Old Graves
| Old Graves | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Abbotsford , Canada |
| Genre (s) | Black metal |
| founding | 2013 |
| resolution | approx 2017 |
| Founding members | |
| Colby Hink | |
Old Graves were a Canadian black metal band. Responsible and only band member was "Jack of all trades" Colby Hink. Origin is Abbotsford in British Columbia .
history
Old Graves was founded in 2013.
The band's first musical sign of life was a simple split with “Old Graves / Paths” - EP with “Paths”, which was released in 2014 via No Sleep Till Megiddo Records . The same label was also responsible for the follow-up EP Like Straining Boughs that year .
The third work This Ruin Beneath Snowfall from 2015 was also an EP. Old Graves was able to win three music labels for this - Vendetta Records for the LP and Naturmacht Productions for the CD . The rights for the cassette were secured by the French label Wulfrune Worxxx , whose publication history includes a. Find records by Andras , Vinterriket , Winterblut and Woman Is the Earth .
The only studio album to date, Long Shadows , was released in 2016. With Vendetta Records (LP) and Naturmacht Productions (CD), Old Graves was able to maintain business relationships with two of three labels that had been active immediately before.
No announcement was made regarding an official end of the band. The band's own website was only closed towards the end of 2016 / beginning of 2017.
style
The EP This Ruin Beneath Snowfall said at one point that Old Graves played "atmospheric (post) black metal ". In Vampster were as tags Black and post-metal used.
Discography
- 2014: Old Graves / Paths ( Split - EP with Paths, No Sleep Till Megiddo Records )
- 2014: Like Straining Boughs (EP, No Sleep Till Megiddo Records)
- 2015: This Ruin Beneath Snowfall ( Vendetta Records , Naturmacht Productions , Wulfrune Worxxx )
- 2016: Long Shadows (Vendetta Records, Naturmacht Productions)
Web links
- Official website ( Memento of March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Old Graves at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Peters: OLD GRAVES-LONG SHADOWS. In: crossfire-metal.de. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Alex Melzer: Old Graves - This Ruin Beneath Snowfall. In: metal-observer.com. July 29, 2015, accessed November 6, 2019 .
- ^ Moritz Grütz: Old Graves - The Ruin Beneath Snowfall. In: metal1.info. August 12, 2015, accessed November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ empty start page of the official website ( Memento from April 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Grid: Old Graves - This Ruin Beneath Snowfall. In: bleeding4metal.de. June 29, 2015, accessed November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Christian Wögerbauer: OLD GRAVES: Track and details of the new EP. In: vampster.com. April 5, 2015, accessed November 6, 2019 .