Wlad Drakksteim: Vocals, guitars, drums Vorlok Drakksteim: bass, vocals
Past members
Nifleim/D.K.: Drums on Reh. Winter '93
Vlad Tepes was a French black metal band which was formed in Brest in 1993. The name originated from the 15th-century Wallachian ruler, the inspiration for Bram Stoker's fictional vampire, Dracula. The group belongs to the Black Legions. Vorlok Drakksteim also has a side project named Black Murder, for which he is the composer, while Wlad Drakksteim is the composer for Vlad Tepes. Vlad Tepes were one of the Black Legions bands featured in the magazine The Black Plague - First Chapter (And Maybe Last One) in 1995.
After a self-released rehearsal tape, the demo-tape War Funeral March (1994) was released on the American market by Full Moon Productions. It was followed the next year by March to the Black Holocaust, a split release with fellow Black Legions act Bèlkètre, issued on the French Embassy Productions. In 1996, another split album with the Black Legions project Torgeist, Black Legions Metal, was released by the French Drakkar Productions.
The track Drink the Poetry of the Celtic Disciple was covered by alternative rock musician Chris Brokaw on the album Canaris on acoustic guitars.
The Return of the Unweeping - Collection (2014 CD, official release, contains The Return of the Unweeping I & II demos, Drakkar Productions DKCD091)
The Drakksteim Sessions (2015 double-CD, contains the Black Legions Metal -the Vlad Tepes part of the split with Torgeist as well as the eponymous cover demo-, several unreleased projects and Vlad Tepes covers by Chris Brokaw, Arkha Sva, Infernal Necromancy & Recluse, Drakkar Productions DKCD094)
An Ode to Our Ruin (2017 cassette, official release, Black Gangrene Productions