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Inquisition timeline (EN)

2020
Black Mass for a Mass Grave released

The band’s eighth full-length album Black Mass for a Mass Grave was released on November 20, 2020, through Agonia Records. According to the band’s website, the album was recorded, mixed and mastered between August and September 2019. The band resumed their live activities in 2022, their first live show in…
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2018
Started working on new music

In the aftermath of the resurfaced allegations against Dagon, the band went silent on their social media for the majority of 2018, however in late December of that year the band announced on their Facebook that they had started working on new music. A year later in late December 2019,…
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Dropped from Season of Mist

On March 26, 2018, the band was dropped from Season of Mist, from a tour with Satyricon , and from that year’s Maryland Deathfest as former allegations of possession of child pornography from 2008 were brought up against Dagon. As revealed to be in the public record by metal news…
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2012
Signed with Season of Mist

In 2012, the band signed with the French label Season of Mist . The band’s label debut, Obscure Verses for the Multiverse , was released on October 25, 2013 (October 29 in North America). Their seventh album Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith was released on August…
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1988
Formed as Guillotine

Inquisition was formed in 1988 in Cali , Colombia, by Dagon as a thrash metal act named Guillotine. The band changed their name to Inquisition in 1989. The name, frontman Dagon later explained, was chosen because it represented humanity’s “need to establish dominance, control and order based on a particular…
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