Martrids
| Martrids | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Havre , Montana , United States |
| Genre (s) | Black Metal , Death Metal , Progressive Metal |
| founding | 2001 |
| Current occupation | |
| Will Thackeray | |
Electric guitar, vocals
|
Shane Howard |
Keyboard , electric guitar, vocals |
Kyle Howard |
| former members | |
| Chad "The Chad" Baumgardner | |
Electric bass |
John Harrison |
Electric bass |
Brian Mueller |
Electric bass, vocals |
Kevin George |
| Sam Murphy | |
Drums |
Steve VonderHeide |
Drums |
Kevin Corner |
Drums |
Jeremy Portz |
singing |
Michael Cook |
Martriden is an American progressive black and death metal band from Havre , Montana , that was formed in 2001. Initially without a name, the group initially called itself Pale Horse .
history
The band was founded in 2001 by the brothers Shane (electric guitar, vocals) and five years older Kyle Howard (electric guitar, keyboards, vocals) and their jam partner Will Thackeray (electric guitar). In 2004 a performance was held in a high school under the name Pale Horse, with bassist John Harrison and without Kyle Howard . Then Harrison left the band as he moved before the singer Michael Cook came on and the band name was changed to Martriden. The group took its name from Nordic mythology . In 2005 a self-titled EP was recorded with Dave Otero on Flatline Audio in Denver , Colorado , and released in June 2006 on Siege of Amida Records . After appearances with Emperor in Chicago and Los Angeles , the debut album The Unsettling Dark was recorded in the summer of 2007 . The sound carrier was released in 2008 on Candlelight Records . The band then went on a self-arranged US tour that lasted two months and consisted of 20 performances. The tour ended in Montana. In 2010 the second album Encounter the Monolith was released as a self- release . The album was self-recorded and then mixed and mastered by Dave Otero. Five years later, the self-published album called Cold and the Silence , which was recorded under the direction of Shane Howard and Dave Otero, and mixed and mastered by the latter.
style
Marcel Rudoletzky from Metal Hammer found in his review of The Unsettling Dark that the band is too oriented towards Scandinavian groups like Dimmu Borgir , Old Man's Child or Morgul . The music is peppered with “ blastbeats and bombast interludes”, but not very original. Pete Pardo of seaoftranquility.org noted in his review of Encounter the Monolith that the album only consists of six songs, but they are very long. The music is based on Death Metal, but elements from Black Metal and Progressive Metal stand out strongly. In addition, the group processed atmospheric and symphonic elements, occasionally borrowed from the Epic Doom and was in places comparable to Opeth . Sargon the Terrible from metalcrypt.com noted that the band has become more and more technically demanding in the past and have expanded their musical spectrum more and more. This trend was stopped on Cold and the Silence , so that the band now sounds like Cynic on their album Traced in Air . Instrumental passages and occasional clear vocals are characteristic of the songs.
Discography
- 2006: Martriden (EP, Siege of Amida Records )
- 2008: The Unsettling Dark (album, Candlelight Records )
- 2010: Encounter the Monolith (album, self-published)
- 2015: Cold and the Silence (album, self-published)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Martriden Bio. thegauntlet.com, accessed May 30, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Biography. martridenrocks.com, archived from the original on October 26, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Marcel Rudoletzky: Martriden . The Unsettling Dark. In: Metal Hammer . May 2008, p. 104 .
- ↑ Pete Pardo: Martriden: Encounter the Monolith. seaoftranquility.org, accessed May 30, 2017 .
- ^ Sargon the Terrible: Cold and the Silence. metalcrypt.com, accessed May 30, 2017 .