INFERNAL RITES was founded in 1993 by Achamoth and Lars in Olpe/Germany as one of the FIRST german black metal bands!!! At that time they were members of the Death Metal Band CORPSEGRINDER. In late `93 Achamoth wrote the first 3 Songs, "INFERNAL RITES", "SATAN`S CALLING" and "HOLOCAUST"! They started to record her first Rehearsal Tape, which was released in 1998 on Infernal Horde Rec. called "Total Destruction"! Lars left the band in `94 and J.P. came as new the drummer for some months. Read more on Last.fm