Soulskinner, Dreamlongdead, Ascending Olympus live at Temple, 24th May

Get ready for an unforgettable underground experience at Soulskinner’s anniversary show, celebrating a 25 year journey, with a night full of the raw power of death metal!
Joining them, DreamLongDead and Ascending Olympus promise to raise the temperature of the stage, offering unrelenting intensity and dark melodies, drawing everyone into an irritating death metal holocaust!
A unique opportunity to experience an old school revival, where every note will take you into a world of extreme energy and pure metal power!

For online pre-sale go to the link: https://cometogether.live/el/event/2641/soulskinner-25-years-skin-your-soul-w-special-guests-dream-long-dead-ascending-olympus

Hard copy tickets can be found at the following locations:
Bowel Of Noise – Themistokleous 25, Athens
Dope Of Sound Studio – Georg. Kedrinou 19, Gyzi
Esqueleto Café Bar – Charilaou Trikoupi 145, Exarchia
Kagmakis Music Accessories – Emmanouil Benaki 32, Athens
Metal Era – Emmanouil Benaki 22, Athens
Monsterville – Agias Irinis 13, Monastiraki
No Remorse – Akadimias 81, Athens
Uncle Chronis Tattoo – Faneromenis 7, Holargos

SOULSKINNER
An unstoppable wave of raw death metal!
From the depths of the Greek underground scene, Soulskinner have been shaking the universe for 25 years with their raw sound, macabre style and unique energy.
They were reborn in 2000 from the ashes of Terra Tenebrae, combining classic death metal with modern elements, melodies and alternations, which make their music irresistible and full of intensity.
With hard, massive guitars, relentless drums and a heavy, menacing vocal style, Soulskinner have evolved into one of the most remarkable representatives of Greek death metal.

Each of their selected appearances on stage is an explosive mix of atmosphere and aggression, challenging the audience to drift into a world of relentless power and dark energy.
Soulskinner doesn’t just follow the recipe of old school death metal.
Each track is a musical adventure, with dark atmospheres mixed with the classic aggressiveness of the genre.

With songs that lyrically touch on darkness, mystery and terror, but end up in light and hidden wisdom, the band creates a unique musical identity that is distinguished by its authenticity and originality. Their influences from the death metal greats, with elements that even touch on doom and black metal, offer a variety of sounds that cover every aspect of the dark world they depict.
With more than 2 decades in the active scene, Soulskinner have submitted remarkable albums that established them in both the Greek and international death metal community.

Their discography proves their evolution and dedication to the true death metal sound:
Breeding the Grotesque (2003)
Non-Stop killings (2007)
Crypts of Ancient Wisdom (2014)
Descent to Abaddon (2017)
Seven bowls of wrath (2020)
Glorified by the light (2024)

If there’s one thing that really sets Soulskinner apart, it’s the relentless energy in every live performance. A musical havoc that captivates you, from the first notes to the last scream.
With their unique approach to the genre, the raw power of their music and their dedication to the dark paths that lead to the light, Soulskinner invite you to immerse yourself in their world and discover the dark corners of a metal scene that once existed and lived only for the underground!

Call
it “death metal of doom” or “doom metal of death” if you prefer, but DreamLongDead deliver extremely heavy, relentless metal, with double vocals,
creating a soundscape that is both overwhelming and exciting.

Having participated in various other projects since the 90s, the members of the band are not newcomers to the Greek underground metal scene.
Starting its course in 2011, the band released three DIY albums until 2018 and played quite a bit live, receiving very positive reactions for their “heavier than thou” live performances.
After almost six years of lethargy, DreamLongDead re-emerged in 2024 with the release of their most recent album, “Derelict”.

An audio journey meticulously created using analogue equipment and a console at AUX Studio in Athens, ensuring an authentic and rich sound character, while the mastering was undertaken by Jack Control at Enormous Door Mastering (Darkthrone, Coffin Storm, Aura Noir, VoidCeremony, Frozen Soul) in Austin, Texas.
Lasting over 60 minutes, “Derelict” is an epic work consisting of six tracks that run through three conceptual and thematic spheres, transporting the listener from the depths of the tomb to frozen volcanic deserts and from there to the infinite, starless, void.

Musically, the album builds on the band’s established doom/death/post metal foundations, while further exploring the cinematic and progressive concerns that have always underpinned the DreamLongDead sound.
In addition, the disturbingly transcendent work of notorious Polish surrealist artist Zdzisław Beksiński adorns the album cover, providing the most appropriate landscape to depict the vibrations of the band’s music.

“… The soundtrack of a George Romero directed, grainy super 8 shot, black & white zombie exploitation flick, about a meta-apocalyptic world where only cannibals and junkies survive.
The testament of a ravaged planet which the Ancient Ones have reclaimed in their abominable talons and tentacles”. You’ve been warned…

Line-up:
Tasos Palaiologos – guitar, vocals
Yiannis Pousios – vocals
Achilleas Harbilas – guitar
Leonidas Vranas – bass
Tolis Theodoridis – drums

Band links:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2a09U1cDAEQJpjnqkroy00
Bandcamp: https://dreamlongdead666.bandcamp.com/
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dreamlongdead/1413280193
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DreamLongDeadOfficial
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dldgreece
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreamlongdeadofficial/

ASCENDING OLYMPUS
The Athenian modernthrash / deathmetallers Ascending Olympus, were formed in April 2019 and in December 2022 they gave their first concert at the Athenian Temple, alongside Warhammer.
Four years after their founding and more specifically on April 28, 2023, they released their debut “Frontlines”.

On April 7 of the same year, they released their first video clip and single for the song “Death will come from above” directed by the well-known Bob Katsionis.
Their music is a filtered mix of influences from bands such as Machine Head, The Haunted, Exodus, Amon Amarth, Bolt Thrower and Unleashed, with intense war themes, as the title of the album betrays, both on a metaphorical and literal level, inspired by historical defensive battles of antiquity and beyond.
It is a diverse thrash metal base assisted by the death metal timbre.

The mastering of the album took place at Hertz studios (Behemoth, Vader, Decapitated) in Poland while the song “A call to arms” features Marios Dupont of Lucifer’s Child.

Their second video clip was released in January 2024 for the song “As the ground trembles” again directed by Bob Katsionis.
They presented their debut live in its entirety, in February of the same year at the Temple in Athens, together with
Enthroned Serpent and Serement.

Just a month and a half after the performance, they returned to the concert scene and gave their 3rd concert at the historic An club as part of the Total Death Festival vol. 1 along with Dead Human Factory, Vomit The Gut, and Sickening Horror.
The band traveled to Patras for its 4th concert (and first outside Athens) in April 2024 at the University of Patras as part of the Metal Blast Festivalvol. 1 alongside Resurrection, Plague Spreader, Krushya and -once again- SickeningHorror.

Andreas Logiotatos (ex-BurialHordes) on vocals, remains the only founding member since 2019 and now Ascending Olympus, continue with Konstantinos Tzatza (Redreigner) on guitar, Romanos Skiadas (Sickening Horror, All Sins Undone, ex-Warclouds) on bass and Thodoris Piperidis (Enthroned Serpent, Amniac, ex-Karma Violens) on drums.

The band is currently in the process of composing and pre-producing its successor “Frontlines” and is more thirsty than ever for concerts in Greece and abroad.

Line up:
Andreas Logiotatos – Vocals
Konstantinos Tzatzas – Guitar
Romanos Skiadas – Bass
Thodoris Piperidis – Drums