The slow death

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The slow death
General information
origin Springwood , New South Wales , Australia
Genre (s) Funeral Doom , Death Doom , Gothic Metal
founding 2007
Current occupation
E-bass (until 2012) ,
drums
(until 2010) , guitar, keyboard, vocals
 Stuart Prickett
Keyboard, vocals
 Mandy Andresen
Drums
 Yonn McLaughlin (since 2010)
Electric bass
 Dan Garcia (since 2012)
singing
 Gamaliel (since 2015)
former members
singing
 Gregg Williamson † (until 2014)
guitar
 Brett Campbell (2012-2015)

The Slow Death is a Gothic Metal and Funeral Doom band founded in 2007 .

history

Stuart Prickett from Illimitable Dolor , Mandy Andresen from Murkrat and Gregg Williamson founded The Slow Death in 2007 in Springwood, Australia as a studio project. The band evolved from Prickett's solo project Of Grief Everlasting. The self-titled debut was self-published in 2008. The second album II was also released in 2012. Yonn McLaughlin from Backyard Mortuary joined the project as a drummer. After II was released in April 2012, bassist Dan Garcia from The Plague and guitarist Brett Campbell from Pallbearer joined The Slow Death in November of the same year . In this line-up, the band played a split album with Majestic Downfall and the third studio album The Ark . Both releases appeared on the Mexican independent label Chaos Records . In December 2014, after the recording of the third studio album, Williamson died of heart failure . For the release of the fourth studio album Siege , the band signed a contract with the Indian label Transcending Obscurity Records . Despite a publication announced for 2019, this did not happen for the time being. However, a piece of the album was featured on the label compilation for 2020.

The Slow Death was created as a concept album about the plague , which was followed by II as a concept album about the extinction of mankind.

reception

The first releases of The Slow Death were hardly discussed internationally. However, the band experienced international feedback with the split album released via Chaos Records and the studio album Ark, which were mostly positive. The debut album was described by Frédéric Cerfvol in a review written for the webzine Doom-Metal.com as "solid" and given 6.5 out of 10 points. For the same webzine, Dante DuVall's split album was given 8.5 and Ark 9.5 out of 10 points. He described The Ark as "an incredibly powerful, emotional and intense album". This is also praised in the review of the album written for the Webzine Vampster , saying that it “fits into a number of successful (Funeral) Doom / Death Metal albums”. The album is also judged to be "an epic Eldorado for the target group" for Crossfire Metal. The other publications received less, but mostly similarly positive reviews. For example, the album II was discussed for Feedback Metal and it was assumed that it "deserves to be heard and to be loved for years". The contribution to the split album was described by Twilight Magazine as "down-to-earth, authentic melancholic-melodic old-school Doom Metal". Islander also judged No Clean Singing in a review of the split album "The Slow Death must really be better known".

style

The webzine Doom-Metal.com describes the music played by The Slow Death as "atmospheric, pounding Death Doom of epic length, carried by guitar playing." For a classifying comparison, performers of Death Doom , Gothic Metal and Funeral Doom such as Mourning Beloveth , Funeral and Ahab . In the reviews of the albums, My Dying Bride , Anathema , Cruciform , Skepticism , Officium Triste and Shape of Despair are used as other comparables.

The vocal pairing, consisting of deep guttural growling and the depressed female vocals by Andresen, as well as the guitar playing by Stuart Prickett are named as central elements . Accordingly, the music is outlined in reviews. According to the review written for Twilight Magazine, “Monotonously monotonous song structures [...] meet cautiously riffy heaviness and atmospheric, sad, sometimes calm melancholy and hymnics, whereby an outstanding characteristic is the interplay of very deep infernal growling and female chants, almost like that Beauty and the beast. ”In addition, according to the review written for the Webzine Vampster , the band musically“ took the liberty of hardly adding any accents and instead just playing an undistorted guitar with a decently slow drum rhythm and then joining in to use more aggressive and brisk riffing ”. So the songwriting is conclusive and extends over song times of up to over 19 minutes. This builds up so "slowly and often steadily, gives the two singers enough space and, above all, leaves room for the lead guitar to lamentably weave into the sluggish, musical framework."

Discography

  • 2008: The Slow Death (album, self-published, re-released in 2013 via Aurora Australis Records )
  • 2012: II (album, self-published)
  • 2014: Majestic Downfall / The Slow Death (split album with Majestic Downfall, Chaos Records)
  • 2015: Ark (album, Chaos Records)

literature

  • Brian Giffin: Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal . 3rd revised edition. Dark Star, Katoomba 2015, ISBN 978-0-9943206-1-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dante DuVall: Interview with The Slow Death. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ The Slow Death: About. Facebook, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c The Slow Death. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Bad Deutsch: The Slow Death - Vocalist Dies. Metalstrom, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Comrade Aleks Evdokimov: Interview with Illimitable Dolor. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  6. ^ Brian Giffin: Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal . 3rd revised edition. Dark Star, Katoomba 2015, ISBN 978-0-9943206-1-2 .
  7. ↑ a b Frédéric Cerfvol: The Slow Death: s / t. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Dante DuVall: The Slow Death / Majestic Downfall. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c Dante DuVall: The Slow Death: Ark. Doom-Metal.com, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  10. ^ A b Christian Wögerbauer: The Slow Death: Ark. Vampster, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Joxe Schaefer: The Slow Death: Ark. Crossfire Metal, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  12. ↑ GezzaG: The Slow Death: II. Feedback Metal, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b c d e f Kerstin Lison: The Slow Death / Majestic Downfall. Twilight Magazine, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Islander: The Slow Death / Majestic Downfall. No Clean Singing, accessed March 30, 2020 .