Mordor (Swiss band)
| Mordor | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Lausanne , Switzerland |
| Genre (s) | Industrial metal , funeral doom , post-industrial |
| founding | 1990 |
| Website | mordorswiss.com |
| Current occupation | |
Drums, electric bass, vocals |
Dam Gomhory |
guitar |
S3th |
Singing, guitar, sampling, sequencer, synthesizer |
Scorh Anyroth |
| former members | |
singing |
Opal Ablasorh |
Mordor is an industrial metal and funeral doom band founded in 1990 .
history
The Swiss project Mordor, named after JRR Tolkien's black land , was founded in 1990. Initially Mordor was intended as an experimental and ritual project by Scorh Anyroth and Dam Gomhory after the end of their black metal band Arög. The Odes , which later became popular as a debut album, was recorded as a ritual in a raw and free recording, which was only intended for the musicians and a small group of friends, and given the label Dark Industries. The recording was based on the intention of producing simple, ceremonial-repetitive music.
Odes came into circulation through tape trading circles while the friends of the two musicians encouraged them to officially release the music. After recording another album named Csejthe in 1992, both were released together in 1992 on the American metal label Wild Rags Records in the form of a compilation. Both albums were remastered , remixed and supplemented in 1995 for a new release by Wild Rags Records . Up to these publications, other small publications and compilation participations of the project appeared, on which Mordor increasingly changed their style towards different variants of the post-industrial . In retrospect, however, the band gained popularity as the "forgotten" co-initiators of Funeral Doom. Especially after the release of a split EP with Bunkur via Nuclear War Now! Productions , as well as after the announcement of a new release of the early work on Aesthetic Death Records , Mordor received renewed attention.
style
The music presented on the debut is sometimes referred to as early drone doom , but mostly described as an early variant of funeral doom. Later releases were named Neoclassic and Martial Industrial . The musicians describe the style they play as "Dark Industrial" or "Blackened Industrial Funeral Doom". The band combined various musical styles early on, which is why a more detailed style name was often not given. Sometimes the music was described as a mixture of minimalist dark ambient , doomy music with high proportions of black and death doom as well as an experimental industrial at a slow pace that is characteristic of the band.
Discography
- 1990: Odes (Album: MC, Dark Industries; 1994: CD, Wild Rags; 2019: Download, Dark Industries)
- 1992: Csejthe (Album: MC, Dark Industries; 1995: CD, Wild Rags; 2019: Download, Dark Industries)
- 1993: The Way of Nihilism (split album with Gora, Vorsaken, Art'Sneider, Odessa and Cult Of Noise: MC, Dark Industries)
- 1993: And Forget ... (Split album with Misanthrope, Shud, Gothic, The Uncanny and Art'Sneider: MC, Incense)
- 1994: Dark Is the Future (Single, Shivadarshana Records)
- 2017: Bunkur / Mordor (Split EP with Bunkur: Nuclear War Now! Productions)
Web links
- Official website
- Mordor at Discogs (English)
- Mordor at Doom-Metal.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Jon Rosenthal: Hidden History: Mordor Speaks. Invisible Oranges, June 8, 2018, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Hans Cany: Mordor Interview 2018. Requiem Webzine, June 18, 2018, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ^ Mordor: About Us. Mordor, 2010, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Mordor. Metal Storm, 2007, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ R. Possessed: Mordor. Assalut Crew, 1993, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Mordor. Doom-Metal.com, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Doomster: Mordor: Odes. Metal Music Archives, December 6, 2012, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Panacea: Mordor: Csejthe. Memories of a forgotten Past, March 31, 2013, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ^ Daniel Müller: Mordor / Bunkur. Crossfire-Metal, 2017, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ^ Stefan Arthur Wolfsbrunn: Mordor / Bunkur. Metal.de , December 30, 2017, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Samoht: Mordor / Bunkur. Dark View, December 23, 2017, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Joxe Schaefer: Mordor / Bunkur. X-Crash, 2017, accessed July 24, 2019 .
- ^ Stu Gregg: Upcoming Releases. Aesthetic Death, July 17, 2019, accessed July 24, 2019 .