The Doomsday Kingdom
| The Doomsday Kingdom | |
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 The Doomsday Kingdom at Roadburn Festival 2017 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Stockholm , Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Doom metal , heavy metal |
| founding | 2015 |
| Current occupation | |
initially all instruments, vocals , now electric bass
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Leif "The Doomfather" Edling |
| Andreas "Habo" Johansson | |
| Marcus Jidell | |
| Niklas Stålvind | |
The Doomsday Kingdom is a Swedish heavy and doom metal band from Stockholm that was founded in 2015.
history
The band was founded in 2015 by Leif Edling , also founder of the Candlemass group . Edling had decided to found it during his stay in the underground quarries of Paris , with the uncertain future of Candlemass also being a factor in the founding of The Doomsday Kingdom. As a singer he initially wanted to win his musician friend Janne "JB" Christoffersson from Grand Magus , but since he had no time, Niklas Stålvind took over this position. In October 2016, the signing of the contract with Nuclear Blast was announced, after which the EP Never Machine was released in November . The group's self-titled debut album followed in March 2017. The album reached the charts in Belgium in niederländischsprachigem ( Flanders ) the 148th and the French-speaking part ( Wallonia to 118th place). The album was nominated in the same year at the Metal Hammer Awards in the category "Best Debut", but lost to Dool . In 2017 the group was also active live, their debut concert at the Roadburn Festival .
style
Andreas Schiffmann from Rock Hard wrote in his review of Never Machine that the music is classically heavy and gloomy and the difference to the song material from Edling's other projects such as Krux or Avatarium is barely recognizable. Stylistically, the music can be classified between Candlemass at the time of the album Dactylis Glomerata , Edel's other project Abstract Algebra and Candlemass at the time of Messiah Marcolin , based on Niklas Stålvind's singing. Four issues later, Boris Kaiser reviewed the debut album and found it difficult to tell the difference between the song material from The Doomsday Kingdom, Krux, Candlemass and Avatarium. He described the music on the album as "wonderfully composed, often doomy, also strong and powerfully produced heavy metal". He also saw it as a mixture of Scandinavian metal from the 1990s: a little abstract algebra, Memento Mori , Memory Garden and a little Veni Domine . One issue later, Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach described the album's music as a mixture of the Epic Doom of Candlemass with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal of the 1980s. In an interview with him, Edling stated that he was a fan of the first wave of British heavy metal and bands like the early Iron Maiden , Angel Witch , Venom , old Accept , Anvil , Dio , Ozzy Osbourne and Witchfynde , which he tried to work in The Doomsday Kingdom. Katrin Riedl from Metal Hammer also reviewed the album. It is better composed than the previous EP and also more energetic. The album borders “between doomy Depri tones and lively heavy metal”. The songs are mainly shaped by Olsson's vocals and Edling's ideas.
Discography
- 2016: Never Machine (EP, Nuclear Blast )
- 2017: The Doomsday Kingdom (Album, Nuclear Blast)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM. nuclearblast.de, accessed on January 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Uwe "Buffo" Schnädelbach: The Doomsday Kingdom . News from the institution. In: Rock Hard . No. 360 , May 2017, p. 48 f .
- ↑ THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM - sign to Nuclear Blast; new EP out in November. nuclearblast.de, accessed on January 6, 2018 .
- ↑ The Doomsday Kingdom - The Doomsday Kingdom. ultratop.be, accessed January 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Wookubus: Winners Revealed For 2017 German 'Metal Hammer Awards'. theprp.com, accessed January 6, 2018 .
- ^ The Doomsday Kingdom. roadburn.com, accessed January 6, 2018 .
- ^ Andreas Schiffmann: The Doomsday Kingdom . Never machine. In: Rock Hard . No. 355 , December 2016.
- ↑ Boris Kaiser: The Doomsday Kingdom . The Doomsday Kingdom. In: Rock Hard . No. 359 , April 2017, p. 85 .
- ↑ Katrin Riedl: The Doomsday Kingdom . The Doomsday Kingdom. In: Metal Hammer . April 2017, p. 91 .