Soul in Sadness

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Soul in Sadness
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General information
Genre (s) skirt
founding 2000
resolution 2010
Website http://www.soulinsadness.de/
Last occupation
Stefan Siegl
Anton Gleißner
Julia Siegl (née Hähnel) (from 2004)
Max Gröger (from 2004)
Michael Cirak (from 2009)
former members
Maly Baar (2002-2004)
Daniel Friedrich (2006-2009)

Soul in Sadness was a band from Regensburg that was founded in 2000 and broke up in 2010. Band head Stefan Siegl had already produced two demos, but they had little to do with later work. Since the uniform band name was only agreed in 2002, the names SIS or SiS can still be found on some compilations from 2002 and 2003.

Stylistic classification

Musically, the band moved between rock and electronic pop music . The integration of Anton Gleißner's flute playing was characteristic of the sound; however, an exact classification is difficult. The sound of the first album "Sehnsucht nach dem Licht" is reminiscent of synth pop productions with the occasional use of guitars, but without typical Gothic sounds. The second album "Auf Sehnsucht Follow Disenchantment" is dominated by the then current electro sound in the style of bands like L'Âme Immortelle or Seelenkrank , but also contains an acoustic track and a metal number. "ZwischenWelt" is by and large an alternative rock album, which in parts gets by without any electronics and only uses a drum computer .

Typical for the lyrics of Soul in Sadness was a contradiction that was probably deliberately distributed over the albums. This becomes particularly clear on the ZwischenWelt album. Here, for example, the song "Game of Life" has been revised (line of text: " If life were just a game, I wouldn't play it " in the song "Dead Souls Don't Love") and the final sentence from "Longing follows disenchantment" (" (...) I am still human ") formulated into a complete song (" I am still human ") - but with a clearly positive orientation.

history

The beginnings

The first works were created entirely independently until 2002 and were mainly distributed via the Internet. In 2002 a live concert took place for the first time with the north German band DoNotDream . On their second appearance, the duo won a newcomer competition, the award of which included a double page in a trendy magazine and a day of recording with the music producer Bruno Kramm . This was enough for Martin Sprissler to offer the young and inexperienced troupe a record deal at the end of 2002.

2003 - 2004 - the two "Sehnsucht" albums

The black and romantic debut "Sehnsucht nach dem Licht" was released in June 2003 on the indie label UpScene. It was received by the press with very different voices, although the scene hit "Fernweh" is worth mentioning, which was subsequently released again and again on samplers. Regardless of the conflicting press opinion, Soul in Sadness gained a considerable number of fans on concert tours throughout Germany. The follow-up work "Desperation follows disillusionment" followed in November 2004, which on the one hand had an emphatically electronic and aggressive sound and on the other was the first step away from black romanticism. Soul in Sadness also emphasized that "Disenchantment" was no longer a black and romantic work, but rather a correction of the first album. Only "Juliet" and "Nur Lüge" were released on samplers as the only two ballads on the album, the more aggressive part ignored again. Stefan Siegl repeatedly expressed his displeasure with this fact on the band blog.

2005 - fight

After the end of the collaboration with UpScene, there was a change to the Bayreuth label Danse Macabre . A new work was announced for the following autumn, but for unknown reasons it was not published. The only sign of life in 2005 was the online single "Kampf", which was created in collaboration with the Berlin artist Alexander Ellmer.

2006 - 2007

Initially announced under the working title Sehnsucht III , the new album was premiered in parts in September 2006 and received its final name with Zwischenwelt . Nevertheless, the date for completion has been postponed again and again without an official release date being set. Live activities were also reduced to a minimum, as a result of which the fan base continued to thin out, not least due to a lack of publications. It was only announced in the scene magazine Negatief that the new album - equipped with a new, more natural sound with only the sporadic use of synthesizers - dealt thematically with the turmoil of the perishing soul in the mechanical world.

2008 - ZwischenWelt

The release date for the expected album "ZwischenWelt" finally fell on October 2008. The first reviews were positive. Later, in addition to the physical release, the album was also offered for free download under a " Creative Commons " license. The band commented on this on their blog and stated that they had taken this step because "ZwischenWelt" was already illegally available from several hosters and file sharing sites. As a result of this new approach, the "Gute Namen EP" from 2009 was offered exclusively free and digitally. The preferred portals here were Jamendo and Last.fm .

2010 - the end

The band members separated in 2010. The separation was not explained in more detail, except for the reference "There is nothing more to say about it that has not already been written here at some point. (...) where (as usual) the question arises how much sense this last (ZwischenWelt) album made, which split our fans and pushed us to the edge of irrelevance. " Previously, problems with being able to go on tour were repeatedly mentioned in news articles.

Relationship to fan videos

On April 8, 2009, the band published a VLog on YouTube and MySpaceVideo in which Stefan Siegl spoke very vigorously about the use of the band's music in "picture collages". He denied the majority of the published mash-ups creativity, topicality and the benefit as a promotion for the band. At the same time, he promised to refrain from legal action and put his statements into perspective in a later VLog, as he had not yet given up hope .

Discography

Albums

  • 2003: Longing for light
  • 2004: Longing is followed by disenchantment
  • 2008: Between World
  • 2012: Here and Alive (new scoring & remixes)

Demos

  • 2000: Sins and Servants (as SiS)
  • 2001: Love's a Game, Love's a Lie (as SiS)
  • 2002: Pure Sadness (as SiS - Soul in Sadness)

Online singles

  • 2005: fight!
  • 2008: EAST 2008
  • 2009: Good Names EP

Remixes

  • 2005: Seasons in Black - Bloody Tears
  • 2006: The I - breathless
  • 2008: PTYL - Hand Of Our Kind
  • 2010: Cycle: N: - Soul burns
  • 2010: Black Fragment - Iron Heart
  • 2011: Metal Sniffer Dogs - Under Your Spell

Sampler contributions

  • 2002: Extreme Hereafter Hymns 3 (with "Wanderlust")
  • 2003: Cain's children (with "blood or roses")
  • 2003: Extreme Hereafter Hymns 2 + 4 (with "Nights Will Come and Go")
  • 2003: Night owls 6 (with "wanderlust")
  • 2003: Extreme Clubhits VIII (with "Too Short Eternity")
  • 2004: Gothic Compilation Part XXVI (with "Nur Lüge")
  • 2004: Extreme Hereafter 5 (with "Juliet")
  • 2004: Caleidolex (with "Wanderlust")
  • 2005: Danse Macabre Vol. 3 (with "Let the sun in your heart")
  • 2005: Extreme Traumfänger 4 (with "Nur Lüge")
  • 2005: The Living Scene (with "Nur Lüge")
  • 2007: Nerodom - Compilation 2007 (with "Fernweh")
  • 2008: Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 88 (with "Dead Souls Don't Love")
  • 2009: Dark Alliance Vol. 2 (with "Between Here and Life")

Trivia

The musicians of the band are or were active in many other projects in addition to their work at Soul in Sadness:

Max Gröger has the Regensburg ambient band Human vs. Machine set up Daniel Friedrich Bayreuth synth rock band cycle: N: . Stefan Siegl, who is also a guitarist with Transit Poetry , also plays in both . Siegl was on tour as a temporary keyboarder with Das Ich in autumn 2006 . Anton Gleißner is a member of the St. Anton concert choir in Regensburg and bassist in the trip-hop project PrayForRavens. Michael Cirak is also the singer and guitarist of his own band Shattershell.

After the breakup, Cirak, Gröger and Siegl founded the metal band Terrateya, which Siegl left in 2012. He can still be heard as a singer on their first album.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Soul in Sadness - Longing for Light ( Memento of December 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 25, 2008
  2. ↑ Statement on the band's romantic repertoire ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 27, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.myspace.com
  3. ↑ Kramm, Tina, Soul in Sadness. Im Kokon der Traurigkeit, p. 31 ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 26, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / negatief.eurogothic.com
  4. ↑ Announcement that ZwischenWelt will also be distributed under CreativeCommons ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 2, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.myspace.com
  5. ↑ Announcement of the dissolution on soulinsadness.de, accessed on April 29, 2010
  6. ↑ Report in the Stormbringer magazine
  7. ↑ 2. VLog - an update from Soul in Sadness