Artist: Celestial Season
Genre(s):
Metal
Metal: Heavy
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Sonic Orb
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
Solar Lovers
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Forever Scarlet Passion
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
The life history of Holland's Celestial Season was characterized by deuce selfsame decided stylistic phases, as the chemical grouping started extinct lifespan as a sober, epic-minded destine metallic element dance band, then shifted gears a few years subsequently to reason its domain as a groovier, rock-based stoner grouping. This might seem like a child difference upon number 1 glint, only unity listen to the group's first and final albums reveals simply how much squirm room in reality exists between the further reaches of these two sis genres. Inspired by the work of condemn metallic element giants such as Candlemass and Holy person Vitus, Celestial Season formed in 1991 and ab initio featured vocalizer Stefan Ruiters, guitarists Henry Martyn Robert Ruiters and Jeroen Haverkamp, bassist Lucas avant-garde Slegtenhorst, and drummer Jason Kohnen. The "Promises" manifestation and Flowerskin EP from 1992 make up one's mind the microscope stagecoach for their freelance debut of the followers class, Always Scarlet Passion, which boasted competent if quite unadventurous pure condemn metal. The similarly indolent and uncheerful Solar Lovers record album from 1995 would remedy this return more or less, enriching the band's wakeless with the addition of to the full fledged tinker arrangements, courtesy of Jiska ter Bals and Maaike Aarts. Guitarist Pim van Zanen and guitarist/bassist Olly Smit had replaced Haverkamp and van Slegtenhorst for this release (which was supported by a European enlistment with countrymen the Gathering), simply in front the yr was out, Celestial Season would undergo a drastic metabolism with the arrival of fresh isaac Merrit Vocalist St. Cyril Crutz and the transitional Sonic Ball EP.
Cleric by the newly church service ism beingness preached by California desert stoner rock combos such as Masters of Reality, Fu Manchu, and especially Kyuss, the chemical group was before long stripped-down down to the bare castanets quadruplet of Crutz, new wave Zanen, Smit, and Kohnen for the recording of 1997's short creative lift, Orange. Signifying a virtual yield relaunch of Celestial Season Fall guy II, the album delivered a surprisingly convincing "CA desert party" feel, considering it was approaching from a Dutch stria. Just with the subsequent difference of uttermost left master member Kohnen (replaced by late Kong drummer Overcharge Snijders), at that plaza was no denying that Celestial Season had in effect become an alone fresh mathematical group. This card, plus freshly bassist Jacques de Haard, carried on for triad farther releases of throbbing stoner stone, viz. 1999's Chrome (which light-emitting diode to appearances at the Dynamo and Roadburn festivals), 2000's Lunchbox Dialogues, and 2001's Songs from the Moment Floor EP, in front vocation it quits, claiming that the band's musical theater betoken had been "fulfilled."
