Mütiilation

French black metal band which in the early/mid 1990s recorded a couple of demos and a shelved album ("Evil, The Gestalt Of Abomination"), but shot to underground fame with the 1995 album "Vampires Of Black Imperial Blood", after which main member Meyhna'ch immediately called it quits by proclaiming himself dead. A lot of the band's 90s releases (especially the full lengths) were important stables in defining the raw black metal style, as the recordings for these albums took lo-fi quality a step further for black metal.
In 2001, Mütiilation nevertheless returned as a Meyhna'ch solo venture with "Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn)" and a string of subsequent demos and albums were recorded, all using a drum machine.
In December 2009 however, Meyhna'ch decided to quit Mütiilation for good. Mütiilation was the longest lasting band of the legendary The Black Legions. The Black Legions (Les Légions Noires in French or simply abbreviated LLN) were an exclusive group of French satanic black metal musicians and bands similar to the Norwegian "Inner Circle", who released only very limited runs of their music.
In 2024 the band was reformed and is active again.