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WINTER
1990 - Into Darkness.
way more Helter Skelter.

July 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: Into Darkness.

Finally ...some chilling American doom-death.

NYC, a scene mostly recognized by hardcore, but never for doommetal, yet. Combining the divine might of mid 70s BLACK SABBATH and the chromatic-riffing patterns of HELLHAMMER ...here's the oldschool trio of WINTER ...a 10-ton nirvana soundscape.

The fuzzy-bass tone would make Lemmy blush, while the multi-tracked guitars literally makes sub-woofers hum in the low-ends. The crisp drum acoustics overheads rings while the bassdrums and floor-toms are earthquake worthy on their own.

The 5:57sec eerie intro "Oppression Freedom / Oppression (reprise)" is a glimpse of the apocalypse to come. Dissonant guitars with spacey effects and percussions like rolling on tombstones, plunges us into a deep freeze and then ...rise. "Servants Of The Warsmen" is a mid-paced piece with NYHC-signature beats, an assured moshpit as it slowly but surely mesmerizes you with it's fat-toned power-chords.

Dive head-first into darkness with the cold "Eternal Frost". A deathrash experimentation of both mosh-music and ethereal sights ...the breakdown-part is an homage to the mighty CELTIC FROST out-of-body legacy, for reference see the FROST's "Danse Macabre" and "Tears In A Prophet's Dream". The suffocating quicksand of "Goden" will slowly drown you, while the divine 9:27sec title-track for "Into Darkness" is a Titanic-maelstrom of muddy riffs and goth-punk attitude.

Mandatory doom.

While the mid-to-late 80s was a rapid arms-race for both thrashmetal and deathmetal, WINTER is a total 90° shockwave. A fresh band with a unique tone, vibe and signature. Their concept is based on the premonition of a post-World War Three epoch, where inhabitants would be living in a nuclear ...winter.

Released during 1990's hot Summer, it's ice-cold heaviness is still felt today. The now cultic WINTER has achieved in a short time, full respect from the doom, stoner and dronemetal scenes. 35 neanderthal years later, Into Darkness CD would be WINTER's only release, as their label went bankrupt and they disbanded not long after. Reunited in recent years to perform selected gigs, but hasn't recorded new music ...some members have now devoluted with a new entity: GÖDEN.

RISE !

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Servants Of The Warsmen = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvLXTfcL5jg
Into Darkness = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skhAlPhgQzE&list=OLAK5uy_kV7mGi_fv10typ985AoR8-AxjjBCoSNP0
Live reunion in 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgxYwcTkrsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx3jnM3Zwfg