Soul winter

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soul winter
General information
origin Guestrow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Genre (s) Thrash metal , progressive metal
founding 1987 as an eccentric
resolution 1996 or later
Last occupation
Frank Bohnes
Holger Berndt
Dirk Grabow
initially vocals , later also electric guitar
 Olaf Schultz

Seelenwinter was a German progressive and thrash metal band from Güstrow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , which was founded in 1987 under the name Excenter , shortly afterwards renamed itself to Damien Breed and then changed to the name Seelenwinter before it changed around 1996 dissolved.

history

The band was founded in 1987 under the name Excenter. Shortly thereafter, she renamed herself Damien Breed. After the release of an album and an EP, the group renamed itself again, this time in Seelenwinter. She then reached a recording deal with Massacre Records , about which a self-titled album was released in 1995, which was followed by If Souls Turn into Flesh in 1996 . At the end of 1996 the group went on tour for the first time, in which Vicious Rumors also took part. After a few days, a driver drove into the band's van. The singer and guitarist Olaf Schultz then climbed behind the guardrail of the street. He did not notice that they were on a bridge and fell down. He suffered several broken bones. The band later broke up.

style

According to Andreas Schöwe ​​from Metal Hammer , the band played classic heavy metal with speed metal influences in their early days . After that, she devoted herself more to Speed ​​Metal, occasionally allowing progressive Thrash Metal passages to flow in. The demo The Fear in the Neck shows slight influences from Motörhead and also sounds a lot like old Exciter and Helloween as well as Fates Warning . The songs are in English, except for the song Wölfe , which deals with the neo-Nazi problem, and is in German to make the lyrics easier to understand. Schöwe ​​described the music on the Damien Breed album Ave Satani as a melodic mixture of speed and thrash metal and named Mercyful Fate , Testament and rough Motörhead as reference bands . According to Volker Raabe from Metal Hammer , the first song called 7 Second Anguish on the album Seelenwinter Metal is comparable to Mercyful Fate, otherwise there is a melodic mixture of Thrash and Doom Metal with slight Progressive Metal influences. According to Matthias Mineur from Metal Hammer , the band played fine-knit progressive metal on If Soul Turns into Flesh , in which influences from classical and Latin American music are processed, which is reminiscent of groups like Fates Warning, Eloy and Anyone's Daughter . By changing the name to Seelenwinter, according to Holger Stratmann in the Rock Hard Encyclopedia , the band tried to move away from raw Thrash Metal. Although this can still be heard on the self-titled album, on If Soul Turns into Flesh it has given way to Progressive Metal. According to Martin Popoff in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties , the band captured the mood of bands like the Scorpions in 1976 or Lucifer's Friend on the album . The music sounds like a mixture of Amorphis , Type O Negative and Golden Earring .

Discography

as Damien Breed
  • 1990: Fear in the Neck (demo, self-published)
  • 1991: The Sign (demo, self-published)
  • 1991: Permanent Paralyzed (demo, self-published)
  • 1993: Ave Satani (album, Battery Records )
  • 1994: Seelenwinter (EP, Tepa Records )
as soul winter
  • 1995: Seelenwinter (Album, Massacre Records )
  • 1996: If Soul Turns into Flesh (Album, Massacre Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Schöwe: Damien Breed . ... so that metal does not die out in the north !!! In: Metal Hammer . October 1990, p. 142 .
  2. ↑ a b Holger Stratmann: Rock Hard Encyclopedia . ROCK HARD GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 364 .
  3. ^ Andreas Schöwe: Damien Breed . Ave Satani. In: Metal Hammer . May 1994, p. 107 .
  4. ↑ Volker Raabe: Winter of Souls . Soul winter. In: Metal Hammer . March 1995, p. 53 .
  5. ^ Matthias Mineur: Winter of Souls . If Soul Turns into Flesh. In: Metal Hammer . September 1996, p. 57 .
  6. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 390 .