GODKILLER was formed 1994 in Monaco, releasing a classic debut EP of haunted Medieval Black Metal "The Rebirth of the Middle Ages" and 2 full lengths of cold Industrial Black Metal between 1996 and 2000 via Wounded Love Records before going on indefinite hiatus. The sole work of multi-instrumentalist Duke Satanaël, the astonishingly accomplished tracks collated here as "We Are The Black Knights" are the two initial cassette-only demos that preceded the 1996 release of the first EP, a record referred to as 'life-changing' by DMP owner Phil. First demo, the ferociously weird and eerie "Ad Majorem Satanae Gloriam" - recorded in 1994 on an 8-track machine – sees relative primitivity turned into an advantage: vicious Sunlight Studio-esque Death Metal meets raw first-wave Black Metal, segueing into borderline-vampiric Gothicism, martial industrial drum rhythms and proto dungeon synth - the whole absolutely burning with passion and hatred. Recorded in 1995 on the same 8-track machine and self-released in a cassette run of 500 copies, second demo "The Warlord" showed an evolution towards the style that would become GODKILLER's trademark: anguished Black Metal utilising Medieval-inspired soundworlds. Following a brief intro, the two lengthy remaining tracks dial up the otherworldly grandeur, epic melodicism and unhinged vocals to breathtaking levels of desperation.