Vitja (band)
| Vitja | |
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 Vitja at the Free & Easy Festival 2015 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Munster and Cologne , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Metalcore , Progressive Metal , Djent |
| founding | 2013 |
| Current occupation | |
| Gabriel Spigolon | |
| Fabio DeDominicis | |
| Florian Vogel | |
| Daniel Pampuch | |
| former members | |
singing |
David bump |
| Vladimir Donchenko | |
| Mario Metzler | |
Vitja is a German metal band from Münster and Cologne founded in 2013 . Vitja is the Russian short form for Viktor, which means winner, but according to the band, the sound and aesthetics of the word were decisive for the name.
history
The group was formed in 2013 by former musicians from Disposed to Mirth , Shake the Pagoda Tree , Progress Utopia and Myterror . The group quickly got a record deal with Redfield Records , which released their debut album Echoes . Vitja played in August 2013 as a replacement for Silent Screams on the For Those About to Mosh Tour with Martyr Defiled . In July and August 2014 Vitja toured several states in Europe as the opening act for Texas in July and Iwrestledabearonce .
In February and March 2015, the band played a Germany tour as the opening act for Annisokay and Callejon . For the summer of 2015 the band was confirmed for the Summer Breeze and Vainstream .
The group's first EP, Your Kingdom , was released on February 6, 2015 via Redfield Records.
In 2017 they were on tour with Emil Bulls as the opening act. In the same year her album Digital Love was released, which represented a certain change in style towards more melodic metalcore with a higher proportion of clear vocals.
In the following year Vitja's next album, Mistaken, was released . Very shortly after the release, however, the band canceled their planned "Mistaken" tour and remained silent about the reasons for several months until a new singer was presented in May 2019 with the release of the latest single "Back". The singer David Beule, founding member of the band, was replaced by Gabriel Spigolon, who performed the guttural vocals of the metal band like this one.
Music genre
The interviewer at Dearly Demented attributed the group to the metalcore scene, but also to the djent . Andreas Kuhlmann from Ox-Fanzine describes the music as comparable to Veil of Maya and Volumes . Volkmar Weber from Rock Hard describes Vitja as one of many “Metalcore / Djent hybrids”.
Discography
- 2013: Echoes (album, Redfield Records )
- 2015: Your Kingdom (EP, Redfield Records)
- 2017: Digital Love (LP, Century Media Records)
- 2018: Mistaken (LP, Century Media Records)
- 2019: Thirst (LP, Arising Empire)
Web links
- Vitja on Facebook
- Vitja at Redfield Records
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with David Beule from Vitja . Musicnstuff, Retrieved January 7, 2015.
- ↑ a b Dearly Demented : Interview with Vitja
- ↑ ALLSCHOOLS Network : Vitja - at Redfield Records
- ↑ Burn Your Ears : Vitja - Echoes
- ↑ Eckart Maronde: Metal.de : MARTYR DEFILED: Vitja instead of Silent Screams as tour support ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Party cancellation : IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - European tour with TEXAS IN JULY and VITJA in summer 2014
- ↑ Florian Hilger: Shout Out Magazine : Annisokay: Enigmatic Smile appears in March
- ↑ Malte H: Reaper Zine : Summer Breeze 2015: Belphegor, Gloryhammer and Vitja there!
- ↑ Steven: Vanitycore.de : Vitja - new EP on the way! ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jenny Josefine Schulz: VITJA - Digital love . In: Fuze magazine . No. 62 . Ox, Solingen 2017, p. 61 : "While" Echoes "from 2013 and the EP" Your kingdom "from 2015 were musically very homogeneous," Digital love "now surprises with a rather different sound. The fat, djentige sound has given way to more melody and clear vocals , which partly goes a bit in the direction of spoken vocals, makes up a very large part of the vocals. "
- ↑ Jenny Josefine Schulz: Vitja - Thirst . In: Fuze magazine . No. 77 . Ox, Solingen 2019, p. 60 : "It was very quiet around VITJA for almost a year. Unfortunately, the rumor mill did not stand still, but then with the first new single" Back "came the pregnant announcement of their return. (...) VITJA have a new singer. "
- ^ Andreas Kuhlmann: Ox-Fanzine : Vitja - Echoes Critique
- ^ Volkmar Weber: Rock Hard : Vitja - Echoes Critique
