Tristania, Norwegian gothic metal in Monterrey
by Israel Morales
Known as one of the most important bands in the international underground scene, because of its contribution to the competed gothic metal scene, Tristania will arrive to Monterrey to offer a concert tomorrow at the Casino Ferrocarrilero.
Agreeing with one of the rythmical changes in the 90s in the heavy metal scene, where the performance became rich scenically speaking and the progressive and melodic character transformed music into melancholic and dark passages without losing guitar power, Tristania shares this sonorous perspective next to bands like Therion, The sins of thy beloved or Theater of tragedy.
Coming from Norway, where dark metal enjoys great acceptance, Tristania will offer a retrospección of its more remarkable songs, conformed in its discography that includes the albums Widow's Weeds and Beyond the Veil and the singles Tristania and Angina. With a style denominated doom that enters the gothic metal category, its music distills between the orquestal and black metal (one of the most extreme musical styles), without forgetting the attractiveness that the feminine and male vocals offer, departure point of many bands of this sort at the present time.
The lyric content of its last production reveals their particular vision of death, decay, dreams, resentments, and the unconscious chaos that this world guided by appearances always causes.
Their members are vocalist Vibeke Stene, the guitarist and also vocalist Morten Veland, Einar Moen their keyboard player, Kenneth Olsson, drums, Anders H. Hidle in the guitar and Rune Osterhus in the bass.
In this occasion two local bands will accompany the Nordic group, that also have as a reference the presence of female voices.
Whispering silence will be one of the two local bands that will open the concert, their keyboard and percusion player, Cindy Figueroa, mentioned the musical opening that represents to share its music with the European band.
"To open to a group like Tristania it is an opening towards another culture, another music, to see which are the new developments that they bring and so they can also see what we do here ". Defining their music as doom metal, besides to take part in their creative process the sonorous wealth and the mystical letters, Whispering Silence completes its line-up with Iván Carrillo - drums -, Martha Martinez - vocals -, Federico Figueroa - bass -, Érick Martinez - rythmical guitar- and Miguel Angel Martinez - lead guitar.
To David Vázquez, drummer of the local band Hydra, it is always a good opportunity to play next to an international band.
Their music proposal is perhaps one of most solid in the local scene (progressive elements, dark, heavy), emphasizing in first plane the symphonic touch that they impregnate in their music, thanks to the particular touch of the violin and the special voice of Marcela Bovio. Completing the line-up are: Alejandro Millán, keyboards; Roberto Quintanilla, guitarist and Carlos Martinez in the bass, who have an independent production called Bosquejo.