Floodland (band)

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Floodland
General information
Genre (s) Dark rock , gothic rock
founding 1995
resolution 2009
Website www.floodland.org
Last occupation
Christian "lv" Meyer (since 1994)
Bernhard “burn” Wieser (since 1994)
Harald "lfo" Schmid (since 1994)
Robert Glajcar (since 2007)
former members
guitar
 Walter Simunek (1994–1996)
guitar
 Martin Swoboda (1997-2000)
Drums, percussion
 Markus Schmid (1994-2006)

Floodland is an Austrian dark rock band.

Band history

The band was founded in 1995 by members of the Viennese underground bands Vicious Circle and Fast . The band name refers to the second album by The Sisters of Mercy and is intended to clarify what kind of music the band plays. In December 1995 the first demo "Chapter One" was released. Due to disagreements about the musical development and personal changes, guitarist Walter Simunek left the band at the end of 1996 and was replaced by Martin Swoboda. In this line-up, the second demo "Seasons" was recorded, on which keyboards can be heard for the first time. The 300-piece demo sold out quickly and led to the first record deal with the independent label Serpent Qui Danse .

At the beginning of 1998 the debut album "The Now And Here Is Never" was recorded in the Vienna Future Sound Studios and released in October 1998 in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Denmark. This was followed by appearances at the Forestglade Festival in Wiesen as the opening act for Marilyn Manson and in the Viennese Planet Music in the opening act for The Gathering . In 2000 the band recorded another demo entitled "Coming Home Tonight" and was able to sign a record deal with NSM .

Given the choice of recording an album with the band or pursuing his own musical projects, guitarist Martin Swoboda decided in April 2000 to leave the band. After no suitable successor could be found, the musicians decided to use a sequencer instead of the second guitarist . The second album “Ocean Of The Lost” was recorded in the summer of 2000 in the Hacienda Studios in Žirovnice under the direction of the Czech music producer Milos Dolezal . Guest musicians included Ivan Myslikovian, saxophonist with the New York Orchester of Modern Art, and Zuzana Zamazalová, singer with Silent Stream of Godless Elegy .

Soon after the release in April 2001, the band received an offer to contribute a song for a Rammstein Tribute sampler. In addition to “Heirate mich”, the song “Seemann” was recorded under the direction of Milos Dolezal, and both are featured on the 2002 sampler “Battery”. The recordings for a cover version of the Grateful Dead song "Dark Star" were started but not completed. A little later, the band switched to Wait And Bleed and began recording their third studio album "Decay". In 2004 they were represented with “A Forest” on the The Cure Tribute sampler “Our Voices”. In early 2005, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the band, the album "10 Years - 10 Songs" was released.

From the end of 2005 to the summer of 2006, the band wrote a total of 17 pieces for the fourth studio album, which was originally to be called “Vienna”. Ten songs of it should be heard partly rearranged on the album. Drummer Markus Schmid surprisingly left the band and was replaced by Robert Glajcar from the Viennese band Yellow Glass . End of April 2008, the album titled "Nameless" on the band's own label Flood Records released next over Rebeat as download provided.

The reviews were mostly positive, for example the Sonic Seducer writes : "Never before have Floodland appeared musically more melancholy, more contemplative, more devout and at the same time more emotionally." The Austrian Planet magazine called the album a masterpiece and Der Kurier wrote: " Floodland dedicate themselves to musical blackout with tireless perseverance ."

In 2009 the breakup of the band was announced.

Discography

Albums

  • The Now And Here Is Never (1998, Serpent Qui Danse)
  • Ocean Of The Lost (2001, NSM Record / Wait & Bleed)
  • Decay (2003, Wait & Bleed / SPV, Napalm Records )
  • Nameless (2008, Flood Records)

Other publications

  • Chapter One (1995, self-distributed), demo
  • Seasons (1997, self-distribution), Maxi / Demo
  • Coming Home Tonight (2000, self-distributed), demo
  • 10 Years, 10 Songs (2005, self-distribution), Best-Of

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Michael Strohschein: Floodland in December 2003. refraktor.net music magazine, December 1, 2003, accessed on May 5, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b Markus Eck: Floodland interview. metalmessage.de, April 28, 2008, archived from the original on May 8, 2009 ; Retrieved May 5, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Markus Eck: Review of "Nameless". (No longer available online.) Sonic Seducer Online, May 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 6, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sonic-seducer.de  
  4. ↑ Announcement of the dissolution on the Floodland website (accessed on January 25, 2010)

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