Utbs 2014 ... The Great Old Ones


Kategorie: Under The Black Sun
geschrieben von: Under The Black Sun geschrieben am: 02.09.2013 um: 08:44 Uhr

THE GREAT OLD ONES (France)

THE GREAT OLD ONES was born in 2009 as the one man band of Benjamin Guerry (guitars, vocals). He wanted to create an atmospheric black metal, aiming to describe musically both the feeling contained in Lovecraft's writings and his interest for extreme music.
Early 2011, his encounter with Jeff Grimal (guitars, vocals) made him want to bring the project to an upper level for which they needed other musicians. Thus Leo Isnard (drums), Xavier Godart (guitars) and Sebastian Lalanne (bass) joined the band, giving birth to The Great Old Ones. This enabled the band to play gigs with bands such as Acephalix and The Phantom Carriage.
One could say their music is dark, intense, close to Altar Of Plagues, Fen, and Wolves In The Throne Room. Their first album, Al Azif, recorded and mixed in October 2011 by Cyrille Gachet from France's Year Of No Light and mastered by Alan Douches from New York (Mastodon, Tombs, The Dillinger Escape Plan), was released on April 27th, 2012 via Les Acteurs de l'Ombres Productions (FR/EUR) and Antithetic Records (US).
Al Azif was very well receive by the press, and this allow them to give a lot of concerts in France and all over Europe with bands like Aura Noir, Forgotten Tomb, Nekromantheon, Forteresse, Borgne, Temple Of Baal, Make A Change... Kill Yourself, Isole and Terzij De Horde.
In 2013, The Great Old Ones received the honor to play at HELLFEST OPEN AIR in Clisson, France.
In October, they will return in studio to record the Al Azif successor, which will be released mid 2014.

"Al Azif"

Website : http://thegreatoldonesband.com/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/thegreatoldones
Bandcamp : http://thegreatoldones.bandcamp.com/
Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/thegreatoldonesband

Zur Infoseite von: Under The Black Sun
Quelle: http://utbs-festival.de mehr: Under The Black Sun News