Tristania
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Stavanger, Norway (1996 – present)
The band’s music is usually classified as gothic metal, due to its strong ties with the genre’s history in addition to the band’s use of styles and traits stereotypical of the genre. However, they pride themselves on their musical diversity, as evidenced by the evolution of their music over the course of their five studio albums.
Tristania’s earlier albums Widow’s Weeds and Beyond the Veil put a lot of focus around classical like female vocals, haunting choruses and classical instruments such as pipe organ, flutes and violins. The leading voice on many of their songs was the menacing harsh vocals of Morten Veland. The atmosphere is also achieved by quite unique sounding guitar effects.
Morten Veland left in 2000 for “musical and social differences” to form the band Sirenia.
With the release of the World of Glass album in 2001, Veland’s growls were replaced by guest vocalist Ronny Thorsen from Trail of Tears, and clean male vocals were provided by veteran guests Østen Bergøy and Jan Barkverd. Despite the new lineup and a slightly changed style that turned off some fans, the album received critical acclaim.
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World of Glass
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Rubicon
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Beyond the Veil
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Illumination
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Pieerrot Every time I talk to someone about Tristania, the person stays very interested in knowing the sound because I say it's a mixture of heavy metal and classical music with an opera singer. It must be frustrating when they search on "Google" and find some video / sound with Mary.
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Natallis I miss the voice of Vibeke. [2]
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vox_abracadabra I miss the voice of Vibeke.
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LuanNogueira World Of Glass is the best album.Perfect.
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Pdebaunilha Tristania now is a great example of how make "success" using the name and career of other artists [2]
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Drostanxxx World Of Glass is perfect beyond words - you won't get any argument there LadyDraconian - which is why so many people are disappointed Rubicon's 'still a good album' - still, it's all relative, at least Tristania hasn't done an 'Enigma of Life' ;)
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LadyDraconian @Drostanxxx I firt started listening to Tristania in 2005, my first album being World Of Glass, which is perfect beyond words. So, mayhaps Rubicon doesn't compare to the magic or beauty of World Of Glass, BUT it's still a good album, and is still very Tristania sounding to me.
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St1cki3 Quick! Someone point me in the right direction to discover more gothic metal!
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album taster, May 2010
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Announcement from Tristania:…
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Year Of The Rat Live @…
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02 - The Emerald Piper (NEW…
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Events
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Jun
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Loud Festival 2012
The Park Site of Sofia Airport, Terminal 2, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Jul
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B'ESTFEST Summer Camp 2012
B'estfest Park, Tunari, Romania
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Tristania
Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
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News
Prague Show Sold Out !!
24 Sep 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/tristania
- Prague Show Sold Out !! 24 Sep 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/tristania
- Comment on Tristania to Mexico in November by Luigi Ra 6 Sep 2011 | from www.tristania.com/2010
- Comment on Tristania to Mexico in November by Sergio 5 Sep 2011 | from www.tristania.com/2010
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