HEGEMON was born in the winter of 1996, one year after A and N had met and had decided to work on a common musical project. The arrival of Krcyz and F in the band will complete its line-up. "Rape the banner of light", their first demo, was released in 1997 on the French label "Chanteloup Creations". The series of 500 copies was quickly sold out. A second edition of it called "Still Raping After All Those Years" was released at the end of 1998, with three new songs. Then, the band welcomes one last member before the recording of its first album in January 2000 for French label "Sacral Production". Still motivated to play a violent, melodic and nihilistic kind of Black Metal, HEGEMON record their second album called "By This I Conquer" in August 2002.