Thy Grief – The Frozen Tomb Of Mankind (1997)

Country: Norway

Tracklist

1. The Frozen Tomb Of Mankind 06:10
2. Blod På Himmelen 04:42
3. Into The Land Of Shadows 05:39
4. Twilight Shine Upon Majestic Mountains 05:34
5. Da Mørket Omfavnet Meg 04:11
6. Nocturnal Eyes 04:51
7. In Spite Of Victory 04:36
8. Echoes From A Past Forgotten 07:59
9. Sorgens Klør 04:35

Thy Grief was formed in the beginning of 1995 with the wish to create music

that combined darkness and rawness atmospheric harmonies.

It was also essential to put effort into improving the quality of their music and the sound as well,

and at the same time still hold on to the genre.

Lyrically Thy Grief is pure fictional with aspects to bring the music and lyrics closer together

through describing the emotions experienced within.
In August 1995 Thy Grief entered a studio to record the debut demo called "A Frozen Realm"

with Kim Anders Johannessen (guitar, keys), Kjetil Monsen (bass), Ken Larsen (guitar, keys) and Roald Fosse (vocals).

As the band had no permanent drummer at the time, Vrolok of Aeternus helped out with the drums on the recording.

The demo was recorded and mixed in four days in a 16-track studio.

Despite the short period the demo attained very good sound quality and received good responds.

As a result in May 1996 Thy Grief signed a two album record contract with the German label Solistitium Records.
At the time there were some line up problems when Ken and Roald left the band

and two new members had to be recruited.

This turned out to be Christer Korsvold (bass, keys) and Frode Gaustad (drums).
The new line up caused a delay due to rehearsals

as the recording of the debut album was originally scheduled to begin in August 1996.
Finally, in February 1997, Thy Grief could enter the studio to record their debut album "The Frozen Tomb Of Mankind".

The album was recorded in a 16-track digital studio containing nine tracks

and is a pointer to the high potential of Thy Grief could have.
After the recording of the album Christer left the band as he felt he couldn't express his music.
Some musical disputes were also present.

There were plans for a second album with half of the new songs been composed,

based on a slower tempo and given more weight on the melodic parts of the music,

and with the intention to to enter the recording studio in August-September of 1998,

but this never happened and the band split up around 1999 - 2000.

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