Angband (band)

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Angband
General information
origin Tehran , Iran
Genre (s) Power metal , progressive metal
founding 2004
Website angbandmetal.weebly.com
Current occupation
Mahyar Dean
Ashkan Yazdani
Ramin Rhimi
Farshad Shokuhfar

Angband is a power / progressive metal band from Iran . The name is based on Angband , a place invented by JRR Tolkien on the fictional continent of Middle-earth .

history

Angband was founded in 2004 in the state capital Tehran by Mahyar Dean, a classically trained musician and author of books about the US bands Death and Testament .

Compared to their counterparts from the western world, Angband are or were faced with the problem that their music is not generally recognized and it is viewed either as halāl or harām - and a relatively tolerant period under President Mohammad Chātami, a comparatively repressive phase under Mahmud Ahmadineschād followed. Nevertheless, Angband officially succeeded as the first Iranian metal band to sign a worldwide contract for their debut album Rising from Apadana in 2008 , more precisely with the German music label Pure Steel Records from Schwarzenberg, Saxony, which had only been founded two years earlier .

style

The debut album was dominated by “rather traditional metal” and comparisons of the record company with the US luminaries Iced Earth and Nevermore were “not completely out of thin air,” stated stormbringer.at . In a pre-registration for the debut album, the US online magazine Brave Words threw in Iced Earth, Depressive Age and Anacrusis as references.

On the occasion of the third album, Saved from the Truth , Crossfire pointed out that the bongos in the instrumental of “Persia” indicated their origins, which they didn't want to deny, but that the band “otherwise concentrated on metal from the western world”. Nevertheless, the singer especially brings back memories of the Turkish heavy metal band Mezarkabul and the musicians also partially justify this impression with their playing.

reception

The debut album is a “pleasantly weird, rather traditional metal album”, judged stormbringer.at and should be heard because of the “progressive insertions that are repeatedly shown”. The comparisons with the role models Iced Earth and Nevermore are basically okay, but it is still a long way to their class and their songwriting ability.

With the second work Visions from the Seeker , metal1.info criticized a “thin sound and too hard-working songwriting”. With the third album, the sound problems would still exist, but the songwriting has improved. It was noted with regret that "the songs have a purely western orientation and do not musically capture the traditions of the Middle East".

Joxe Schaefer from Crossfire is sure that Angband deserves to be tested not only because of their exotic status . B. "For the cool and simple riff of" Fearless Dream "others would kill".

Discography

Albums

  • 2008: Rising from Apadana ( Pure Steel Records )
  • 2010: Visions of the Seeker (Pure Steel Records)
  • 2012: Saved from the Truth (Pure Underground Records)
  • 2020: IV (Pure Underground Records)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Stehle: Review - ANGBAND - Rising From Apadana. In: powermetal.de. August 27, 2008. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Iranian Metal Band ANGBAND Signs With Germany's PURE STEEL RECORDS. In: blabbermouth.net. August 2, 2008, accessed November 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Nahid Siamdoust: Rock Me, Ahmadinejad! In: content.time.com. June 6, 2008, accessed November 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Reini: ANGBAND - Rising from Apadana. In: stormbringer.at. August 29, 2008. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
  5. ↑ bravewords.com: Pure Steel Records Issue Vinyl Update, Sign WOLFS MOON And Iran's ANGBAND. In: bravewords.com. April 12, 2008, accessed November 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Joxe Schaefer: ANGBAND-SAVED FROM THE TRUTH. In: crossfire-metal.de. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
  7. ^ Walter: Angband - Saved From The Truth Review. In: metal.de. October 13, 2012, accessed November 17, 2017 .
  8. ^ A b Jan Müller: Angband - Saved From The Truth • Review. In: metal1.info. April 6, 2013, accessed November 17, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Review on musikreviews.de , accessed on August 6, 2020.