Woebegone Obscured

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Woebegone Obscured
General information
origin Aarhus , Denmark
Genre (s) Funeral doom
founding 1993
resolution 2019
Founding members
All instruments, vocals
Danny Woe
Last occupation
Drums , vocals
 Danny “Danny Woe” Jöhnson
Quentin Nicollet
guitar
 Martin Jacobsen

Woebegone Obscured was a funeral doom band founded in 1993 in Aarhus as Rimfrost .

history

Danny Jöhnson founded the Rimfrost project in 1993 with the intention of playing Black Metal with parts of Doom Metal . Danny Woe experimented with Rimfrost for several years. Around after the release of two demo tapes, Jöhnson renamed the project Woebegone Obscured in recognition of a significantly changed sound. The year of the name change is unclear. The band as well as the laying label give different information.

Even as Woebegone Obscured, the band's demo releases went largely unnoticed. It wasn't until the re-release of the debut album Deathstination in December 2011 by the Italian extreme metal label I, Voidhanger Records, that the band got media coverage . The album was received unanimously positively. Along with the re-release of the debut, the label established the legend that the inspiration for Woebegone Obscured came from Jöhnson's psychiatric stay. Since the group reveals little information about the people involved and the backgrounds of the band, the veracity of this legend remains unclear. The second studio album Moarrow of Dreams , released in 2013, also received mostly positive reviews. The band was later attested to have made a lasting impression on the funeral doom spectrum with both albums.

With Deathscape MMXIV 2014 and Woebegone Obscured 2016 the release of two EPs followed . Both were hardly reviewed. The EP Deathscape MMXIV , with cover versions of Bathory and Dead Can Dance , was recorded split. The review written for Woebegone Obscured , however, was positive. In 2018, The Forestoarmer was the third studio album by the band. For the release, Woebegone Obscured cooperated with the doom metal label Aesthetic Death Records . The Forestoarmer , produced by Dan Swanö , was praised in reviews, just like the previous albums. In December 2019, the band announced their breakup.

Occupation and pseudonyms

The musicians of the group appeared under pseudonyms in the first few years. So Jöhnson called himself with Rimfrost "Epochian", his fellow musicians were Mads Mortensen as "Ghost" and "Dirus". With Woebegone Obscured, the musicians initially called themselves alle Woe supplemented by a preceding letter. Jöhnson appeared as D. Woe as a singer, guitarist and drummer. On the debut, bassist and guitarist K. Woe also plays. Later the guitarist Martin Jacobsen appeared in 2013 as M. Woe, the guitarist Quentin Nicollet in 2014 as Q. Woe, and the bassist Andreas Tagmose Grønkjær in 2014 without a pseudonym as musicians. With the release of the third studio album The Forestroamer , most musicians dropped their pseudonyms. Only Jöhnson kept the name Danny Woe. Meanwhile, Andreas Tagmose Grønkjær was again divorced from the band.

style

The music of Woebegone Obscured is assigned to Funeral Doom and described as clumsy and atmospheric. For a closer classification, the style is compared with that of genre representatives such as Thergothon , Disembowelment , Worship , Malasangre , Obskure Torture , Mournful Congregation , and Nortt . As further influences, Anathema and Mayhem refer to representatives of Black and Gothic Metal . Blastbeats , high-pitched kick drums and occasionally chaotic guitar play are derived from the influence of Black Metal . This creates "a feeling of despair and madness before the listeners are released back into the Doom void". An ethereal atmosphere is borrowed from Gothic Metals. With Marrow of Dreams , the band varied their style towards a more progressive overall sound, whereupon additional comparisons with Opeth were sought. On The Forestroamer , the band renounced the sound elements borrowed from Black Metal and increased the proportion of progressive structures.

The band combine “deep growling and rolling doom with ambient passages to create a subtly progressive style”. Since the debut, the guttural vocals have occasionally been varied with plaintive clear vocals and black metal screaming . Guitar playing is said to be typical of Doom Metal and its sub-styles. The band mainly presents “subtle guitar accents”, with a “lot of dark and depressive melodies” being discernible in the guitar playing. A melodic and powerful style is attested to the solos and leads . According to the genre, the rhythm remains deliberately slow. Integrated sound effects, in particular natural sounds, synthesizers and guest singers complement the sound created in this way.

Discography

  • 1995: Deathscape Demotape (demo, self-published as Rimfrost)
  • 2000: Funeraly Wizard (demo, self-published as Rimfrost)
  • 2003: Coils of Inane Comatose (demo, self-published)
  • 2004: Maestitia (demo, self-published)
  • 2007: Deathstination (album, self-published. 2011: I, Voidhanger Records)
  • 2013: Marrow of Dreams (Album, I, Voidhanger Records)
  • 2014: Deathscape MMXIV (EP, Solitude Productions )
  • 2016: Woebegone Obscured (EP, self-published)
  • 2018: The Forestroamer (Album, Aesthetic Death)

Web links

Individual evidence

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