Ephemeros
| Ephemeros | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Portland , United States |
| Genre (s) | Funeral doom |
| founding | 2010 |
| Website | www.facebook.com/Ephemeros |
| Current occupation | |
Drums |
Chuck Watkins |
guitar |
Chris Control |
guitar |
Jesse Dylan Aspy |
Electric bass |
Garrett Bagniefski |
singing |
Joshua Greene |
Ephemeros is a funeral doom band founded in 2010 .
history
The band, founded in 2010, was initiated as a side project by members of Nux Vomica , Graves at Sea , Uzala , Elitist , and Bastard Feast . The debut All Hail Corrosion , recorded in Haywire Studios and mastered by Audiosiege Engineering , was released in August 2013. All Hail Corrosion received international reviews and received an average to positive response. Frédéric Cerfvol criticized the lack of originality for the British webzine Doom-Metal.com . Kim Kelly, on the other hand, wrote for the American Pitchfork Media that the technical "quality of the musicality" and the "attention to detail" were outstanding and that the band had the potential to breathe "new life" into the funeral doom. Other webzines such as This Is Not a Scene, metal.it, Metalreviews and Metal Observer also praised the publication. Few of the reviews were negative like the one written for The Spill Magazine.
style
According to the band presentation of the webzine Doom-Metal.com, Ephemeros plays " Funeral Doom [...] without atmospheric synthesizers ." The Funeral Doom played by Ephemeros is "more dynamic and aggressive" than usual in the genre. In discussions, reference is also made to the creative openness to other styles and the variety of influences on Ephemer's own style. So the band present a " crossover based on a broadly understood term of Doom Metal ".
"The terrifyingly slow pace and overall imagery are those of Funeral Doom, but the warmer and grainier guitar tracks sometimes borrow from Death Metal , sometimes from Sludge and [...] even point to traditional bands like Reverend Bizarre ." The voice meanwhile varies in different facets of guttural singing . Greene's expression ranges from lower screeching to the ugliest vomiting growling and testifies to anger as well as pessimism and loss. The guitar playing is also compared to the regular Funeral Doom described as more dynamic and variable. Where other genre representatives run the risk of crushing their music in the lethargy and stagnation of guitar playing, Ephemros managed to "give a glimmer of hope in a genre that is most likely to be popular for its profound despair."
Discography
- 2013: All Hail Corrosion (Album, Seventh Rule Recordings / Parasitic Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ephemerus. ffm-rock.de, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Kim Kelly: Ephemerus: All Hail Corrosion. Pitchfork Media, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Frédéric Cerfvol: Ephemeros: All Hail Corrosion. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ^ Myron Schmidt: Ephemeros: All Hail Corrosion. This is not a Scene, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Marco Cafo Caofrio: Ephemeros: All Hail Corrosion. Metal.it, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Alex: Ephemeros: All Hail Corrosion. Metal Reviews, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ^ A b Hans Rot: Ephemerus: All Hail Corrosion. Metal Observer, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Christopher Grant: Ephemerus: All Hail Corrosion. The Spill Magazine, accessed June 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Ephemerus. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 12, 2020 .