Flegethon

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Flegethon
General information
origin Saint Petersburg , Russia
Genre (s) Dark Ambient , Depressive Black Metal , Funeral Doom
founding 1999
Website flegethon.ru
Current occupation
All instruments, vocals
 Odes
former members
Guitar, electric bass
 De'Meon

Flegethon is a Depressive Black Metal and Funeral Doom band founded in 1999 as a dark ambient project .

history

In December 1999, the musicians De'Meon and Oden Flegthon, active under pseudonyms, founded in the city of Saint Petersburg . The band name is borrowed from the third river of hell, Phlegethon from Greek mythology . From September to December 2000 the duo composed their first music and recorded it. The music called "Nonharmonical Derelaxation Suicidal Ambient" by the musicians was released as a demo Когда жизнь подходит к концу ... ( Russian When life comes to an end ... ) that same year.

The debut The Last Stage of Depression was recorded the following winter and self-published in March 2001. With the second studio album Outside of the Consciousness , which followed in November of the same year , Flegethon varied the style and combined the dark ambient of the debut with Depressive Black Metal . After the duo published the third album Dekadanse and the compilation There is No Echo of Reality , which contained material from previously unused recording sessions , De'Meon left Flegethon while Oden moved to Baikonur with the Flegethon, which had shrunk to a solo project .

In 2004 Oden signed a contract with the Satanarsa Records label , where several albums were released by 2008. With the first release for Satanarsa, Oden again varied the style of Flegethon and turned to the blackened Funeral Doom for the concept album Behind a Side of Times based on the work of HP Lovecraft . Flegethon pursued the style with the 2006 released Cry of the Ice Wolves II . With the cover album The Art of Regeneration , Oden changed the style again in detail and took elements of Gothic Metal instead of the otherwise present Depressive Black for the adaptation of pieces by Era , Enigma , Robert Miles , Ennio Morricone , James Last , Frédéric Chopin Metal, on. The following year, Marche Funebre Productions re-released Behind a Side of Times and Satanarsa Records released a split EP with Exanimus as the final release of the collaboration. The included pieces by Flegethon presented the project again in the style of Depressive Black Metal.

After the end of the cooperation with Satanarsa and another split EP in the same year, there were no further new independent releases until 2014. In January 2014, the album Cry of the ice wolves III was released via Mercy Despise , a subcontractor of Nihil Art , and Dark East Productions , as the third part of the trilogy that began with The Last Stage of Depression . The trilogy was self-published as a triple album in a limited edition for the band's anniversary in 2019. Oden kept the contract for the release of the album Cry of the ice wolves III for the concept album The 4th Step to Self-Destruction about the world wars, released in 2016 .

reception

The international perception of Flegethon is limited to the albums assigned to Funeral Doom. Further publications did not receive any international reception. Meanwhile, the concept album Behind a Side of Times, released via Satanarsa Records in 2005 and 2008 via Marche Funebre Productions , received the greatest attention . This album was received as particularly positive, while the other releases were mostly judged to be average.

According to Quentin Kali's review for Chronicles of Chaos, Flegethon's Behind a Side of Time is a “minimalist and oppressive” album that leaves “nothing but the essentials”. With reference to precisely this minimalism, Bertrand Marchal praised Doom-Metal.com for the fact that Flegethon managed to draw “extreme desolation, the ridge of the world” with few means. Kindra Ravenmoon calls it an album for Brutalism filled with "inspiring Doom Metal" which is "overall just scary".

Further albums for Doom-Metal.com were Cry of the Ice Wolves II and The 4th Step to Self-Destruction . Matt Halsey rated Cry of the Ice Wolves II as solid but not particularly. And Riccardo Veronese criticized the lack of creativity in The 4th Step to Self-Destruction . The Art of Regeneration was criticized as “really bad” for the Italian Aristocrazia Webzine . The Italian webzine iye-metal, on the other hand, praised Cry of the Ice Wolves II as a “mature and competitive” album by Ambient Funeral Doom.

style

The music played by Flegethon went through a series of stylistic changes. The demo and debut recordings made with synthesizers , drums and keyboards were assigned to the dark ambient . The other releases were based on Depressive Black Metal until the contract with Satanarsa Records was signed . The following and most popular music is classified as Funeral Doom . Prefixes such as Ambient , Black and Gothic are used for different publications. For comparative purposes , reviewers refer to Comatose Vigil , Celestiial and various projects of the Belgian label Nulll Records such as The Ethereal , Beyond Black Void , Until Death Overtakes Me and Solicide .

Similar to these projects, Flegethon strives for rigorous minimalism in order to create an atmosphere that is as dense as possible. Bertrand Marchal describes the music for Doom-Metal.com , the drums hammer, the guitar varies simple chord progressions to a one-note keyboard game and "prehistoric grunts ".

Discography

  • 2000: Когда жизнь подходит к концу… (demo, self-published)
  • 2001: The Last Stage of Depression (album, self-published)
  • 2001: Outside of the Consciousness (album, self-published)
  • 2002: Dekadanse (album, self-published)
  • 2002: There is No Echo of Reality (compilation, self-published)
  • 2003: The Absolute Laws of Darkness (album, self-published)
  • 2005: Behind a Side of Times (Album, Satarnarsa Records 2008: Marche Funebre Productions)
  • 2006: Cry of the Ice Wolves II (album, Satanarsa Records)
  • 2007: The Art of Regeneration (Album, Satanarsa Records)
  • 2008: From the Dead Ground / Ослепни, оглохни, сдохни (Split EP with Exanimus, Satanarsa Records)
  • 2008: Lost Paradise (split with Under, [B] rush)
  • 2014: Cry of the Ice Wolves III (Album, Dark East / Mercy Despise)
  • 2016: The 4th Step to Self-Destruction (Album, Dark East / Mercy Despise)
  • 2019: Trilogy: Cry of the Ice Wolves (compilation, self-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Felegethon: Biography. flegethon.ru, accessed on August 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Quentin Kalis: Flegethon: Behind a Side of Time. Chronicles of Chaos, accessed August 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Bertrand Marchal: Flegethon: Behind a Side of Time. Doom-Metal.com, accessed August 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Kiandra Ravemoon: Flegethon: Behind a Side of Time. Brutalism. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Matt Halsey: Flegethon: Cry of the Ice Wolves II. Doom-Metal.com, accessed August 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Riccardo Veronese: Flegethon: The 4th Step to Self-Destruction. Doom-Metal.com, accessed August 4, 2020 .
  7. Jump up ↑ Dopefiend: Flegethon: The Art of Regeneration. Aristocrazia Webzine, accessed August 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Iscirviti: Flegethon: Cry of the Ice Wolves III. iye-metal, accessed August 4, 2020 .