Suffering Hour (band)
| Suffering hour | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Minneapolis , Minnesota , United States |
| Genre (s) | Progressive Metal , Death Metal , Thrash Metal |
| founding | around 2009 as Compassion Dies |
| Current occupation | |
| Dylan "DgS" Haseltine | |
Drums , vocals |
Jason "IsN" Oberuc |
Electric guitar , vocals |
Josh "YhA" Raiken |
| former members | |
Electric guitar, vocals |
E. Älssen aka E. Drizzle |
Suffering Hour is an American progressive death and thrash metal band from Minneapolis , Minnesota , which was founded around 2009 under the name Compassion Dies .
history
The band was founded around 2009 under the name Compassion Dies, the band name being taken from the lyrics of a song that was included on the Anacrusis album Reason . While the band tried to form a live line-up, the line-up changed: Since 2011, it has consisted of bassist and singer Dylan "DgS" Haseltine, drummer and singer Jason "IsN" Oberuc and guitarist and singer Josh "YhA" Raiken . After the band, which had already gained live experience, changed their name to Suffering Hour, the EP Foreseeing Exemptions to a Dismal Beyond was released in 2014 . The band name refers to the Anacrusis debut album of the same name . The band justified the renaming with a changed style of their music. Through the EP and through a friend of Oberuc's, Ula Gehret, the label Blood Harvest Records became aware of the band, about which the debut album In Passing Ascension was released in May 2017 . The album was written in eight months to a year, recorded within six months, and mixed within another four months.
style
According to Kevin Stewart-Panko of decibelmagazine.com , Foreseeing Exemptions to a Dismal Beyond contains a progressive mixture of Thrash and Death Metal, before turning to a mixture of Black and Death Metal on the debut album. Sebastian Schilling from Rock Hard was given In Passing Ascension "progressive yet accessible Death Metal in old-school sound garb". He described the music on the album as a mixture of Deathspell Omega , Inquisition and early, Thrash Metal-heavy Death Metal, which Haseltine found appropriate in an interview with him. Both modern and early death metal bands would be considered influences, whereby one tries "to dress black metal influences in a dark death metal garb". Schilling also noted that the group has sounded darker and more malicious since the name change. According to Oberuc, the band performs with Corpsepaint . Haseltine also added that the group does not orient itself on occult topics, but rather deal with a variety of topics and emotions, "which are metaphorically designed in such a way that they support the overall picture". Schilling had previously reviewed In Passing Ascension . The tonality of the album reminds of Death Metal bands such as Immolation and Deathspell Omega, but the riffs are untypical of Death Metal, rather Raiken's playing is "more introspective". Avoid comprehensible song structures and repetitions, but do not claim to irritate or provoke the listener. The drums tend to be in the background. Stephan Möller from Metal.de also reviewed the album and described the music as a disharmonious mixture of black and death metal. They can also be described as a mix of Sulfur Aeon and Bölzer as well as Icelandic black metal bands such as Svartidauði and Sinmara . The album invites you to let yourself fall into it and let the band take you "into the timeless, arcane, obscure eons and dimensions sung in reference to Lovecraft ".
Discography
- than Compassion Dies
- 2012: Pre-Production Sampler Demo (demo, self-release)
- 2012: Cybernetic World (demo, self-publication)
- as suffering hour
- 2014: Foreseeing Exemptions to a Dismal Beyond (EP, Tridroid Records )
- 2017: In Passing Ascension (Album, Blood Harvest Records )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Sebastian Schilling: Suffering Hour . You still have to learn a lot! In: Rock Hard . No. 363 , August 2017, p. 78 .
- ↑ a b Kevin Stewart-Panko: Suffering Hour Song Premiere and Interview. decibelmagazine.com, accessed September 9, 2018 .
- ^ Sebastian Schilling: Suffering Hour . In Passing Ascension. In: Rock Hard . No. 362 , July 2017, p. 81 .
- ^ Stephan Möller: Suffering Hour - In Passing Ascension. Metal.de , accessed on September 9, 2018 .