Year of No Light
| Year of No Light | |
|---|---|
 Year of No Light, Droneberg Festival, Berlin 2015 |
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| General information | |
| origin |
 France Bordeaux |
| Genre (s) | Post metal , post rock |
| founding | 2001 |
| Website | yearofnolight.free.fr |
| Founding members | |
| Bertrand Sébenne | |
| Jérôme Alban | |
guitar |
Christophe Mora |
| Johan Sébenne | |
| Current occupation | |
guitar |
Jérôme Alban |
guitar |
Pierre Anouilh |
Drums, keyboard |
Bertrand Sébenne |
Bass, keyboard |
Johan Sébenne |
guitar |
Shiran Kaïdine |
Drums, keyboard, synthesizer |
Mathieu Mégemont |
| former members | |
guitar |
Christophe Mora |
Vocals, keyboard |
Julien Perez |
Year of No Light is a French post-metal band founded in 2001 in Bordeaux . The name of the formation, often abbreviated to YONL, goes back to a song by the indie rock band Three Mile Pilot .
history
The formation, founded in 2001, took three years to get a first stable lineup. The singer and keyboardist Julien Perez joined in 2003, while Christophe Mora left the band during this time. Until 2004, Year of No Light worked with this line-up on their first recordings. From the resulting demo - CD-R with hangefertigtem cover 150 copies were published. The positive response to the release motivated the band to continue producing music in a targeted manner. Until the release of the following debut album, YONL participated in two samplers, practiced and played various concerts with just as much success.
In 2006 the debut album Nord , recorded in Geneva , was released , which helped the Year of No Light to international fame and recognition. After the release came across the monarch! -Gitarist Shiran Kaidine in addition to the band, which appeared in the new lineup at the 2008 Roadburn Festival . The gig was released on LP and DVD in 2009 and on CD in 2011.
While the band brought out various split releases in 2009, they separated from their singer and decided not to replace him. The second studio album Ausserwelt was recorded by Year of No Light as a six-member band with two drummers and three guitarists. After the recordings of Ausserwelt , a music promoter friend offered the band the opportunity to recreate a silent film of their choice. Year of No Light opted for the early sound film Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer .
“At that time all of our souls and bodies were busy creating a sonic counterpart to Dreyer's obsession with beauty, love, vengeance, sin, forgiveness, evil, redemption and faith. The premiere took place in the spring of 2010 in Bordeaux. What we had originally only viewed as a one-off undertaking soon developed into a two-year dream trip through Europe by itself. "
The last presentation of the film tour was recorded in February 2012 and released the following year. In later conversations, the band members made it clear that the work on this project had had a significant impact on the band's songwriting process and that the 2013 album Tocsin had a huge impact on this.
style
The band is mainly attributed to post-rock and post-metal . The band members admit influences from Neurosis , Isis and Old Man Gloom , but also point to influences from Joy Division , My Bloody Valentine , Black Sabbath and Darkthrone . In reviews, heavy, low-pitched reef outbreaks and long, calm passages are mostly referred to to describe the style. However, the music also shows stylistic influences of Black Metal with blastbeat passages and occasional light, shaky riffs . The former singer's early performance is also seen somewhere between black metal, post metal and sludge . While the band is mostly attributed to metal, the self-image of the musicians is based more on the shoegaze .
"[O] ur ethos is far more shooting-oriented. We are too tired and not tough enough to be a bunch of metalheads in the vein of [...] Isis and Neurosis !! "
“Our ethos is much more oriented towards shoegazing . We're too tired and not tough enough to match a bunch of metalheads like Isis or Neurosis . "
Discography
- 2004: Demo ( Demo , Radar Swarm Records)
- 2005: Progression Through Carnage ( compilation article: "Par économie pendant la crise on éteint la lumière au bout du tunnel" , Hyperblasted Records)
- 2005: Aspidistra .Opus.IV. (Compilation contributions: Thanatos and L'angoisse du veilleur de nuit d'autoroute les soirs d'alarme à accident , Aspidistra Records)
- 2006: Nord ( Album , Radar Swarm Records, Re-Release : 2007 Crucial Blast, 2008 Cavity Records, 2012 Musicfearsatan)
- 2009: Live at Roadburn 2008 ( Live album , Roadburn Records)
- 2009: Dark 80's ( Split - EP , Atropine Records)
- 2009: Karysun / Year of No Light (Split EP, Radar Swarm Records)
- 2009: Year of No Light / Machu Picchu Mother Future (Split EP, Musicfearsatan)
- 2009: East of the Wall / Year of No Light / Rosetta (Split EP, Translation Loss Records)
- 2010: Ausserwelt (Album, Conspiracy Records, Re-Release : 2012 Music Fear Satan)
- 2012: Year of No Light / Altar of Plagues (Split EP, Musicfearsatan)
- 2012: Year of No Light & Thisquietarmy ( collaboration EP, Destructure Records)
- 2012: Year of No Light / Mars Red Sky (Split EP, Headspin Records)
- 2013: Vampyr (live album, Musicfearsatan)
- 2013: Tocsin (Album, Debemur Morti Productions )
Web links
- Official website
- Year of No Light at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Cosmo Lee: Interview - Year of No Light. Stylus Magazine, accessed April 27, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e Year of No Light & Zozzal: Biography. Year of No Light, accessed April 27, 2014 .
- ^ Year of No Light: Demo 2004. Year of No Light, accessed April 27, 2014 .
- ^ Year of No Light: Discography. Year of No Light, accessed April 27, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Alex E .: Year of No Light - North. Metal Observer, accessed April 27, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Herzebeth: Year of No Light - North. Metal Storm, accessed April 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Ned Raggett: Year of No Light - North. All Music, accessed April 27, 2014 .
- ^ Linernotes Year of No Light - Live at the Roadburn 2008.
- ↑ Liner Notes Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
- ↑ a b c Alexander Eitner: Johan & Pierre from Year Of No Light. (No longer available online.) Metal News, archived from the original on April 29, 2014 ; Retrieved April 29, 2014 . 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.
- ^ Bernhard Landkammer: Year of No Light - Tocsin. Metal1, accessed April 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Alexander Eitner: Year of No Light - Ausserwelt. Metal News, accessed April 29, 2014 .
