Green Carnation

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Green Carnation
Green Carnation live concert in 2006
Green Carnation live concert in 2006
General information
origin Norway
Genre (s) Death Metal (1991) , Progressive Metal , Hard Rock
founding 1990, 1998
resolution 1992
Website http://green-carnation.com
Founding members
X-botteri
guitar
 Tchort
Christopher Botteri
Kobro is different

Green Carnation is a Norwegian metal - and rock - band from Kristiansand , which was founded in 1990 levels.

Band history

Shortly after the founding, Richart Olsen joined the band as a singer. Green Carnation did a few gigs and recorded a demo in 1991 . After that there was a disagreement regarding the music, the lyrics and the performance of the band; when Tchort was also offered to join Emperor , the band felt it would be "better to take a break with GC than to let animosity arise." The remaining members then founded the pagan metal band In the Woods… . At the end of 1998 the band was reunited and began to collect ideas for their debut album; this was recorded in 1999 with guest singer friends (including Vibeke Stene from Tristania and Synne "Soprana" Larsen from In the Woods ...) and was released in 2000 under the title Journey to the End of the Night by Prophecy Productions .

The second album Light of Day, Day of Darkness followed in 2001, but only Tchort was left of the previous line-up and founding member Anders Kobro (now drummer at Carpathian Forest ) included Kjetil Nordhus ( Trail of Tears ), Bjørn Harstad (In the Woods ...) and Stein Roger Sordal now to the band. The album was recorded with numerous guest musicians, contained only a single 60-minute track and had echoes of Gothic Metal and Progressive Metal . It was album of the month December in German Metal Hammer and was performed in full at Wacken Open Air 2002.

Green Carnation now switched to Season of Mist and developed their style significantly on the following albums, which mostly met with a positive response from the press. In the German Metal Hammer was A Blessing in Disguise , now also with keyboardist Bernt A. Moen, Album of the Month in July 2003. In The Quiet Offspring and The Acoustic Verses played played Kenneth SIlden Keyboard, Michael Krumins guitar and The Acoustic Verses had Tommy Jackson took over the drums. Tchort announced the album The Rise and Fall of Mankind in the booklet , which has not yet been released. After the release of a second live DVD in 2007, things went quiet for the band.

It wasn't until 2014 that Green Carnation got together again for a concert. For 2016 appearances for the 15th anniversary of the second album have been announced.

Music style and lyrics

Green Carnations demo recording Hallucinations of Despair was assigned to Death Metal . After this recording, the band members disagreed about the music, the lyrics and the performance: Tchort and the singer appeared with blood-smeared faces and contributed bloodthirsty lyrics, while the other members did without blood and more complex, sophisticated lyrics about the human Mind preferred.

Her post-reunification debut Journey to the End of the Night is a concept album ; Tchort processed the death of his daughter on this album and on the follow-up Light of Day, Day of Darkness, the opposing feelings that resulted from the death of his daughter and the birth of his son. Green Carnations record company Prophecy Productions called the band's new style on their debut album Psychedelic Doom Metal . Due to numerous riffs written by Chris Botteri and the effects he used, the album is reminiscent of In the Woods…. Light of Day, Day of Darkness, on the other hand, mixed progressive metal with gothic rock and retro sounds. The Quiet Offspring approached hard rock , The Acoustic Verses was a purely acoustic album.

Discography

Studio

  • 1991: Hallucinations of Despair ( MC ; self-distribution)
  • 2000: Journey to the End of the Night (CD / 2x LP ; Prophecy Productions ) Released until 2006 in a total of 7 versions.
  • 2001: Light of Day, Day of Darkness (CD / CD + DVD-V / 2xLP / FLAC; Prophecy Productions) Released in a total of 9 versions until 2018.
  • 2003: A Blessing in Disguise (CD / 2xLP; Season of Mist )
  • 2005: The Quiet Offspring (CD; Season of Mist)
  • 2005: The Burden Is Mine… Alone EP (CD; Sublife Productions)
  • 2006: The Acoustic Verses (CD; The End Records)

Concert recordings

  • 2004: Alive and Well… In Krakow (CD / CD + DVD-V / DVD; Metal Mind Productions)
  • 2007: A Night Under the Dam (DVD; Sublife Productions)

Compilations

  • 2004: The Trilogy (6xLP; Prophecy Productions) Compiles the first three albums on vinyl.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c INTERVIEW WITH TCHORT (GREEN CARNATION, CARPATHIAN FOREST, BLOOD RED THRONE, EMPEROR) ( Memento from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 14, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Robert Müller: Green Carnation . Collective coming to terms with the past . In: Metal Hammer , December 2000, p. 112.
  3. ↑ a b GREEN CARNATION - INTERVIEW WITH TCHORT - 3-31-05 ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 14, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rebelx.org
  4. ↑ Bradley Torreano: Light of Day, Day of Darkness at Allmusic , accessed on January 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ Babyblaue Prog-Reviews: green carnation: Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness , Babyblaue Seiten , accessed on January 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ Band History - GREEN CARNATION , metal-observer.com , accessed January 14, 2013.
  7. ↑ green-carnation.com , accessed September 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ Andreas Holz: GREEN CARNATION: Journey To The End Of The Night , vampster , accessed on January 14, 2013.
  9. ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Green Carnation. A Blessing In Disguise , Rock Hard # 193, accessed January 14, 2013.
  10. ↑ Babyblaue Prog-Reviews: green carnation: A Blessing In Disguise , Babyblaue Seiten , accessed on January 14, 2013.
  11. ^ Andreas Stappert: Green Carnation. The Quiet Offspring , Rock Hard # 214, accessed January 14, 2013.