Deinonychus (band)
| Deinonychus | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Brunssum , Netherlands |
| Genre (s) | Dark Metal , Death Doom , Funeral Doom , Gothic Metal , |
| founding | 1992, 2011 |
| resolution | 2008 |
| Founding members | |
| Marco sweeping | |
| Current occupation | |
| Marco sweeping | |
| Markus Stock | |
| Steve Wolz | |
| former members | |
Keyboard |
John Bartels (1994-1997) |
| William A. Sarginson (1999-2008) | |
Keyboard |
Fabien Pereira (2000-2008) |
Vocals, keyboard |
Maurice "Sephiroth" Swinkels (1993–1995) |
Drums |
Giuseppe Orlando (2006-2007) |
Electric bass |
Jürgen Bartsch (since 2005–2008) |
| Live and session members | |
Electric bass |
Stafford Glover (2002: Mournument ) |
Drums |
Steve Wolz (2004: Insomnia ) |
Keyboards |
Alessio Fagrelli (2004: Insomnia ) |
Deinonychus is a Dutch Death Doom band that was founded in 1992 by the musician Marco Kehren from Brunssum .
history
Deinonychus was founded in 1992 as a solo project by Marco Kehren after the black metal band Malefic Oath broke up. Kehren ended his collaboration with the musicians of Malefic Oath in order not to limit himself to black metal, as his fellow musicians wanted. Instead, he wanted to “devote himself to his ideals and set deeply shocking emotions to music.” Since then Deinonychus has been Kehren's solo band with guest musicians.
A Shining Blaze over Darkland recorded Kehren as its first demo recording in 1993 in the rehearsal room alone. The tape contained the two tracks Shining Blaze over Darkland and A Throne on My Long Awaited Desires , both titles were also found on the demo cassette Promo '93 that followed that same year . The recordings made together with Maurice "Sephiroth" Swinkels, the drummer of the band Bestial Summoning at the time , were sent to record companies and in March 1994 gave the band a contract with Cacophonous Records . Swinkels added a keyboard and a second vocal part to the band's previously harsh sound. The band recorded the demo tape in a semi-professional studio and expanded the existing songs for the demo tape by two additional titles and an intro.
For the album recordings in May 1994, John Bartels joined the band as keyboardist, which is why Swinkels limited himself to singing individual tracks. The following year Deinonychus released the second studio album The Weeping of a Thousand Years , which intensified the calm and melancholy passages.
In 1997 the demo tape Promo '93 was re-released by the Mexican indie label Guttural Records under the title After the Rain Falls ... on Empty Sky Remains after Kehren broke up with Cacophonous Records after a dispute. In the same year the band gave their only live appearance at the London Hippodrome. The gig was later published as Bootleg -VHS, but has always been rejected by Kehren as being of poor quality.
"The 'Live at the Hippodrome in London' concert will (luckily) never be available on DVD, because: I think it's real shit ..."
Kehren also ruled out further live performances on the grounds that he would act as a solo project with guest musicians. In addition, he is not interested in investing time in concerts, rehearsals or tours.
In 2007 the band released the eighth studio album Warfare Machines , which was more aggressive than the previous albums. Kehren, who sang on the Bethlehem albums Sardonischer Untergang under the sign of irreligious performance and reflections on dying as well as the vinyl single Profane Fetmilch Lenzt Elf Krank , had invited Jürgen Bartsch, the only permanent member of Bethlehem, to work on Warfare Machines . The album was proposed for indexing in the context of the album concept of the Federal Testing Agency for Media Harmful to Young People. Ultimately, the test procedure was discontinued. The album deals conceptually with the topic complex of the war and puts an emphasis on the Second World War without taking a political point of view. In connection with the indexing process, Kehren was accused of right-wing extremism. Meanwhile, his interest in right-wing esotericism made it difficult to deal with the allegations.
“I collect Black Sun things [...] because I am very interested in the occult history of the Third Reich and thus related things. I can certainly understand that one can have a biased opinion about it and thus think that this occurrence is of a political nature. But this is not true, and that shows narrow-mindedness. And would certainly only apply to the German area, because nobody here in Holland thinks about it or anywhere else.
If organizations or authorities see my music and theses [sic!] As a welcome target, then I find it extremely over-sensitive and intolerant. "
In September 2008, Kehren announced the end of the band via Myspace . In retrospect, Kehren named his efforts to focus on the Nihil Novi Sub Sole martial industrial project as the main reason for the end of Deinonychus. After he had released the album Jupiter Temple with Nihil Novi Sub Sole in 2010 , he was anxious to reactivate Deinonychus. In the absence of the right feeling for the band's music, so Kehren, Deinonychus rested until 2016. In November 2016, however, he announced work on a new album. Ode to Act of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide was released in December 2017 via My Kingdom Music.
style
Over the years of activity, Deinonychus released albums through various record companies, whose stylistic direction picked up and varied musical elements from Black Doom , Death Doom to Gothic Metal and Funeral Doom . Comparisons with the German dark metal band Bethlehem were often sought due to personal overlaps and musical similarities.
The band's first works were stylistically very close to Black Metal with Gothic elements, later Doom and Death Metal influences were increasingly added. After Garry Sharpe-Young , the debut album was praised as a mixture of stylistic elements of Black and Doom Metal . The second album The Weeping of a Thousand Years corresponded more closely to popular Gothic Metal after Sharpe-Young . On the page Ancient Spirit , the sound of the album Mournument is described as a mixture of melancholy "sluggish guitar riffs, [...] dark [r] atmosphere and [...] hoarse [m] rattles" and on Ancient Spirit and Vampster with the funeral Doom and Gothic Metal bands Morgion , Skepticism and My Dying Bride compared.
The album Insomnia is described as typical Death Doom, "as you know it from DEINONYCHUS - very dark and misanthropic , but without great surprises". Most of the band's releases are similar to Death Doom and its derivative forms, while the album Warfare Machine is referred to as Death Metal on Schwermetall.ch, among others.
Discography
- 1993: A Shining Blaze over Darkland (Demo)
- 1993: Promo '93 (demo)
- 1995: The Silence of December (Album, Cacophonous Records )
- 1996: The Weeping of a Thousand Years (Album, Cacophonous Records)
- 1997: Live at the Hippodrome (Video / VHS)
- 1997: After the Rain Falls ... an Empty Sky Remains (EP, Guttural Records )
- 1997: Ark of Thought (Album, Supernatural Music )
- 1999: Deinonychus (album, Ars Metalli )
- 2000: Like the Color of Snow (EP, Realm Of Chaos Productions)
- 2002: Mournument (album, Ars Metalli)
- 2002: Amphetamine Machine (Single, My Kingdom Music )
- 2004: Insomnia (Album, My Kingdom Music)
- 2007: Warfare Machines (album, My Kingdom Music)
- 2017: Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide (Album, My Kingdom Music)
Web links
- Deinonychus at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Paul Köhler: Sweden has the monopoly. (No longer available online.) Legacy.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 29, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b c d PMH: DEINONYCHUS. Stormbringer.at, accessed on May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Goth & Stoner Metal . London 2003, ISBN 978-1-901447-14-9 , pp. 122 f .
- ↑ a b deinonychus Marco Kehren. Terrorverlag.com, accessed May 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Marco Kehren: Call it a Day. Metalstorm, accessed May 31, 2014 .
- ↑ DEINONYCHUS is back. My Kingdom Music, accessed May 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Norman Sickinger: Deinonychus - Mournument. Metal.de, accessed on May 31, 2014 .
- ^ Lennart Riepenhusen: Deinonychus - Warfare Machines. MetalNews.de, accessed May 31, 2014 .
- ↑ The Rozzengarten: Deinonychus interview (07/2005). Metalstorm.net, accessed May 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Joe: Mournument. Ancient Spirit, accessed April 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Captain Chaos: Mournument. Vampster , accessed April 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Joe: Insomnia. Ancient Spirit, accessed April 9, 2015 .
- ^ Shadowthrone: Warfare Machine. Schwermetall.ch, accessed on April 9, 2015 .