Khazad-dûm (band)

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Khazad-dûm
General information
origin Reading , England
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 2015
Website www.facebook.com/khazaddumuk
Current occupation
All instruments, vocals
 Daniel Scrivener
singing
 Matthew Surry
former members
Electric bass, vocals
 Chris Kendell

Khazad-dûm is a funeral doom band that has been active since 2015 .

history

Daniel Scrivener, Matthew Surry and Chris Kendell released the demo Stones of Sorrow in 2015 as the first recording of the band Khazad-dûm.

The UK-based Reading band's debut was released five years later, in spring 2020, under the title Hymns from the Deep via I Hate Records . The bassist Kendell had left the band without replacement in the meantime. The Hymns from the Deep, which is divided into five tracks, is written as a concept album. The text of the album was created as a long cohesive poem, based on the passage of the companions through Moria described by JRR Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings . The album was well received and recommended to Funeral Doom fans.

style

Khazad-dûm is classified as a funeral doom band. The singing varies between dominant growling , clear singing and polyphonic chants that are rated as chorale-like . The instrumentation is discussed as a slowed down variation of Death Doom . The drumming even reaches rhythmic to fast tempos, which are musically associated with Black Metal . In a band presentation for the webzine Doom-Metal.com , the music is described as a "dark, hard and cave-like" sounding mixture of Evoken and Hierophant .

Discography

  • 2015: Stones of Sorrow (demo, self-published)
  • 2020: Hymns from the Deep (Album, I Hate Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Samuele Lepore: Khazad-dûm: Hymns from the Deep. The New Noise, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Nichalas Edward: Khazad-dûm: Hymns from the Deep. Antichrist Magazine, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Khazad-dûm. Doom-Metal.com, accessed June 4, 2020 .