Murkrat
| Murkrat | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | New South Wales , Australia |
| Genre (s) | Funeral Doom , Gothic Metal |
| founding | 2006 |
| Website | murkrat.com |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar, keyboard, electric bass |
Mandy Andresen |
Drums |
Neil Dyer (since 2009) |
| former members | |
Drums |
Becky "Nine-Iron" (until 2007) |
Murkrat , sometimes spelled MurkRat, is a funeral doom band from New South Wales .
history
Mandy Andresen founded Murkrat in 2006 as her personal metal project. Andresen found support in longtime friend Becky "Nine-Iron". Together the duo recorded the Murky Ratmass demo . After "Nine-Iron" received an offer from the New South Wales Institute of Sport , she left the band to focus on a career as a professional golfer . Andresen led Murkrat away alone for the time being. Damon Good ( Mournful Congregation ), who runs the recording studio The Cave , which is used for the demo recordings , sent the demo to Aestehtic Death owner Stu Gregg, whereupon Gregg contacted Andresen and offered a contract.
The British independent label released the debut album MurkRat in 2008 , half of which consists of the recordings of the demo. The debut received little response. The following year, Neil Dyer of Innsmouth joined and participated in subsequent publications. The second album, Drudging the Mire , released in 2011 , received mostly positive reviews.
style
The style played by Murkrat is described as Funeral Doom with influences from Gothic Rock and Ambient . As influential performers Andresen names Aghast , Sigh , Alice Cooper at the time of the album trillion Dollar Babies , Black Sabbath , Deep Purple , Megadeth , the early Siouxsie and the Banshees , Leonard Cohen , Arcturus , the gloomy publications of Kate Bush , something Jefferson Airplane due the singing of Grace Slick , The 3rd and the Mortal with Kari Rueslåtten and Burning Witch . In particular, early representatives of Gothic Rock such as Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus are referred to in discussions to describe the transported atmosphere.
On the other hand, “ Skepticism without bombastic percussion or Esoteric with echoing, intense female vocals” are used to compare the overall sound . In addition to the repeated mention of Esoteric, other groups of the extreme Doom spectrum are listed for comparison . Among other things, the group is compared to Colosseum , An Autumn for Crippled Children or The Ruins of Beverast in order to locate elements of the style.
The instrumentation of rhythm guitar , drums and keyboard is described as sluggish, booming and sluggish. “Piano notes” and “keyboard surfaces” would round off “the Spartan sound structure” into a “mystically oppressive, ominous, dreary-beautiful basic atmosphere”.
Andresen's voice is the conceptual focus of the music, which determines the characteristics of the overall sound in the long term and which, according to Terrorverlag, “experiences all the emotions, traits and conceivable dramaturgies that a person can produce in his darkest moments.” Andresen's performance is also special on music reviews positively emphasized: "She groans, she complains, she suffers, hates, screams, grumbles bitterly, roars [sic] like a caveman, sings majestically, piles several voices into sacred choirs, whispers, whines, screams, sings gently and conjures [sic ] and vomits her pain. Mutated from a dying Sabina Classen to a psychotic Dolores O'Riordan , from a depressed Enya to a mentally disturbed Donita Sparks . "
Discography
- 2007: Murky Ratmass (Demo, The Cave)
- 2008: MurkRat (Album, Aesthetic Death)
- 2009: Murkrat / Demons Gate (split EP, Abysmal Sound )
- 2011: Drudging the Mire (Album, Aesthetic Death)
Web links
- Official website
- Murkrat at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mike Liassides: Interview with MurkRat. Doom Metal, accessed October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Erik: Murkrat. Lords of Metal, accessed October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Christian: Murkrat: drudging The Mire. Metal Glory, accessed October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Yannick: Murkrat: Drudging The Mire. Metal.de, accessed on October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d Chris Popp: Murkrat: Drudging The Mire. Music reviews, accessed October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Fafnir: Murkrat: Drudging The Mire. Terrorverlag, accessed October 24, 2016 .
- ^ A b Moritz Grütz: Murkrat: Drudging The Mire. Metal1, accessed October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Lord Obirah: Murkrat: Drudging The Mire. Heavy Hardes, accessed October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Ralf Scheidler: Murkrat: Drudging The Mire. Bloodchamber, accessed October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Velvet: Murkrat: Drudging The Mire. (No longer available online.) Metal District, archived from the original on October 24, 2016 ; accessed on October 24, 2016 .
- ^ A b c Christian Wachter: Murkrat: Drudging The Mire. (No longer available online.) Legacy, archived from the original on October 24, 2016 ; accessed on October 24, 2016 .