Celestiial

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Celestiial
Official Celestiial promotional photo taken in 2007. Tanner Anderson is holding a piece of bark. According to him, the picture symbolizes the nature of the project.
Official Celestiial promotional photo taken in 2007. Tanner Anderson is holding a piece of bark. According to him, the picture symbolizes the nature of the project.
General information
origin Minnesota , United States
Genre (s) Funeral Doom , Nordic Ritual Folk
founding 2004
Current occupation
Vocals, all instruments
 Tanner Reed Anderson
Electric bass
 Jason William Walton
percussion
 Timothy Glenn

Celestiial is a funeral doom band founded in 2004 .

history

Tanner Reed Anderson, who lives in Minnesota , founded Celestiial in 2004 as a solo project. He names the time when the demo Ashen was recorded as the founding phase . He describes the intention for the project as creating and retaining an atmosphere that he wanted to record and hear himself without making a clear decision to found a band. He chose the project name at this time to indicate something otherworldly and transcendental . After Ashen was produced , Anderson sent approximately six copies of the demo. Marty Rytkonen was the only record label- related recipient to receive a copy of the demo from Bindrune Recordings . He then offered Andersen a contract for Celestiial. The album Desolate North , released in 2006 through Bindrune Recordings, was the first product of this collaboration. The album included those composed for Ashen and three other pieces. Desolate North was praised for the webzine Doom-Metal.com as “quality material” that was “highly recommended” and for Allmusic as an album that “could be much worse, but also much better”. A split EP with Blood of the Black Owl was released in 2008. Oscar Strik described the EP for Doom-Metal.com as "a fine sample of Doom Metal of the US avant-garde ." In 2010, the second studio album, Where Life Springs Eternal , followed appeared again via Bindrune Recordings. Anderson had expanded the project into a trio with the Agalloch bassist Jason William Walton and the drummer of the noise rock band Squid Fist Timothy Glenn. The international reception was cautious to negative. Harsh reviews titled the album as "waste of raw materials" and "scrap". Others praised the music narrowed down the possible addressees. The album is generally “interesting” or “interesting [...] for people who feel at home in this genre anyway”, “not everyone's cup of tea” and “not easy to tap”. In a review written for Metal.de there was even an uncertainty as to whether Where Life Springs Eternal was a "revelation in terms of Funeral Doom or just another long-winded and boring average work of this genre".

concept

Anderson describes Celestiial as a concept band. Music and lyrics are closely related to his neo-pagan beliefs . The music is partly escapism , partly “romanticized paganism with very real pagan values.” The music is not “incomprehensible to everyone or something pompous.” Celestial is not his person, especially with regard to the conceptual neo-pagan orientation separate. Accordingly, the beginning of the project lay in creating a meditative and transcendental atmosphere. In reviews, too, the music is occasionally described as spiritual , meditative , ritual and transcendental .

style

The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the music played by Celestiial as "formless and chaotic Funeral Doom, which is filled with the pulse of nature." The music is "slow, bleak and atmospheric", at the same time it is "sometimes just noise " , but “intense and strangely spiritual.” For a classifying comparison, reference is made to Krief de Soli . Eduardo Rivadavia refers to Earth , Disembowelment and Evoken for Allmusic and describes the music as Ambient Funeral Doom. Reviews also refer to various representatives of Funeral Doom. Including artists such as Until Death Overtakes Me , Blood of the Black Owl, Longing for Dawn , Arcana Coelestia , Hierophant , Catacombs , Tyranny , Thergothon , Nortt and Dictator .

Dan Lawrence describes the music for a genre overview by the music download provider Bandcamp as “always on the verge of dissolving into either neofolk or pure ambient .” The band presented “deep meditative music with paralyzing slow bass waves and fuzzy guitar play” that were sampled with Sounds of nature, playing the harp, other partly indefinable instruments and singing is paired. "There is almost a gentle mist of sound between guitars and keyboards". This is supplemented by the singing described as a " hoarse croak " which is perceived more as an "additional instrument as an articulation". Even the guitar playing is sometimes barely perceptible into the music. On the other hand, natural sounds and the ritual to spiritual character of the music are dominant.

Discography

  • 2004: Ashen (demo, self-published)
  • 2006: Desolate North (Album, Bindrune Recordings)
  • 2008: Celestiial / Blood of the Black Owl (Split EP with Blood of the Black Owl, Bindrune Recordings)
  • 2010: Where Life Springs Eternal (Album, Bindrune Recordings)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Celestial interview for Dark Recollections' zine. Dark Recollections Zine, archived from the original on October 25, 2009 ; accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Oscar Strik: Celestiial: Desolate North. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Celestiial: Desolate North. Allmusic, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Oscar Strik: Celestiial / Blood of the Black Owl: s / T. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Mike Tüllmann: Celestiial: Where Life Springs Eternal. Terrorverlag, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  6. ^ A b Alfonso Perez: Celestiial: Where Life Springs Eternal. Voices from the Darkside, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Ralf Scheidler: Celestiial: Where Life Springs Eternal. Bloodchamber, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c Bertrand Marchal: Celestiial: Where Life Springs Eternal. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Denis Brunelle: Celestiial: Where Life Springs Eternal. Sea of ​​Tranquility, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Old Guard: Celestiial: Where Life Springs Eternal. Your Last Rites, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Katharina: Celestiial: Where Life Springs Eternal. Metal.de, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Celestial. Absolute Zero Media, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b Celestial. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  14. ↑ a b c Dan Lawrence: A Guide To The Glorious, Miserable World Of Funeral Doom. Bandcamp, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Celestial. Allmusic, accessed June 12, 2020 .