Tormentor (band)

Tormentor
OriginBudapest, Hungary
GenresBlack metal[1]
Years active1985–1991
1999–?
2017–present
MembersAttila Csihar
Attila Szigeti
Machat St. Zsoltar
György Farkas
Past membersMugambi Zoldun
Zeno Galoca
Márton Dubecz
Tamás Buday
Websitetormentor.hu
Attila Csihar performing with Mayhem at the Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway in April 2010

Tormentor is a Hungarian black metal band formed in 1986 in Budapest. They recorded their first album, Anno Domini, in 1988, but were unable to release it until the end of communist rule in Hungary.[2] The album reached Norway through the tape-trading community. Following the suicide of Per Ohlin, Mayhem invited Attila Csihar from Tormentor to join the band; he was to perform the vocals on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.[3] Tormentor split up in 1991. After a long break they reformed and released the more experimental Recipe Ferrum through Avantgarde Music in 2001,[2] going on a long indefinite hiatus afterwards.

  1. ^ Tormentor biography @ MusicMight Archived 19 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b "Tormentor @ Myspace". Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  3. ^ Kovács, Marcell (17 May 2007). ""Emberen túli" (Csihar Attila – Mayhem)" (interview in Hungarian). Magyar Narancs. Retrieved 3 June 2010.