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Ophthalamia was a Swedish black metal band that formed in 1989.

Ophthalamia
Origin	Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Doom metal, melodic black metal
Years active	1989–1998
Labels	No Fashion

History

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Ophthalamia was formed in 1989 by singer All and guitarist IT, both also active in the musical groups Abruptum and Vondur. The band named themselves Ophthalamia after a fantasy-world created by IT. He created and named the geography, the land's creatures and a language for Ophthalamians. The Goddess of this world is a demon woman called Elishia. Almost all songs written by the band are connected in some way to this fantasy-world, until their last album, which was inspired by Macbeth.

The vocals were initially handled by All, but he was replaced by Shadow (Jon Nödtveidt) on A Journey In Darkness. Shadow, in his turn, was replaced by Legion for the Via Dolorosa album. Legion left the band for the infamous Marduk in 1995 and was replaced by All again. Winter played drums on the first two albums, but left right after Via Dolorosa was recorded. He was replaced by Bone. Guitarist Mourning was replaced by former bassist Night, who picked up the guitars for the Via Dolorosa album and is now the second guitarist. Mist replaced him on bass. Axa (Alexandra Balogh) who contributed as a piano session player also composed the last track of Dissection's album Storm Of The Light's Bane.

Line-up

• IT (Tony Särkkä) - guitar, vocals (deceased 08/02/2017)
• Night (Emil Nödtveidt) - guitar
• Bone (Ole Öhman) - drums, percussion
• All (Jim Berger) - lead vocals
• Mist (Mikael Schelin) - bass

Former members

• Shadow (Jon Nödtveidt) - vocals (deceased 16/08/2006)
• Legion (Erik Hagstedt) - vocals
• Winter (Benny Larsson) - drums
• Mourning (Robert Ivarsson) - bass

Session members

• Axa - Piano, backing vocals

Discography

• 1994 - A Journey in Darkness
• 1995 - Via Dolorosa
• 1997 - To Elishia (compilation)
• 1998 - A Long Journey (re-recording of A Journey in Darkness)
• 1998 - Dominion
• 2019 - II Elishia II

External links

• Official homepage

На других языках

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[de] Ophthalamia

Ophthalamia war eine 1989 gegründete schwedische Black-Doom-Band aus Stockholm.

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- [en] Ophthalamia

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[ru] Ophthalamia

Ophthalamia — шведская дум/блэк-метал-группа, основанная в Стокгольме в 1989 году.

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