Devil (band)

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Devil
General information
origin Nes , Norway
Genre (s) Doom metal , rock
founding 2009
Current occupation
Thomas Ljosåk
Ronny Østli
Kai Wanderås
Electric guitar
 Stian fossum
Joakim Trangsrud

Devil is a Norwegian doom metal and rock band from Nes that was formed in 2009. For legal reasons, the group’s official name is Devil Norway .

history

The band was formed in late 2009 by two friends and promoters of the Norwegian Metal Merchant Festival . The main influence on the drummer Ronny Østli and the guitarist Stian Fossum for the formation was the band Pentagram . Bassist Thomas Ljosåk came through Østli, with whom he played in the band Vesen , while Fossum brought Kai Wanderås into the line-up as the second guitarist. The mutual friend Joakim Trangsrud completed the cast as a singer. The band then became active in 2010 and began with the first rehearsals and published the first recordings via Myspace before the EP Magister Mundi Xum was released in 2010 . Then various labels became aware of the group, whereupon they signed a record deal with Soulseller Records . The debut album Time to Repent was released in late summer 2011 . Devil then performed at London's Old Blue Last Festival and supported Electric Wizard on their European tour . In the same year the band could also be seen on the Hammer of Doom . With Gather the Sinners and to the Gallows , two more albums were released in 2013 and 2017.

style

laut.de summarized the music as "Doom-Rock" in the style of the 1970s, so that the group is compared with Witchfinder General , Black Sabbath and Pentagram. Boris Kaiser from Rock Hard wrote in his review of Time to Repent that the guitarists Wanderås and Fossum often recall the guitarist duo Wartell and Franklin on Trouble 'sself-titled 1990 album, but Devil is not that technically demanding. All in all, there is a mixture of “rumble hard rock , occult NWOBHM noise, Italo rock flair à la Death SS / Black Hole and a little brisk Doom”. In the same issue, the album was reviewed by someone else. The comparison with Wartell and Franklin was contradicted. The songs lack groove and with their “antiquated rumble sound” the band counteracts “the spirit of classic rock pioneers like Led Zeppelin , the Stones , the Doors or the Eagles ”. If you want rock that is based on the 1970s, you would be better off using Pressure & Time by Devils Son . A year later Kaiser reviewed the compilation Magister Mundi Xum / The Noble Savage and found that the band had dedicated themselves to the "sometimes doomy, sometimes creaky occult rock of the seventies and early eighties". According to Kaiser, the band moves with Gather the Sinners with their "rumble rock on the border to amateurism" and combines "doom, classic rock, proto- metal and othersure-footedtastes". Andreas Schiffmann, who also works for Rock Hard , noted that with To the Gallows the group“got off their dull Doom track”, with the music nowsoundingmore influenced by Pagan Altar , Angel Witch and Manilla Road than Black Sabbath. All in all, he described the music as "Kauz-Metal with all the pros and cons, a jumble of quick riffs ,shaggyrhythms and melodies that are not always quitestableand which seem almost silly in their naivety". Frank Thießies from Metal Hammer also reviewed the album on which the band knew how to break out of their self-chosen doom rock definition. Thethemesong is based on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and uses music by Judas Priest of the early 1980s and the "snottiness of the late seventies punk ". With the other songs, the contrast is less clear, but one remains in the "field of tension between classic metallic guitar school and Schnoddergesang (as well as corresponding Gossen Gang choirs), which has morein commonwith Turbonegro than bell-clear glass singers in studded gear, the devil to hers Expanding the trademark ”. This also brings the band closer to Pentagram than to Black Sabbath. Overall, the album is suitable for fans of Kvelertak and Witchfinder General. Andreas Stapper from Rock Hard summarized the group's music as "heavy Seventies-heavy Doomrock". In an interview with him, Stian Fossum stated that the band was of course influenced by Black Sabbath, especially by the first six albums. However, he himself also likes bands that Black Sabbath himself influenced, such as Cream , Creedence Clearwater Revival or Mountain . Devil's influences are diverse, amount to at least 200 bands and range from Leadbelly to Rush to Nifelheim . In another interview with Fossum, Andreas Schiffmann compared To the Gallows with the material from Running Wild , which Fossum could agree to, even if only he and Ronny Østli would hear this band. Joakim Trangsrud got more involved in the album, who is less into music from the 1970s and more into classical metal, which explains the changed style. Devil sees itself as a group that began in the wake of Witchfinder General, Pentagram and Black Sabbath and is now developing. The band is also strongly fixated on pop culture, especially comics and television, which is also reflected in the songs.

Discography

  • 2010: Magister Mundi Xum (Demo, Unborn Productions )
  • 2011: The Noble Savage / Blood Is Boiling (Single, Soulseller Records )
  • 2011: Time to Repent (Album, Soulseller Records)
  • 2012: Magister Mundi Xum / The Noble Savage (compilation, Soulseller Records)
  • 2013: Gather the Sinners (Album, Soulseller Records)
  • 2017: To the Gallows (Album, Soulseller Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Stapper: Devil . Do (o) m It Yourself! In: Rock Hard . No. 294 , November 2011.
  2. ↑ Info. Facebook , accessed January 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Devil. laut.de , accessed on January 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Andrea Groh: Hammer Of Doom VI. October 28/29, 2011, Würzburg, Posthalle. rocktimes.de, accessed on January 6, 2018 .
  5. ^ Devil (8). Discogs , accessed January 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Boris Kaiser,?: Devil . Time to repent. In: Rock Hard . No. 293 , October 2011.
  7. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Devil . Magister Mundi Xum / The Noble Savage. In: Rock Hard . No. 304 , September 2012.
  8. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Devil . Gather the Sinners. In: Rock Hard . No. 312 , May 2013.
  9. ↑ Andreas Schiffmann: Devil . To the gallows. In: Rock Hard . No. 360 , May 2017, p. 93 .
  10. ↑ Frank Thießies: Devil . To the gallows. In: Metal Hammer . May 2017, p. 89 .
  11. ↑ Andreas Schiffmann: Devil . Gold children. In: Rock Hard . No. 360 , May 2017, p. 68 .