Asunder (band)

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Asunder
General information
origin Oakland , United States
Genre (s) Funeral Doom , Death Doom
founding 1998
resolution 2006
Website www.asunder.info
Last occupation
Drums, vocals
 Dino Sommes
guitar
 Geoff Evans
Vocals, guitar
 John Gossard
Electric bass
 Salvador Raya
former members
Electric bass, vocals
 Britt Hallett
cello
 Alex Bale-Glickman
Electric guitar, vocals
 Seth Baker
Live and session members
cello
 Jackie Perez Gratz

Asunder was a Death Doom and Funeral Doom band founded in 1998 and disbanded in 2006 .

history

In the early 1990s, after Dystopia and Skaven released a split EP on Life is Abuse Records and toured together, some of the Dystopia musicians moved to Oakland to live with members of Skaven. The Lachrymose project emerged from this shared flat, and Asunder emerged from its dissolution. The first band constellation Asunders consisted of Dino Sommes from Dystopia as drummer and singer and Geoff Evans from Skaven and Seth Baker as guitarists. Britt Hallett joined as bassist. In this constellation, the group recorded a demo tape and performed in the local area. Matt Parrillo from Dystopia and managing director of Life is Abuse Records, who was involved in the demo recordings, decided after the recordings were finished to release them as an Asunder split album with Like Flies on Flesh .

In the following years, the band worked on more song material, performed constantly and changed the band constellation. Since the group wanted to write more “long, slow and sad songs”, a cellist, Alex Bale-Glickman, was brought in. After a few live performances with the cello, Asunder discovered that the instrument could not be part of their performances due to the restrictions imposed by the live sound reinforcement. However, studio recordings were completed with Bale-Glickman. After Sommese founded the further project Insidious with Baker, Baker left the band to concentrate on Insidious. As a replacement, John Gossard joined the band from Weakling . The debut album A Clarion Call was recorded with producer Billy Anderson in the summer of 2003 . A Clarion Call was released via Nuclear War Now! The summer of the following year ! Productions and Life is Abuse Records. The album was well received internationally and later touted as a classic between Death Doom and Funeral Doom.

In the following months Hallet and Bale-Glickman left the band. Jackie Perez Gratz from Amber Asylum and Giant Squid joined the band as session cellist, but did not join the band due to her further obligations. The sound engineer Salvador Raya, who was also involved in Insidious, joined Asunder as bassist . With this line-up, the band recorded another split album for Life is Abuse Records and 20 Buck Spin , this time with Graves at Sea . The split album was followed by the work Will Come Undone , released via Profound Lore Records , the band's final album, which was again recorded with Anderson. Some time after the release of the critically acclaimed album, Asunder was broken up by the band members. The Decibel Magazine led Works Will Come Undone 2015 in the special issue of the magazine Top 100 Doom Metal Albums of All Time ranked 62nd

style

Asunder's music is classified as a difficult-to-categorize hybrid of Death Doom and Funeral Doom. As a comparison, a description of the sound written for the webzine Doom-Metal.com refers to a mixture of November's Doom and Skepticism . In a review of the debut written for the Ox-Fanzine , André Bohnensack mentions Cathedral and Paradise Lost as being comparable. Other reviewers point to My Dying Bride , Godsend , Mournful Congregation , Rapture , Loss , Sunn O))), and Mourning Beloveth .

The music is played in a tempo corresponding to the doom metal during the vocals of Gossard and Sommes between the Deathmetal corresponding growling and approximately spoken passages varied. The tenor and the conveyed mood are also described as "grumpy". In his review of the debut for the webzine Metal Injection , Cody Davis attributes this atmospheric effect to the cello in particular. Scott Alisoglu also emphasizes the effect of the instrument in his review of Works Will Come Undone for the Blabbermouth webzine . Further reviews also highlight “haunting melodies and dense, thoughtful harmonies”. The guitar playing contains “a lot of great riffs”, while a conveyed “melancholy is omnipresent in guitar work”. The rhythm section, however, only varies “slightly textures and nuances”.

Discography

  • 1999: Demo (demo, self-published)
  • 2000: Asunder / Like Flies on Flesh (split album, Life is Abuse Records)
  • 2004: A Clarion Call (Album, Nuclear War Now! Productions / Life is Abuse Records)
  • 2005: Graves at Sea / Asunder (Split EP, Life is Abuse Records)
  • 2006: Works Will Come Undone (Album, Profound Lore)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Asunder: Biography. Asunder, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b André Bohnenstengel: Asunder: A Clarrion Call. Ox fanzine, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b c d Charles Keller: Asunder: A Clarrion Call. Voices from the Darkside, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Chaim Drishner: Asunder: A Clarrion Call. Doom-Metal.com, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Cody Davis: Funeral Doom Friday: Answering A Clarion Call From ASUNDER. Metal Injection, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Brandon Stosuy: Show No Mercy. pitchfork.com, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Dominik Sonders: Asunder: Works Will Come Undone. Doom-Metal.com, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Zed: Asunder: Works Will Come Undone. Scene Point Blank, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b c Scott Alisoglu: Asunder: Works Will Come Undone. Blabbermouth, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Alex: Asunder: Works Will Come Undone. Metal Reviews, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Top 100 Doom Metal Albums of All Times . In: Alex Mulcahy (ed.): Decibel . Red Flag Media, 2015, ISSN  1557-2137 , p. 19 .
  12. ↑ Asunder. Doom-Metal.com, accessed July 31, 2019 .