Happy Days (band)
| Happy Days | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Sarasota , Florida , United States |
| Genre (s) | Depressive black metal , shoegazing |
| founding | 2007 |
| Current occupation | |
| Scott "A. Morbid “Andrade | |
| Bryan "B. Devastation "Gastelum (since 2015) | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Matt "Karmageddon" Aldrich (until 2015) |
Happy Days is a 2-person depressive black metal music project that began in 2007 in Sarasota , Florida by the two musicians Scott “A. Morbid ”Andrade ( vocals , keyboards , electric guitar , electric bass ) and Matt“ Karmageddon ”Aldrich ( drums ). Aldrich was also the drummer in the depressive black metal band Wedard from Memmingen .
history
Founder "A. Morbid ”has faced many problems in his previous life, including homelessness and loneliness . He also has a side project called Deep-Pression .
In 2007 Happy Days released three demos with A World of Pain , Alone and Cold and Drown in Negativity . "A. Morbid ”said the production on Alone and Cold and A World of Pain could have been better.
In 2008 the debut album was released with Melancholic Memories . In the same year the duo released their second long player Defeated by Life . In 2009, Happy Days' third album Happiness Stops Here followed . In 2010 Cause of Death: Life was the fourth studio album. It was financed through the two labels Self Mutilation Services and Funeral Industries . In January 2015, Melancholic Memories was reissued.
There are also five split CDs with Svard (under The Bitter Taste of Life , 2008), with Fornicatus , Black Hate and All the Cold (published as Children of Failure ) (2009), The First Steps Towards Suicide (with Eindig , 2010) and Psychonaut 4 and Dodsferd under the title The Great Depression I (2013), as well as The Great Depression II (with the Japanese band Kanashimi , 2014) to their discography.
The project is considered an icon in the depressive black metal scene.
style
Happy Days play a very slow way of playing Depressive Black Metal . The songs, which can reach a playing time of 10 minutes (or longer), seem very sluggish due to the slow and melancholy sound. Shoegazing can also be heard in the sound . The lyrics are about suicide , depression and loneliness . The singer draws his inspiration from his life. He describes Happy Days as his personal “diary”.
Discography
Demos
- 2007: A World of Pain
- 2007: Cold and Alone
- 2007: Drown in Negativity
Albums
- 2008: Melancholic Memories ( War Against Yourself , Midwinter Records; 2013 re-release via Self Mutilation Services )
- 2008: Defeated by Life (War Against Yourself, Self Mutilation Services)
- 2009: Happiness Stops Here (Self Mutilation Services)
- 2010: Cause of Death: Life (Self Mutilation Services, Funeral Industries )
- 2016: Save Yourself ( Talheim Records )
Split CDs
- 2008: The Bitter Taste of Life (with Svard )
- 2009: Children of Failure (with Black Hate , All the Cold and Fornicatus ; Self Mutilation Services)
- 2010: The First Steps Towards Suicide (with Eindig ; Self Mutilation Services, Galgenstrang ; limited to 500 copies)
- 2013: The Great Depression I (with Psychonaut 4 and Dodsverd ; Funeral Industries)
- 2014: The Great Depression II (with Kanashimi ; Zero Dimensional Records )
Web links
- Happy Days on Facebook
- Happy Days at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Spirit of Metal webzine : Matt Aldrich
- ↑ a b c noktorn.wordpress.com : Interview with Happy Days
- ↑ a b massenvernichtung.blogspot.de : Interview with Happy Days (English / German)
- ↑ metal-inside.de : Interview with Eindig
- ↑ Andreas Piltz: Legacy : Review - Cause of Death: Life ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2016 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.
