Paysage d'Hiver is an ambient black metal band from Berne

Berne

The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt of Switzerland, and, with a population of , the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 349,000. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, formed in 1997. Sole member is Tobias Möckl a.k.a. "Wintherr", also of Darkspace

Darkspace (band)

Darkspace is a black metal band from Bern, Switzerland.In contrast to most misconceptions about black metal productions, the focus of their music is not satanic or misanthropic, but on an "atmospheric" cold and bleak description of space...

. Paysage d'Hiver is french and translates to "Landscape of Winter", winter

Winter

Winter is the coldest season of the year in temperate climates, between autumn and spring. At the winter solstice, the days are shortest and the nights are longest, with days lengthening as the season progresses after the solstice.-Meteorology:...

 being the lyrical theme for most of Paysage d'Hiver's songs. Wintherr has cited the Burzum

Burzum

Burzum is a musical project by Varg Vikernes . It began during 1991 in Bergen, Norway and quickly became prominent within the early Norwegian black metal scene...

 albums Hvis lyset tar oss

Hvis lyset tar oss

Hvis lyset tar oss is the fourth release by the Norwegian black metal artist Burzum. It was recorded in September 1992, but not released until May 1994...

 and Filosofem

Filosofem

Filosofem is the fifth release by the Norwegian black metal artist Burzum. It was recorded in March 1993 and was the last recording before Varg Vikernes' imprisonment. However, the album was not released until January 1996....

, among others, as an inspiration for his music. All of Paysage d'Hivers own material are released through Kunstall Produktionen, a label Wintherr runs together with Nimosh of the band Nordlicht. Paysage d'Hiver will never play live.

Critical response

Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi received a degree in Mathematics in 1982 from University of Turin, where he did work on the General Theory of Relativity. For a number of years he was the head of the Artificial Intelligence Center at Olivetti, based in Cupertino, California. He has been a visiting scholar at...

 felt that Paysage d'Hiver (2000) "basically rediscovered black metal".

Discography

All demos after "Steineiche" CD-R have first been released on tape, but have been or will be re-released on LP/DLP - "Winterkälte" even on 3LP - as well as A5 Digibook CD formats. All of the releases apart from the A5 Digibooks are limited edition.

Demos

• Steineiche
  Steineiche
  Steineiche is the first demo produced by the Swiss ambient black metal band Paysage D'Hiver. The word "steineiche" translates from German into English as the word "holly oak", which is exactly what this album is themed about. The track titles translate to "The Tree Women", "The Tree Man", and "The...
  
   - 1998
• Schattengang - 1998
• Die Festung - 1999
• Kerker - 2000
• Paysage d'Hiver - 2000
• Kristall & Isa - 2001
• Winterkälte - 2002
• Nacht - 2004
• Einsamkeit - 2007
• Das Tor - TBA
• Schnee - TBA

Splits

• Schnee/Das Winterreich - 2003 - Split with Vinterriket
• Paysage d'Hiver/Lunar Aurora - 2004 - Split with Lunar Aurora
• Paysage D'Hiver/Nordlicht - TBA

External links

• Official Myspace
• Paysage D'Hiver at the Encyclopedia Metallum
• Kunsthall Produktionen