Arcana Coelestia

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Arcana Coelestia
General information
origin Cagliari , Italy
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 2006
Website www.facebook.com/arcanacoelestiaband/
Current occupation
Guitar, electric bass, sampling
 Marco "MZ" Z
singing
 Roberto Mura
Drums
 Daniele "PV-1" Marcia
former members
singing
 Luca "LS" Soi
guitar
 Ivan Zara
Keyboard
 Kostas Panagiotou

Arcana Coelestia is a funeral doom band founded in 2006 .

history

Arcana Coelestia was initiated in summer 2005 by Marco “MZ” Z with singer Luca “LS” Soi as a blackened funeral doom band. After recording the first demo, the band decided to re-record all of the tracks for a first EP called Ubi Secreta Colunt . The EP, published by Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation , deals conceptually with the life of August Strindberg and his mentor Emanuel Swedenborg . The album Le Mirage De L'Ideal , which followed in spring 2009 and was also released via Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation, treats the epoch of Romanticism and Decadentism like the EP , but this time with Baudelaire and its poetry as the central theme. The album received positive reviews from webzines such as Metal.de and Doom-Metal.com .

The recordings for the third release started in 2010. The production of Nomas was delayed by four years and was accompanied by various line-up changes in the band. Kostas Panagiotou , among others, took part in the creation process of the album, which was released via Avantgarde Music in 2014, without being present on the final album. Nomas was again positively discussed internationally.

style

The music of Arcana Coelestia is assigned to the blackened funeral doom . The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the band as a "heavy and blackened Funeral Doom project." The music puts a noticeable emphasis on atmosphere and gloom. Reference is made to Urna for comparison .

“The resources they use can be roughly reduced to two aspects: guitar walls and melody. The whole thing has something of ALCEST in places , a bit of SUMMONING in the extensive system of melodies and makes use of post-rock here and there . But what actually crushes the listener is the due portion of Doom . He rolls viscously out of the boxes in epic proportions and imposes slow motion on everything. [...] Between funeral doom walls, sluggish rhythms and the very intense singing, melodies scurry around that sometimes build up, pile up to form huge, chaotic mountains and then ebb away again. "

- Review of Le Mirage de l'Ideal for Metal.de

A special element in a review written for Vampster is the lead guitar, which “brings out the melancholy and gloom of the genre in a sublime way”.

Discography

  • 2007: Ubi Secreta Colunt (EP, Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation)
  • 2009: Le Mirage de l'Idéal (Album, Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation)
  • 2014: Nomas (album, avant-garde music)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c MZ: About. Facebook, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Arcana Coelestia: Le Mirage de l'Idéal. Metal.de, accessed on April 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bertrand marchal: Arcana Coelestia: Le Mirage de l'Idéal. Doom-Metal.com, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Matt Halsey: Arcana Coelestia: Nomas. Doom-Metal.com, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ DoomMetalHeaven: Arcana Coelestia: Nomas. Doom Metal Heaven, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Lee Kimber: Arcana Coelestia: Nomas. Ave Noctum, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  7. ^ A b Christian Wögerbauer: Arcana Coelestia: Nomas. Vampster, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  8. ^ Arcana Coelestia. Doom-Metal.com, accessed April 12, 2020 .