Vlad Tepes (band)
Vlad Tepes was a French black metal band which was formed in Brest in 1993. The name originated from the 15th-century Wallachian ruler, the inspiration for Bram Stoker's fictional vampire Dracula. The group belongs to the Black Legions. Vorlok Drakksteim also has a side project named Black Murder, for which he is the composer, while Wlad Drakksteim is the composer for Vlad Tepes. Vlad Tepes were one of the Black Legions bands featured in the magazine The Black Plague - First Chapter in 1995.History
After a self-released rehearsal tape, the demo-tape War Funeral March was released on the American market by Full Moon Productions. It was followed the next year by March to the Black Holocaust, a split release with fellow Black Legions act Bèlkètre, issued on the French Embassy Productions. In 1996, another split album with the Black Legions project Torgeist, Black Legions Metal, was released by the French Drakkar Productions.Discography
Demos
- Rehearsal Winter '93
- War Funeral March
- The Return of the Unweeping
- Celtic Poetry
- Into Frosty Madness
- Brouillons I
- Brouillons II
- Dans Notre Chute...
- The Return of the Unweeping II
- Black Legions Metal
- Morte Lune
Splits
- March to the Black Holocaust
- Black Legions Metal
Re-releases
- War Funeral March
- Black Legions Metal
- March to the Black Holocaust
- War Funeral March
- Anthologie Noire
- The Return of the Unweeping
- Celtic Poetry
- Into Frosty Madness
- Dans Notre Chute...
- Morte Lune
- Winter
- Celtic Poetry
- Into Frosty Madness
- Dans Notre Chute...
- Morte Lune
- The Return of the Unweeping - Collection
- The Drakksteim Sessions
- An Ode to Our Ruin (2017 cassette, official release, Black Gangrene Productions