Extorian was formed by Heike and Olaf early 2006 in Munich, started to record their song ideas on a home pc and put it on their website for fishing musicians. The bass player Wolfgang, the rhyrhm guitar player Ray as well as drummer Wolfram who played the first CD "Unveiled" in spring 2007 left the band due to private reasons.
Hard can be slow, evil can be melodic, less gets infinitely more if you just let it happen where it has to happen.
Extorian doesn't just celebrate pure doom, but uses its traditional elements such as sublime slowness and lava-like thick walls of guitar, which creates a unique experience in metal when combined with vocalist Heikes' flesh-creeping melodies and compact arrangements. Extorian will appeal to many metal- and rock-fans outside the narrow doom-genre, if they have the attention span to appreciate the eight minute mini-epics which Extorian unleashes upon the listener.
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