Thergothon
| Thergothon | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Turku , Finland |
| Genre (s) | Funeral doom |
| founding | 1990 |
| resolution | 1993 |
| Last occupation | |
| Niko Sirkiä (aka Niko Skorpio) | |
| Jori Sjöroos | |
| Mikko Ruotsalainen | |
| former members | |
| Sami Kaveri | |
Thergothon was a short-lived but influential funeral doom band from Turku , Finland . With her demo recording Fhtagn nagh Yog-Sothoth (1991) and her only album Stream from the Heavens (1994), she is considered a pioneer of the subgenre.
history
The band was founded in 1990 by Niko Skorpio, Jori Sjöroos and Mikko Ruotsalainen as a death metal band, but soon turned into a doom metal band. At the beginning of 1991 Sami Kaveri was added as the second guitarist. A first demo tape recorded afterwards, the band rejected and made a new attempt in November 1991, which was then published in an edition of 600 under the title Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth and was licensed for the USA and Poland. In the spring of 1992 the band gave two concerts in or near Turku, where they played an extremely slowed-down version of Venom's In League with Satan . The band themselves did not find concerts as an appropriate presentation of the studio material.
In the summer of 1992, the preparatory work for the debut album began. Sami Kaveri left the band at this time and the band concentrated entirely on the role as a studio band, neither played nor rehearsed for it live. Because of this concentration of roles and people, the roles gradually dissolved and the members of the band swapped instruments and experimented with new ones. After the band had come to an agreement with the Italian label Obscure Plasma Records on the release of the debut album, the band began recording Stream from the Heavens in the fall of 1992 ; two of the six songs contained on it were new recordings of tracks from the demo recording Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth . After completing the recordings and choosing the cover for the debut, the band members decided in spring 1993 to break up the band. The release of Stream from the Heavens dragged on until 1994, the album sold several thousand copies worldwide.
Niko Sirkiä and Jori Sjöroos then founded This Empty Flow , Niko Sirkiä is still musically active as Niko Skorpio to the present day .
Style and reception
The music was very slow with extremely deep guttural vocals , using heavy guitar riffs, very low pitched guitars and with few lead guitar melodies. In addition to Death Metal, the band also integrated influences from styles such as Gothic Rock , Ambient or Progressive Rock .
In 2010 a Thergothon tribute album was released under the title Rising of Yog-Sothoth with contributions from bands such as Worship , Evoken and Asunder , Mournful Congregation , Colosseum and Officium Triste .
Discography
- 1991: Fhtagn nagh Yog-Sothoth (demo, re-released 1999 and 2006)
- 1994: Stream from the Heavens (album)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Niko Skorpio: History. nikoskorpio.net, archived from the original on May 24, 2012 ; accessed on June 20, 2018 .
Web links
- THERGOTHON at Discogs (English)
- Thergothon at Myspace