Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat
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Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat is the first album by the black metal
/doom metal
group Woods of Ypres
. It was Recorded in August 2002 at Spectre Sound in Ontario. It's Woods of Ypres' only album featuring Brian McManus & Aaron Palmer and their only CD on which David Gold doesn't contribute any vocals or guitar work.
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
/doom metal
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...
group Woods of Ypres
Woods of Ypres
-Biography:Woods of Ypres was formed in 2002 by David Gold, Aaron Palmer and Brian McManus. The trio released the first Woods Of Ypres demo, Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat, the same year. In 2003, David Gold moved to Toronto to begin working on a full-length album...
. It was Recorded in August 2002 at Spectre Sound in Ontario. It's Woods of Ypres' only album featuring Brian McManus & Aaron Palmer and their only CD on which David Gold doesn't contribute any vocals or guitar work.
Track listing
- Intro: The Shams of Optimism (3:01)
- Crossing the 45th Parallel (6:47)
- The Sea of Immeasurable Loss (7:07)
- A Meeting Place and Time (8:47)
- Awaiting the Inevitable (4:56)
Personnel
- Brian McManus – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, - Aaron Palmer – vocals, bass
- David Gold – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....