Sympathy
| Sympathy | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Caronport , Canada |
| Genre (s) | Technical death metal , thrash metal |
| founding | 1991 |
| Current occupation | |
| Derek "Dharok" James | |
| former members | |
| Jim Austin | |
Electric guitar |
Jeff Lewis |
Sympathy is a Canadian technical death metal and thrash metal band from Caronport that was founded in 1991.
history
The band was formed in 1991. After all other members had left the band, the founding member Derek "Dharok" James decided to continue the band as a solo project. In the following years, Arrogance and Ignorance (1993), Age of Darkness (1995) and Realms of Chaos (1996) several demos appeared. In 2001 the band signed a contract with the Dutch label Fear Dark . After songs were recorded at Port Trax Studios , the debut album Invocation was released in 2002 . On the second album Arcane Path , which was released in February 2004, Tim Roth and Rob Doherty of Into Eternity The brainchild of Dharok, Sympathy is influenced by such Death Metal acts as early Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation, and such Black Metal acts as The Legion and Dark Funeral. Sympathy is often compared to artists as diverse as Dimmu Borgir and Immolation because Sympathy's sound combines the aggression of Thrash Metal, the brutality of Death Metal, and the abrasiveness of Black Metal. to be heard as a guest musician. In the same year, the band relocated to Toronto . The label Momentum Scandinavia released the EP Abyssal Throne in August 2005 , which had a circulation of 850 copies. Members of Into Eternity can be heard again on the Norwegian label's release, as well as Matt Knowles from Royal Anguish as guest vocalists. During the second half of 2005, Jim Austin joined the cast as a session drummer, who also worked for Into Eternity. Jeff Lewis, who was already working for Mortification , was also added as guitarist . In 2008 the third album Anagogic Tyranny followed .
style
According to the band's Myspace page, the band has been influenced by death metal bands like Morbid Angel , Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation, as well as black metal bands like The Legion and Dark Funeral . Sympathy is often compared to Dimmu Borgir and Immolation . According to Benjamin Feiner of musikreviews.de in his review of Anagogic Tyranny , the band initially played Thrash Metal before moving on to Technical Death Metal . The album is quite brutal, even by technical death metal standards. The use of double bass is characteristic, while the electric guitars come up with “tricky split riffs ” and “twisted solos ”. The singing is aggressive and guttural . Songs like Potter's Field are very slow and are already heading towards Doom Metal . In the songs you can hear influences from Morbid Angel, Dimmu Borgir, Death and Spawn of Possession . The texts would mostly deal with philosophical or Christian topics. According to Reinhold "reini" Reither from stormbringer.at , the band on Anagogic Tyranny plays a technically demanding mixture of death and thrash metal. The songs are brutal and fast and also have black metal influences. The drums are very dominant in the songs, which means that the vocals take a back seat.
Discography
- 1991: Demo (demo, self-published)
- 1993: Arrogance and Ignorance (demo, self-published)
- 1995: Age of Darkness (demo, self-published)
- 1996: Realms of Choas (demo, self-release)
- 2002: Invocation (Album, Fear Dark )
- 2004: Arcane Path (album, Fear Dark)
- 2005: Abyssal Throne (EP, Momentum Scandinavia )
- 2008: Anagogic Tyranny (album, Bombworks Records )
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Benjamin Feiner: Sympathy: Anagogic Tyranny (Review). musikreviews.de, accessed on May 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Biography. (No longer available online.) Musicmight.com, archived from the original on January 30, 2016 ; Retrieved May 3, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ a b About Sympathy. Myspace , archived from the original on January 13, 2009 ; Retrieved May 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Reinhold "reini" Reither: Sympathy - Anagogic Tyranny (CD). stormbringer.at, accessed on May 3, 2015 .
