1994 A.S.

Mephistopheles was formed by Xenien (Guitars), Nordischer Kuenstler (Vocals & Synthesizers) and Ineb (Guitars), to create a mixture of brutal and melodic Black-Metal.

In december 1994, Selphratus (drums), who played with Xenien in "Quast" before, joined the band.

Only few months later, Ineb decided to leave the band.

1996 - 1997 A.S.

Due to the lack of musicians, the band was not able to play live. So they used the time to write songs for a demo-tape. As Xenien was the only guitarist left, he played all guitars and bass-guitars on this recording. With this first and only recoded rehearsal-tape, Mephistopheles signed to Adipocere Record in France, who released the recordings as the known debut-album "Landscape Symphonies" in 1997.

Mephistopheles now started looking for additional musicians to perform live, so they recruited Friirr and Ferun, Bassist and Guitarist of "The Prophecy" in late 1997. They left the band only few months later, as it took too much time to learn the songs while concentrating on writing stuff for a new album.

1998 A.S.

Unable to play live again, Mephistopheles continued looking for musicians. It happened that Jury Kowalczyk, guitarist of "Agares", left his band. He joined Mephistopheles in April 1998, to put a more agressive style of music into the songs.

In September 1998, Garvin Boesch, like Selphratus former member of "Quast", joined the band as bassist.

While writing material for the next album "Songs Of The Desolate Ones", Mephistopheles decided to part from their vocalist Nordischer Kuenstler.

During this time, Mephistopheles stopped hiding behind corpsepaint and pseudonyms, to leave behind the clichees of a Black-Metal-Band. Founding Member Xenien turned to Hanno Weihe, only Selphratus still uses a pseydonym today. Mephistopheles signed to Last Episode.

"Songs Of The Desolate Ones" was released in 1999.

1999 A.S.

Having lost the Vocalist and Keyboarder, Mephistopheles again started looking for musicians. Right before the release of "Songs Of The Desolate Ones", Eike-C. Kroeger, vocalist of "Agares", joined in. He was soon able to put his aggressive style of singing and his conceptional lyrics into the songs.

2000 A.S.

A session musician was found in early 2000 to play the synthesizers.

Mephistopheles played several gigs with this Line-Up, but mainly concentrated on writing material for a new album. The songs created in this time became faster and more agressive, filled with pure hate and darkness, without losing the bombastic touch.

2001 A.S.

Some weeks before the recordings began, Mephistopheles decided toget rid the session musician. Synths on "Modern Instinct's Purity" were played by Bernd Ammermann of "Mandrake", Garvin Boesch and Christoph Greger, who joined Mephistopheles in July 2001, while the band was in studio.

Mephistopheles were proud to present a line-up consisting of individuals, that only together create music filled with pure emotions, devastating hate and infinite beauty.

"Modern Instinct's Purity" was released november 2001.

Only 10 months after the release of "Modern Instinct's Purity" the recording session was finished. Mephistopheles banned their souls into this album, granting the listener a view into their hearts to show new aspects of their emotions and new possibilities to deal with them.

"Death Unveiled" was released in February 2003.

Members of Mephistopheles are now part of the following bands: