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United States of America (Dale City, Virginia) (1989 – present)
In late November 1989, guitarist Chris Galvan and I decided to start a new project of heavy, progressive, all-original metal. We’d both spent a portion of the previous year in a power metal band called Polaris (do keep in mind, that at this time “power metal” referred to bands like Metal Church, or the sound of the first Anthrax and Overkill albums, NOT the happy Euro metal of today), that fell apart one member at a time after a single low-budget demo.
We wanted to pursue a heavier and more diverse direction than Polaris, having been strongly influenced by the thrash movement, early death metal, doom, and progressive metal (Polaris essentially sounded like Maiden/Priest on steroids; fairly straight ahead NWOBHM influenced metal), and right away we started on our first song called “The Mourning”.
We thought it was pretty clever to start off by giving everyone the impression it was going to be a total thrasher, but it was pretty clear by the second riff (which Chris nicked from Stravinsky!) that this wasn’t going to be the standard affair. I rounded out the rest of the song with some slow galloping riffs influenced by Candlemass. The songwriting was far from polished or mature, but it definitely provided us with a launching point.
Initially, we christened the project Dream Wytch, and brought in Chris’ younger brother Brendan in on vocals, who at the time had a voice that was a strange hybrid of Geoff Tate and David Bowie! We tried out a few local drummers, but nothing really panned out in those first few months, so we just kept writing.
We wanted to pursue a heavier and more diverse direction than Polaris, having been strongly influenced by the thrash movement, early death metal, doom, and progressive metal (Polaris essentially sounded like Maiden/Priest on steroids; fairly straight ahead NWOBHM influenced metal), and right away we started on our first song called “The Mourning”.
We thought it was pretty clever to start off by giving everyone the impression it was going to be a total thrasher, but it was pretty clear by the second riff (which Chris nicked from Stravinsky!) that this wasn’t going to be the standard affair. I rounded out the rest of the song with some slow galloping riffs influenced by Candlemass. The songwriting was far from polished or mature, but it definitely provided us with a launching point.
Initially, we christened the project Dream Wytch, and brought in Chris’ younger brother Brendan in on vocals, who at the time had a voice that was a strange hybrid of Geoff Tate and David Bowie! We tried out a few local drummers, but nothing really panned out in those first few months, so we just kept writing.
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Unjesus wrote:
Vessel is such a fucking good song. I'm loving the new album
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SinsOfArcadia wrote:
Uh, the title track is pretty much the epitome of 'epic doom'. Same can be said for a majority of the first track.
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Eskarpen wrote:
Becoming more and more power metal but that's okay with me. They love Fates Waring and so do I. No one in their right minds would call the new album doom metal.
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talewynn wrote:
buy a tshirt at least =/
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BeyondTheHorror wrote:
It has now leaked, oh oh oh nice to ehar gonna give a spin in a few minutes.
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SinsOfArcadia wrote:
New album is incredible.. dare I say even better than their last.
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SinsOfArcadia wrote:
Barely 2,500 listeners of one of the best doom bands of all time..? Really, internets?
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Shandified wrote:
While Heaven Wept "Vast Oceans Lachrymose" Pre-Orders Availible Now!
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Shandified wrote:
Samples from entire Vast Oceans Lachrymose album now posted!
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jewelthrone wrote:
Ordered the new album today. I have quite high expectations for VOL...
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Krumhur wrote:
The authors of the album of 2009 for me! One of the best of the decade, easily!
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Shandified wrote:
New images uploaded here. Vote up the 2009 band photo!
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Shandified wrote:
@BeyondTheHorror >>> Me too, brother, me too...
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BeyondTheHorror wrote:
Want new album now.
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Soma_Infected wrote:
Listen to a preview of the new album on myspace www.myspace.com/whileheavenwept
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TheBoxx wrote:
New songs on MySpace sound great. Can't wait for it to come out.
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lintmunro wrote:
I'm listening to the new one now, first exposure to the band. I can post impressions later if you want.
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RealKustin wrote:
From what I heard through MySpace, Vast Oceans Lachrymose sounds really promising, as much as Of Empires Forlorn. : )
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Zhacker wrote:
Дебютник у них Death/Doom?
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HolyandFallen wrote:
the only band playing epic/traditional doom that i actually liked
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VOL now available in the EU and N.America!
6 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/whileheavenwept
Greetings everyone! Just a brief note or two reminding you that as of today, November 6th, 2009 the"Vast Oceans Lachrymose" CD is now available in both Europe and North America officially! The LP . …
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