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Celestiial
Tanner Anderson holding a piece of bark. Bindrune Recordings has described Celestiial as being "created to mirror mysticism in nature."
Tanner Anderson holding a piece of bark. Bindrune Recordings has described Celestiial as being "created to mirror mysticism in nature. Mysticism (from the Greek grc μυστικός mystikos, an initiate of a Mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with identity "[1]
Background information
Origin Minnesota, USA
Genre(s) Funeral doom metal
Years active 2004 — present
Label(s) Bindrune
Associated acts Azrael
Autumnal Winds
Where Rivers End
Website Bindrune Recordings: Celestiial
Members
Tanner R. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Azrael is a Black metal band from Minnesota, USA, formed by Lord Samaiza and Algol in 1999 Anderson[2][3]

Celestiial is a one man funeral doom metal band from Minnesota. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers The band consists of Tanner R. Anderson, who has been, and still is, a member of several other bands. Celestiial is known for making use of numerous instruments in its music, combining traditional folk instruments with more modern ones, as well as sampling the sounds of the natural world. The primary imagery of music by the band is that of nature.

Currently, Celestiial has one full length album released, Desolate North, and is signed to Bindrune Recordings. Desolate North is the debut Studio album by the Funeral doom metal band Celestiial, released on Bindrune Recordings in 2006 A second, currently unnamed, album is in production.

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History

Celestiial

Marty Rytkonen, of Bindrune Recordings, was one of the "maybe six or so"[4] people to receive Celestiial's demo Ashen, but that he was the only person associated with a label. [4] He and Scott Candey agreed to take on the band,[5] and in 2006, Desolate North was released on Bindrune Recordings. [1] However, the album had not been studio recorded. Five of the songs; the five that Ashen comprised of, had been recorded one evening in the corner of the Azrael rehearsal space, and the three additional songs on Desolate North were recorded later. Azrael is a Black metal band from Minnesota, USA, formed by Lord Samaiza and Algol in 1999 One of them was in early 2005, and was recorded in the same place as the first five, but the other two, the songs featuring the harps, were recorded at Anderson's home, with his microphone literally tucked under his chin. [4] Desolate North received numerous positive reviews,[3][6] along with comparisons to bands such as Disembowelment. Disembowelment ( evisceration) is the removing of some or all of the vital organs usually from the Abdomen. [7] However, it also received negative reviews. [8] Bindrune are due to release Celestiial's second album in Summer 2007. [9] By comparison, it is due to be recorded in a studio, which Anderson feels will give it a different sound. Also, the album will be produced with the intention of producing an album, something that was never the case with Desolate North. [5]

Celestiial's music was used by Ballet Deviare in their performance Forged in January 2007. Ballet Deviare was founded in 2003 and is located in New York City and is the premier Heavy Metal ballet company In this, tracks by Celestiial was used alongside pieces by Arsis, Gwybleidd, Opeth, My Dying Bride, Swallow the Sun and Japanische Kampfhörspiele as backing tracks to the dancing. The plant genus name Arsis is nowadays a Junior synonym of Grewia. Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band that formed in 1990 in Stockholm. My Dying Bride is a British Doom metal band formed in 1990 Biography My Dying Bride was formed in June 1990 after lead guitarist Andrew Swallow the Sun is a Finnish melodic death / Doom metal band Biography Swallow the Sun was formed in early 2000 by Juha Raivio Japanische Kampfhörspiele, formed in 1998, is a Grindcore band from Krefeld Germany. Ballet is a formalized form of Dance with its origins in the French court further developed in France and Russia as a Concert dance [10] The music is also due to be used on May 24, 25 and 26 2008 as part of the newest Ballet Deviare production, Memento Mori. Ballet Deviare's performances to Celestiial's music have also appeared on the MTV Two show Headbangers Ball. MTV Two, formerly known as MTV2 Europe and M2, is a 24 hour alternative music channel broadcast from London throughout Europe. Headbangers Ball was a Television show about heavy metal and hardcore music airing on MTV2, MTV Australia, MTV [11]

In 2008, it was announced that Celestiial was due to release a split album with Blood of the Black Owl on Bindrune Recordings. [12] The final mastering came from Mel Detmer, and the release (titled only as Celestiial / Blood of the Black Owl Split 12"LP[13]) is limited to only 500 copies. [12] Each band contributed one song, with "White Depths Dove the Red-Eyed" from Celestiial. [13]

Tanner Anderson

The sole member of the band, Tanner R. Anderson, is a former member of a black metal band, Azrael, and Autumnal Winds. Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Azrael is a Black metal band from Minnesota, USA, formed by Lord Samaiza and Algol in 1999 [14] Anderson is currently involved with several other projects. He is part of "an obscure death metal band"[5] as well as several other small bands, which he has no desire to reveal details about. He is also involved in a long term project called Where Rivers End with A. Tolonen, from Nest and Shape of Despair, and Oscar Strik, formally of Pantheist. Nest is a Finnish Neofolk / ambient band The band's inspiration comes from the old folk and animal tales as well as from the works of Shape of Despair is a funeral doom metal band from Finland that was formed in 1995 as Raven. [5] Anderson has also mentioned that he plays drums in Goatlust and plays guitars and provides vocals for Sidhe. [4]

Anonymity

Despite the fact that other bands signed to Bindrune Recordings have MySpace profiles or websites,[9] Anderson says that he has no desire to promote Celestiial, and beyond answering e-mails and chatting on message boards, desires no Internet presence, and only allows himself to be interviewed through devotion to Bindrune Recordings. MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and He has said that he plays in a band where "anonymity is important/understood by all involved". [5] Anderson stated in the same interview that Celestiial is not a band, and so he did not intend to every do live performances, but said that it was certainly possible. [5] However, since then, it has been announced that he will be working with a drummer on his new album. [9]

Musical style

Desolate North

The music of Celestiial's debut album, Desolate North, makes use of minimal vocals, instead relying on electronics, guitars and syncopated drums (with liberal use of cymbals). Desolate North is the debut Studio album by the Funeral doom metal band Celestiial, released on Bindrune Recordings in 2006 The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells Cymbals are a modern percussion instrument Cymbals consist of thin normally round plates of various Cymbal alloys; see Cymbal making for a discussion of their Also, these are backed up by more traditional instruments, such as harps and Native American flutes. The harp is a Stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. The flute is a Musical instrument of the Woodwind family Unlike other woodwind instruments a flute is a Reedless wind instrument that produces its [3] Also, there is the use of sampled sounds of footsteps, water, birdsong, wind and the like. [7]

Celestiial is a funeral doom metal band. [3][7][15] However, Desolate North has been described as taking the genre in new directions with comparisons to ambient, goth, experimental and dark folk music being made. Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes This article is about the musical style of gothic rock For the goth scene in general see Goth subculture. Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre and/or which pushes the boundaries Neofolk is a form of Folk music -inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles [7] The music has also been described as meditative[16] and medieval. Meditation is a mental discipline by which one attempts to get beyond the conditioned "thinking" mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness [15]

Anderson admits that there may be death metal influences in the vocals, but says that it was not a conscious design, and that the music does not have any other similarities to death metal. Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs fast tempos heavily distorted guitars deep growling vocals morbid lyrics He claims that there are no black metal influences. Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, He says that describing Celestiial's music as folk is a bad idea, as folk is such a broad, vague description as to make it meaningless. Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous He says that what he is creating is neither folk, nor traditional, and even the harp songs are not traditional works, though they are influenced by the traditional music of the United Kingdom and traditional Irish music. Music from the United Kingdom has lost great popularity since the 1960s when a wave of musicians helped to popularise Rock and roll. Irish Music is the generic term for music that has been created in various genres on the entire island of Ireland, North and South of the border [5]

Unnamed second album

Although released in 2006, the music of Desolate North was much older. Anderson has said that he intends to incorporate ideas that he has had over the last few years into his new album, but that it will keep the same feel as Desolate North. However, the new album is due to sound "full and cavernous", as opposed to the "raw" sound the original had. [9] This is because it will now be more professionally produced, (by Chet Scott[5]) as well as having a real drummer. [9] As well as the harps and flutes, new instruments such as hammered dulcimers and nyckelharpas are due to be used, as well as more powerful guitars. The hammered dulcimer is a stringed Musical instrument with the strings stretched over a Trapezoidal sounding board A nyckelharpa (literally "key harp" plural nyckelharpor or sometimes keyed fiddle) is a traditional Swedish musical instrument [5]

Imagery

The music of Celestiial is very much based around nature, with natural sounds sampled, and imagery involving woodland, and, as one reviewer put it, "the scary places that we all fear when the lights are out". [3] Bindrune recordings describes this affinity for nature by saying that "Celestiial was created to mirror mysticism in nature. Mysticism (from the Greek grc μυστικός mystikos, an initiate of a Mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with identity "[1]

Some critics have talked of a black metal influence in imagery and naming. Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, For instance, the name Celestiial has been compared to that of Mütiilation. Mütiilation is a french one-man Black metal band that was affiliated with the Black Legions. [6] Anderson responded to this by claiming that he doesn't know why people compare his music to black metal; hypothesising that it is simply the raw production of the music, or the double 'i' in the band name. [5] He as instead described the double 'i' as being present in the name "to give it character. "[4]

Anderson was once asked about whether there were any pagan beliefs in Celestiial. Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller rustic" is a word used to refer to various religions and religious beliefs from across the world Anderson responded that Celestiial "is romanticized Paganism with very real pagan values behind it. Romanticism is a complex artistic literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the " He talked of how Celestiial celebrated paganism and the natural world, but that paganism is often viewed as something that it is not. [5]

Discography

References

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