Sortilège

First named Blood Wave and formed in 1980 with Jean-Philippe Dumont (Batterie), as well as Stéphane Dumont (Guitare) Didier Demajean (Guitare), it was in 1981 that the Parisian Heavy Metal group renamed itself Sortilège and recruited Christian Augustin (Chant) and Daniel Lapp (Basse). After a demo in 1982, their first eponymous release came in 1983 and won success, the press sometimes comparing them to Iron Maiden or Judas Priest. Sortilège also played in the first part of Def Leppard at the Bataclan in Paris on 8 March 1983. In 1984, they signed their first opus, Metamorphosis, which appeared at Devil's Records and Steamhammer. Its success is growing and the band decides to re-register the album with a song in English, especially for the Japanese and European audience but the album's sales are poor. Nevertheless, Sortilège performs in international festivals and becomes popular in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium and of course in France as well as their counterparts of Satan Jokers, Vulcan or H-Bomb. In 1986, Sortilège released his new album entitled Tears De Héros , also available with the English song for the German and Dutch market. But it was especially the French version that was preferred. Despite a new, more melodic approach and undeniable compositional qualities, Larmes De Héros , now considered one of the best albums of French Heavy Metal, does not sell as well as expected and disappoints a part of their former audience that does not find itself in their evolution. Tired of the lack of public support, difficulties with the record companies, the members of Sortilège decided to separate at the end of 1986, but left the imprint of a cult group of the French Heavy / Hard-Rock scene.
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