Dread Sovereign

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Dread Sovereign
General information
origin Dublin , Ireland
Genre (s) Doom metal
founding 2013
Current occupation
Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill
Eoin "Bones" H.
Johnny "Con Ri" King
former members
Drums
 Simon "Sol Dubh" O'Laoghaire

Dread Sovereign is an Irish doom metal band from Dublin that was formed in 2013.

history

After they recorded the album Redemption at the Puritan's Hand , Primordial singer Alan “Nemtheanga” Averill and his bandmate drummer Simon “Sol Dubh” O'Laoghaire started jamming . Averill also played the electric guitar. The guitarist Eoin "Bones" H. came through a friend and took Averill off playing the electric guitar. The band was founded in 2013. Averill also plays the bass in this group. This was followed by the three-song EP Pray to the Devil in Man (2013), which was recorded within a few hours, as well as the two albums All Hell's Martyrs (2014, mostly live) and For Doom the Bell Tolls (2017) . Since its inception, the band has made various appearances, including the Roadburn Festival in 2013 and the Redemption Festival in 2014 .

style

Boris Kaiser from Rock Hard wrote in his review of All Hell's Martyrs that Dread Sovereign is the counterbalance to the "feel-good doomers" Below . Occasionally, the band also process influences from psychedelic rock , post-rock and ambient . With their songs, the group transports the feeling of "force, heaviness and grimness". An issue later, Felix Patzig interviewed Alan Averill. He stated that for the songs on the album he mostly wrote the riffs first before trying to formulate the keynote of the songs. The texts would deal with historical topics such as the Cathar rebellion against the Catholic Church in the 13th century, the Roman soldier who stabbed Jesus Christ on the cross with a lance, and the story of St. Bartholomew , whose skin was peeled off, but from a blasphemous , Luciferian, and spiritual perspective. Seven editions later, Andreas Schiffmann stated that the album also dealt with topics such as the Orléans Heresy of 1022. The group has its roots in Black Metal and also process influences such as the epic songs by Bathory , as was the case with Cirith Ungol and Pagan Altar . In another rock-hard interview, this time with Mandy Malon, Averill stated that the album title refers to both the book For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway and the song of the same name by Metallica . As with the predecessor, he wrote a large part of the album himself. For the album he was heavily influenced by Motörhead and drugs , with the latter also explaining the psychedelic elements in the style of Hawkwind . The song Twelve Bells Toll in Salem is about Sarah Averill, the first woman to be burned during the Salem witch trials . The concept of the song is about how she appears to Alan in a dream as a distant relative (due to the same surname) and tells him to never stop singing about Satan , otherwise his death would have been in vain. Boris Kaiser reviewed the album in the same issue and noted that apart from a few psychedelic passages and medium to slightly faster sections, it contained classic Doom Metal. The group can be classified more between Saint Vitus , Cathedral and The Obsessed than between Solitude Aeturnus and Candlemass . There is a certain epic in the songs as well as “a kind of drama that is always present”, especially in the melodies.

On blackbayern.info it was found that the band does not stick to genre boundaries on For Doom the Bell Tolls . The songs are long and slow and sometimes sound epic. The band also process isolated guitar riffs from Thrash Metal and the vocals are also variable and sometimes remind you of a young James Hetfield , other times it is clear vocals with a reverb effect. There are sound parallels to bands such as Saint Vitus, Cirith Ungol, Fields of the Nephilim , Venom and also to Primordial.

Discography

  • 2013: Pray to the Devil in Man (EP, Roadburn Records )
  • 2014: All Hell's Martyrs (album, Ván Records )
  • 2017: For Doom the Bell Tolls (Album, Ván Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Felix Patzig: Dread Sovereign . Hell on earth. In: Rock Hard . No. 325 , June 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d Andreas Schiffmann: Dread Sovereign . Raven-black abysses. In: Rock Hard . No. 332 , January 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d Mandy Malon: Dread Sovereign . Motorhead & Drugs. In: Rock Hard . No. 359 , April 2017, p. 45 .
  4. ↑ a b CD: Dread Sovereign - For doom the bell tolls. Sweeter the bells never sound. schwarzbayern.info, accessed on November 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Petra Schurer: Roadburn Festival 2013 . Tribute to slowness. In: Metal Hammer . June 2013, p. 122 ff .
  6. ↑ Luca Pessina: 11/28/2014 - REDEMPTION FESTIVAL 2014 @ Dublin Academy - Dublino (Irlanda). metalitalia.com, accessed November 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Dread Sovereign . All Hell's Martyrs. In: Rock Hard . No. 324 , May 2014.
  8. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Dread Sovereign . For Doom the Bell Tolls. In: Rock Hard . No. 359 , April 2017, p. 86 .