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Blossom Death is a Greek Southern Gothic Metal band. They are noted for being one of the first bands within this region that tried to mix the sound of Southern Rock with the melodies of Gothic Metal and create a more European type of Southern Gothic music without losing its original identity.

Formation
The band was formed in late 2018 in Athens,Greece by the former frontman/lyricist of Sorrowful Angels Kostas Katoikos, the vocalist Marita Makaronidi and the drummer Argy Deligiannopoylos. A couple of days later the lead guitarist Manos Gonidakis entered the band and less than a year later the ex-member of Spitfire and Sound of Silence ,Tassos Grypaios was proposed as the lead guitarist by his friend and co-athlete in Ju Jitsu Kostas Katoikos. In the early 2022 the bassist Johny Litinakis and the guitarist Vassilis Koronas joined the band.

Musical style and influences
Blossom Death is considered as a blend of Southern Rock and Gothic Metal music which uses lots of elements of Heavy Thrash, Stoner and Melodic death.

Discography
In early 2019 the band recorded its first songs All that I want, Pad out and Mistaken prodused by Dion Christodoulatos of CFN Recordings Studio. The same year later the independent record label Sleaszy Rider Records announced the signing of a contract between the record label and Kostas Katoikos the leader of the band for releasing the band's digital debut EP and a spli-album on CD and digital form in the beginning of 2020.

EP

 * Mistaken (2019)

Single CD

 * Naphthalene (2021)

Split-Album

 * Eon Must Fail (2023)

Band members

 * Kostas Katoikos - frontman, unclean vocals, additional clean vocals (2018–present)
 * Marita Makaronidi - vocals (2018–present)
 * Tassos Grypaios - lead guitar (2019–present)
 * Vassilis Koronas - rhythm guitar (2022–present)
 * Johny Litinakis - bass guitar (2022–present)
 * Argy Deligiannopoulos - drums (2018–present)

Former members

 * Manos Gonidakis - lead guitar (2018–2020)
 * Alex Kalavros - guest rhythm guitar (2018)

Equipment
Kostas Katoikos and Manos Gonidakis for their first live concerts used Tanglewood Guitars supported by their official distributor in Greece Rihardos Musical Instruments.