TRISTWOOD BAND PAGE
 TRISTWOOD
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CURRENT NAME
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Tristwood |
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FORMER NAMES
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December |
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ORIGIN
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Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria |
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STATUS
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Active |
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FORMED IN
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1996 |
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LABEL
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Sound Riot Records |
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GENRE
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Black metal |
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STYLE
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- |
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LYRICAL THEME
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- |
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BAND ADDED
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2005-10-05, 00:00 |
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LAST UPDATE
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2009-02-20, 01:34 |
Tristwood was formed in 1996 under the previous name ‘December’, consisting of three members (Deimon, Neru and Reitrakh). In the early beginnings the band´s style was rather ‘traditional’, the vein of e.g. Khold, Dimmu Borgir and Mayhem. Their first demo “Torment” was recorded in January 1997 and found its way to the tyrolean underground; shortly after the Torment session Reitrakh left the band due to musical differences because the others wanted to change the band´s attitude into a more avangardistic, unique style of black metal.
The project was temporarily quit until 2001 when Neru and Kjell reformed December but changed the name into ‘Tristwood’ after a few weeks. In 2002, Deimon, Kjell and Neru started a pre-production for their upcoming output.
Finally, “Fragments of the mechanical unbecoming” was recorded in summer 2003. The style they now have reached could be discribed as a brutal, psychedelic, avangardistic and cold sort of black-metal, based on the ideas of some futuristic and technocratic dark Endtime-Stories (e.g. by Eric van Lustbader, Christoph Ransmayr).
In early October 2005 the band signed a contract with the Portuguese / Brazilian label Sound Riot Records.
| Session musicians Add - Fetch |
| Unknown / none |
