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General information
origin Los Angeles , USA
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 2011
Current occupation
Drums
 Derek Donley
guitar
 Sacha Dunable
Vocals, guitar
 Charles Elliott
Electric bass
 Derek Rydquist

Bereft ( English : robbed) are a funeral doom band founded in Los Angeles in 2011 .

history

After Intronaut had released the album Prehistoricisms in 2008 , Sacha Dunable (Intronaut, Graviton ) dealt with different band ideas for which he wrote music. Most of the resulting material didn't appeal to him. The recordings that he did not find "absolutely embarrassing" were the preoccupation with albums from the broad spectrum of Doom Metal that he admired . Based on this idea, he founded the band Bereft, sometimes referred to as a supergroup , with Derek Donley (Graviton, National Sunday Law ), Charles Elliott ( Abysmal Dawn ) and Derek Rydquist (formerly The Faceless ) . Originally the band was called Bewilderbiest, but renamed itself before the first recordings. The songwriting for the first album, however, was mainly done by Dunable and Donley, Rydquist and Elliott came later, mainly to play their instruments. In April 2012, the group released their debut album Leichenhaus via The End Records . The album received mostly positive reviews in the music press specializing in metal.

style

Bereft's music is sometimes referred to as being unique in sound. In terms of style, the group is usually assigned to Funeral Doom, occasionally also to Death Doom . Dunable admits a proximity to Funeral Doom and Death Doom and named publications of Gothic Metal and Funeral Doom as sources of inspiration. As such, he named the albums Serenades by Anathema , Solinari by Morgion , Stream from the Heavens by Thergothon , Ethere by Skepticism and The Dreadful Hours by My Dying Bride . Reviewers named Sludge , Stoner Doom and Post-Metal as further influences .

As usual in Funeral Doom, Bereft's music is particularly slow. The guitars are tuned low and “bassy distorted” which suggests a proximity to Stoner Doom and Sludge. The guitar playing is meanwhile reduced to a few riffs . Elliott's vocals are described as the slow and deep guttural growling typical of Death Metal and its derivative Doom Metal forms. His singing is highlighted as "almost inhuman" in the music magazine Legacy . Donley's voice, on the other hand, which can be heard as the second voice on the song Withered Efflorescence , is performed as a post-metal shouting . Likewise, the massive rhythm section and the acoustic passages that interrupt the slow guitar playing are brought close to post-metal. Playing the drums is meanwhile described as particularly difficult , wandering and pulsating .

Discography

  • 2012: Leichenhaus (Album, The End Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: “THE COLDEST ORCHESTRA” FROM BEREFT, PLUS SACHA DUNABLE'S FIVE FAVORITE DOOM METAL RECORDS! Metal Sucks, accessed March 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Bereft - Sacha Dunable (guitar, backing vocals). (No longer available online.) Smnnews, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; accessed on March 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Bereft: Mortuary. (No longer available online.) The End Records, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on March 7, 2016 .
  4. ^ A b Johannes Paul Koehler: Bereft: Morgue. (No longer available online.) Legacy, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 7, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.legacy.de
  5. ↑ a b Khelek: Bereft: mortuary. Metal Reviews, accessed February 7, 2016 .
  6. ↑ xFiruath: Bereft: morgue. Metal Underground, accessed March 7, 2016 .
  7. ↑ HP Taskmaster: Bereft: Morgue. The Obelisk, accessed March 7, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Islander: Bereft. No Clean Singing, accessed March 7, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Haxan: Into the morgue. (No longer available online.) Cvlt Nation, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on March 17, 2016 .