Black Shape of Nexus

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Black Shape of Nexus
Black Shape of Nexus live 2016 in Berlin
Black Shape of Nexus live 2016 in Berlin
General information
origin Mannheim (Germany)
Genre (s) Sludge , Drone Doom , Doom Metal
founding 2005
resolution 2016
Website www.blackshapeofnexus.com
Last occupation
Stefan Kuhn
Jan Wolf
Nikolaus "Gebbo" Gebhard
Electric guitar
 Ralf Bernhardt
Malte Seidel
Marco Hauser
former members
Electric guitar
 Christophe Klimmer
Electric bass, vocals
 Michael Bergweiler
Drums
 Marius Z.

Black Shape of Nexus (often short B: SON , B SON or B.SON ) was a doom metal band from Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg that was founded in 2005 and disbanded in July 2016.

history

Malte Seidel, vocals
Gebbo Gebinsky, guitar

The band was formed in 2005. At the beginning of 2007 a first, self-titled album followed, as well as the first appearances. This was followed by the second album Microbarome Meetings in 2008 and the third album Negative Black in 2012 . After the compilation Nothing New - 10 Years of Fresh Air Enjoyment was released in 2015, the next album, Carrier , was released in 2016 . Uwe Groebel from Voodooshock and Naevus can be heard as a guest singer in the song Sachsenheim . On the album, the group also covers Hellhammer's Triumph of Death . In addition to performances in Germany , the band also has Austria , the Switzerland and the Netherlands played and was among other things on the light over Hammaburg , the Roadburn Festival , the Trash Fest , the South of the mainstream , the Dawn of Doom and Doom Shall Rise to see. In addition, the band held the annual B.SON festival for several years, where the group invited bands that were friends to play with them. In early 2016 the band toured and released their album Carrier , in July 2016 they announced their breakup on their Facebook page. The majority of the members found themselves back together shortly afterwards in the band Bellrope and continued the stylistic concept of Black Shape of Nexus.

style

In his review of the self-titled debut album Marco Götz felt particularly impressed by the singing of the Metal Hammer and described Malte Seidel as Jan Chris de Koeyer ( Gorefest ) of Doom Metal . The songs use lower-pitched guitars and basses, but are not very varied. Here, the band should rather orientate itself on the Swedish band Congh , which, however, is going in a slightly different direction musically.

Joachim Hiller from Ox-Fanzine wrote in his review of Microbarome Meetings that it is true to describe the music as a mixture of Doom Metal, Drone Doom and Sludge . Characteristic are instrumental, dark and powerful booming compositions with overdriven feedback guitar sounds with a booming sound. He found bands like Nadja to be more exciting. Konstantin Hanke, who worked for the same magazine, wrote about the split release with Kodiak that the band played sluggish, massive and dark sludge on it. Jens Kirsch, also from Ox-Fanzine , found the title of Negative Black to be appropriate because the music was set to music as “negative blackness”. The first song Illinois stands out because of its atonal tones. In the further songs the group becomes more accessible and admit to being "[d] angular, nasty and dragging" and play a mixture of Doom Metal, Drone Doom and Sludge. In the same issue, Kirsch wrote about the live album Mannheim that it had “incredibly monstrous guitar walls” and “the nasty nagging of Shouter Malte Seidel”, while the band could be classified between drone and classic doom metal. He expanded his style specification in a later issue in the review of Nothing New - 10 Years of Fresh Air Enjoyment , in which he specified Sludge, Doom Metal, Drone Doom and Noise as genres.

In an interview with Andreas Schiffmann from Rock Hard , Marco Hauser stated that the songs are part of composing and improvising. Sometimes you work out an idea of ​​a band member together, sometimes a song is created during a joint jam session . According to Schiffmann, Seidel sometimes uses a larynx microphone . In the same issue he reviewed the album Carrier and described it as "the most haunting piece of disgusting metal (!) Of the year so far" and noted influences from the sludge and drone-doom area. An "inhuman voice" can be heard in the songs.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Black Shape Of Nexus. Discogs , accessed June 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ José Carlos Santos: Black Shape of Nexus. blackshapeofnexus.com, accessed June 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Andreas Schiffmann: B.SON . Black Shape of Nexus. In: Rock Hard . No. 348 , May 2016, p. 72 .
  4. ↑ a b Andreas Schiffmann: Black Shape of Nexus . Carrier. In: Rock Hard . No. 348 , May 2016, p. 91 .
  5. ↑ Marco Götz: Hell over Hammaburg . Hamburg: Markthalle / Marx. In: Metal Hammer . May 2013, p. 127 .
  6. ↑ BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS. mainstreamrecords.de, accessed on June 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ MetalNews.de: Malte, Geb, Jan, Marco from Black Shape Of Nexus. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  8. ↑ facebook.com: Black Shape Of Nexus are fucking dead , accessed on July 21, 2016
  9. ↑ BELLROPE. mainstreamrecords.de, accessed on December 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Marco Götz: Black Shape of Nexus . Black Shape of Nexus. In: Metal Hammer . November 2008, p. 95 .
  11. ↑ Joachim Hiller: BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS . Microbarome meetings. In: Ox-Fanzine . 80, October / November, 2008 ( online [accessed June 10, 2016]).
  12. ↑ Konstantin Hanke: BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS / KODIAK . Split. In: Ox-Fanzine . 91, August / September, 2010 ( online [accessed June 10, 2016]).
  13. ↑ Jens Kirsch: BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS . Negative black. In: Ox-Fanzine . 102, June / July, 2012 ( online [accessed June 10, 2016]).
  14. ↑ Jens Kirsch: BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS . Mannheim. In: Ox-Fanzine . 102, June / July, 2012 ( online [accessed June 10, 2016]).
  15. ↑ Jens Kirsch: BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS . Nothing New - 10 Years Of Fresh Air Enjoyment. In: Ox-Fanzine . 124, February / March, 2016 ( online [accessed June 10, 2016]).