德国撒旦主义黑金属，1994年成立，已解散。 Katharsis recorded their first demo with a different three-piece line-up and then continued for a while as a duo of Drakh (vocals, drums, guitar) and Scorn (guitar, bass) after kicking out their original singer. After their third demo, the band had to take a break because Drakh was doing his army service in Yugoslavia and Scorn recorded a demo with his side-project Deathcult featuring his brother M.K. on drums, who also joined Katharsis with the return of Drakh, who could then focus on the guitarist/vocalist position while Scorn took over the bass guitar full-time. This line-up was stable for several years. The band eventually became inactive. Katharsis appeared on the "Black Metal Blitzkrieg" compilation LP (300 hand-numbered copies, End All Life Productions, 2001) with the track "Extermination". The exclusive song "Archaic Ritual Infanticide In Obeyssance Towards Hell" can be found also on the "Tormenting Legends Part II" compilation 2xLP released by Blut & Eisen Productions in 2006. There is a high-quality bootleg packaged in a slipcase called "Kommando Metal" released in December 2004 by Hostic Profanic, containing two of their demos ("The Red Eye of Wrath" and "Into Endless Chaos") plus the band's side of the "Trident Trinity" split with Deathcult. There's also a tape version of this bootleg with unknown limitation.