SLOW (band)

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SLOW
General information
origin Mons , Belgium
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 2007
Current occupation
All instruments, vocals
 Olmo "Déhà" Lipani
Vocals, bass, concept, text
 Lore Boeykens

SLOW ( acronym : English S ilence L ives O ut / O ver W hirlpool ) is a funeral doom band founded in 2007 .

history

SLOW was founded in 2007 by the musician Olmo "Déhà" Lipani ( Imber Luminis , God Eat God , Deos ) as an instrumental Funeral Doom project. Until the production process of the fourth studio album IV - Mythologiæ , Lipani acted as the sole member of the project. The fifth album V - Oceans Lore Boeykens joined the band as a writer and contributed so well to revise the 2015 already published album IV - Mythologiae as IV - Mythologiae (re-recording) at. Since then, Boeykens has been part of the project. For the sixth album VI - Dantalion , she also got involved as a singer and musician.

The first publications of the project were self-published. Only with the third studio album, III - Gaïa , released in 2013, was the project supported by an independent label . Since then, SLOW has cooperated with Silent Time Noise , GS Productions and Code666 Records , a subcontractor of Aural Music . The reception of the music of the one-man project was largely low in the first few years. The early work was hardly noticed internationally. With the re-release of the fifth studio album V - Oceans in 2018 via the Aural Music sub-label Code666, perception changed. Positive reviews in webzines like Metal.de , Angrymetalguy, Metal1.info, Hell is Open, Your Last Rites, Ghost Cult Mag, The Obelisk, Hellfire Magazine and music magazines like Sonic Seducer , Rock Hard or Metal Hammer testified to an increased recognition and perception beyond the limits of the funeral genre. Subsequent publications were also given more attention.

style

The music played by SLOW is assigned to Funeral Doom. The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the music as “grandiose soundscapes in which despair and beauty meet.” So the music is “majestic and deep”. In other discussions, the music is often assigned similar attributes. The Howling Void is listed on Doom-Metal.com as a comparative benchmark . Elsewhere, however, comparisons are made with Colosseum and Ahab . With a reference to the term Nautik Funeral Doom coined by Ahab, Peter Mildner describes the music presented by SLOW on V - Oceans in a review written for Metal.de .

“'V - Oceans' is characterized by a constant dynamic of acoustic ebb and flow, in which leads of the most lonely melodies floating over roaring waves alternate with brute, collapsing reef violence and dramatic key carpets and the cryptic growls of Déhàs as depression turned into sound enthroned everything. If the term "Nautical Funeral Doom" hadn't been coined long ago, SLOW would be the hottest contender. "

- Peter Mildner about V - Oceans on Metal.de

Discography

  • 2007: Demo I (demo, self-published)
  • 2009: I - Silence Lives Out / Over Whirlpool (album, self-published, re-released via Satanarsa Records )
  • 2011: II - Deeper in the Space, Higher in the Ocean (album, self-published, re-released via Satanarsa Records )
  • 2013: III - Gaïa (album, Silent Time Noise)
  • 2015: IV - Mythologiæ (Album, GS Productions)
  • 2016: IV - Mythologiæ (Ambient) (album, self-published)
  • 2017: V - Oceans (Album, GS Productions)
  • 2019: IV - Mythologiæ (Re-recording) (Album, Code666 Records)
  • 2019: VI - Dantalion (Album, Code666 Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Mildner: SLOW: V - Oceans. Metal.de, accessed on November 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Master of Muppets: SLOW: V - Oceans. Angrymetalguy, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Moritz Grütz: SLOW: V - Oceans. Metal1.info, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Alucard: SLOW: V - Oceans. Hell is Open, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  5. ^ Manny-O-War: SLOW: V - Oceans. Your Last Rites, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Tim Ledin: SLOW: V - Oceans. Ghost Cult Mag, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ JJ Koczan: SLOW: V - Oceans. The Obelisk, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Marco Gräff: SLOW: V - Oceans. Hellfire Magazine, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  9. ^ A b Markus Eck: SLOW: V - Oceans. Sonic Seducer, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Andreas Schiffmann: SLOW: V - Oceans. Rock Hard, accessed November 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Melanie Aschenbrenner: SLOW: V - Oceans. Metal Hammer. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b SLOW. Doom-Metal.com, accessed November 27, 2019 .