The Cold View

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The Cold View
General information
origin Darmstadt , Germany
Genre (s) Funeral Doom , Drone Doom
founding 2011
Website www.thecoldview.com
Current occupation
Instruments, vocals
 Andreas 'AAS' Schmidt

The Cold View is a drone and funeral doom band founded in 2011 .

history

The Cold View is a one-person project by Andreas Schmidt. The musician, who mostly works under the initials AAS, founded the project in November 2011 with the intention from November 2011 to March 2012 to compose one piece of music every month to create a winter album. The first recordings were made in the experiment with the possibilities of sound generation and modulation of his Linux operating system . After the first piece was completed and recorded, the effort arose to capture the subjective experiences of the current winter. The debut and concept album Weeping Winter emerged from the recordings, which was first released in September 2012 and re-released in 2014 by GS Productions . Even before it was re-released, the album, which was offered for free download via Bandcamp and the project's homepage, received positive international feedback. AAS borrowed the band name from a saying by Nietzsche, which he describes as pure realism, a rejection of morality and judgment. This would provide the ability to see absolute truth without emotional human limitations. However, this cold look is only possible for a few moments for people with a tendency towards social warmth.

"I think all these aspects can be found in my music. The coldness and bleakness that gets interrupted by some warm moments of hope. The strain that is connected with taking the 'cold view'. My music definitely is no easy listening. "

“I think all of these aspects can be found in my music. The cold and desolation broken by a few warm moments of hope. The stress associated with the 'cold look'. My music is definitely not easy to hear. "

- AAS quoted from Mike Liassides

The debut was followed by other publications that followed the conceptual ideological background. In addition to GS Productions, AAS cooperated with Endless Winter and Frozen Light Records to release its music . In 2015, The Cold View released the split EP Songs of Deepest Skies together with the French one-person project Abysmal Growls of Despair . In the meantime, Kostas Panagiotou invited AAS to participate in the multimedia pantheist project Events . With the two albums following their debut, Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste and Wounds , The Cold View completed an album trilogy in which, according to the band's name, the cold view is applied to different circumstances. After the introspective of the debut, Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste was followed by a cold look at the world to complete the trilogy with Wounds as an application of the cold look to other people. However, the creation was not initially planned as a trilogy. For the recordings of Wounds , AAS used complementary guest musicians for the first time. The fourth album Born Banished Beaten Broken Buried , mixed and mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Studios, moved away from the previous conceptual framework of the project. AAS describes this album as another concept album, but this time about existential questions; to be alive after the cycle of life and death, isolation in individual existence and suffering.

reception

The debut Weeping Winter already received positive international feedback. The webzine Doom-Metal.com and the music magazine Decibel responded to the debut with short interviews. Further webzines provided the album with reviews and rated Weeping Winter like Chronicles of Chaos with 7 out of 10 possible points or Metalglory.de with 8 out of 10 possible points. With Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste , published via The Endless Winter , The Cold View achieved a broader international reception, which was just as positive as that of the debut. The reviewers described the album as oppressive, gloomy, oppressive and depressed. In a mediocre assessment, which Andreas Schiffmann wrote for the webzine Musikreviews.de, he described the album as "pure mood music and as such dependent on the recipient's condition." The response to Wounds remained consistently positive. "Listening to the album is expected to be laborious and requires patience, because the sound modulations [...] are so subtle that you are forced to let yourself go." Was the verdict of Schiffmann in a review written again for Musikreviews.de. Other reviews praised the album “Borders” would be “musically duped to maltreat the listener's emotions and mental life despite all the disturbance. But it is precisely this musical decay, which can also come up with pleasantly harmonic passages, that makes a multifaceted and expressive album. ”Mike Liassides from Doom-Metal.com wrote that the album is even to be recommended if the potential listener has no inclination towards Funeral Doom owned. With Born Banished Beaten Broken Buried the reactions remained positive, but the number of reviews written for the self-published album fell. Stefan Arthur Wolfsbrunn praised Born Banished Beaten Broken Buried for the Webzine Metal.de : "The album marks the best album in the catalog so far and has increased significantly in terms of sound and artwork, without scratching the previous strengths of atmosphere and slowness." Riccardo Veronese also praised in a review written for Doom-Metal.com as "another dark masterpiece from The Cold View".

style

The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the music played by The Cold View as "a mixture of drone and funeral doom with influences from noise and industrial." The music is "dark, dark and brutal" and conveys a desperate and depressed atmosphere. In the review written for the last album, Stefan Arthur Wolfsbrunn describes the music as the slowest "Funeral Doom with deep guttural vocals and skillful use of the keyboard with slightly lounge-like borrowings from BOHREN AND THE CLUB OF GORE ", but this combination has been a permanent feature of the project since the debut album . Andreas Schiffmann describes the music as "Keyboard-heavy Funeral Doom".

“The slow pace and the unnaturally distorted guitars, together with the abnormally deep 'growls', create a sonic picture of devastation. […] To top it all off, we are, against the universally conveyed apocalyptic mood, occasionally with coherent keyboard interludes [sic !] again drawn from the existential low. "

- Markus V. on Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste for the webzine Zephyr's Odem

Discography

  • 2012: Weeping Winter (album, self-published, re-release 2014 via GS Productions)
  • 2014: Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste (Album, Endless Winter)
  • 2015: Songs of Deepest Skies (Split EP with Abysmal Growls of Despair, Frozen Light Records)
  • 2017: Wounds (Album, GS Productions)
  • 2019: Born Banished Beaten Broken Buried (album, self-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d doom-metal.com: Quick introductory interview: Interview with The Cold View. doom-metal.com, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Mike Liassides: Interview with The Cold View. doom-metal.com, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b A.AS: Music. The Cold View, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  4. ^ Daniel Lake: Throw Me a Frickin 'Label Hack: The Cold View. Decibel, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  5. ^ Dan Lake: The Cold View: Weeping Winter. Chronicles of Chaos, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ gelal: The Cold View: Weeping Winter. Metalglory, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ evil oli: The Cold View: Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste. Under Grounded, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  8. ^ Dan Lake: The Cold View: Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste. Chronicles of Chaos, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Markus V .: The Cold View: Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste. Zephyr's Odem, Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Mike Liassides: The Cold View: Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Andreas Schiffmann: The Cold View: Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste. Musikreviews.de, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  12. ^ Andreas Schiffmann: The Cold View: Wounds. Musikreviews.de, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  13. ↑ of Ni: The Cold View: Wounds. Zephyr's Odem, Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Mike Liassides: The Cold View: Wounds. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  15. ↑ a b Stefan Arthur Wolfsbrunn: The Cold View: Born Banished Beaten Broken Buried. Metal.de, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Riccardo Veronese: The Cold View: Born Banished Beaten Broken Buried. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  17. ^ The Cold View. doom-metal.com, accessed March 9, 2020 .