|
(N)utopia
Graveworm is an Italian extreme metal band from Brunico formed in 1992. History Before Graveworm even released a demo, they were signed by Serenades Records after a performance close to their hometown of Brunico, northern Italy. Graveworm was signed to Serenades Records in 1997, releasing their first EP, ''Eternal Winds'', in that same year. During their first tour together with Crematory, Therion and Lake of Tears, the band promoted the album '' When Daylight's Gone''. In 1998, the EP ''Underneath the Crescent Moon'' was released, featuring Sarah Jezebel Deva (Cradle of Filth, Therion) in the track "Awake...Thy Angels Of Sorrow". Graveworm also performed at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany with bands such as Children of Bodom, Cradle of Filth and Vader. The second album '' As the Angels Reach the Beauty'' was finished in 1999, and followed by a European tour with Agathodaimon. '' Scourge of Malice'' was released in 2001, which allowed the band their first headlining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engraved In Black
''Engraved in Black'' is the fourth studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2003 through Nuclear Blast. This is the first Graveworm album to feature guitarist Eric Righi, who also played bass on this recording. Track listing #"Dreaming Into Reality" – 7:03 #"Legions Unleashed"' – 5:29 #"Renaissance in Blood" – 3:42 #"Thorns of Desolation" – 4:10 #"Abhorrence" – 4:50 #"Losing My Religion (R.E.M. cover)" (Only on American versions) - 4:24 #"Drowned in Fear" – 4:49 #"Beauty of Malice" – 5:25 #"Apparition of Sorrow" – 2:04 The digipack version contains the following bonus track: #''"It's a Sin"'' (Pet Shop Boys cover) - 3:42 The Japanese version contains the following two bonus tracks: #''"It's a Sin"'' (Pet Shop Boys cover) - 3:42 #''"Christian Woman"'' (Type O Negative cover) - 5:34 Credits *Stefan Fiori - Vocals *Stefan Unterpertinger - Guitar *Eric Righi - Guitar & Bass *Sabine Mair - Keyboard *Martin Innerbichler - Drum Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphonic Black Metal
Symphonic black metal is a subgenre of black metal that emerged in the 1990s and incorporates symphonic and orchestral elements. Notable symphonic black metal bands include Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, and Carach Angren. History The first extreme metal bands incorporating orchestral elements into their music were Bulldozer on their album ''Neurodeliri'' (1988), Master's Hammer on ''Ritual'' (1991) and '' The Jilemnice Occultist'' (1993) and Sigh on their debut ''Scorn Defeat'' (1993). The style on Emperor's ''In the Nightside Eclipse'' (1994) had a pioneering influence though and was the main inspiration for many keyboard-based black metal bands following after. Troll's ''Drep de kristne'' (1995) and Arcturus' ''Aspera Hiems Symfonia'' (1996) are other notable early works of symphonic black metal, before the genre was commercialised by the international success of bands like Dimmu Borgir and Bal Sagoth. Characteristics Symphonic black metal is a style of blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air (, abbreviated as W:O:A) is a rock music, rock music festival, held annually since 1990 on the first weekend of August in the village of Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Almost all styles and subgenres of hard rock and heavy metal music, metal are represented and hosted. It is now one of the largest heavy metal festivals in the world and one of the largest open-air festivals in Germany. Between 2011–2018, the number of attendees was around 85,000, 75,000 of whom were paying visitors. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no 2020 and 2021 editions of Wacken Open Air. History Background The idea for Wacken Open Air was conceived in 1989 when Thomas Jensen and Holger Hübner visited a restaurant together. Both lived in Wacken and were friends, Jensen played the electric bass with Rock music, Rock cover band Skyline. From its beginnings until 1992, the band was composed of Ines Jeske from Vaale (vocals), Thomas Jensen from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X-Mass Festival
X-Mas Festival was a heavy metal festival/tour held annually in Europe from 1999 to 2005. It was organized by the Belgian booking agency Metallysee. The 2006 and 2007 editions have been cancelled, and the future of the festival is in doubt. Metallysee plans to launch a new tour in January 2008 under the name Black Winter Festival. History The 2006 edition was cancelled after Unleashed, Six Feet Under, God Dethroned, Cataract and soon later Krisiun decided to pull out, Trail of Tears disbanded and Soilwork refused to headline the tour. The last announced lineup featured Gorefest, Belphegor, Prostitute Disfigurement, Madder Mortem, SkyForger and Darzamat. The owner of the agency blamed one of his employees for the cancellation, and this person left the company. Despite this, the 2007 edition was also called off without a reason. The lineup should have featured Mayhem, Samael, Malevolent Creation, Onslaught, Wykked Wytch, Blood Red Throne and Innerfire. The Onslaught website cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Losing My Religion
"Losing My Religion" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in February 1991 as the first single from the group's seventh album, '' Out of Time'' (1991). Built on a mandolin riff, the song was an unlikely hit for the group, garnering extensive airplay on radio as well as on MTV and VH1 due to its critically acclaimed music video. The single became R.E.M.'s highest-charting hit in the United States, reaching No. 4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and expanding the group's popularity beyond its original fanbase. At the 1992 Grammy Awards, "Losing My Religion" won two awards: Best Short Form Music Video and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Background R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wrote the main riff and chorus to the song on a mandolin while watching television one day. Buck had just bought the instrument and was attempting to learn how to play it, recording the music as he practiced. Buck said that "when I listened back to it the next day, there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkwell
Darkwell is a gothic metal band from Innsbruck, Austria. Formed in 1999 by bassist Roland Wurzer and guitarist Roman Wienicke. Soon after formation, they signed with Napalm Records and released their first album, ''Suspiria'', in 2000. Before the release of ''Conflict of Interest'' in 2002 they toured across Europe with Tristania, The Sins of Thy Beloved, Graveworm, and Vintersorg. Supporting their second full-length album, ''Metatron'', they again toured across Europe, with Atrocity, Leaves' Eyes, and Battlelore. Line-up Current line-up * Alexandra Pittracher - vocals * Mathias Nussbaum - guitar * Moritz Neuner - drums * Raphael Lepuschitz - keyboard * Roland Wurzer - bass guitar (Founding member) Former members * Stephanie Luzie (Meier) - vocals * Christian Filip - keyboard * Roman Wienicke - guitar (Founding member) Discography Studio albums *''Suspiria'' (2000) *''Metatron'' (2004) *''Moloch'' (2016) EPs *''Conflict of Interest'' (2002) Singles *"Strange" (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vintersorg
Vintersorg (; "Winter Sorrow" in English) is a Swedish band from Skellefteå, formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron (Wolfthrone in English). Musically, Vintersorg has covered a wide number of heavy metal genres; while the band is mostly rooted in extreme metal styles, particularly black metal and Viking/folk metal, it has also expanded into progressive metal and avant-garde metal. Lyrically, the band deals with topics on fantasy, mythology, nature, the cosmos, and metaphysics. Vintersorg means " Winter Sorrow," but the name was taken from ''The Legend of the Ice People'' series by Margit Sandemo, where the character Vintersorg is the son of a great pagan leader. History The project was originally formed in 1994 to "push the limits" of black metal music, where the vocals are mostly clean sung, and only a few parts per song that had the traditional screaming vocals. The sound of Vintersorg has vastly changed over the years, as their earlier sound had more of a folk influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dornenreich
Dornenreich (up to ''Bitter ist's dem Tod zu dienen'' known as DornenReich) is an Austrian melodic black metal band, founded in 1996. Alongside their initial metal sound, Dornenreich also regard their music as being neofolk influenced. They have released eight albums on Prophecy Productions. History Thomas "Valñes" Stock founded the band in 1996 and choose "Dornenreich" as the name due to the various possible interpretations (''"Realm of thorns"'' or ''"Full of thorns"''). Jochen "EvÃga" Stock joined the band during 1996 and they started to write the first songs. In April 1997 Moritz "Gilvan" Neuner completed the line-up but left after the release of '' Her von welken Nächten''. Four years after this, the album '' Hexenwind'' was released. Originally, it was planned to be a double album, together with the latter released '' Durch den Traum''. Thomas Stock quit the band in April 2006 to concentrate on his musical project " Eyas". Jochen Stock confirmed that Thomas "Inve" Riesn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scourge Of Malice
''Scourge of Malice'' is the third studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2001 through Last Episode. Their cover of Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark has been famously wrongly credited to Cradle of Filth or Children of Bodom. Track listing All songs written by Stefan Fiori and Steve Unterpertinger, except where noted. # "Dreaded Time (Intro)" – 1:48 # "Unhallowed by the Infernal One" – 5:59 # "Abandoned by Heaven" - 6:08 # "Descending into Ethereal Mist" – 6:46 # "Threnody (Instrumental)" (Dedicated to Max Maccani) – 4:30 # "Demonic Dreams" – 7:23 # "Fear of the Dark" (Iron Maiden cover) – 8:47 # "In Vengeance of Our Wrath" – 5:55 # "Ars Diaboli" (Gregorian chants) – 1:13 # "Sanctity Within Darkness" – 5:22 Personnel Graveworm * Stefan Fiori – Vocals * Steve Unterpertinger – Lead-Guitar * Sabine Mair – Keyboards * Eric Treffel – Rhythm-Guitar * Diddi Schraffel – Bass * Martin Innerbichler – Drums Guest musicians * Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agathodaimon (band)
Agathodaimon are a gothic/symphonic black metal band from Mainz, Germany. History The band began in September 1995, when guitarist Sathonys and drummer Matthias got together to assemble a dominant death metal band with harmonic arrangements (melodic death metal). They put adverts in several music magazines in the hopes that they would find suitable musicians to play with them. In answer to the advertisement, they were joined by bassist Marko Thomas and keyboardist and vocalist Vlad Dracul. The last member of their initial formation was the second guitarist, Hyperion, who joined them by the end of that year. With this formation the band recorded the ''Carpe Noctem'' demo tape, which received fair reviews from the German specialized press. It also attracted the attention of one of '' Century Media's'' executives, who began keeping track of the band. ''Agathodaimon'' then proceeded to play minor gigs and support some European bands. Eventually, they received an offer from ''Centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents of Earth#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As The Angels Reach The Beauty
''As the Angels Reach the Beauty'' is the second studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released on 26 September 1999 through Serenades Records. This is one of Graveworm's more symphonic albums, with strong symphonic metal influences and three symphonic interludes. It was recorded and mixed at Newport Studios, St. Lorenzen, Italy and mastered at Newport Mastering Studios. The cover artwork is a painting of Luis Royo. Track listing All lyrics by Stefano Fiori. All music by Sabine Mair and Stefan Unterpertinger except where noted. #"A Dreaming Beauty" – 7:18 #"Portrait of a Deadly Nightshade" – 4:18 #"Ceremonial Requiem" – 3:02 #"Nocturnal Hymns" – 7:35 #"Behind the Curtain of Darkness" – 4:54 #"Pandemonium" – 2:05 #"Prophecies in Blood" – 5:43 #"Into the Dust of Eden" – 5:19 #"Graveyard of Angels" – 2:04 Personnel Band members *Stefano Fiori – vocals *Stefan Unterpertinger – lead guitar *Harry Klenk – rhythm guitar *Didi Schraffel â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.svg "Click for more on -> Europe")