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Far Away From The Sun
''Far Away from the Sun'' is the debut album of the Swedish black metal band Sacramentum (band), Sacramentum. It was released through Adipocere Records in May 1996. The album features cover artwork created by Kristian Wåhlin, Kristian "Necrolord" Wåhlin. The album's style has been compared to contemporaries such as Dissection and Unanimated, and the album is frequently considered an often-overlooked classic in the genre. Background Following the release of their demo EP ''Finis Malorum'' (later reissued on Adipocere Records, to whom the band had signed in 1994), bassist Freddy Andersson and drummer Mikael Rydén left the band, "unwilling to go on after Brolycke and Karlén had decided to move to Gothenburg." Following this, Karlén switched to bass to allow himself to focus more on vocals. After moving to Gothenburg they got in touch with Johan Norman (Decameron (band), Decameron, Satanized). Sacramentum asked him to join the band, and Norman offered to bring Nicklas "Terror" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacramentum (band)
Sacramentum is a melodic black metal band from Falköping, Sweden, formed by Nisse Karlén (vocals/guitar) in the summer of 1990 under the name of Tumulus. The band released three full-length studio albums and two demos. They are best known for their debut album '' Far Away from the Sun'', which is often considered one of the best early melodic black metal releases. History Shortly thereafter, Anders Brolycke joined as a second guitarist. The group's first official recordings were made in the end of 1992; just before the release of the demo tape, called ''Sedes Impiorum'', the band name was changed to Sacramentum. In February 1994, Sacramentum went to Unisound Studio to record the self-financed five-track EP ''Finis Malorum'', which was re-released by Adipocere Records a year later. Following the release of this EP, Nicklas Rudolfsson (now also in Runemagick, Swordmaster and Deathwitch) joined in on drums, and Karlén shifted from guitar to bass. According to Karlén, Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chronicles Of Chaos (webzine)
''Chronicles of Chaos'' (shortened as CoC) was an metal music, extreme metal webzine. It focused on artists that are generally outside the metal mainstream, and occasionally covers other forms of Extreme metal, extreme music as well. Online since August 1995, ''Chronicles of Chaos'' was one of the first webzines in the world for that genre of music.(December 9, 2008).Adrian Bromley RIP, Antimusic News. Retrieved January 21, 2013. It was a nonprofit publication since its inception. ''Chronicles of Chaos'' stopped publishing new articles in August 2015. History ''Chronicles of Chaos'' was founded by Canada, Canadians Gino Filicetti and Adrian Bromley in 1995,Albert, Jaclyn; O'Connor, Laura (January 31, 2009). "Adrian Bromley", ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' 121 (4): 18. and started out in the shape of a monthly e-mail digest. In its early years, ''CoC'' was one of the few to publish reviews and interviews on the Internet featuring bands such as Eyehategod, Nevermore, Strapping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obscura (band)
Obscura is a German technical death metal band from Landshut, founded by guitarist and vocalist Steffen Kummerer in 2002. The band have released six studio albums, a compilation album and twelve music videos since its formation. Their latest album '' A Valediction'' was released on 19 November 2021 via Nuclear Blast. History ''Illegimitation'' (2002–2003) Obscura was formed in late 2002 by guitarist Steffen Kummerer, drummer Jonas Baumgartl, guitarist Armin Seitz and bassist/vocalist Martin Ketzer with the name Illegimitation. Performing local shows, the band booked their own concept tour in Bavaria called "Blasting Bavaria Tour" in 2003, followed by editions in 2004, 2005 and 2007. The band recorded their first and only self titled demo in November 2003 with producer V.Santura (Triptykon, Pestilence, Dark Fortress). The demo contained four songs, received positive feedback within southern Germany and took root in underground circles. In early 2004, both Ketzer and Seit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffen Kummerer
Steffen Kummerer (born 1 June 1985) is a German guitarist and vocalist. He is the leader, main songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Obscura, as well as the black metal band Thulcandra. Since 2012, he has been a member of the official tribute band Death to All. Kummerer's Ran custom guitar shape have become a signature shape unique to him and his band Obscura. Biography Early life and education Steffen Kummerer was born in Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt then) on 1 June 1985. He started playing piano at the age of nine and received a scholarship for gifted musicians one year later. Kummerer studied singing solo, in a choir, and performing solo pieces and Piano four hands at the boarding school of world-known Regensburger Domspatzen, the world's oldest choir in Regensburg. Under the guidance of Georg Ratzinger and Roland Büchner, Kummerer achieved a broad understanding of music theory and performing concerts. At the age of 16, he learned to play guitar and foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Swanö
Dan-Erland Swanö (born 10 March 1973), also known as Dan "The Man" Swanö, is a Swedish musician and record producer who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale, lately vocalist, keyboardist and drummer for the band Witherscape, as well as the owner of Unisound, but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity. As a multi-instrumentalist he is regarded as influential in the underground melodic death metal, black metal, progressive metal, death metal, progressive rock, and power metal communities. He is known for his progressive rock-influenced songwriting style and his frequent use of both clean and growled vocals. Career Swanö has fronted a number of bands, including Edge of Sanity, Brejn Dedd, Unicorn, Infestdead and Route Nine. He has also been a member of Katatonia and Ribspreader, as well as playing drums and lead guitar in death metal band Bloodbath. Swanö also partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clouds (Tiamat Album)
''Clouds'' is the third full-length album by Tiamat (band), Tiamat, issued in 1992 through Century Media Records. It continues the extreme sound of previous albums with more melodic, gothic rock-inspired elements, including occasional clean singing, while retaining extremely heavy instrumentation and Johan Edlund's death growl. Track listing Personnel *Johan Edlund - vocal, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar *Thomas Petersson - guitars, acoustic guitar *Johnny Hagel - bass *Kenneth Roos - keyboards *Niklas Ekstrand - drums *Jonas Malmsten – additional keyboards Covers Germany, German gothic metal band The Vision Bleak covered "The Sleeping Beauty" on their 2016 EP ''The Kindred of the Sunset''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clouds (Tiamat Album) 1992 albums Tiamat (band) albums Albums with cover art by Kristian Wåhlin Albums produced by Waldemar Sorychta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildhoney (Tiamat Album)
''Wildhoney'' is the fourth studio album from Swedish music group Tiamat. The album was produced by Waldemar Sorychta and released by Century Media records in 1994. Vocalist Johan Edlund and John Hagel were the only two remaining members of Tiamat who were still with the group after their previous album ''Clouds'' in 1992. The album was marked a strong change in the style of Tiamat's music with more progressive rock and psychedelic music-influenced music and a less death metal-oriented style. The music on the album deals with the occult, nature, and LSD. The album was released on September 1, 1994 and was one of the highest-selling records for Century Media on its release. AllMusic praised the album, referring to it as "one of the classics of the genre". Production Tiamat vocalist Johan Edlund was unhappy with the recording of the album ''Clouds'', stating that it "definitely didn't turn out the way I wanted it to".Ekeroth, 2008. p.212 After the release of their 1994 tour EP, ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiamat (band)
Tiamat is a Swedish metal band that formed in Stockholm in 1987 and led by Johan Edlund. The band went through a number of stylistic changes, usually leaning toward gothic metal. History Initially, the band had the name Treblinka and a style of black/death metal. After having recorded the album ''Sumerian Cry'' in 1989, vocalist/guitarist Johan Edlund and bassist Jörgen Thullberg parted ways with the other two founding members, and subsequently changed the name to Tiamat. The ''Sumerian Cry'' album included re-recorded Treblinka songs and was released in June 1990. AllMusic refers to early Tiamat as "one of the leading lights in symphonic black metal." After the debut, Edlund's leadership would modify the band's style with influences ranging from Black Sabbath, Mercyful Fate, Candlemass, Pink Floyd and King Crimson, with Sumerian lyrical themes. H. P. Lovecraft's writings also appear to have influenced Tiamat's thematology, a development consistent with a broader trend in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Metal
Gothic metal (or goth metal) is a fusion genre combining the aggression of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music. The genre originated during the early 1990s in the United Kingdom originally as an outgrowth of death-doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal. Lyrics are generally dark and introspective with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences. Pioneers of gothic metal include Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema, all from the north of England. Other pioneers from the first half of the 1990s include Type O Negative from the United States, Lake of Tears, Tiamat and Katatonia from Sweden, and the Gathering from the Netherlands. Norwegian band Theatre of Tragedy developed the "beauty and the beast" aesthetic of combining aggressive male vocals with clean female vocals, a contrast that had been adopted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dissection (band)
Dissection was a Swedish extreme metal band from Strömstad, formed in 1989 by guitarist, vocalist and main songwriter Jon Nödtveidt and bassist Peter Palmdahl. Despite a number of lineup changes, Dissection released ''The Somberlain'' in 1993 and '' Storm of the Light's Bane'' in 1995, before splitting up in 1997 due to Nödtveidt's imprisonment for complicity in the murder of Josef Meddour. After his release, Nödtveidt reformed the band in 2004 with new members who he felt could "stand behind and live up to the demands of Dissection's Satanic concept." They released their third and final full-length album ''Reinkaos'' in April 2006, before disbanding that June. Nödtveidt said he had "reached the limitations of music as a tool for expressing what I want to express, for myself and the handful of others that I care about." Two months later, Nödtveidt committed suicide with a gun inside a circle of lit candles in his apartment in Hässelby. Dissection released a number of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unisound Studios
Beijing Unisound Information Technology Co., Ltd., often shortened to Unisound, is a Chinese technology company based in Beijing. It is a unicorn startup specialising in speech recognition and artificial intelligence services applicable to a variety of industries. History Since the company was founded in 2012 by Huang Wei it has raised over US$250 million. In 2018 Unisound raised US$100 million from the China Electronics Health Fund. Technology Unisound has been involved in academic research relating to voice recognition technologies and acoustic modelling powered by deep neural networks. In 2018, Unisound developed their product Swift which they described as the first AIoT chip due to its combination of AI and IoT technologies. The development of Swift was accelerated due to strategic collaborations with Baidu and IngDan (), a subsidiary of the Cogobuy Group. Due to the chip's implementation of deep learning Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decameron (band)
Decameron were an English folk rock and progressive rock band, existing from 1968 to 1976. History Initially formed in 1968 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, by Johnny Coppin (guitar, vocals) and Dave Bell (guitar, vocals), the band were augmented in 1971 by the addition of Al Fenn on lead guitar and mandolin and Geoff March on violin and cello. Their first managers included future comedian Jasper Carrott. They originally signed to Vertigo Records in 1973 and recorded their debut album, ''Say Hello to the Band'', that year. By 1974, the band's line-up changed with Dik Cadbury joining the group on lead and 12-string acoustic guitar and bass. Geoff March incorporated keyboards into his repertoire and the band signed to Mooncrest Records to record the album, ''Mammoth Special'', which showed a turn towards more introspective and progressive material, that was to define their sound for the remaining years of their existence. Rumours of a missing third album called, ''Beyond th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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