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File Name:Winter - funeral doomgraphy
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Description:Formed: 1988
Country: USA (New York City)
Status: Disbanded
Description: Doom
Lineup:

John Alman - Vocals, Bass
Stephen Flam - Guitars
Joe Goncalves - Drums
Tony Pinnisi - Additional Keyboards

One of the originators of modern doom/death metal, they played extremely slowed down death metal leading the exodus from a widely held fixation with fast metal riffs. Winter is one of the hardest to digest Doom acts due to the oppressive nature of their songs.

The WINTER way is clear: bonding music and lyrics to set a mood and convey their feelings toward this tumultuous era, in which we all live. They are the echoes of reality, taking the negative aspects of a problem to generate a positive reaction. The enraged voice of the apocalypse, a soundtrack set to the onslaught of a dark, cold, brutal world.

WINTER refuse to be labeled. On the surface it would be easy to mistake them for a death metal/thrash metal band, but in no way are they affiliated with that genre of music or the pretentious attitude that sometimes comes with it. Listen and decide for yourself.

WINTER's goals were to continue their present course and establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with. WINTER are concerned musicians who care about the state of the planet and the problems that plague modern day society. Putting words into action by playing to support causes which they believe in, they are not out to preach, only to inform. The music is part of them, it's present in their attitude as a band, as well as their individual personalities.

With their already growing following and with the success of their debut album Into Darkness, this gives them the confidence to journey and experiment into new musical dimensions. Confronting the challenge keeps them going. Once it stops being a challenge, it's not worth doing.

Winter. Into Darkness. Eternal Frost. These three terms – the band name, the album name, the "single" name – totally express what this is all about...a fucking hopeless portrayal of an utterly bleak and devastated earth! Atomic bombs have fallen, it's a post-apocalyptic nightmare and the whole world has lost!

This New York based cult band played a highly original type of Doom/Death/Thrash and for sure has left quite an impression on a few members of the worldwide metal and maybe hardcore scenes, however, they remain a band not known to many and adored by even less. Which is quite understandable when one considers the crushing heaviness, the killing slowness, the ultra down-tuned and low frequency filled sound (at least 5 notes...in 1990, even before Cathedral!) as well as the merciless negativity and dark coldness of this record. It is bloody indescribable how extreme this record is!
Quite obviously strongly influenced by Celtic Frost, Hellhammer and Amebix, Winter still came out to be a totally unique band, and of course they suffered the fate of many such bands. They kept an underdog and broke up way too soon. Which is a shame especially considering the few flaws of this otherwise fantastic milestone in music history. These would be found in the field of production, which is not that surprising, since it very likely was of low-budgeted nature. This is definitely not to make the all in all very pleasing sound appear in a negative light, it's just that the drums and vocals are too much on top of the mix and the guitar gets buried in the super lowness of the sound. With such improvements in the production and more experience as an active band, who knows what they might have been able to deliver next?!

With Into Darkness they bequeathed a record of high importance for the development of rock music – together with EyeHateGod, Cathedral, Disembowelment and Thergothon they created extreme Doom Metal! But Winter do not sound like one specific type of metal, it's unlike anything else and I don't know any other band that surpassed their slowly grinding, totally dark and fucking evil heaviness...and I am an avid and well-educated fan of Doom Metal and other extreme stuff…maybe Burning Witch and Khanate might be equals, but that's it pretty much – in nearly 20 years!
Here it is also interesting to draw a comparison with Black Metal which often is considered the most cold, dark and evil kind of metal or even music in general. Well, some Black Metal bands might appear more maniacal due to their somewhat chaotic hysteria and to some degree they achieve to create some evilness since most of them strive really hard, but with Winter it’s just true and natural, they don’t want it out of principle, they just deliver it. And the same goes for the darkness and coldness. Where especially Norway orientated Black Metal bands might have this Northern coldness like winds over deserted mountains, which on sunny days might still cause warm feelings for the beauty of nature, Winter bring about the destruction filled nuclear holocaust, where death is terminal, coldness mechanical and the sky remains grey and polluted.

Into Darkness should be of interest to any fan of really heavy, dark and brutal metal, but supposedly it will always remain a rarity in record collections. Fortunately, those who understand enjoy the more.

Discography:
1989: 'Winter' (Demo) 160kbps
1990: 'Into darkness' (CD) 324kbps m4a
1994: 'Eternal Frost' (Mcd) 160 kbps
1999/2008: 'Into Darkness + Eternal Frost' (Re-release) 320kbps
Genre:Doom
Subgenre:funeral doom
Bitrate:Others
Size:317.96 MB
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