Graveworm
Encyclopedia
Graveworm is a symphonic black metal
band from Bruneck
, Italy
with strong influences from gothic metal
(especially on older albums).
Graveworm was signed to Serenades Records in 1997, releasing their first EP
, Eternal Winds, in that same year. During their first tour together with Crematory
, Therion
and Lake of Tears
, the band promoted the album When Daylight's Gone
.
In 1998, the EP Underneath the Crescent Moon was released, featuring Sarah Jezebel Deva
(Cradle of Filth
, Therion
) in the track "Awake...Thy Angels Of Sorrow". Graveworm also performed at the Wacken Open Air
(Germany
) with bands such as Children of Bodom
, Cradle of Filth
and Vader
.
The second album As the Angels Reach the Beauty
was finished in 1999, and followed by a Europe
an tour with Agathodaimon
. Scourge of Malice
was released in 2001, which allowed the band their first headlining tour together with Dornenreich
, Vintersorg
and Darkwell
. In 2002, they changed to the German Nuclear Blast
label. At this point, Didi Schraffel (bass) left the band and Harry Klenk (guitars) was replaced by Eric Treffel. Treffel soon left the band in the same year and was replaced by Eric Righi on guitar.
Together with Righi, they produced Engraved in Black
, which was finished in 2003, and enhanced with a feature of R.E.M.
's "Losing My Religion
". Shortly after the release, Stefan Unterpertinger (guitar) quit and Lukas Flarer joined the band. Also, Harry Klenk, former guitarist and now bassist, re-joined the band.
In 2004, Graveworm played on the X-Mass Festival
tour together with Destruction
, Kataklysm
, and many others. Martin Innerbichler (drums) took a break to study and was temporarily replaced by Moritz Neuner (previously the Darkwell and Shadowcast drummer).
The album (N)utopia
was released in 2005.
Lukas Flarer (guitarist) later left the band for personal reasons, and was replaced by Orgler "Stirz" Thomas.
In 2006, Graveworm embarked on a North American tour with Kataklysm, Destruction, The Absence
, and Vader
.
On April 10, 2007, the promo of the latest Graveworm album, Collateral Defect
, was leaked on the web. The album was launched in Europe on May 25 via Massacre Records and June 5 in North America through Nuclear Blast. It was produced by Andy Classen
at Stage One
studios in Borgentreich
, Germany.
Graveworm's album Diabolical Figures was released on June 19, 2009 and features Karsten Jäger as a guest musician.
Symphonic black metal
Symphonic black metal is a black metal subgenre that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The genre is known for its symphonic and orchestral elements and is centralized in Europe.-Characteristics:...
band from Bruneck
Bruneck
Bruneck is the largest town in the Puster Valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol. Bruneck lies at the confluence of the Ahr with the Rienz Bruneck is the largest town in the Puster Valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol. Bruneck lies at the confluence of the Ahr with the Rienz...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
with strong influences from gothic metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...
(especially on older albums).
History
Before Graveworm even released a demo, they were signed by Serenades Records after a performance close to their hometown of Bruneck (Brunico), northern Italy.Graveworm was signed to Serenades Records in 1997, releasing their first EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, Eternal Winds, in that same year. During their first tour together with Crematory
Crematory (band)
Crematory is a gothic/melodic death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.- History :The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity. Much like the latter two groups, the band had begun as traditional death metal, then evolved...
, Therion
Therion (band)
Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...
and Lake of Tears
Lake of Tears
Lake of Tears is a Swedish band, generally considered to play gothic metal and doom metal. However, their sound has evolved considerably over the course of their career, expanding to include psychedelic rock, progressive metal, and, most recently, death metal....
, the band promoted the album When Daylight's Gone
When Daylight's Gone
When Daylight's Gone is the debut studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released originally in 1997 through Serenades Records but was later re-released in 2001 through Last Episode with bonus tracks taken from the entirety of Underneath the Crescent Moon, the cover of which is...
.
In 1998, the EP Underneath the Crescent Moon was released, featuring Sarah Jezebel Deva
Sarah Jezebel Deva
Sarah Jane , better known by her stage name Sarah Jezebel Deva, is a British vocalist. She was the female vocalist in Cradle of Filth for 14 years and also fronts her own band, Angtoria. In 2009, Deva started her self-titled solo project. The debut album A Sign of Sublime was released in February...
(Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
, Therion
Therion (band)
Therion is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christian Book of Revelation...
) in the track "Awake...Thy Angels Of Sorrow". Graveworm also performed at the Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...
(Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) with bands such as Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993, the group currently consists of Alexi Laiho , Roope Latvala , Janne Wirman , Henkka Seppälä , and Jaska Raatikainen...
, Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
and Vader
Vader (band)
Vader is a Polish death metal band from Olsztyn, formed in 1983. According to Piotr Wiwczarek, the band's founding singer and guitar player, the band's name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series. Lyrical themes include stories by H. P. Lovecraft, WW2, horror and anti-christian...
.
The second album As the Angels Reach the Beauty
As the Angels Reach the Beauty
As the Angels Reach the Beauty is the second studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released on 26 September 1999 through Serenades Records. This is one of Graveworm's more symphonic albums, with strong symphonic metal influences and three symphonic interludes. It was recorded...
was finished in 1999, and followed by a Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an tour with Agathodaimon
Agathodaimon (band)
Agathodaimon is a gothic/melodic black metal band from Mainz, Germany.-Biography:The band began in September 1995, when guitarist Sathonys and drummer Matthias got together to assemble a dominant death metal band with harmonic arrangements . They put adverts in several music magazines in the hopes...
. Scourge of Malice
Scourge of Malice
Scourge of Malice is the third studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2001 through Last Episode. The 7th track is often mislabeled on most P2P networks as being performed by Cradle of Filth, Children of Bodom, or Kalmah.-Track listing:# "Dreaded Time " – 1:48#...
was released in 2001, which allowed the band their first headlining tour together with Dornenreich
Dornenreich
Dornenreich is an ambient music band from Austria, founded in 1996. They initially played melodic black metal and changed to neofolk-influenced ambient with Her von welken Nächten...
, Vintersorg
Vintersorg
Vintersorg is a Swedish band from Skellefteå, formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron . Musically, Vintersorg has covered a wide number of heavy metal genres; while the band is mostly rooted in extreme metal styles, particularly black metal and Viking/folk metal, it has also expanded into...
and Darkwell
Darkwell
Darkwell is a gothic metal band from Innsbruck, Austria. Formed in 1999 by bassist Roland Wurzer and guitarist Roman Wiencke. Soon after formation, they signed with Napalm Records and released their first album, Suspiria, in 2000. Before the release of Conflict of Interest in 2002 they toured...
. In 2002, they changed to the German Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...
label. At this point, Didi Schraffel (bass) left the band and Harry Klenk (guitars) was replaced by Eric Treffel. Treffel soon left the band in the same year and was replaced by Eric Righi on guitar.
Together with Righi, they produced Engraved in Black
Engraved in Black
Engraved in Black is the fourth studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2003 through Nuclear Blast. This is the first Graveworm album to feature guitarist Eric Righi, who also played bass on this recording.-Track listing:...
, which was finished in 2003, and enhanced with a feature of R.E.M.
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
's "Losing My Religion
Losing My Religion
"Losing My Religion" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. The song was released as the first single from the group's 1991 album Out of Time. Based around a mandolin riff, "Losing My Religion" was an unlikely hit for the group, garnering heavy airplay on radio as well as on MTV due...
". Shortly after the release, Stefan Unterpertinger (guitar) quit and Lukas Flarer joined the band. Also, Harry Klenk, former guitarist and now bassist, re-joined the band.
In 2004, Graveworm played on the X-Mass Festival
X-Mass Festival
X-Mass Festival was a heavy metal festival/tour held annually in Europe from 1999 to 2005. It was organized by the Belgian booking agency Metallysee. The 2006 and 2007 editions have been cancelled, and the future of the festival is in doubt...
tour together with Destruction
Destruction (band)
Destruction is a German thrash metal band. They are considered one of the "three kings" of the Teutonic thrash metal scene, the others being Kreator and Sodom...
, Kataklysm
Kataklysm
Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. They call their musical style "northern hyperblast" after an advertisement in M.E.A.T. magazine describing another band, Fear Factory, as "hyperblast". The term refers to the extremely fast blast beats that Kataklysm's drummer, Max Duhamel, fuses into the...
, and many others. Martin Innerbichler (drums) took a break to study and was temporarily replaced by Moritz Neuner (previously the Darkwell and Shadowcast drummer).
The album (N)utopia
(N)utopia
utopia is the fifth studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2005 through Nuclear Blast.-Track listing:Bonus DVD#Liveshow 1#Liveshow 2#Photogallery-Credits:* Stefano Fiori – Vocals* Eric Righi – Guitar...
was released in 2005.
Lukas Flarer (guitarist) later left the band for personal reasons, and was replaced by Orgler "Stirz" Thomas.
In 2006, Graveworm embarked on a North American tour with Kataklysm, Destruction, The Absence
The Absence
The Absence is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida. Their style has been described as aggressive thrash metal with Scandinavian metal influences. They are currently signed to Metal Blade Records...
, and Vader
Vader (band)
Vader is a Polish death metal band from Olsztyn, formed in 1983. According to Piotr Wiwczarek, the band's founding singer and guitar player, the band's name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series. Lyrical themes include stories by H. P. Lovecraft, WW2, horror and anti-christian...
.
On April 10, 2007, the promo of the latest Graveworm album, Collateral Defect
Collateral Defect
Collateral Defect is the sixth studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2007.-Track listing:...
, was leaked on the web. The album was launched in Europe on May 25 via Massacre Records and June 5 in North America through Nuclear Blast. It was produced by Andy Classen
Andy Classen
-Holy Moses:He began his career in 1980 as a guitarist for the German thrash metal band Holy Moses, fronted by his ex-wife Sabina Classen. In 1989 the band bought a house in the village of Borgentreich-Bühne in the vicinity of Warburg, North Rhine-Westphalia...
at Stage One
Stage One
-Charts:...
studios in Borgentreich
Borgentreich
Borgentreich is a municipality in Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Geography :Borgentreich lies roughly 20 km south of Brakel and 10 km northeast of Warburg....
, Germany.
Graveworm's album Diabolical Figures was released on June 19, 2009 and features Karsten Jäger as a guest musician.
Members
- Stefan Fiori - Vocals (1997–present)
- Sabine Mair - Keyboard (1997–present)
- Martin Innerbichler - Drums (1997–present)
- Harry Klenk - Bass (previously guitars) (1997–present)
- Eric Righi - Guitar (2001–present)
- Thomas Orgler - Guitar (2005–present)
Former members
- Lukas Flarer - Guitar (2003–2005)
- Stefan Unterpertinger - Guitar (1997–2003)
- Didi Schraffel - Bass (1997–2001)
- Eric Treffel - Guitar (2001)
Studio albums
- 1997: When Daylight's GoneWhen Daylight's GoneWhen Daylight's Gone is the debut studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released originally in 1997 through Serenades Records but was later re-released in 2001 through Last Episode with bonus tracks taken from the entirety of Underneath the Crescent Moon, the cover of which is...
- 1999: As the Angels Reach the BeautyAs the Angels Reach the BeautyAs the Angels Reach the Beauty is the second studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released on 26 September 1999 through Serenades Records. This is one of Graveworm's more symphonic albums, with strong symphonic metal influences and three symphonic interludes. It was recorded...
- 2001: Scourge of MaliceScourge of MaliceScourge of Malice is the third studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2001 through Last Episode. The 7th track is often mislabeled on most P2P networks as being performed by Cradle of Filth, Children of Bodom, or Kalmah.-Track listing:# "Dreaded Time " – 1:48#...
- 2003: Engraved in BlackEngraved in BlackEngraved in Black is the fourth studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2003 through Nuclear Blast. This is the first Graveworm album to feature guitarist Eric Righi, who also played bass on this recording.-Track listing:...
- 2005: (N)utopia(N)utopiautopia is the fifth studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2005 through Nuclear Blast.-Track listing:Bonus DVD#Liveshow 1#Liveshow 2#Photogallery-Credits:* Stefano Fiori – Vocals* Eric Righi – Guitar...
- 2007: Collateral DefectCollateral DefectCollateral Defect is the sixth studio album by the symphonic black metal band Graveworm, released in 2007.-Track listing:...
- 2009: Diabolical Figures
- 2011: Fragments of Death
External links
- Graveworm at Nuclear BlastNuclear BlastNuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...
- Graveworm at Encyclopaedia MetallumEncyclopaedia MetallumEncyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music...