Info:

Spring 1996
Foundation of INSIGNIUM with Apollyon playing guitar and Shoggoth as drummer.

Spring 1997
First experiments to use keyboards.

Winter 1997
Shoggoth and Apollyon now both played guitars and did the vocals. A new drummer and a new keyboarder joined the band.

Winter 1998
The line-up was completed with a bass player. INSIGNIUM now were a quintet.

January 1999
INSIGNIUM recorded their demo-CD "Insignia Risen..." in the K-Sound-Studio in Hagen, engineered by Mathias Klinkmann

May 1999
"Insignia risen..." was released.

October 1999
Major line-up changes: drummer and bassist had to leave the band.

February 2000
INSIGNIUM contributed a track to the compilation "Unerhört-Sampler" of the German "Rock Hard"-Magazine, on which they were featured as one of the best bands without a label-deal.

April 2000
With a new drummer INSIGNIUM played their first gig in the „Berlet Halle” in Hagen.

June 2002
After some more changes regarding the keyboard, the band decided to abandon it from then on.

December 2003
After almost 5 years INSIGNIUM returned to the K-Sound-Studio in Hagen - again under supervision of Mathias Klinkmann – to record the new CD. It contains 8 tracks with a duration of 53 minutes.

Autumn 2004
INSIGNIUM and the label Black Attakk arrange a co-operation.

January 2005
Release of the debut Album which was recorded in the end of 2003 entitled „In die Abgründe“

Line-up:

Shogoth – Gitarre, Gesang
Apollyon – Gitarre, Gesang
Nemesis – Schlagzeug
Svartis – Bass

Discography:

„Insignia risen“ Demo (1999)
„In die Abgründe“ (2004)