Nine Treasures

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Nine Treasures
Nine Treasures play on Woodstock in Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland, 2016.
Nine Treasures play on Woodstock in Kostrzyn nad Odrą , Poland , 2016.
General information
origin Beijing , People's Republic of China
Genre (s) Folk metal
founding 2010
Current occupation
Ashkan Avagchuud
Saina
Tsog
Aoger
Ding Kai
former members
Wiils
balalaika
 Amila
Saqir

Nine Treasures is a Chinese folk metal band founded in Beijing in 2010 .

history

Nine Treasures was founded in 2010 in Beijing , the capital of the People's Republic of China . The musicians all come from Inner Mongolia , an autonomous region in northern China. Singer Askhan and balalaika player Saina were roommates studying animation at college while drummer Ding Kai and bassist Aoger met at music school . The musicians found their fiddler in Tsog, whom the musicians met when he was playing in Mongolian restaurants . In the meantime the band has relocated their headquarters to Hohhot , the capital of Inner Mongolia.

Two years after the band was founded, the band released their own debut album in early May 2012 with Arvan Ald Guulin Hunshoor . Already at the end of 2013 followed with Nine Treasures, the second studio album named after the band. A concert the group performed in Beijing was recorded and released as a live album in January 2015. In the same month the EP Galloping White Horse was released . The group's third full-fledged album, Wisdom Eyes , was released in early 2017. The band's first two albums have since been reissued on the German label Einheit Produktionen . The contact to the label came about through their manager, who has good contacts to the label operators.

The band plays at major music festivals in the People's Republic of China and took part in the Wacken Metal Battle in 2013 , where the group took second place in the international final at the Wacken Open Air. There the group was selected as a participant in the film Wacken 3D . In October and November of 2015, the group toured several European countries, including Germany, Austria , Latvia , Poland , Hungary , the Netherlands , Denmark and the Czech Republic . A year later a second tour through Europe followed. In 2017 the group played at European music festivals such as Nova Rock in Austria, the Serbian Exit and the Polish Woodstock .

style

Some of the band's musicians grew up in Hailur in northern Inner Mongolia and were shaped by the culture of this region. So they heard Mongolian music on the radio . In the sixth grade, singer Askhan and balalaika player Saina came into contact with metal for the first time independently of one another via the Mongolian band Hurd , without knowing that the music had a name. They only got to know the name of this genre in high school .

The musicians were also musically influenced by metalcore groups such as Trivium , Heaven Shall Burn , Caliban and Lamb of God . The musicians only developed musical ideas with the increasing popularity of folk and viking metal in Europe in the early 2000s. According to an article on the situation of heavy metal in the People's Republic of China by Spiegel Online , the music is described as "a separate variant of Chinese folk metal, which combines hardcore sounds with Mongolian melodies and throaty steppe singing ". Stefan Arthur Wolfsbrunn from Metal.de describes Nine Treasures as an East Asian interpretation of the Latvian pagan metal band Skyforger . In a later interview between Wolfsbrunn and the band, singer Askhan stated that he didn't know Skyforger himself and instead described Korpiklaani as a musical influence. In addition to the typical metal musical instruments such as electric guitar and bass , the musicians also use traditional Mongolian instruments such as the Morin Khuur and Tovshuur , as well as a balalaika . The latter, however, is a Russian instrument.

The group's texts deal with Mongolian culture, life in Mongolia or the Mongolian environment, such as rivers (e.g. Tes River's hymn ) or certain animals living in Mongolia. The musicians also sing about topics such as environmental protection in their songs. For example, in the piece Sonsii ( German about “I hear”), which was written from the perspective of nature and criticizes ongoing industrialization. Also found Mongolian fairy tales and horror stories for lyrical inspiration use, as in the song Arvan Ald Guulin Hunshoor (German as: "Ten Zhang large bronze mouth" ), which for a horror story is named, which plays in the Mongolian grasslands. The band's songs are written by the musicians themselves, although they are also inspired by traditional Mongolian music. But demons of Mongolian mythology are also taken up: For example, Mangas is thematized in the song Fable of Mangas , which is referred to as the Mongolian equivalent of Satan in Christianity .

Band name

The band name refers to the nine treasures, although these have not been finally clarified. In Mongolia, metals, minerals and fossils such as gold , silver , bronze , agate , iron and amber are known as nine treasures. However, there is also a definition of the nine treasures in other areas, such as medicine and poetry . One poem says that if you pass on nine treasures, nine wishes will be fulfilled. The Mongolian characters of the band logo are the first letters for the metals described above.

Discography

  • 2012: Arvan Ald Guulin Hunshoor (album, in-house production, new edition 2017 at Einheit Produktionen )
  • 2013: Nine Treasures (album, in-house production, new edition 2017 at Einheit Produktionen)
  • 2015: Live in Beijing (live album, in-house production)
  • 2015: Galloping White Horse (EP, in-house production)
  • 2015: Mongol Metal (sampler with Ego Fall and Tengger Cavalry , in-house production)
  • 2017: Wisdom Eyes (album, in-house production)

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Minna Zhou: Nine Treasures Build Their Mongolian Folk Metal with Love, Not Satan. Noisey , December 22, 2015, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Stefan Arthur Wolfsbrunn: Interview with Nine Treasures: Fairy tales and horror stories from Mongolia. Metal.de , November 3, 2017, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Stefan Arthur Wolfsbrunn: Interview with Nine Treasures: Fairy tales and horror stories from Mongolia. Metal.de, November 3, 2017, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Wang Pan, Jonas Borchers: Chinese band at the Wacken Festival: With the horse head violin to Wacken. Goethe-Institut , December 2013, accessed on November 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Chinese folk metal Nine Treasures announce European tour. Unite Asia, October 21, 2015, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ WackenHelge: Nine Treasures - Metal-Battle 2013 finalists on European tour. Wacken.com, June 1, 2016, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  7. ^ Coly: The Mongols who conquered Europe (by Folk Metal). rattle.hu, August 20, 2017, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Drugi dan Exita: Galager i Obojeni program. RTV.rs , July 6, 2017, accessed November 9, 2018 (Serbian).
  9. ↑ Christoph Behrens: Heavy Metal too loud for China. Spiegel Online , August 2, 2015, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  10. ^ Stefan Arthur Wolfsbrunn: Nine Treasures - Arvan Ald Guulin Honshoor. Metal.de, June 23, 2016, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Guido Segers: Interview: Askhan from Nine Treasures. Echoes And Lust, March 10, 2016, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  12. ^ Christoph Kutzer: Nine Treasures - Nine Treasures . Sonic Seducer , July 2017, accessed November 9, 2018 .