Régis Lant (born 10 June 1977
), better known as Nornagest, is a vocalist and writer, best known for his vocal works with the
black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw ( lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an em ...
band
Enthroned and
Absu's self-titled release.
His career started in the Belgian metal band Heresia. In 1995, Nornagest was invited to join Enthroned on their first album ''Prophecies of Pagan Fire'' but declined the offer. The album became one of the cult albums of the genre, even though some fans consider previous vocalist Sabathan's vocals hard to handle. Shortly after the recording of the album, Nornagest joined the band as the lead guitarist anyway.
In 2007, Nornagest took over vocals duties in Enthroned after previous vocalist Sabathan decided to quit the band.
Nornagest has an English background and is the cousin of
Conrad "Cronos" Lant, lead singer of the cult black metal band
Venom
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. This is mentioned by his cousin
Anthony Lant drummer of Defcon-One in an interview he did with metalunderground in April 2012. He currently resides in
Dendermonde
Dendermonde (; french: Termonde, ) is a city in the Flemish province of East Flanders in Belgium. The municipality comprises the city of Dendermonde and the towns of Appels, Baasrode, Grembergen, Mespelare, Oudegem, Schoonaarde, and Sint-G ...
, Belgium.
He describes himself as a follower of the
left-hand path
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and practitioner of scorpionic magick.
Discography
* Heresia: ''Fall into Dementia'' (1992)
*
Infected: ''Progress Legacy'' (1994)
* The Beast: ''Pacta Conventa Doemoniorum'' (1996)
*
Enthroned: ''
Towards the Skullthrone of Satan'' (1997)
* Enthroned: ''Regie Sathanas'' (1998)
* The Beast: ''Him'' (1998)
* Enthroned: ''
The Apocalypse Manifesto'' (1999)
* Enthroned: ''P-2000'' (2000)
* Enthroned: ''
Armoured Bestial Hell'' (2000)
* The Beast: ''Fixed by the Devil'' (2002)
* Enthroned: ''
Carnage in Worlds Beyond'' (2002)
* Enthroned: ''Goatlust'' (2003)
* Plague: ''Vision of the Twilight'' (2003)
* Enthroned: ''
XES Haereticum'' (2004)
* Enthroned: ''Black Goat Ritual'' (2005)
*
Antaeus
Antaeus (; Ancient Greek: Ἀνταῖος ''Antaîos'', "opponent", derived from , ''antao'' – 'I face, I oppose'), known to the Berbers as Anti, was a figure in Berber and Greek mythology. He was famed for his defeat by Heracles as part ...
: ''
Blood Libels
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'' (2006) Lyrics
* Enthroned: ''
Tetra Karcist'' (2007)
* Grabak: ''Agash Daeva'' (2007) as guest vocalist
* Demonizer: ''Tryumphator'' (2008) as guest vocalist
*
Absu: ''
Absu'' (2009) as guest vocalist
* Enthroned: ''
Pentagrammaton'' (2010)
* Enthroned: ''Obsidium'' (2012)
* Enthroned: ''Sovereigns'' (2014)
* Enthroned: ''Cold Black Suns'' (2019)
Bibliography
* ''The Spiritual Significance of Music'' (2010), Justin St Vincent Publishings
* ''Qliphoth; Flesh Totems and Mask Bones'' (2012), Aeon Sophia Press
* ''Sethnakht and the XXth Dynasty'' (2014), self-released
References
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1977 births
Living people
Belgian occultists
Belgian rock guitarists
Belgian rock singers
Black metal singers
21st-century Belgian male singers
21st-century Belgian singers
21st-century guitarists
Belgian people of English descent