Solicide

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Solicide
General information
origin Ghent , Belgium
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 1999
Current occupation
All instruments, vocals
 Lawrence van Haecke

Solicide is a funeral doom band founded in 1999 .

history

Lawrence van Haecke, who among other things recorded the demo 1000 Years as a bass player with Pantheist in the Templa Libitina studio, founded Solicide around 1999. The style of music and the form arose from the subjective need for creative expression. Despite the endeavor to realize itself with Solicide, the project paused repeatedly until early summer 2003. Due to his studies and other obligations, the activity with Solicide was idle at times. From September 2002 to July 2003, van Haecke worked concentrated on the production of his debut album, which he recorded together with Stijn van Cauter in his recording studio Templa Libitina and had it published by the Nulll Records label . Van Haecke contacted van Cauter with the wish to record his debut in his studio. In the process of recording the cooperation intensified and van Cauter became a guest musician on the album Der Untergang des Abendlandes, which was released in August 2003, and offered van Haecke the publishing of the album. The album was only rarely given positive reviews. Scott Wickens' Doom-Metal.com recommends the fall of the West to "anyone who is even remotely interested in Funeral Doom". The album is “not a masterpiece”, but he manages “to create a damn cold and sad atmosphere”. Although van Haecke spoke of a completed writing process for the second album in 2003, it was not published.

concept

Van Haecke described Solicide as a concept band in 2003. The name Solicide means killer of the sun , meanwhile the sun is to be understood here as a synonymous source of light.

"For people there are many 'lights' in their lives, eg the church, the nation, the culture, etc ... All those lights - like the sun - blind people. On the other side, there's darkness. Darkness leaves a person solely with itself. This state is the most rewarding for an individual. It's not herding that does the trick. It's thinking for yourself. "

“For people there are many lights in their lives, for example the church, the nation, the culture, etc. - like the sun - all of these lights blind people. The opposite is the darkness. Darkness leaves a person alone with himself. This state is most desirable for the individual. Art does not come from the herd. It means thinking for yourself. "

- Lawrence van Haecke quoted from Oliver for Doom-Metal.com

With the project he wanted to tell stories that could be subordinated to this rough concept. The title of the debut Der Untergang des Abendlandes refers directly to Oswald Spengler 's book of the same name . Van Haecke calls Spengler an inspiration and refers to Spengler's work in the lyrical design of the debut. With The Downfall of the West , Solicide is dedicated to the named topic. Van Haecke describes Western European society as “a dying culture” that chases after the facts.

style

The music presented by Solicide is considered "hard, bleak and cold" Funeral Doom. The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the style as comparable to genre representatives like Until Death Overtakes Me , Thergothon and Skepticism . Meanwhile, the music is characterized by less ambient background. The lyrics are "solemnly" sung, whispered and growled in French, English, German, Dutch and Italian . The massive and distorted guitar playing sometimes comes close to drone doom . While the music is supplemented by the sound of timpani and church organs and creates "gloomy soundscapes".

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Oliver: Interview with Solicide. Doom-Metal.com, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Scott Wickens: Solicide: The Fall of the Occident. Doom-Metal.com, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Solicide. Doom-Metal.com, accessed May 20, 2020 .