BLACK SOUL HORDE was created by John Tsiakopoulos (guitars) and Jim Kotsis (vocals) in 2012 as a side project. Soon after the first few recording sessions, having realized that the old-school oriented, metallic outcome was -no less than- the music they grew up with and loved, they decided to turn BSH into a live band. And so it happened.

The time was right. After a few auditions, the line-up was completed with Jim Zafiropoulos (drums), Stelios Dogas (bass) and Costas Papaspyrou (guitars), all well-experienced members of the Greek metal scene. Their first rehearsals as a full band soon started taking place in their studio at the suburbs of Athens. A few months later, they were already done with the recording sessions of their debut album.

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