Templo Gnóstico de Satã: Les Légions Noires

Les Légions Noires
Origin	France
Genres	Black metal Dark ambient Ambient noise
Years active	1987 – Possibly present
Labels	Drakkar Productions End All Life Productions Full Moon Productions
Members
Lord Aäkon Këëtrëh Lord Beleth'Rim Vordb Bathor Ecsed Worlok Drakksteim Wlad Drakksteim
Past members
Dark Wizzard of Silence Krissagrazabeth Lord Meyhna'ch Lord Ogvdreb Lord Urvdrem Mørdrëd

Les Légions Noires (also known as The Black Legions in English, or simply abbreviated to LLN) is a group of French underground black metal musicians and their bands, centered mostly around the city of Brest, in Britanny. The bands involved limited their releases to very small numbers (often just enough to get to the other circle members), and distributed them among friends and close workers.

History

Possibly the circle was formed in the late 1980s, early 1990s, in response to the supposed Norwegian "Black Metal Inner Circle". According to a 2005 series in Terrorizer magazine on the history of black metal, "A bunch of corpsepainted characters, rumoured to be drawn from such acts as Mütiilation, Torgeist and Vlad Tepes named themselves the 'Black Legions' as a tribute to the so-called 'Black Mafia' Norwegian BM heroes Darkthrone and Burzum, who were supposedly ready to terrorize Christians a couple of years before."^[1] The first recordings of LLN members came about in the early 1990s, and their influence was acknowledged in the same issue of Terrorizer: "One should never count out France, primarily as the home of the inscrutably influential Black Legions of ridiculous rawness during the mid-90s."^[2]
Regarding their influences, Wlad Drakksteim of Vlad Tepes referred, in an interview with Petrified magazine, to Hellhammer and especially Bathory: "Every True Black Metal Horde should play in old Bathory style."^[3] When asked about the "Norwegian Black Metal Mafia", he said, "Norwegian mafia did lots of 'bad' things to this world. With Euronymous death MAYHEM is definitely dead and it's better like that as it will help Black Metal to return to darkness. [Euronymous] must be in peace now so I don't complain [lament?] him. And about Varg Vikernes (BURZUM) I don't have any opinion. WE have OUR opinions and he certainly knows them so..."^[4]
The best-known bands of the LLN are Mütiilation (the one-man band formed by William Roussel, also known as Meyhna'ch), Belketre, Torgeist, and Vlad Tepes.
Vlad Tepes have been outspoken in the goals of their black metal: "We are Black Legions of Satan, we are the immortal warriors of Black imperial blood. We are here to pervert christian worms and they shall face the Black holocaust. It's near!"^[4]

Bands and projects

Personnel:
AäK = Lord Aäkon Këëtrëh
BLT = Lord Beleth'Rim
VRD = Vordb Bathor Ecsed (aka Vordb Dreagvor Uezeerb)
WOR = Worlok Drakksteim (aka Vorlok Drakkstein)
WLD = Wlad Drakksteim (aka Vlad Drakkstein)
NFL = Nifleim
NAI = Naimlambre
KRS = Krissagrazabeth
MYH = Meyhna'ch
ADS = A Dark Soul

Function:
┿ = member
(┿) = former/past member
all = all instruments
dr = drums
vo = vocals
gt = guitar
ba = bass guitar

Project name	AäK	BLT	VRD	WOR	WLD	NFL	NAI	D.K.	MYH	KRS	ADS	Releases
Aäkon Këëtrëh	┿											3 demos
Amaka Hahina		┿										3 demos, 1 cd
Belathuzur										┿		2 demos
Belketre	┿		┿									4 demos, 1 cd
Black Murder			┿	┿	┿							2 demos
Brenoritvrezorkre			(vo,gt,dr)	┿		dr						4 demos
Dvnaèbkre				┿	┿							1 demo
Dzlvarv			┿									1 demo
Moëvöt			┿				┿					7 demos
Mütiilation									┿	(dr)		6 cds, 3 eps, 6 demos
Satanicum Tenebrae									all			3 demos
Seviss					┿							2 demos
Susvourtre			dr	vo,ba								1 demo
Torgeist	gt	gt,vo	ba								dr	3 demos, 1 cd
Uatrb Vélèpr			┿									1 demo
Vagézaryavtre			gt,vo,ba						vo			1 demo
Vérmyapre Kommando				ba	gt,vo,dr	(dr)						1 demo
Vlad Tepes				ba,vo	vo,gt,dr	(dr)		(dr)				10 demos, 2 cds
Vzaeurvbtre			┿		┿							3 demos