Honored black metal fanatics and internet warriors,
If you have accessed this page recently, you might have gotten the impression that this band has been out of service for the better part of a decade. Rest assured that that is not the case, we have been pretty much alive and kicking the entire time, only this page died down at some point in 2016 when we were recording our critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful sophomore album, “Children of a Nuclear Dawn.” Social media completely took over around that time.
Here's a backwards timeline of what happened in the last 9 years, feel free to stop reading at any point if you have the feeling you have little interest in events that have been buried by time and dust.
2025: Nihlathak and Mithras are recording the last vocal tracks for our new album, which will be entitled “Folk Devils & Moral Panics”.
2024: Basically busy with album recordings. Mithras on tour with Wight for most of the year, so progress was kind of slow. Osiris nailed all the drum tracks pretty early on, rest of the year was bass and guitars, piece by piece. The entire process was halted by Mithras becoming a father in November 2024 – which is also the reason for the quiet on the live front as of now. We did play a few gigs in 2024 though.
2023: Sorting out album arrangements, and playing a few gigs.
2022: Osiris joins as our new drummer. The guy is located in the Stuttgart area, so Fallen Tyrant turns into an online project that only meets every once in a blue moon to rehearse. We played our first gigs after a long-ish absence – and when we did the first one, that was the third time ever all three band members were in the same room. But this kind of thing does work with experienced musicians (and the help of in-ear monitoring) as we found out.
2021: We got access to our rehearsal room again, but shortly afterwards fired our founding drummer Sperrfeuer Heretic for personal differences. That could have been the end of the band, especially as the guy did shape our sound in more ways than you’d think, and as he was definitely an audience favorite. But sometimes things go sour, and it’s better to go separate ways…
2020: COVID hits. We lose access to out rehearsal room which is on public property and was hence subject to all sensible and nonsensical COVID restrictions imaginable. Mithras takes up home recording and basically writes a whole album during the various lockdowns.
2019: Few but highly successful live appearances – the original Fallen Tyrant lineup with Sperrfeuer probably peaked at this point when it comes to live delivery. Already writing a few new songs.
2018: We actually played way too many concerts in the first half of the year, so by the time “Children of a Nuclear Dawn” comes out in autumn, we’re basically out of booking options. Shit planning. Album gets released and gets very favorable reviews in the press.
2017: Busy working on the album, a few live appearances. Highlight of the year is probably our appearance at Metaldays in Tolmin, Slovenia. Thunderstorm destroyed the stage so we had to play a day later and in the rather early morning, in a completely hungover state. Perfectly nice gig though, not least owing to the professionality of the Metaldays stage crew. There is a video of someone in the audience brushing their teeth to Sperrfeuer’s blastbeats, fi you go look for it.