Celestial Season

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Celestial Season
General information
origin Nijmegen , the Netherlands
Genre (s) Gothic Metal (1991–1995, 2011)
Stoner Rock (1995–2001)
founding 1991, 2011
resolution 2001
Current occupation
singing
 George Oosthoek (2011)
Guitar,
electric bass (until 1995)
Olly Smit (since 1994)
singing
 Pim van Zanen (since 1994)
violin
 Jiska ter Bals (1994–1995, 2011)
Electric bass
 Jacques de Haard (since 1999)
cello
 Elianne Anemaat (2011)
former members
Electric bass
 Lucas van Slegtenhorst (until 1993)
Drums,
electric bass (from 1996)
Jason Köhnen (until 1997)
guitar
 Robert Ruiters (until 1996)
guitar
 Jeroen Haverkamp (until 1993)
singing
 Stefan Ruiters (until 1995)
violin
 Maaike Aarts (1995)
Vocals, drums (1996–1999)
Cyril Crutz (1995-2001)
Drums
 Rob Snijders (1999-2011)

Celestial Season is a stoner rock and gothic metal band founded in 1991 .

history

Celestial Season was founded by the brothers Stefan and Robert Ruiters together with Jeroen Haverkamp, ​​Lucas van Slegtenhorst and Jason Köhnen. Stefan Ruiters took over the vocals, his brother Robert and Jeroen Haverkamp contributed as guitarists. Jason Köhnen, who later appeared as Bong-Ra and with The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation , played the drums, Lucas van Slegtenhorst the electric bass.

After the demo Promises , which was spread in 1992 , the band made their debut in 1993 with the single Flowerskin on the Swiss death metal label Witchhunt Records . In the same year, the group's debut album, Forever Scarlet Passion, was released. The album is considered one of the early Gothic Metal albums and is featured in reviews as a pioneering work of the genre influenced by Death Doom alongside the releases of Paradise Lost , My Dying Bride and Anathema . The band promptly completed their first tour, which they supported with a split publication of the tour partners involved. The Anthology of Doom Tour cassette was distributed without a contractor during the performances.

When the second album was recorded, Haverkamp and van Slegtenhorst left the band and were replaced by Pim van Zanen and Olly Smit. In addition to this reshuffle, the violinists Jiska ter Bals and Maaike Aarts added to the group. In this line-up, the group recorded the split single Fire in the Winter / Above Azure Oceans , released together with Lords of the Stone in 1994, and the 1995 album Solar Lovers . Both releases were released on Displeased Records and largely retained the style presented on Forever Scarlet Passion . The drums weren't so punk-heavy anymore. The group promoted sales through a joint tour with The Gathering . In 1995 Stefan Ruiters left the group and was replaced by Cyril Crutz. When Crutz joined, the group varied their style and increasingly oriented itself towards the stoner rock of groups such as Kyuss , Fu Manchu and Masters of Reality . With the EP Sonic Orb , which was released in the same year via Displeased Records, the band presented the changed style.

Until the recordings of the third studio album Orange , the group was reduced to Crutz, van Zanen, Smit and Köhnen. After the album was released via Big Bloke , Köhnen, the last member of the original line-up, left the group. Köhnen, who last appeared as bass player, was replaced by Jacques de Haard. The band remained in this line-up until they broke up in 2001. The album Chrome , released in 1999 via HKM , was presented by the band at Dynamo Open Air and Roadburn Festival . With the album Lunchbox Dialogues and the EP Songs from the Second Floor , two more releases followed before the band split up. These last two releases were stylistically assigned to alternative metal .

In 2011, Smit, van Zanen, ter Bals and de Haard reactivated the band with cellist Elianne Anemaat and singer George Oosthoek as new members. The single Decamerone (2011) , released in the same year, accompanied the group's appearances again at the Roadburn Festival and the Metal Mean Festival 2012, where Celestial Season played the entire album Solar Lovers , and marked a return to the band's early sound. There were no further publications afterwards.

Jacques de Haard and Rob Snijders toured as live musicians in 2010 with Kyuss lives! through Europe.

Discography

  • 1992: Promises (demo, self-published)
  • 1993: Flowerskin (single, Witchhunt Records)
  • 1993: Anthology of Doom Tour (split with Lords of the Stone and Evisceration , self-published)
  • 1993: Forever Scarlet Passion (album, Adipocere Records)
  • 1994: Promo 1994 (demo self-published)
  • 1994: Fire in the Winter / Above Azure Oceans (Split with Lords of the Stone, Displeased Records)
  • 1995: Solar Lovers (Album, Displeased Records)
  • 1995: Sonic Orb (EP, Displeased Records)
  • 1996: 3 Track Demon (demo, self-published)
  • 1997: Black Queen Is Dynamite (Single, Big Bloke)
  • 1997: Orange (album, Big Bloke)
  • 1999: Demo '99 (demo, self-published)
  • 1999: Chrome (album, HKM)
  • 2000: Lunchbox Dialogues (album, La Guapa Records)
  • 2001: Songs from the Second Floor (EP, Drunken Maria)
  • 2011: Decamerone (2011) (single, self-published)

literature

  • Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Goth & Stoner Metal . Rockdetector, 2003, ISBN 978-1-901447-14-9 , pp. 80 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Eduardo Rivadavia: Celestial Season, Artist Biography. Allmusic , accessed February 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Goth & Stoner Metal . Rockdetector, 2003, ISBN 978-1-901447-14-9 , pp. 80 (English).
  3. ↑ Ishtadeva Vinyl Productions Release 2nd Press Of CELESTIAL SEASON 'Forever Scarlet Passion' Reissue. The Sleeping Shaman, December 3, 2012, accessed March 23, 2018 .