Frowning

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Frowning
General information
origin Dresden , Germany
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 2012
Current occupation
All instruments, vocals
 "Val Atra Niteris"

Frowning is a funeral doom project founded in 2012 .

history

The Dresden musician "Val Atra Niteris" published his first tracks on YouTube in 2011 under the variant of his pseudonym "Val" . Then "Val Atra Niteris" decided to rename the project Frowning. Under the project name, Frowning released further tracks as demos via YouTube . In summer 2013, “Val Atra Niteris” contacted Aphonic Threnody . Subsequently, the split EP Of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs was released in March 2014 via GS Productions . In December of the same year, the debut album Funeral Impressions was released through Solitude Productions . The response was positive. The album received high praise in blogs and webzines . In spring 2017 Frowning released a second studio album called Extinct , which was released on Black Lion Records . Extinct received international feedback, meanwhile it was also mostly positive. The first sporadic appearances followed the publication. Subsequently, "Val Atra Niteris" concentrated his engagement on other band projects until he announced a third Frowning album in summer 2019.

style

Frowning's music is assigned to Funeral Doom. Sometimes classified as "Funeral Doom in its pure form" or "pure (Funeral) Doom, without outbreaks, neither in tempo nor variance". For the Doom-Metal.com website, the form of play presented by the group is described as "dark with deep, tortured vocals and effective lead melodies ". Genre representatives such as Ahab , Shape of Despair , Mournful Congregation and Aphonic Threnody are cited as comparables in various reviews . According to the reviewers, the music consists primarily of "repetitive reef walls", while the singing is described as a growl. The monotonous sound contrasts with “sacred organ sounds and choral female singing”.

Discography

  • 2014: Of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs (Split EP with Aphonic Threnody, GS Productions)
  • 2014: Funeral Impressions (album, Solitude Productions, re-release in 2018 via GS Productions)
  • 2017: Extinct (Album, Black Lion Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frowning: Info. Facebook, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Trishay J Trada: Frowning Funeral impression. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Alucard: Frowning Funeral impression. Hell is Open, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Apothecrazy: Frowning: Funeral Impression. Metalstorm.net, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Pascal Staub: Frowning: Extinct. stormbringer.at, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c Frowning: Extinct. Hell is Open, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Riley Rowe: Frowning: Extinct. Metal Injection, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Meisenkaiser: Frowning: Extinct. Metal Inside, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Frowning: Extinct. Legacy, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Islander: Frowning: Extinct. No Clean Singing, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Riccardo Veronese: Frowning: Extinct. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Frowning. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 10, 2020 .