There is more than one artist with this name: 1. Sol is a Seattle, Washington based hip-hop artist. His signature sound maintains a marriage between the core values of hip-hop and the mainstream sensibility of pop(ular) music. Sol says that he grew up on a combination of 90
There are at least four artists called Quasar... (I) A British Progressive Rock band (II) A Psytrance musician (III) A Funeral Doom Metal band from Russia (IV) A three-piece Progressive/Psychedelic Extreme Metal band from Australia. I: QUASAR was formed in 1979 by founder Keith Turner. They found themselves to be amongst a movement of British bands during the early 1980s, including Marillion, Pendragon, Twelfth Night, Solstice and Pallas, that continued in the progressive rock style created by 1970s bands such as Genesis and Yes.
1) diSEMBOWELMENT was an Australian death/doom metal band from Melbourne that was formed in 1989 after the two piece grind band Bacteria featuring drummer Paul Mazziotta and guitarist/vocalist Renato Gallina changed its name and musical style. With Dean Ruprich from Necrotomy providing bass, the band released its first demo, "Mourning September" in 1990. The band played very slowly (and occasionally with great speed), and relied equally on the atmospheric effects of droning guitars and constant riffing.
Finland's Skepticism is one of the pioneers of funeral doom metal. Combining painfully slow Doom/Death Metal styled riffs, solemn keyboards and sparse percussion with deep growling, boundaries were pushed once again. The band uses four instruments: drums, played with felt beaters, keyboards with organ pedals, guitar, and vocals. With this, they create songs that are both within the range of contemporary doom metal in terms of heaviness and slowness, yet far beyond the range of others where atmosphere and sound is considered.
There are several performers under name "Esoteric":
1) A funeral doom/death metal band from United Kingdom
2) A disbanded Mexican death metal band, which released a demo in 1995
3) Emcee of the Boston hip-hop act 7L & Esoteric
4) new age artist of unknown origin, one album from 1991, titled "Enigma of Faith"
5) Dutch acid techno artist Curley's alias. About the doom metal act from Birmingham, UK:
From the ashes of Sod Hauler and Lethe comes Bell Witch, the newest heavy music project for Seattle based drummer Adrian Guerra and bassist Dylan Desmond (also of Samothrace). Bell Witch's bass and drum only doom metal is extremely bleak and extremely heavy, just as it should be.
Forgotten Tomb is a black metal band formed in Piacenza, Italy in 1999 by Ferdinando "Herr Morbid" Marchisio. The band is well-known for being among the pioneers of the so-called depressive black metal subgenre. They have modified their style over the years by adding classic rock influences to the typical eerie sound. The lyrical themes of the early albums revolve mostly around depression and suicide, while the recent albums lyrics deal with negativity and nihilism.
There are at least 10 artists using the name Moss: 1) A British sludge/doom metal band.
2) A Dutch indie band.
3) A downtempo/nu-jazz producer
4) A progressive trance producer
5) A minimal producer/remixer
6) Ngati Tuwharetoa (dub)
7) A Finnish indie band
8) A garage producer
9) A new vocal jazz group
10) A chinese melodic death metal band. 1)
Formed in 2000, Moss is an occult doom metal band from the United Kingdom.
Falling Trees is a one-man doom metal band created specifically for airtime on WSRN's 'Encyclopedia Brutallum'. So far, they have only recorded one song.
Intaglio is a Russian funeral doom metal band, signed to Solitude productions. Their music can be described as a more mellow mix of Evoken and slower doom.