Funeral doom
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Funeral doom
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| Development phase: | early 1990s |
| Stylistic precursors | |
| Death Doom , Dark Wave , Psychedelic Rock | |
| Pioneers | |
| Winter · THERGOTHON · Disembowelment · Skepticism · Mordor | |
| Instruments typical of the genre | |
| Electric guitar · Electric bass · Drums · Keyboard | |
Funeral Doom is a music subgenre that emerged from Death Doom in the early 1990s .
Musical classification
The Funeral Doom is characterized in particular by a reduced and very slow rhythm as well as orchestral elements. Many representatives arrange broad soundscapes using keyboards , synthesizers or samplers . The vocals, which are often mixed into the background , are not fixed , although the growling dominated in the beginning . While some representatives deep Deathgrunts use, there are also artists that a Norwegian Black Metal corresponding screaming vocals that clear vocals import and such. The combination of two or more styles of singing also occurs occasionally. The music is often said to be influenced by lamentation and funeral songs . It is very slow, with little rhythm and kept calm, meanwhile dominated by the often deeply tuned and distorted bass . For an atmospheric depth, the performers of the genre sometimes resort to symphonic arrangements and the mostly synthetically produced sound of church organs and violins . Based on the reduced tempo, among other things, the genre is said to have a monotonous effect .
The thematic and lyrical focus is on the complex of topics around death, grief and suffering as well as misanthropy , depression and suicide .
“A Death Doom offshoot that [...] gives up aggression and intense dynamics in favor of ultra-slow tempos, repetitive arrangements and a general sense of minimalism. The compositions are long and hypnotic, with an air of total hopelessness. Low pitched guitars and growled vocals are largely retained, but there are usually no fast passages. Despite these limitations, there is a wide variety of sounds, ranging from uncompromising rawness to atmospheric or even majestic approaches. "
history
The origins of Funeral Doom cannot be limited locally. The initiators are generally the Americans Winter with their 1990 album Into Darkness , the Swiss project Mordor with the Demo Odes released in 1990 , the Finns Thergothon with their 1991 demo Fhtagn nagh Yog-Sothoth and the Australian Disembowelment with the 1991 EP Dusk as the initiators of Funeral Doom. The greatest influence, meanwhile, is attributed to Thergothon and Skepticism . Thergothon is seen as the band that initiated the style with their album Stream from the Heavens .
"We tried to create something new in the sense that we wanted to find our own style instead of copying other bands, as was common at the time."
As influences that led to the sound of Stream from the Heavens and thus had a lasting impact on Funeral Doom, he referred to “ Doors or Black Sabbath ” and “ Gothicpunk bands, which [the musicians] were fascinated by at the time, or Pink Floyd . "(Niko Sirkiä after CrossOver)
Another major release with an influence on the spread of Funeral Doom is the 1995 album Stormcrowfleet by Skepticism, "on which the guitars, but also the often only very softly growled or whispered vocals, faded into the background and the atmospheric keyboards dominated the sound." The record label Red Stream also advertised Stormcrowfleet as Funeral Doom and thus established the genre term to differentiate it from Death Doom and simultaneously popular Gothic Metal . The band Funeral is also given appropriate importance in terms of the naming of the genre. Despite the differences between the band's releases since 1995 and the genre features primarily defined by Skepticism and Thergothon, the well-noticed demo tape Tristesse from 1993 is counted among the early releases of the genre.
“In any case, the word creation was not arbitrary. Thergothon, Skepticism and Funeral played slower than the Death / Doom bands from the same period, the deep grunt vocals were significantly more extreme, the riffs more minimalist, the songs more monotonous. And a whole piece of the romance and indulgence factor that a band like My Dying Bride had established with violin and doubleleads was missing. Instead, the basic atmosphere was devastating, overwhelming. "
In Belgium and the Netherlands in particular, various festivals and concerts were initiated at the beginning of the 2000s at which young funeral bands could present themselves to an interested audience. Meanwhile, the style spread with performers like the Iranian funeral bands Tears of Fire and 1000 Funerals , the Turkish Xoresth and Illusions Play, the Brazilian Lelantos , HellLight and De Profvndis Clamati , the Indonesian project Candlegoat , or Japanese bands like Funeral Moth and Aeternum Sacris international. In the United States, the Benelux countries , Fennos Scandinavia and the Commonwealth of Independent States in particular , a large number of new artists have been founded. Independent labels such as the British Aesthetic Death Records ( Esoteric , Wijlen Wij , Woebegone Obscured ), Russian labels such as Solitude Productions ( Catacombs , Doom: VS , Ea. , Evoken , Quercus ), Satanarsa Records and the sub-label Silent Time Noise ( Aamunkajo , Ankhagram , Y'ha-Nthlei , Abysmal Growls of Despair ) or GS Productions ( Mistress of the Dead , Ennui , The Cold View , Nagaarum , SLOW ) and the Japanese Weird Truth Productions ( Ataraxie , Funeralium , Loss ) contributed to the further establishment of the Genres at while various genre representatives became known in particular from Central, Eastern and Northern Europe as well as North America and Japan.
Representative
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Doomster: DOOM SHALL RISE - The Doomcore / Sludge and Death / Funeral Doom Special. (No longer available online.) Vampster, archived from the original on March 11, 2014 ; accessed on March 28, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Arne Eber: Aesthetics of Doom. (No longer available online.) ResettWorld, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Pedro Azevedo: Doom Metal: The Gentle Art of Making Misery. Chronicles of Chaos, accessed March 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Christian Hector: Sinistra: Interview on Funeral Doom. Metal Hammer, April 1, 2011, accessed January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Funeral Doom Bandlist. Doom-Metal.com, accessed August 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e ta: Dark, darker, Funeral Doom. (No longer available online.) Crossover agm, archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Christian Hector: Interview with pantheist singer Kostas Panagiotou about Funeral Doom. Metal Hammer, April 1, 2011, accessed January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Aleks Evdokimov: Interview with Funeralium. doom-metal.com, accessed on August 10, 2018 .