The bands involved limited their releases to very small numbers (often just enough to get to the other circle members), and distributed them among friends and close workers.
According to a 2005 series in Terrorizer magazine on the history of black metal, "A bunch of corpsepainted characters, rumoured to be drawn from such acts as Mütiilation, Torgeist and Vlad Tepes named themselves the 'Black Legions' as a tribute to the so-called 'Black Mafia' Norwegian BM heroes Darkthrone and Burzum, who were supposedly ready to terrorize Christians a couple of years before.
"[1] The first recordings of LLN members came about in the early 1990s, and their influence was acknowledged in the same issue of Terrorizer: "One should never count out France, primarily as the home of the inscrutably influential Black Legions of ridiculous rawness during the mid-90s.
It is unclear if the bands were inactive during that time or simply preferred not to release their material to the public.
Vlad Drakkstein) NFL = Nifleim NAI = Naimlambre KRS = Krissagrazabeth MYH = Meyhna'ch ADS = A Dark Soul