Established 2014 in Berlin by singer/writer Johanna Platow, the multinational group is defined by a heavy 1970s Hard Rock sound infused with a serious dose of Proto Heavy Metal and Doom. Main influences include BLACK SABBATH, PENTAGRAM, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT and FLEETWOOD MAC.

LUCIFER has toured the world multiple times, including Europe, Japan, North & South America together with groups such as PENTAGRAM, ANGEL WITCH, GHOST, COVEN, PARADISE LOST, HIGH ON FIRE to name but a few. With nearly 300 shows under the belt including international festivals like the KISS Kruise, Psycho Las Vegas, Hellfest, Wacken, Sweden Rock, Rockpalast amongst many more, LUCIFER has become both a live and recording institution.

Their enormous body of work; five notoriously highly acclaimed albums in just nine years as well as an armada of stand-alone singles, and collaborations such as Bobby Liebling (Pentagram), Joakim Nilsson (Graveyard) and Elin Larsson (BLUES PILLS) amongst others, cements LUCIFER as a force to be reckoned with.
Amongst other cover stories like Sweden Rock Magazine, they have been featured on the cover of leading US metal magazine, Decibel, before their first album was even released.
Upon their inception the group first consisted of THE OATH, CATHEDRAL, ANGEL WITCH and LADYTRON members. Johanna Platow (formerly Sadonis) and Gaz Jennings penned the debut album ‘LUCIFER I’ together which was recorded at Berlin’s Candy Bomber Studio and released 2015 by Rise Above Records.

A shift of constellation had Platow move to Stockholm where she found a new writing partner in Nicke Andersson (THE HELLACOPTERS, ENTOMBED). Together they wrote and produced four critically acclaimed albums ‘LUCIFER II - V’ at The Honk Palace in Stockholm which jolted the band into the Swedish, German, UK and US charts and earned them nominations such as two Swedish Grammys, Swedish Radio P3 and Gaffa Price.
After releasing the albums ‘LUCIFER II - IV’ with Century Media Records, they followed A&R Jens Prüter to Nuclear Blast Records, where LUCIFER released their latest album 'LUCIFER V' in 2024. The chart entries, high review rating, impressive press and radio coverage only confirm the magnitude of the group.

LUCIFER is known for supreme songwriting, quality recordings and combining elements of electrifying heavy rock and roll with the humorous morbidity and tragedy wit of Platow’s lyrics.
Eerie landscapes shaped by soaring guitar riffs, the thunderous pounding of bass and drums from some sort of groovy inferno, haunted melodies to weep into your drink to, the screeching tires of her 1971 Cadillac hearse in the distance, fast approaching. Get ready, to get in because… if death had a best friend, it would be Lucifer and you would all hang out together at the local cemetery, shooting the shit.