Wreck of the Hesperus

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Wreck of the Hesperus
General information
origin Dublin , Ireland
Genre (s) Funeral Doom , Sludge
founding 2004
Current occupation
Drums
 Ray "R Mongo" Keenaghan
Guitar, vocals
 Andy "AC Rottt" Cunningham
Electric bass
 Cathal "Count Rodge" Rodgers

Wreck of the Hesperus is a funeral doom band from Dublin founded in 2004 .

history

Wreck of the Hesperus was founded in January 2004 by Ray "R Mongo" Keenaghan, Andy "AC Rottt" Cunningham and Cathal "Count Rodge" Rodgers. Rodgers and Keenaghan grew up together in a small Irish town. After Keenaghan moved to Dublin to study, they both kept in touch with the aim of forming a band. They had previously played together in different metal bands. In Dublin, Rodgers, who worked in a metal shop, met Cunningham as a customer. Inspired by Cunningham's taste in music, he invited them to their first jam sessions together . The band name goes back to the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , as well as to an Irish idiom which alludes to poor health. Both meanings corresponded, according to Cunningham, to the musical expression of "something damned and falling apart."

In the summer of 2004, the trio released a first demo - EP Terminal Dirge self-published. After another demo EP, the band celebrated concerts in Dublin, Belfast , and Cork , performed at Irish and Dutch Doom festivals and did small tours with Thee Plague of Gentlemen and Offium Triste . The band made further appearances at festivals or as opening act for Khanate , Reverend Bizarre , Nadja , Mayhem and Altar of Plagues in the following years.

In October 2006 the debut album The Sunken Threshold appeared on the British independent label Aesthetic Death Records, which specializes in extreme Doom groups . The album received various ratings from critics. While it was described on Musikreviews.de as "too loose and fragmentary", the group on Markzware Metalen was described as "wonderful pot of corruption". The debut album was followed by some experimental and some split releases, some of which were self-published and some through small independent labels.

In 2011, Wreck of the Hesperus released their second studio album , Light Rotting Out , again via Aesthetic Death Records . This album also polarized reviewers. While the album was described as "too strenuous and monotonous" on Metalglory, it was described on Metal Sucks as one of the most ambitious works of Funeral Doom. Many reviewers pointed out, however, that Light Rotting Out should be regarded as “borderline” and “should appeal to marginalized groups.” In 2013 and 2014, the band released compilations in cassette format on the self-founded label Fort Evil Fruit . The third studio album Sediment was first released in 2016 as a digital release on the Irish label Existentiell. A physical publication was not available for the time being.

style

The style of Wreck of the Hesperus is described as a brute mixture of Funeral Doom with influences from the Sludge and an atmosphere borrowed from Black Metal . Cunningham mentions Reverend Bizarre, Doom Metal popular in the early 2000s, and the group Autopsy as influencing factors on the sound . In reviews, comparisons with performers of sludge, funeral doom and post-metal are attempted to describe the music. Markzware Metalen draws parallels with Grief and Khanate, while Amboss Magazine draws parallels with Walk Through Fire and Metal Sucks with Loss .

The production is described as raw and referred to as " old-school underground ". The vocals would consist of “throaty [m] […] growling ”, which is sometimes referred to as croaking, close to early Black Metal. Playing the drums is seen as reduced, sometimes even fragmented, as well as particularly clattering, hard and intense. The sound would be completed by the "dragging bass and deeply dissonant riffing guitars". The use of abruptly interrupting silence in the respective pieces is named as a special feature of the musical concept . According to Metal Sucks, these incorporated sequences of silence keep the listener uncomfortable and uncertain.

Discography

  • 2004: Terminal Dirge (CDr-EP, self-distribution)
  • 2005: Eulogy for the Sewer Dwellers (CDr-EP, self-distribution)
  • 2006: The Sunken Threshold (Album, Aesthetic Death Records)
  • 2008: The Dilapidated Sky ( ltd.MC , Bubonic Doom )
  • 2008: Rotism (CDr-EP, Idrone Park)
  • 2008: Wreck of the Hesperus / De Novissimis (split EP with De Novissimis , Stitchy Press)
  • 2009: Mourning Beloveth / Wreck of the Hesperus (Split EP with Mourning Beloveth , Sentinel Records)
  • 2010: Dungeon Floor (CDr single, self-published)
  • 2011: Light Rotting Out (Album, Aesthetic Death Records)
  • 2012: Terminal Eulogy (MC compilation, Fort Evil Fruit)
  • 2014: Long Streak of Misery (MC compilation, Fort Evil Fruit)
  • 2016: Sediment (Album, Existentiell Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Meisenkaiser: Wreck of the Hesperus. Metal Inside, accessed December 14, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b c Andreas Schiffmann: Wreck of the Hesperus: The Sunken Threshold. Music reviews, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Hypnos: Wreck of the Hesperus: The Sunken Threshold. Markzware Metalen, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Gorlokk: Wreck of the Hesperus: Light Rotting Out. Metalglory, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Kim Kelly: Wreck of the Hesperus: Light Rotting Out. Metal Sucks, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  7. ^ A b Wreck of the Hesperus: Light Rotting Out. Anvil Mag, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  8. ↑ a b c Andreas Schulz: Wreck of the Hesperus: Light Rotting Out. (No longer available online.) Metal reviews, archived from the original on September 21, 2011 ; accessed on December 15, 2016 .