Artist: Tristania
Genre(s):
Metal: Gothic
Metal: Death,Black
Rock
Discography:
Illumination
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Ashes
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
World Of Glass
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Beyond The Veil
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Angina
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Widow's Weeds
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Tristania
Year: 1997
Tracks: 4
Regarded as one of the world's premiere goth metal bands, Norway's Tristania give earned their repute through risk-taking creative thought, unquestionable endowment, and peradventure more than anything else, an impressive consistence from freeing to release. First coming together in 1996, Tristania took the uncommon footmark of showcasing trio split vocalists of wildly divergent styles to represent their lyrics, these being operatic soprano Vibeke Stene, clean-singing contralto Østen Bergøy, and harsh, black metal-style shrieker Morten Veland. The last in any case played guitar and composed nigh of Tristania's plushy, symphonically enhanced goth alloy, only as well counted on the help of lead guitarist Anders H. Hidle, keyboardist Einar Moen, bassist Rune Østerhus, and drummer Kenneth Olsson to reach it all reality.
Tristania's eponymic EP was released in 1997, and farther albums such as Widow's Weeds (1998) and Beyond the Veil (1999), as well as the Angina EP followed in quick taking over, and always through Austria's Napalm judge. All fared implausibly intimately across Europe, with Beyond the Veil in particular earning spout reviews, gaining them inroads into North and South America (where they take since toured extensively) and elevating Tristania to headliner status to rush. The band was dealt a potentially incapacitating blow, however, when Veland foregone to form a new band called Sirenia. Yet, they surprised cynical observers by immediately hiring new vocalist Kjetil Ingebrigtsen and rebounding in style via 2001's Man of Glass. A yearner hiatus followed but, after indulging in numerous side projects, Tristania reconvened in 2004 to record a new album called plainly Ashes, so released it through new label Steamhammer/SPV in January of the following year.
