Ekove Efrits

Ekove Efrits is a depressive black metal / dark ambient one-man band from Tehran, Iran. Formed by its sole member, “Count de Efrit” in 2005, they have released three full-length albums, as well as several LP’s and demos. Drawing on a myriad of genres, including gothic, black, doom and experimental metal, their style has been variously described as dark ambient, depressive black, neo-classical or “gothic/black metal”.

History

Ekove Efrits was formed by a "Saman N ", better known by his pseudonym "Count De Efrit", in winter 2005. Before Ekove Efrits, in 2001, Count de Efrit recorded two songs that were released in March 2004, and January 2005 with a previous project called "Unholy Graves". These albums were self-released by Count De Efrit and were limited to 7 Copies only. In 2008 Ekove Erfits released their first full-length album after several demos and a split album. The first full-length album was entitled '[...] Rebirth' and was released by Possession Productions, a Russian record label. It was followed by another full-length album, “Hypermnesia”, in January 2010. In February 2011, Ekove Efrits signed a deal with Hypnotic Dirge Records to release "Conceptual Horizon' which was released in July 2011.

Name

The word “Ekove” is “Evoke” reversed, while Efrit is a word of Arabic origin used in both Arabic and Persian to refer to a demon, or an unholy spirit. According to Count de Efrit, he has chosen this particular name to reflect his own “dark personality”, as well as his Middle-eastern origin.

Discography

In the Black Minds (Demo – 2001)

Unholy Graves (Demo - 2005)

Into the Funeral Witches (Demo – 2006)

The Wraiths of Forgotten Forest (Demo – 2006)

Key to the Kingdom of Shadows (Split – 2007)

[...] Rebirth (Full-length 2008)

Nettlesome Solitude (Compilation 2009)

Hypermnesia (Full-length – 2010)

Conceptual Horizon (Full-length – 2011)

Nowhere (Full-length - 2013)