Biography
Evil Masquerade was founded in the summer of 2003 in Copenhagen by Swedish guitarist Henrik Flyman (Lacrimosa, ex Wuthering Heights, Moahni Moahna, ZooL). He hooked up with Dennis Buhl (ex Hatesphere) behind the drums, Kasper Gram on bass and Henrik Brockmann (ex-Royal Hunt) on vocals to record the band's debut album. It was released early 2004 under the name Welcome to the Show. It almost immediately received worldwide recognition and made the charts in Japan at # 8. One year later it was followed up with their second album Theatrical Madness.
A couple of line up changes took place and new singer Apollo Papathanasio and bass player Thor Jeppesen entered the studio with Flyman and Buhl to record the album Third Act. This album took the band to a new level of fame when it was re-released in 2007 in the USA, one year after the original release in Europe and Asia. The fourth studio album Fade To Black saw yet another change in the line-up with only Henrik Flyman and Apollo Papathanasio remaining from the previous album. New members were drummer Daniel Flores (Mind’s Eye, Tears of Anger, ZooL) and bass player Johan Niemann (Therion, Evergrey, Hubi Meisel, Demonoid, Mind’s Eye). In 2009 Henrik Flyman and Evil Masquerade won the prestigious Just Plain Folks Music Awards in the category Best Metal Song with "Bozo the Clown".
Flyman spent a large part of 2010 composing songs for the band's fifth album, Pentagram due to be released in May 2012. The recordings took place during 2011 and saw Flyman once again team up with the same members as on the band's third release: Papathanasio, Buhl and Jeppesen; together with the latest addition to the line-up, the band's first permanent keyboard player, Artur Meinild.
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