WINTERMOND at Vampirefreaks.com [Premium Member] [ gothic music profile ]

Wintermond's Hour of Birth was the first half of the year 2004. In the beginning, after the breakup of his former band, it was meant as a solo project of the band founder Didic, who wanted to rather spend some time on his own musical ideas and the home and studio recording. Soon in 2005, as Gabrielle joined for the female vocal parts, a duo emerged from the formerly solo-project. With this, the core membership of Wintermond had joined together, even though at this point nobody could foresee that from this a whole band would evolve later. Together, in the progress of the winter 2005/2006, they launched their first demo long-player "Blutrot" ("Bloodred") as a cd mini edition. "Blutrot" was receiving good feedback from the start and through self marketing, became soon out of stock. But a real starting signal for the development yet to come was given one year later. Then, with "Ein Tropfen Seligkeit" ("a drop of blessedness") the second longplayer of the duo came out, which like "Blutrot" was uploaded for public-download on the net. With this, Didic and Gabrielle competed 2007/2008 for Wintermond at the "Sonic Seducers's Battle of the Bands Contest" at which, with his side project "Judas Kuss" ("Juda's Kiss"), Didic already achieved a middle high ranking at the readers's choice. But both haven't had reckoned with the result: not only the song "F?r die Ewigkeit" ("For Eternity") achieved a place among the top 50 for which it therefore partook at the contest, but the result for this surprisingly was rank 1, breaking every expectation that might have been made! Considering the impression of success and liability for every fan and voter, the two decided together to undertake the difficult task to form a complete band out of Wintermond, which also could perform live music. In the progress of the year 2008 the search began. Through acquaintanceship to Gabrielle, Luk could be won over as the lead guitarist. Julian attended to an announcement and soon after this became the band's drummer. At last, Chris took his place as Wintermond's bass player in the beginning of 2009, joining there after an invitation of Julian. So, the band was complete at last and the future's way prepared. In the progress of the year 2009, the events rolled over: Wintermond signed a contract with the label "Danse Macabre" and therefore recorded their first commercial studio album "Desiderium" in Fall/Winter 2010 which turned up in the beginning of 2010 and surpassed all former announcements comparing quality and expenditure. Musically Wintermond undertook another step forward and grew toghether very harmonically. [CF 2009-2010]

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