Since we are exactly two weeks away from doing a short tour with Barathrum, almost exactly twenty years after we first toured with them, we figured this would be a good time to look back on these legendary shows.
The
following is a slightly edited and expanded version of a report Orlok wrote for
Morbid Tales #6 back in 2007. All right, here we go: a trip down memory lane .
. .
"In early
1997, the line-up that had been together for two years by then, admittedly with
a few interruptions, was on the brink of breaking up (what a surprise – we may
have split up more often than we played 'Countess Bathory'). Then all of a
sudden we got two offers for gigs, one in Bussum and one in Wassenaar and we
thought; whatever, let’s continue. Those gigs turned out pretty cool and got us
enthusiastic about the band again. We decided to record three new songs for a
mini CD and when around that time Opyros informed me that he was putting
together a tour for us, Barathrum and Sabbat from Japan
