Dawn of Winter

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Dawn of Winter
General information
Genre (s) Doom metal
founding 1990
Website www.dawnofwinter.de
Founding members
Gerrit Philipp Mutz
Oliver Schramm (until 1993)
Current occupation
singing
 Gerrit Philipp Mutz
Jörg M. Knittel (since 1993)
Joachim Schmalzried (since 1992)
Drums
 Dennis Schediwy (since 1993)

Dawn of Winter is a doom metal band from Germany.

history

The band was founded in 1990 by the singer Gerrit Philipp Mutz (ex-Tragedy Divine, Sacred Steel ) and the drummer Oliver Schramm under the name Cemetery . The band's first release was the Perfect Solitude demo . After being renamed Dawn of Winter, the follow-up demo Path of the Worm was released in 1991 . In 1993 the mini album Celebrate the Agony followed - for the first time with the guitarist Jörg M. Knittel (ex-Sacred Steel) and the bassist Joachim Schmalzried. Founding member and drummer Oliver Schramm left the band in 1993 and was replaced by Dennis Schediwy in the same year.

style

The band plays classic Doom Metal. The band's role models are Candlemass , Saint Vitus and Black Sabbath . Aleksey Evdokimov describes the music in his Doom Metal Lexicanum as "slow and traditional Doom Metal that would be played without hurry".

Discography

  • 1990: Perfect Solitude (demo)
  • 1991: Path of the Worm (demo)
  • 1993: Celebrate the Agony (EP on CD)
  • 1995: Black Revelation (demo)
  • 1996: In Servitude to Destiny (Demo)
  • 1998: In the Valley of Tears (CD + Pic. LP)
  • 2001: Slow Is the Suffering (EP on vinyl)
  • 2003: Doomcult Performance (LP)
  • 2008: The Peaceful Dead (CD)
  • 2012: The Skull of the Sorcerer (Vinyl EP)
  • 2017: In the Valley of Tears (re-release, CD)
  • 2018: Pray for Doom (CD; 2019: Vinyl LP)

Sampler

  • 1997: LuBu Rocks (CD) - Song: "Sad Ocean"
  • 1999: Day of the Demon (CD) - Song: "What Do You Think about Hell?"
  • 2006: One Foot in Fire - A Cirith Ungol Tribute (CD + Pic. LP) - Song: "Doomed Planet"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aleksey Evdokimov: Doom Metal Lexicanum . Cult Never Dies, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-9933077-6-8 , Dawn of Winter, pp. 79 f . (English).