Frozen Sun
| Frozen Sun | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Oostzaan , Netherlands |
| Genre (s) | Alternative metal |
| founding | 1995 |
| resolution | 1998 or later |
| Last occupation | |
| Jelle Bakker | |
| Boris Bouma | |
| Erik Klein Nagelvoort | |
| Richard van Leeuwen | |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Juliette van Caspel |
Drums |
Tony van Petten |
| Felix van Dommelen | |
Frozen Sun was a Dutch alternative metal band from Oostzaan that was formed in 1995 and broke up around 1998.
history
After the band Donor broke up in early 1995, their guitarist Jelle Bakker decided to found Frozen Sun together with bassist Juliette van Caspel. With the former donor drummer Toni van Petten and their former sound mixer Felix van Dommelen on the keyboard, further members were added. With the addition of the singer Boris Bouma, the cast was completed. A first demo followed in August 1995. At the end of 1995 there followed appearances in the opening act for Tiamat , Life of Agony and Fear Factory . Another demo followed, followed by a tour through the Netherlands together with The Gathering , before the group recorded their debut album Unspoken with new drummer Richard van Leeuwen , which was released in 1996 on DSFA Records . In the same year the band also played at the Dynamo Open Air and went on tour through North America with Alien Ant Farm . From autumn 1996 the band played around 40 gigs, including together with Gorefest . In 1998 the second album Headtrips followed via DSFA Records before the group split up. In the fall of 2001, Jelle Bakker joined Within Temptation , before some Frozen Sun members formed a new band called Chen Mo in the fall of the following year.
style
According to Felix Bakker in an interview with Matthias Mineur from Metal Hammer , the keyboardist van Drommelen was influenced by artists such as Brian Eno , Kraftwerk and Karlheinz Stockhausen . The songs were influenced by more recent bands like Fear Factory and White Zombie , as well as groups from the 1970s like King Crimson . According to Mineur, “weird guitars, hymn chants and some well-designed epic sound paintings” can be heard on Unspoken . Matthias Weckmann from Metal Hammer described the music on head trips as experimental rock . The band needs "[v] from hip-hop - bass run to psychedelic space rock , reggae , pantera monster riff or percussion part [...] just one song". Marcus Schleutermann called the style in his review of the rock hard debut album "Modern Metal" and drew comparisons to Faith No More (vocals), Machine Head and Life of Agony . In the later article in the band, he added The God Machine and a good deal of independence.
Discography
- 1995: Demo '95 (demo, self-published)
- 1996: Unspoken (album, DSFA Records )
- 1998: Headtrips (Album, DSFA Records)
- 1998: Advance Tape 1998 (demo, self-published)
Web links
- Frozen Sun at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; Retrieved June 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Holger Stratmann: Rock Hard Encyclopedia . ROCK HARD GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 127 .
- ↑ a b Matthias Mineur: Frozen Sun . Overrun and yet mature. In: Metal Hammer . September 1996, p. 106 .
- ↑ Frozen Sun (2) - Head Trips. Discogs , accessed June 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Matthias Mineur: Frozen Sun . Unspoken. In: Metal Hammer . August 1996, p. 59 .
- ↑ Matthias Weckmann: Frozen Sun . Head trips. In: Metal Hammer . November 1998, p. 82 .
- ↑ Marcus Schleutermann: Frozen Sun . Unspoken. In: Rock Hard . No. 111 , August 1996, 10 times dynamite, p. 85 f .
- ↑ Marcus Schleutermann: Frozen Sun . This is what summer sounds like. In: Rock Hard . No. 113 , October 1996, p. 118 .
