Uma daquelas bandas com uma sonoridade extremamente densa e portadora de uma originalidade fora do comum, o que lhes confere uma identidade única numa altura em que cada vez mais é complicado aparecer com algo fresco.
Minsk is a doom metal/post-metal band from Peoria, Illinois founded in 2002. They are signed to Relapse Records on which they released their second full-length and most recent release, the 2007 album The Ritual Fires of Abandonment. Self described as "psychedelic metal", their songs tend to start out as slow and simple, and become heavy and complex towards the end. Their sound draws equally from sludge metal, doom metal, hardcore punk, ambient and noise music, with a highly psychedelic attitude achieved through tribal drum patterns, thick layers of synthesizers and keyboards, and echoing vocals.
They are named after the capital of Belarus, and the idea of survival through suffering is a recurring theme in the lyrics and musical style. In fact, regarding the origin of their name, their official biography states: "Drawing its nominal inspiration from a remote Belarussian city nestled deep amidst the in-betweens of the East and the West, a city that has been burned to the ground on several occasions only to be rebuilt like a Phoenix rising from its ashes" [1]. The sounds and atmospheres they evoke in their songs are complex and psychedelic and have led many critics, and mostly the band members themselves, to describe their music as "deeply spiritual and emotional"
Band Members
Chris Bennett - Guitar, Vocals
Tim Mead - Vocals, Conga Drums, Keyboard
Sanford Parker - Bass, Vocals (Buried at Sea, Behold! The Living Corpse, Nachtmystium, Twilight (USA))
Tony Wyioming - Drums
discografia
demos
Burning
2004 Demo
Out of A Center
splits
Unearthly Trance / Minsk
Albuns
Out of a Center Which is Neither Dead nor Alive
The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
