Atriarch

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Atriarch
General information
origin Portland , Oregon , United States
Genre (s) Death rock , black doom
founding 2009
Current occupation
Drums
 Ronald "Maxamillion" Avila
singing
 Lenny Smith
guitar
 Joshua Dark
Electric bass
 Andy Savage
former members
Electric bass
 Timothy Haskins
Electric bass
 Nick "Phit" Mullins
Electric bass
 Damon Kelly
Electric bass
 Joe Wickstrom
guitar
 Brooks Blackhawk
Keyboard
 Garek Jon Druss

Atriarch is a black doom and death rock band founded in 2009 .

history

Career history

Atriarch was founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon. The band released their first album Forever the End on Seventh Rule Recordings in 2011 , followed by a split EP with Alaric , which was released over 20 Buck Spin . For the second album Ritual of Passing a contract was signed with Profound Lore Records . It was released in 2012 with a design by Dark Castle's Stevie Floyd . Two years after the release of Ritual of Passing , Atriarch signed with Relapse Records and released An Unending Pathway, produced by Billy Anderson . After the self-published EP We Are All Dead in 2016, the group's fourth studio album, Dead as Truth, was again released via Relapse Records in 2017 .

Cast history

In addition to singer Lenny Smith and drummer Ronald "Maxamillion" Avila, the group's musicians changed several times. In particular, the position of bassist was frequently filled. After the founding of the group by Nick “Phit” Mullins of Graves at Sea and Uzala , the instrument was played. After his departure in 2012, Damon Kelly took over the instrument from Heathen Shrine , who was then replaced by Joe Wickstrom from Witch Mountain , who in turn was Andy Savage was replaced. Founding guitarist Brooks Blackhawk left the band after the release of An Unending Pathway and was replaced by Joshua Dark for the release of the EP We Are All Dead . Keyboardist Garek Jon Druss was only listed as an official member of the group on the 2012 album Ritual of Passing .

Reception history

The debut album Forever the End was mainly received by smaller, subcultural webzines , but received mostly positive reviews. More popular scene-specific online media, with the exception of Metal.de , hardly devoted themselves to the album. The second studio album, Ritual of Passing , gained greater popularity with the publisher through Profound Lore Records and was discussed for print media such as Rock Hard and major webzines such as Pitchfork Media . The album was mostly positively received by them, as well as by other reviewers, but judged it to be special and hardly accessible to everyone. The reception of the following albums An Unending Pathway and Dead as Truth was even broader and just as positive . Both albums have been received by British, American, Canadian, German, Belgian and Italian metal webzines. Thus An Unending Pathway among others in the Ox-Fanzine and on Vampster discussed.

ideology

Atriarch were founded under the premise, based on a Sufi phrase by Muhyī d-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī , by means of their music called a “ sound ritual ” to “tear the veil that makes us blind from our true selves .” Atriarch is directed against that Ideals of the life they describe as “superficial”, from whose “enslavement” it is important to escape. The band names "greed, corruption, fear and hate" as an expression of this life. The music is an instrument of a violent opening and liberation of the mind and body, which is in the nature of the band members. This is how the band summarizes its own concerns as a negation of core religious ideas:

“There is no god there is no devil there is an all encompassing force that connects all living things. Embrace the ritual and the veil will come crashing down ... "

“There is no God , there is no devil , there is an all-encompassing force that connects all living beings. Embrace the ritual and the veil will collapse ... "

- Atriarch : biography of the band

style

The style played by Atriarch is considered a crossover of Death Rock and Black Doom with elements of Gothic Punk , Gothic Rock and Sludge . For a more precise location of the music, groups such as Bauhaus , The Sisters of Mercy and Christian Death are cited for Gothic and Death Rock. In particular, Lenny Smith's clear vocals are attested to have a sonic similarity to Rozz Williams . For the Black Doom and the Sludge, reference is made to Mayhem , Darkthrone , Celtic Frost for the Black Metal and Black Doom and EyeHateGod for the Sludge. Representatives of Death Doom and Gothic Metal , especially Paradise Lost , as well as Swans as interpreters of post-industrial are listed as further references . The atmosphere resulting from this mixture is sometimes referred to as a "disturbing soundscape".

The tempo of the pieces is mainly described as slow and dragging. Nevertheless, Peter Wingert MOORISH from Ox-Fanzine it were occasionally "for a short time right to the point and fast blast beats break the SloMo riffs mercilessly." The song varies between "fast and slow chanting , shouting or screaming ."

Discography

  • 2011: Forever the End (Album, Seventh Rule Recordings)
  • 2012: Alaric / Atriarch (split EP with Alaric, 20 Buck Spin)
  • 2012: Ritual of Passing (Album, Profound Lore Records)
  • 2014: An Unending Pathway (Album, Relapse Records)
  • 2016: We Are All Dead (EP, self-published)
  • 2017: Dead as Truth (Album, Relapse Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

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