April Weeps is a Slovak

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band, based in

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. They are known for their heavy riffs, atmospheric melodies, and intense and energetic performances. The band released its first album titled '' Outer Calm, Pain Within'' in 2013 and played with such bands as

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, Novembre,

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, In Mourning, Saturnus and Tristania since then.

April Weeds era

The band originally formed in 2004 under the name April Weeds. In 2007, they released an unofficial, home recorded

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titled ''Songs from the Old House''. After playing a few gigs, the constant line-up changes caused the band to go dormant. In 2010, the band went through a reboot and because of their name's similarity with

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, changed their name to April Weeps.

''Outer Calm, Pain Within''

From the original line up, only 2 band members remained: Miloš Dupal (keyboards) and Zoltán Cséfalvay (rhythm guitar). The new members who joined the band were Roland Danics (drums), Pál Horváth (guitar), Norbert Frick (growl, screams) and Michal Borbély (bass). Later in 2012, Marta Somogyi (vocals) joined the band. In 2013, the band released their debut album titled '' Outer Calm, Pain Within'', featuring 11 tracks. The public reception was mixed at first, considered as frantic in places, but later the reviews were more accepting. The same year, they qualified to attend the Wacken Metal Battle Semi Finals for Slovakia, but were not selected to continue to the finals. In 2014, the band made it into ''Spark'' magazine's "Spark Fresh Blood" contest finals. In 2015, the band started its first tour through

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and

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Tribute recordings

In 2016, the band was asked to participate on a

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tribute album, ''The Plague Inside'' by the label Fono Records, Ltd (

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) and recorded the song "Shine". In December of the same year, the band recorded the song " She Is the Dark" for the

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tribute album titled ''Long Stay in the Darkness''.

''Comma''

In February 2018, the band announced they were to release the song "Palingenesis", from their second album named ''Comma''.

Cataclastic

The band released the album named Catalclastic on 4 June 2022, including 8 tracks with 45 minutes and 19 seconds runtime.

Discography

* '' Outer Calm, Pain Within'' (2013) * ''Comma'' (2018) * Cataclastic (2022)

References

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