-releases
"Grand Destiny".
Sear Bliss, together with the Illyés Gyula Theatrical Company
performs "The Beggar´s Opera" in Budapest´s most famous
Theater Thália with great success. |
October: Red Stream releases "Forsaken
Symphony".
Sear Bliss does a successful small European tour together with
Skyforger, Grief Of Emerald, Obtest, Bestial Mockery.
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