Terra Incognita Artist Bio

There are multiple artists named Terra Incognita: 1) A new age group. 2) A Greek heavy metal band. 3) A Greek jazz group. 4) A band from San Francisco

1) Terra Incognita was a tribal / new age group formed by Prem Joshua (flutes, sitar), Chinmaya Dunster (sarod) and Ravi (kohra). Playing a mix of Western, Indian and African instruments, they created a unique blend of world fusion music, inspired by the words of Osho.

2) Terra Incognita is a melodic heavy metal band from Athens, Greece, formed from the ashes of a cover band by Dimitris Stavros. With the addition of New York native, acclaimed lead singer BILLY VASS, the thunderous drummer Panos Lepetsos and the bass torturer George “The Duke” Doukas, Terra Incognita have found their final line up and are ready to take the metal world to a different level.
The band belongs to the general style of classic melodic heavy metal with a lot of progressive and dark doom elements, while exploring all the classic genres of our music. In 2011 they self-released their debut full-length album titled “Barren Land”.

4) Terra Incognita was an alternative folk band founded in San Francisco in 1981, consisting of Max Carmichael, Katie Rauh, and Mark Twohy. In its later years, the band was self-described as an “electric string band, influenced by old-time mountain music and Nigerian Yoruba juju”. Their cover of the song “Rank Stranger” appeared on the Ralph Records compilation Potatoes. They disbanded in 1990. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.