Artist: Burden Of Grief
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
On Darker Trails
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Haunting Requiems
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Known for their love of amphetamine-like intensity and high-velocity bombast, Burden of Grief is a German metallic element band that believes in expiration for the jugular vein. Some people bear characterized their blistery put to work as "melodic death metal," a term that has been applied to Scandinavian bands like At the Gates, In Flames, and Age of Ruin. But Burden of Grief don't really sound like the Nordic bands that are considered melodious death metal and/or symphonic shameful alloy. Instead, Burden of Grief -- whose albums are best described as a combination of decease metallic element and thrash alloy with power metal references -- get most of their inspiration from American and British bands, and those bands reach from the seminal Slayer to Megadeth to Iron Maiden (although Burden of Grief more often than not party favour a harsher and quicker approach than Maiden and other old school exponent metallic element outfits).
Encumbrance of Grief were formed in Kassel, Germany, during the summer of 1994, when lead singer Mike Huhmann got together with drummer Christoph Schellöh and iI guitarists: Oliver Eikenberg (world Health Organization stuck about until 2001) and Philipp Hanfland. For their first few months, Burden of Grief didn't possess a bassist, merely that changed when bassist Ulrich Busch came on board in late 2004 -- and with that five-man batting order in seat, Burden of Grief recorded their first demonstration cassette, A Duet of Thoughts, in 1996. More demos followed, including Above Twilight Wings in 1997 and Eternal Solar Eclipse in 1999. It was too in 1999 that the German headbangers signed with a small independent label called Grind Syndicate Media, which digitally remastered their 1997 and 1999 demo/promotional recordings (including a cover of the Iron Maiden favorite "Stalker") and combined them as a full-length record album coroneted Haunting Requiems in 2000. Subsequent Burden of Grief discs included the album On Darker Trails (released on Massacre Records in 2001) and their tierce official full-length album, W. C. Fields of Salvation, a 2003 recording that was released by Remedy Records in Europe in 2004 (the yr of the band's tenth anniversary) earlier approaching out on Magick/Cleopatra in the United States in 2005.
During their first 11 years, Burden of Grief weren't virtually as often of a revolving door as some decease metallic element and shameful alloy bands can be -- there have been cases of uttermost metal bands going through 12 bassists or ten or more drummers in the course of action of a few months. Nonetheless, Burden of Grief possess had some batting order changes from time to metre. Their lineup was fairly stable until 1999, when drummer Schellöh was replaced by Christian Nürnberg (world Health Organization terminated up having to leave because of military responsibility and was replaced by Carsten Schmerer -- the someone wHO had produced the Eternal Solar Eclipse demo). In 2005, Burden of Grief's five-man lineup included foundation members Huhmann and Hanfland as well as Schmerer, Ulrich Busch (wHO had switched from sea bass to guitar in 2001), and bassist Dirk Bulmahn (a 2001 arrival).
