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Gorgoroth is a Norwegian black metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 1992. The band was founded in 1992 by Infernus, however since October 2007 the band has split into two factions – one led by Infernus and the other led by Gaahl and King ov Hell – each determined to continue under the Gorgoroth name.

Gorgoroth was formed in 1992 by guitarist Infernus. In 1993, the band released their first demo, entitled A Sorcery Written in Blood. On January 7, 1994, Firda, the major newspaper in the county of Sogn og Fjordane where the band originated from, ran a cover story on the demo, with the headline "Local music with Satanic symbolism". According to the article, the release of the demo and flyers with Satanic symbols led to "concerned parents contacting the Sheriff's Office in Fjaler".After the demo was released, Gorgoroth signed a record deal with Embassy Productions and started work on their debut full-length Pentagram.When bassist Kjettar left the band in 1993, Samoth of Emperor joined Gorgoroth as their new bassist, and participated in the recording of the album. After Pentagram was completed and released in 1994, Goat left the band and was replaced by Frost from Satyricon. The band performed their first concert at Lusa Lottes Pøbb in Oslo, Norway, on May 3, 1994, at a four-day Black Metal Nights festival with bands such as Dark Funeral (who also made their live debut), Dissection, Enslaved, Marduk (who played their first gig abroad), Gehenna and Hades Almighty.

On February 1st, 2004, during a recorded for DVD concert in Kraków, Poland, the band displayed sheep heads on stakes, a bloodbath of 80 liters of sheep's blood, satanic symbols, and four naked crucified models on stage. A police investigation took place with allegations of religious offense (which is prosecutable under Polish law) and cruelty to animals. Though these charges were considered, the band was not charged as it was ruled that they were unaware of the fact that what they were doing was illegal, although the concert organizer was eventually fined 10000zł ($4,658 USD) in 2007 as he knew about it and neither informed the band that it was against the law nor intervened. The whole controversy led to the band being dropped from the roster of the Nuclear Blast Tour and the footage of the concert being confiscated by the police[31]. Following this controversy - and also having achieved a satisfactory degree of worldwide recognition through Nuclear Blast's distribution facilities - Gorgoroth terminated their contract with the label. Gorgoroth supposedly secured a reputation as a band with a vehement anti-Right Hand Path agenda, of which select employees in the company were alleged to have felt uneasy with due to their own personal beliefs.

^Agreed. I like Gorgoroth to an extent, but I honestly hate Gaahl and KING with a passion. To me and a few other "elite BMetallers" they're traitors.

That's all I'll say..

Twilight Of The Idols was a <******** badass album though.