Winter blood
| Winter blood | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Germany |
| Genre (s) | Black metal |
| founding | 1994 |
| Founding members | |
| L'Hiver | |
Winterblut is a German black metal band.
history
The band Winterblut is the solo project of the “Bavarian underground protagonist” L'Hiver, who started them in 1994. In addition to Winterblut, he was also active as a producer. a. worked for groups like Nargaroth and Nyktalgia .
The debut album The 6th Then came 1999 Darker Than Black Records , the successor corpse standard as well as the live album The 6th Then (Live) in the self-publishing . For the reason: Noble Wolves Records was responsible for joint art and End All Life Productions for Das Aas aller Dinge . This was followed by two more records, which found a home on two different labels, before Winterblut for two albums and two re-releases on Nuclear War Now! Productions signed.
For the ninth and final studio album to date, Be terrible and destroy yourselves! In 2018 he switched to the Nihilistische KlangKunst label.
style
Winter blood was initially based heavily on Burzum . Darker Than Black Records advertised Promo in 1998 as "[f] instere [n], frenzied, hymn-like [n] Black Metal straight from the Aldebaran destroying the competition in a cosmic firestorm". A review of the debut from 2003 mentions the influence of early Norwegian bands (such as Satyricon with Dark Medieval Times ) as well as substantial differences: the scenery suggests German romanticism , Sturm und Drang and Europe between the world wars.
From Björn Backes' point of view, the Burzum style project remained arrested and "immobile and rigid". According to Daniel Müller from Crossfire Metal Webzine, on the other hand, the style “became more and more worn and experimental over the years”, Be terrible and destroy yourselves! also remind him of bands like Ved Buens Ende , Fleurety or In the Woods… . The guitars are "played slowly" and the drums are "barely available". Backes as well as Müller characterize the album as very monotonous and increasingly exhausting.
Discography
Studio albums
- 1999: The 6th After ( Darker Than Black Records , re-release 2006 via Wulfrune Worxxx)
- 2000: Leichenstandard ( self-published , republished in 2011 via Nuclear War Now! Productions )
- 2003: Reason: Joint Art (Noble Wolves Records)
- 2007: The carcasses of all things ( End All Life Productions )
- 2007: Devil Inauguration (Pale Dominion)
- 2010: The Duty to Destroy Beauty (Grom Records ( CD ), Strigoi Records ( cassette ), Nuclear War Now! Productions (re-release 2011))
- 2011: The 6th After, Opus I: Paths of Sorrows (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
- 2012: The 6th After, Opus II: Ghost Music & Opus III: Organ Music (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
- 2018: Be terrible and destroy yourselves! (Nihilistic Sound Art)
Others (selection)
- 1995: Ashes of God ( Demo - cassette , republication via Perverted Taste )
- 2002: The 6th afterwards ( Live ) (self-published)
- 2005: The Pest Of ... ( compilation , War Against Yourself )
- 2009: A Bad Deed ( EP , Raging Bloodlust Records)
Web links
- Winter blood at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Björn Backes: Review - WINTER BLOOD - Be terrible and destroy yourselves. In: Powermetal.de . March 25, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d Daniel Müller: Winter Blood - Be terrible and destroy yourselves! In: Crossfire Metal Webzine. Retrieved October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Darker Than Black Records: History. Archived from the original on February 28, 2018 ; accessed on December 7, 2019 (scan of an old catalog, image file 6, click to enlarge.).
- ↑ WINTERBLUT - The 6th Afterwards - CD. Darker Than Black Records, archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; accessed on December 7, 2019 .