1999
The idea for Perverse Monastyr was born.
2000
At the end of 2000 year, members of Snow Bird (heavy metal) and The Devil (death/doom metal) – two bands from Bulgaria (Sandanski), during their rehearsals work also for a black metal project called Perverse Monastyr – melodic old-school black metal with satanic and misanthropic lyrics. After composing five songs and some time spent in rehearsals, the project remains with a single man – Arkhon Winters – the founder of Perverse Monastyr.
2001
In April 2001 the recordings of the first demo have begun – “Resurrection Of The Dark Age” (released in 2003 through AMF Productions & Vogort Zine), which because of difficulties last till the middle of January 2002. It has exclusively rough sound, but melodic guitar lines, an interesting mix of old-school black metal with some death and thrash touches.
2003
In 2003 a song, taken from “Resurrection Of The Dark Age” – “Lake Of Lost Souls” – was included in the cult Underground Black Metal compilation “We Worship...” vol. 1 (AMF Prod.). Near that time a cassette version of “Resurrection Of The Dark Age” and both the AMF Productions and Vogort Zine issues came out. Not long after its first produced demo, with a single member and three years in the deepest underground Perverse Monastyr ended its activities as a project...
2005
In August 2005, Arkhon decides to revive Perverse Monastyr, but this time the music won’t be melodic, just the other way – more rough and raw than before. The first album after about three year-break is “Five Years In Blindness”, containing six songs, recorded in “GFM” demo studio in honor of the fifth anniversary of Perverse Monastyr. The next month (September) the second album was recorded containing four songs, again extremely rough and unbalanced sound, but this time with Bulgarian lyrics. The name of the album is “The Circumcised Priest” (EP), the lyrics, as a whole, are about the priest’s moral, people’s aberration and the religious degradation in general. In December 2005 started the recordings of “War Against The Deceitful Religions” and Merciless Sgan Exekutor was attracted into the project as a vocalist. Again the lyrics are in Bulgarian with anti-religious messages exposing the three most infamous religions – the christianity, the islam and the judaism. Recorded in two studios – “GFM” and “After Many Funerals” home studio. The albums from 2005 – “Five Years In Blindness” and “The Circumcised Priest” were released by the underground label from russia “In Satan’s Honour Records”. These two releases from 2005 have been unleashed in limited edition tapes (150 copies) in the beginning of 2006.
2006
The album “War Against The Deceitful Religions” was finished in the middle of January 2006 and released in August 2006 on tape by the Underground label “Division Geistes-Waffe” from Germany, in limited edition to only 100 copies. At the end of March 2006, Perverse Monastyr has begun the recording of the next full-length album – “Perverse Monastyr”. This album contains only two new songs – “The Christianity Killed Bulgaria” and “The Cursed Herds”. All songs from “The Circumcised Priest” EP have been re-recorded with Merciless Sgan Executor on vocals, also two songs from “War Against The Deceitful Religions” – “I Killed The False Prophet” and “Jerusalem Is The Hell (The Jewish King)”. The “Perverse Monastyr” album was finished in the first days of April 2006, recorded again in “GFM” studio, the vocals – in “After Many Funerals” home studio. On July 8 and 9, Perverse Monastyr recorded two rehearsal songs – “The Christianity Killed Bulgaria” and “...The Nuns, Who Were Throwing Their Children In The River...”, as a part of the promo tape “Great Fast And Paschal Canticles”, including another version of the song “The Herds Will Burn (On The Altar)” from June 2006. This promo tape was released through Barbaric Goat Productions from Italy, in limited edition to 300 copies (November 2006). At the same time, the band began recording sessions for the next EP – “Religious Remorses”, released on tape in the early December 2006 by W.E.M.I.D.D.N. (Germany) in limited edition to 600 copies. This was the first tape release of this German label.
2007
The first Perverse Monastyr T-shirt (“The Circumcised Priest”) was released through Apocalyptic Shirt Productions (Germany), in the first days of January 2007, in limited edition to 30 pieces. Cassette version of the full-lenght album “Perverse Monastyr” from 2006 was released in the middle of February 2007 through Holokaostor Productions (Brazil). This release is limited to 1000 copies.
In 28 February 2007, the first Perverse Monastyr CD came out through Old Cemetery Records (USA). It’s the CD version of “Perverse Monastyr” album + “Religious Remorses” EP added as a bonus for this release, limited to 1000 copies. The “Cursed Herds” demo was recorded in September 2007. The demo contains four tracks, re-recorded from some past releases – “The Cursed Herds”, “War Against The Deceitful Religions I”, “War Against The Deceitful Religions II” and “Jerusalem Is A Prison (For The Herds)”...