Steve Asheim, who has played drums in Deicide since 1987 and writes most of their music, has released two albums of classical piano and used them to score a silent film.
Volume One went up on his Bandcamp earlier this year with no announcement. Volume Two follows it, with pieces by Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninov, and the two of them together became the soundtrack to Faust, the 1926 film by F. W. Murnau, released as Faust, 100 Year Special Anniversary Edition on DVD and Blu ray.
"I'm self taught on piano. And the guitar and drums," he said. "Understanding music and instruments is just something that came pretty easily to me." He has never played piano in public, beyond family, friends and a few strangers in airports.
"Learning classical piano pieces in order of difficulty over many years, finding old demos and realizing you have enough material for an EP, then deciding to make new recordings to beef up the running time, then realizing that with enough running time I can score a silent movie that I saw two weeks previously," is how he describes the way it happened. Anybody who noticed the piano at the end of The Pentecostal on Scars Of The Crucifix has known this was in him for twenty years.