Members

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  Angelos Tzanis

  Guitars

  

  Angelos Tzanis has been involved in rock/metal bands since his first contact with "good music" as he likes to call it.

  He has taken part in various projects, from his thrash metal early days, classic rock and through the whole spectre of hard music leading to the path of doom which has always been a key point in his agenda.

  He believes music should be taken to the stage.

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  • Favourite albums: "Seasons in the Abyss" - Slayer, "Beyond the Crimson Horizon" - Solitude Aeturnus, "Ancient Dreams/Nightfall" - Candlemass, "Awake" - Dream Theater, "Abbey Road" - The Beatles, "Vol.4" - Black Sabbath, "Ride the Lightning" - Metallica, "The Eye" - King Diamond.
  • Favourite songs: "Karma" - Kamelot, "Learning to live" - Dream Theater, "Damage inc." - Metallica, "Hourglass" - Solitude Aeternus, "Darkness in Paradise" - Candlemass, "Out of sight out of mind" - Psychotic Waltz.
  • What I am listening to now:
  • Favourite movie:
  • Favourite drink: Beer, White Russian.
  • Best Doomocracy song: Curse, The End is Written
  • Personal gear: Fender and Ibanez guitars, Line 6 effects.
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  Manolis Sx

  Bass

  

  Manolis' primarily reason for his involvement with music has always been to compose.

  He picked up the bass in his early teens and since then the only time he let it was to take vocal duties for the death metal band "Elanor".

  He is member of the rock cover band "Devils and Angels" with frequent live performances in the local area.

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  • Favourite albums: "The Wall" - Pink Floyd, "Troublegum" - Therapy?, "The Angel and the Dark River" - My Dying Bride, "October Rust" - Type O Negative, "Tales from the Thousand Lakes" - Amorphis, "The Spider's Lullabye" - King Diamond, "Seasons in the Abyss" - Slayer.
  • Favourite songs: "Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd, "Embers Fire" - Paradise Lost, "Nepenthe" - Sentenced, "Opium" - Moonspell, "The Cry of Mankind" - My Dying Bride, "War Ensemble" - Slayer, "The Unforgiven" - Metallica, "Symbolic" - Death
  • What I am listening to now: Not much
  • Favourite movie: The Birds, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Suspiria, The Goonies, Mary Poppins and most comedies with Peter Sellers
  • Favourite drink: Coffee, Beer.
  • Best Doomocracy song: All.
  • Personal gear: Odyssey custom 5 string bass, Ibanez SR400 ('98), Boss VF-1 efect I sometimes use live.
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  Michael Stavrakakis

  Vocals

  

  Michael Stavrakakis has been the lead singer for numerous rock, funk and heavy metal bands in Greece, and has participated in various recordings and numerous live performances, for more than a decade.

  He has been trained in Classical and Byzantine music.

  He was the lead singer of the rock/metal band Master Reset from 2007-2011, with whom he recorded the album "Nutshell Republic".

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  • Favourite albums: "Perfect Symmetry" - Fates Warning, "Nightfall" - Candlemass, "Transcendence" - Crimson Glory, "One small voice" - Heir Apparent, "Beyond the crimson horizon" - Solitude Aeturnus.
  • Favourite songs: "The well of souls" - Candlemass, "Dead skin mask" - Slayer, "Butterfly" - Psychotic Waltz, "Just imagine" - Heir Apparent, "Seeds of the desolate" - Solitude Aeturnus and many more…
  • What I am listening to now:"The end is written" by Doomocracy and lots of doom metal stuff.
  • Favourite movie: It has to be "Bram Stoker’s Dracula", but I’ve got a few movies very close to it… "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Contact" and many more…
  • Favourite drink: "Leffe" beer, "Jameson" Irish whiskey on ice and "Absolut" vodka with a twist of lime.
  • Best Doomocracy song: Faceless, Hanging Puppet
  • Personal gear: Neumann and Shure microphones, Ultimate and Hercules microphone stands, Lexicon and T C Helicon effects.
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  Harris Dokos

  Guitars

  

  Although Harry Dokos has been playing music for quite some time this is the first band in which he started to present his own music.

  With a musical background deeply rooted in 80's metal, his influences are clearly evident in his work.

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  • Favourite albums: "Master of Puppets" - Metallica, "Painkiller" - Judas Priest, "Burnt Offerings" - Iced Earth, "Slave To The Grind" - Skid Row, "Rust In Peace" - Megadeth.
  • Favourite songs: "Disposable Heroes" - Metallica, "Nightcrawler" - Judas Priest, "Burnt Offerings" - Iced Earth, "Monkey Business" - Skid Row, "Hangar 18" - Megadeth.
  • What I am listening to now: Doomocracy album, Memento Mori, 80's hard rock and metal.
  • Favourite movie: Star Wars, LOTR, 90s action movies and 80s comedys.
  • Favourite drink: Beer and red wine.
  • Best Doomocracy song: Faceless, End is Written, Hanging Puppet, The Celephais Curse.
  • Personal gear: Jackson Guitars, Line 6 fx
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  Minas Vasilakis

  Drums

  

  Minas Vasilakis has been playing the drums for two decades now participating in numerous bands nearly for every kind of music but mostly in metal and rock.

  Full length albums, live performances, TV shows, tours and bonus tracks for 666Packs, Marauder, ESELON, etc. He has studied at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Heraklion Greece and at the Modern Music School Athens.

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  • Favourite albums: "Nightfall" - Candlemass , "A Social Grace" - Psychotic Waltz , "Beyond the Crimson Horizon" - Solitude Aeturnus , "Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales" - Memento Mori.
  • Favourite songs: "Samarithan" - Candlemass, "Successor" - Psychotic Waltz , "The Hourglass" - Solitude Aeturnus , "To Travel Within" - Memento Mori.
  • What I am listening to now: Mezarkabul(Pentagram), Memento Mori, and mostly heavy "riffed" and mid tempo stuff
  • Favourite movie: Predator movies, Hannibal trilogy, Quills, Seven and many many more…
  • Favourite drink: Jack Daniels, Beer
  • Best Doomocracy song: Doormacht, Hanging Puppet, Faceless
  • Personal gear: Currently Tama Artstar ES drums, Paiste 2002 and Paiste Signature line cymbals, Vic Firth stix .

Doomocracy is a doom metal band from Heraklion, Greece.

The band was created by Minas Vasilakis on drums, Angelos Tzanis on guitar and Michael Stavrakakis on vocals. The three of them have been good friends and band mates for almost a lifetime.

They started rehearsing together during the summer of 2011 to pay tribute to the doom metal scene and bands like Candlemass, Black Sabbath, Memento Mori and Solitude Aeturnus. After a few months they were joined by good friends and musicians, Manolis Sx on bass and Harry Dokos on guitar.

Having completed the band’s line up and full of energy and inspiration, they rehearsed intensively to compose doom metal music from the heart.

The ideas were floating and the first 4 songs were composed in less than 3 months. The band continued rehearsing while searching for a band name. They decided to call themselves Doomocracy.

By the end of 2012 Doomocracy had completed composing the tracks for their new album "The End is Written" and started pre-production. At the same time they started looking for suitable places to record and mix their album.

The band entered "Mad Hat Music" studio in Heraklion Greece on July 2013 and finished recording on September 2013. Nikos Vogiatzakis was the sound engineer and his help and advice was a great asset to the final result.

After many conversations with European studios and sound engineers, Doomocracy came to the decision to work with Daniel Bergstrand at "Dug Out Productions" in Uppsala Sweden, for the mixing of "The End is Written". The mixing process was complete on the 15th of October 2013, giving Doomocracy that raw, powerful and heavy sound they were looking for. Tailor Maid music production and Peter In De Betou was Doomocracy's 1st choice for the Mastering of "The End is Written". Peter did a fantastic job, giving Doomocracy's debut album, a production worthy of the effort and passion the band has given to produce this album.

On the 21st of July 2014, Doomocracy signed a record deal, with the renowned Greek heavy metal label Steel Gallery Records. The release date of "The End is Written" was the 29th of September 2014.

After a successful collaboration for their debut album “The End Is Written”, Doomocracy once again partnered up with Steel Gallery/Arkeyn Steel, for the release of their second album “Visions and Creatures of Imagination”.

“Visions and Creatures of Imagination” features former Memento Mori keyboardist and classical composer, Miguel Robaina on four songs.

The drums were recorded in Devasoundz Studios in Athens Greece, with Fotis Benardo. All other instruments were recorded in Mad hat Music studio in Heraklion, Crete, Greece with the valuable help of Nikos Vogiatzakis.

Doomocracy, collaborated with Jim Morris and “Morrisound Recording” (Iced Earth, Death, Crimson Glory), in Tampa Florida USA, for the Mix and Mastering of “Visions and Creatures of Imagination”. The release date was the 13th of March 2017.

Doomocracy has shared the stage with many metal bands: Saint Vitus, Avatarium, Orange Goblin, Trouble, Kadavar, Soulfly, Gus G, Bonfire, DAD, Mayfair, Blaspheme, Lethal, Virgin Steele, Warrel Dane, Sabaton, Heir Apparent, Crimson Dawn, Memory Garden and many more...
and performed in various metal festival around Europe such as: Hammer of Doom, Malta Doom Metal, Up The Hammers, Chania Rock festival, Doom Over Scania and more.

Doom on!

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