Wuthering Heights (Band)
Wuthering Heights is a Danish metal band that plays a mix of progressive metal, folk metal and power metal.
History
The band formed in 1989 under the name Angelica, for the first demo cassette ( Tales from the Woods ), however, the end of 1992 named by you in Minas Tirith. Prior to recording the second demo in 1995 they changed the band name to Vergelmir, another name was changed finally to Wuthering Heights. Under this name the album Within was published in 1999, followed in 2002 by To Travel For Evermore Far From the Madding Crowd and in 2004. The first appearance outside Europe followed in the summer of 2004 at the ProgPower Festival in Atlanta. Film recordings of this work should first be added as a bonus DVD of the fourth album, but they decided instead for a bonus live CD. This fourth release of the band in 2006 was called The Shadow Cabinet. The only remaining founding member of the band, which currently stands at Locomotive Records, Erik Ravn is.
Style
Music
The role played by the band style combines elements of several metal - directions, be connected with influences from folk music traditional Heavy Metal, Power Metal and Speed Metal, instruments used are, for example, bagpipes, violin and flute. Indicative of the power metal content of the pieces are also striking melodies and clean vocals. The band is often attributed to the progressive metal musical neighbors, however, are rather Falconer and Elvenking.
Text
Wuthering Heights write about different topics, but this often Tolkien -influenced fantasy ( sometimes referring to places and creatures in Tolkien's world ) and folklore, with an emphasis on nature themes. References to the 19th century are hardly present in the texts, although one could conclude this from the band's name, based on the work of Wuthering Heights by British author Emily Brontë. The title of the third album Far from the madding crowd is also based on the homonymous work of Thomas Hardy.