Black Angel (band)

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Black Angel
Black Angel at the M'era Luna Festival 2013
Black Angel at the M'era Luna Festival 2013
General information
Genre (s) Dark Metal , New German Hardness , Symphonic Metal
founding 2007
Website www.schwarzerengel.info
Founding members
Dave Jason
Session members
guitar
 Vincent Hübsch
guitar
 Timo Joos
Bert Oeler
Drums
 Ben Hell
Drums
 Marcel Woitowicz
Drums
 Stefan Dittrich

Schwarzer Engel is a project by the German musician and singer Dave Jason. The music style moves according to his statements between "modern dark metal ", new German hardness and gothic metal .

history

Dave Jason founded Schwarzer Engel in 2007. According to his own account, he got the inspiration for this after seeing an "oversized and threatening angel that flew over a kind of deserted battlefield" in a dream. Conceived as a solo project from the start, Jason took session members Jens Lindmaier (guitar) and Bert Oeler (bass) into the band for live performances. In February 2010 he was able to sign a contract with the renowned Trisol Music Group and recorded the debut album Apocalypse . The mastering was done by Eroc (ex- Grobschnitt ), the album was produced by Jan Vacik . The guest stars include keyboardist Taste ( Diary of Dreams ) and cellist Timon Birkhofer ( Liv Kristine , In Strict Confidence ). The album was released on April 30, 2010. In the May issue of Orkus magazine , the band was voted Newcomer of the Month. At the end of the year, Schwarzer Engel toured with Ahab and The Vision Bleak . At the start of the tour the EP Geister und Demonen was released . At the end of 2010 a new album was announced on the band's official Myspace page.

The title of this second studio album, which was released worldwide in April 2011, is Dreams of a Night , whereupon Alexander Kaschte , head and singer of the also German-language band Samsas Traum , took on a guest vocal part in the piece Fever im Blut . In November 2011, the band's first music video for the title Queen of the Night was released on the YouTube video platform . In 2011/2012 the band performed at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig, the Hexentanz Festival, the Castle Rock Festival in Mülheim an der Ruhr and the Darkstorm Festival.

In March 2013, Schwarzer Engel signed a new record deal with the well-known metal label Massacre Records . At the same time the release of the EP Schwarze Sonne for May 2013 and the third album "In Brennenden Himmeln" for July 2013 were announced. In May 2013 the music video Black Sun celebrated its world premiere on the Orkus! -TV program , which is broadcast on the iM1 channel. A short time later, the video appeared on the band's official YouTube channel and was also included in the programs of online TV stations such as tape.tv.

Well-known guest stars appear on the EP Schwarze Sonne and the album In brennenden Himmeln with opera singer Johanna von Orleans ( E Nomine ), drummer Stefan Dittrich (ex- Mystic Prophecy ) and keyboardist El Friede ( Oomph! ).

As part of the album release, the band performed at the M'era Luna Festival and the Rockharz Open Air . After a joint appearance with ASP in October 2013, the band toured Germany with Eisregen and Debauchery in November and December of that year.

At the end of 2014 the release of the two-part "Imperium" was announced. The first part of Imperium I - In the Realm of the Gods was released worldwide on April 24th, 2015 via Massacre Records. In the festival summer 2015, the band performed at various festivals again at the M'era Luna Festival and accompanied Oomph! as a special guest on their XXV tour. In March 2016, Schwarzer Engel returned to Trisol Music Group and signed a new record deal.

Shortly afterwards, in May 2016, the band performed for the second time at the Leipzig scene festival Wave-Gotik-Treffen , which celebrated a new visitor record with 23,000 visitors. At the same time as the appearance, the EP Götterfunken , limited to 1,000 copies, was released , which is intended to give a first look at the second “Imperium” part “Titania”. July 29, 2016 was announced for the album release of Imperium II - Titania . In the July issue of Orkus magazine , the album was voted “Album of the Month”. In autumn 2016 the band completed a Germany-wide headlining tour for the album. In 2017 the band u. a. at the M'era Luna Festival . In an interview with Orkus magazine , Jason said he had no album release plans for 2017.

In December 2017 the band released the EP Sinnflut , it was the first single for the album Kult der Krähe . After the other single releases Unheil and Gott ist im Regen , the album was released worldwide in February 2018 on the Massacre Records label . At the same time, the band announced a headlining tour for the album in addition to various festival appearances. The music video Crows to Power was released for the release. On June 10, 2019, the band performed again at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen.

Music and lyrics

According to their own information, Schwarzer Engel plays a modern form of dark metal. The influences range from melodic death metal to symphonic metal to classical music , which can be seen in orchestral passages. Jason names Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir as influences , bands like Rammstein and ASP are also clearly recognizable as influences. Although the style of music is more based on metal, it is also received in the black scene.

The texts are very gloomy and deal with socially critical topics as well as legends and natural phenomena. The gloom of the texts can be specifically linked to the motifs of night and death. The night is explicitly mentioned in Ghosts and Demons , Dream of a Night , Lullaby (stillborn) , Queen of the Night and Midnight . On the debut album, the theme of the end of the world runs like a red thread through the lyrics. Religious and metaphysical themes also play a major role on the following albums , for example in Half God , Black Sun , The Wrath of God and Hymn for Death . In addition, questions about the ego and personality are often asked. Examples of this are Divided into Two , Half God and Psychopath .

Discography

Albums

  • 2010: Apocalypse (CD; Trisol Music Group )
  • 2011: Dreams of a Night (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2013: In Burning Heavens (CD; Massacre Records / Soulfood )
  • 2015: Imperium I - In the realm of the gods (CD; Massacre Records / Soulfood)
  • 2016: Imperium II - Titania (CD / LP ; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2018: Cult of the Crow (CD / LP; Massacre Records / Soulfood)

EPs

  • 2010: Ghosts and Demons (CD; Trisol Music Group)
  • 2013: Schwarze Sonne (CD; Massacre Records / Soulfood)
  • 2016: Götterfunken (CD; darkTunes Music Group)
  • 2017: Sinnflut (CD; Massacre Records / Soulfood)

Singles

  • 2013: Psych-Path (2xMP3; Massacre Records)
  • 2018: Unheil (MP3; Massacre Records)
  • 2018: God is in the Rain (MP3; Massacre Records)

Music videos

  • 2011: Queen of the Night (Director: Maximilian Schwarz)
  • 2013: Black Sun with Johanna von Orleans (Director: Maximilian Schwarz)
  • 2016: Ride of the Dead (Director: Maximilian Schwarz)
  • 2018: Crows to Power (Director: Maximilian Schwarz)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/sengelofficial
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Dieter Hübing: Better a metal ax than a Gothic curse. Interview with Dave Jason . In: Legacy . No. 66 (May / June), 2010, pp. 66 .
  3. ↑ Axel Schön: "Why shouldn't there be a proper celebration when the world is going to end?" Interview with Black Angel . In: Orkus . No. 05 /06 (May / June), 2010 S. 40 .
  4. ↑ SCHWARZER ENGEL - New signing with Massacre Records. Massacre Records, accessed March 18, 2013 .
  5. ↑ SCHWARZER ENGEL: Publish "Black Sun" video clip. www.time-for-metal.eu, accessed on June 24, 2013 .
  6. ↑ "Imperium II - Titania - Album of the Month". In: Orkus . No. 07/08 (July / August), 2016, p. 72 .
  7. ↑ M'era Luna History , accessed November 24, 2019.
  8. ↑ Orkus: "Outlook 2017". Interview with Black Angel . In: Orkus . No. 02 (February), 2017, p. 18 .
  9. ↑ BLACK ANGEL - Crows to power. Orkus.de, accessed on February 24, 2018 .
  10. ↑ The Leipzig Guide to the Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2019 on leipzig.travel, accessed on November 24, 2019.
  11. ↑ BLACK ANGEL - Apocalypse. Hurricane Rock, archived from the original on August 27, 2010 ; Retrieved July 20, 2010 .
  12. ↑ a b Björn Springorum: "Which doesn't mean that it always has to take two years". Interview with Black Angel . In: Orkus . No. 07/08 (July / August), 2010, pp. 134 .