Funeral Winds

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Funeral Winds
General information
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 1991
Website http://www.funeralwinds.com
Founding members
Hell Christian Xul
Gorgoroth
Esteban
Current occupation
Vocals, electric guitar
 Hell Christian Xul
Drums
 Balgradon Xul (Arno Eikenbroek)
former members
Isjnah Xul
Electric bass
 Moloch / RSD Xul
Drums
 Y. Xul (Yuri Rinkel)
Electric guitar
 Vincent Meelhuysen
singing
 M. Xul

Funeral Winds ( Engl ., Funeral winds') is a Dutch black metal band.

history

Funeral Winds was founded in 1991 when guitarist Hellchrist Xul and singer Gorgoroth found a drummer in Esteban. In 1992 the first official recording Rehearsal / Demo '92 was released , which was not intended for sale, but was only sent to underground magazines and bands. In 1993 the second demo La Majeste Infernale was released. In the same year the band recorded two songs in the studio and two live; these appeared on the Resurrection ... demo, which was released in 1994 by the Polish label Pagan Records; on this the band announced the bassist Isnjah Xul and Lady Lilith Xul, who was responsible for the artwork, as new members. An illegal bootleg version was also released later, which contained not only the Resurrection ... demo but also recordings by the Norwegian band Demonic.

In 1994 Funeral Winds headlined the Polish festival Sthrashydto '94 with Kat and Vader ; The performance was organized by Pagan Records. A video recording of the Funeral Winds performance was released under the title Live in Poland . After the festival, the band went into the studio to record six new pieces; two appeared on the single Thy Eternal Flame , which was released by Black Arts, and four for the split CD Screaming for Grace / Abigail with Abigail from Japan, which was released on Warmaster Records. The split CD contains the title Twilight Shine Upon My Crypt , the text of which was written by Absurd drummer Hendrik Möbus , who was imprisoned for murder at the time .

After the release of this record, the band was signed by Lethal Records for two albums. Originally the debut should appear in the summer of 1995, but the guitarist, songwriter and only remaining founder Hellchrist Xul was arrested shortly after the recording for attempted homicide; According to the book Unheilige Alliances , it was an attempted murder of the bassist of the death metal band Sinister . In an interview with the Strength Through War , Hellchrist Xul said: “... he must be very grateful that I made this death experience possible for him. Playing in a death metal band and knowing what it feels like when your life slips away must be the culmination of a career ”; He told the webzine Archaic-Magazine.com that it was about someone who falsely pretended to be a Black Metaller and therefore deserved it. In addition to the bankruptcy of the label, this delayed the release of the planned album Godslayer XUL , which was released in 1998 by Daimonion Records, but was produced too cleanly according to RSD Xul; In 2003 the album was re-released on CD and LP by the Spanish label Death to Mankind Records. In the meantime, further compositions and recordings were delayed due to frequent line-up changes, but the band was able to release two more demos and recorded the album Koude Haat ( nl . 'Kalter Hass'), which Death to Mankind released on CD and LP in February 2004 and according to RSD Xul should stand for the band's return to the scene; he also hinted at the possible release of a future mini-album dedicated to the Xul concept; Xul is Sumerian for ' evil '. In the same year the LP Screaming for Resurrection ... , which contained the Resurrection ... demo and songs from the split with Abigail, was released as a cooperation of the labels Phlegethon Productions and Bloodlust Distribution, and the Split-7 ” Black Metal Against the World with Ad Hominem , Leviathan and Eternity ; a planned split EP with Satanic Blood never appeared.

In 2004 a bootleg CD was released by the Greek label Unisound Records. That same year, the band wrote new material for their third album, Nexion XUL - The Cursed Bloodline , a concept album released in 2007 on Sadolust Records. On this the sound is clearer and cleaner than on Koude Haat and the Split-7 " Black Metal Against the World , which can be clearly seen in the new recording of The Old Serpent Stirs .

Style and ideology

The band plays aggressive, rough, fast, traditional Black Metal, which is influenced by Venom , Hellhammer , Bathory , Sodom and Mayhem and accordingly has elements of Thrash Metal of the 1980s. Hellchrist Xul's vocals are processed with compression and reverberation . In addition, the band names their devotion to Satan as an influence , accordingly the appearance of the band is based on Satanism . RSD Xul explained to the webzine The Disciples of the Ancient Blood that from the satanist point of view you are your own god, but the concept of Satanism without the physical form is only a black form of humanism , and without serious devotion to Satan it is just antichristianism .

However, the band is close to right-wing extremism ; In 2004 the group played with the French bands Ad Hominem and Seigneur Voland on the Black Metal Blitzkrieg in the youth center in Bladel and shared the split 7 ” Black Metal Against the World with Ad Hominem in the same year ; In 2007 the band was supposed to perform with Blessed in Sin, Finis Gloria Dei and Absurd in Gremsdorf, but canceled due to internal disputes. Balgradon Xul (Arno Eikenbroek) is session drummer for the right-wing extremist band Ornaments of Sin from France. The band members, however, are not all openly committed to right-wing extremism, although they accept it with acceptance: Hellchrist Xul told Soluzen that he had "a great interest in Hitler's life, both in his occult and his 'Third Reich' side." , and "adopted some of his ideas and ideologies"; he is "in contact with some right-wing parties", these come "close to his goals and ideologies in some points [...]". In his opinion it is “time to kick all immigrants out of the Netherlands together with the government. Reopen Auschwitz and give them all a free ticket to hell. ”The webzine Archaic-Magazine.com, however, mentions that the band does not want to have anything to do with politics and quotes a statement from Hellchrist Xul:“ We hate humans and want them DEAD .. . ". When the band was asked how they felt about Nazi ideology in Black Metal, V. Xul replied that serious hatred in any form is healthy, and Moloch that Black Metal revolves around extremes in all forms and therefore does not mind when some bands spoke out against immigrants, for example; He also spoke out against people who advocate the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire and at the same time speak out against the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich. He hailed World War II as the most destructive period in Europe in the 20th century. On November 2, 2013 they were supposed to play in Finowfurt together with Lucifer's weapon bearer and funeral procession , but the concert was prevented by the police.

Side projects

The band members are also active in numerous side projects. Two members formed the thrash metal band Enforcer in 2001 . Hellchrist Xul formed a band called Inferi, which ran from 1992 to 1997, and a solo project called Domini Inferi, which is based on early Beherit and VON . He and Balgradon Xul also worked on Haatstrijd. V. Xul is guitarist with Israthoum, Moloch / RSD Xul plays with the industrial black metal band Weltbrand, founded in 2002, and the death metal band Dark Remains. In 2007 he also helped out with the black metal band Infinity, in which Balgradon Xul plays as a permanent and founding member; The latter also plays with the band Corpsecandle, which is based on Dissection , and as a session drummer with the French band Ornaments of Sin.

Former drummer Y. Xul (Yuri Rinkel) also played with Thanatos , Lier in Wait, Inferi, Death Sentence and Liar of Golgotha, and is now the drummer of the originally Israeli band Melechesh .

In addition to Funeral Winds, Vincent Meelhuysen also worked for Israthoum and Liar of Golgotha, and is currently playing for Coldeemstorft and Veghe. The former singer Gorgoroth also plays with Liar of Golgotha.

Discography

  • 1992: Rehearsal / Demo '92 (Demo)
  • 1993: La Majesté Infernale (demo)
  • 1994: Resurrection ... (Demo) (Pagan Records)
  • 1994: Live in Poland (VHS)
  • 1994: Thy Eternal Flame (Single) (Black Arts)
  • 1995: Screaming for Grace / Abigail (Split with Abigail ) (Warmaster Records)
  • 1998: Godslayer Xul (Daimonion) (re-released in 2003 as a split with Inferi via Death to Mankind)
  • 2001: Promo 2001 (demo)
  • 2001: Promo 2002 (demo)
  • 2004: Koude Haat (Death to Mankind)
  • 2004: Screaming for Resurrection (compilation, contains the tracks from Resurrection ... and the split with Abigail) (Bloodlust Records, Phlegethon Productions)
  • 2004: Black Metal Against the World (split with Ad Hominem , Leviathan and Eternity ) (Undercover Records)
  • 2007: Nexion Xul - The Cursed Bloodline (Sadolust Records)
  • 2008: The King of Tire on The Wine of Satan: Volume II (Necroterror Records)
  • 2015: Sekhmet - Seven Arrows, Knife and Flame (Single) (New Era Productions)
  • 2018: Sinister Creed ( Avantgarde Music )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . Münster, Unrast Verlag, 2005, p. 217.
  2. ↑ a b c Yuri Rinkel permenent bandlid Melechesh . Re-releases op komst voor Rinkel's other band Thanatos  ( 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.slagwerkwereld.com  
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Black Metal Cult ( Memento from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 19, 2013.
  4. ^ Frank Stöver: Funeral Winds . In: Voices from the Darkside , No. 5, p. 18.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Manuel Boss: Black Metal Cult since 1991! :: Funeral Winds  ( 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: Dead Link / www.archaic-magazine.com  
  6. ↑ a b Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 216 .
  7. ↑ a b c Funeral Winds .
  8. ↑ thepast. Archived from the original on March 19, 2008 ; Retrieved January 7, 2010 .
  9. ↑ a b Funeral Winds .
  10. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism . Münster, Unrast Verlag, 2005, p. 213.
  11. ↑ Kris Boehmunde: Propagating and making music in the back room? In: A-Blaze . No. 1 , 2007, p. 32 .
  12. ↑ FUNERAL WINDS ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archaic-magazine.com
  13. ^ Ministry of the Interior Brandenburg (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Land Brandenburg 2013 . Potsdam 2014, p. 107 ( brandenburg.de [PDF]).
  14. ^ "Fireblade Force Festival": Nazi metal meeting in Brandenburg. Belltower , October 25, 2013, accessed April 21, 2017 .
  15. ↑ BIOGRAPHY: ENFORCER ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.enforcer-metal.com
  16. ↑ a b Biography ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / necromanteion.net
  17. ↑ a b Infinity .
  18. ↑ world fire .
  19. ^ BIO ( Memento of March 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  20. ↑ Members .
  21. ↑ Biography .
  22. ↑ Biography .
  23. ↑ a b Frank Stöver: THANATOS .
  24. ↑ a b c d e Yxul ( Memento from November 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).
  25. ^ The Encyclopedia of Dutch Black Metal. Retrieved January 7, 2010 .
  26. ↑ CD reviews. Retrieved January 7, 2010 .

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