Ellende

Ellende is a two-member black metal band from Graz, Austria. The band consists of Lukas Gosch (also in Aphotic Excess) who does vocals and is also the main instrumentalist, and Anne who mainly contributes violin and viola.

Ellende was founded in the year 2011 by L.G. as a soloproject and turned into a live-band with session musicians in 2012. His first outcome was a self-released digipack (100 pieces) named Rückzug in Die Innerlichkeit in 2012. The self-titled debut album Ellende from 2013 was regarded as Ellendes first full length masterpiece. It was followed by a limited Gatefold vinyl of Weltennacht in 2014, in which P.F. started to take over studio-drums from now on. In 2016 Ellende released their second full length with the name Todbringer, which gained major attention in the atmospheric and post-blackmetal scene. In march 2019 their third fulllength album Lebensnehmer was published by AOP records, which reached place 94 of german album charts in April. The record Triebe was released on 22 January 2021 as several limited gatefold vinyl editions (AOP Records, Napalm Records, Bandcamp) and digipack as well as digitally on all platforms. In 10 years of existence Ellende released their fourth full-length album Ellenbogengesellschaft in September 2022 which reached official German album charts on place 31 and official Austrian album charts on place 21.