The Ethereal
| The Ethereal | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Erembodegem , Aalst , Belgium |
| Genre (s) | Funeral doom |
| founding | 2000 |
| Current occupation | |
All instruments, vocals |
Stijn van Cauter |
The Ethereal is a funeral doom project founded by Stijn van Cauter in 2000 .
history
Stijn van Cauter initiated The Ethereal as one of several solo projects. Originally, who with Until Death Overtakes Me and various other Funeral Doom and Dark Ambient projects, popular van Cauter created the legend that The Ethereal had an anonymous main member and that he himself only acted as a guest musician and sound engineer. It later emerged that van Cauter was running the project alone and had also conducted interviews from the perspective of the "mysterious man". Most of the project's releases appeared on van Cauter's label Nulll Records . He released his debut From Funeral Skies on Nulll Records in cooperation with Marche Funebre Productions . The album received a consistently positive reception. From Funeral Skies is an "apocalyptic [s] sound scenario" into which the listener has to "let himself fall". In doing so, van Cauter creates "ominously eerie moods and, thanks to the more than leisurely pace, leaves the listener plenty of time and space to paint their own pictures to the music." Christian Wögerbauer emphasized the atmosphere and mood in his review written for Vampster . In a review of the demo From Funeral Skies , which was later added to the album , for the webzine Doom-Metal.com , Kostas Panagiotou praised the project as "one of the slowest and most extreme Doom troops in human history". For the same webzine, Oscar Strik discussed the album as an “improvement” to the demo with a high “quality difference” that was “by no means redundant”. Elsewhere, the album was praised as a good release in the genre, but it offered “no innovations” in the genre and would “not lead the scene to new innovations”. Despite this limitation, the album has an enormously atmospheric density, it was said in a review written for Metal Crypt, “The Ethereal will undoubtedly reward you with a claustrophobic and intense album that looks deep into the void.” In 2011, van Cauter temporarily stopped the production of further music . Although he has reactivated various projects since 2016, he did not resume activity with The Ethereal for the time being.
style
The music of Beyond Black Void is assigned to the Funeral Doom. The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the style presented with the project as "Ultra-Slow, beyond Heavy with unforgiving bone-dry grunts , a guttural sound that seems to come straight from Hell itself". For further classification, The Ethereal is compared with genre representatives such as Thergothon , Hierophant and Skepticism .
“The thin, almost filigree guitar sound sounds like it comes from a cheap amplifier, while the growls, of which you don't understand anything except long drawn out vowels, pass by like a rumbling end-time thunderstorm. Sometimes piano sounds creep in, which give the grave-digging mood a melancholy note, but remain true to the principle of music - that may mean that it doesn't play more than ten keystrokes per minute ... with a piano solo mind you (Your Creation ). "
Discography
- 2002: From Funeral Skies (demo, self-published)
- 2002: From Funeral Skies (Album, Nulll Records, Marche Funebre Productions)
- 2008: Infra Sub Ultra (split with The Sad Sun and Cold Aeon, Nulll Records)
- 2010: Endlight (download single, Nulll Records)
Web links
- The Ethereal at Doom-Metal.com
- The Ethereal at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Oscar Strik: The Ethereal: From Funeral Skies. Doom-Metal.com, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b The Ethereal. Doom-Metal.com, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ^ A b Christian Wögerbauer: The Ethereal: From Funeral Skies. Vampster, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ^ Kostas Panagiotou: The Ethereal: From Funeral Skies. Doom-Metal.com, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ KwonVerge: The Ethereal: From Funeral Skies. Metalstorm, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Pagan Shadow: The Ethereal: From Funeral Skies. Metalcrypt, accessed May 20, 2020 .