Caïna (band)

Caïna is an English one-man post-black-metal band from Manchester, formed in 2004 by Andrew Curtis-Brignell (known as "A" on early releases).

Caïna
OriginManchester, England
GenresDark ambient
Post-black metal
Years activeSince 2004 (2004)
LabelsProfound Lore Records
Websitecaina.150m.com
MembersAndrew Curtis-Brignell – multi-instruments
Past membersJon Brignell – double bass
Laurence Taylor - vocals

History

The project was designed to become a continually evolving musical entity, combining the frigid and cold musical framework of the rawest black metal with a post-rock/ambient sound and aesthetic. Stylistically drawing from influences as disparate as black and death metal, drone, dream pop/shoegaze, neofolk and post-rock, each Caïna release is designed to be a distinct entity with its own palette and mood. Amongst the project's lyrical themes are English myths and legends, its literature, the repudiation of religion and the exultation of the individual.

The name "Caïna" refers an eternally frozen lake in Dante's Inferno (14th century); a bottomless fissure filled with blackened ice, reverberating with the lament of innumerable damned souls, from which there is no escape.

Discography

Albums
  • 2006 – Some People Fall
  • 2007 – Mourner
  • 2008 – Temporary Antennae
  • 2011 – Hands That Pluck
  • 2011 – Will over Worlds (compilation)
  • 2013 - Litanies of Abjection
  • 2015 - Setter of Unseen Snares
  • 2016 - Christ Clad in White Phosphorus
  • 2019 - Embrace Entropy: Selected Singles, EPs and Splits (compilation)
  • 2019 - Auguries of Alienation (Demos and Rarities 2004-2008) (compilation)
  • 2019 - Gentle Illness

Singles and EPs
  • 2007 – "I, Mountain"
  • 2007 – "The Heart of the Master"
  • 2009 – "Caïna"
  • 2013 – "Earth Inferno"
  • 2020 – "Dreaming in Curses"
  • 2020 – "What After"
  • 2020 – "Forced Scarcity"

Demos
  • 2005 – "When We Are Grown, We Will Be Strong"
  • 2006 – "The Cold Taste of Perdition"
  • 2006 – "The King Beneath"

Splits
  • 2006 – "Age of Thorns (An Anti-Monotheistic Hate Monument)"
  • 2009 – "Krieg / Caïna"
  • 2009 – "Caïna / Process of Guilt"
  • 2011 – "White Medal / Caïna"
  • 2014 - Esoteric Youth / Caïna

Albums
  • 2016 – Destroy all Monsters
  • 2016 – The Mind is an Ocean at Night
  • 2016 – Uncontact
  • 2016 – Ammuttadori
  • 2016 – A Field Guide to Occult Warfare
  • 2018 – Chalices Filled With Pallid Stars - An Introduction to Ritual Object (compilation)
  • 2019 – Autobiography of a Wound

Singles and EPs
  • 2017 – Category Three

Demos
  • 2016 – Gallowdust
  • 2017 – A Candle For the Devil

Line-up

Current members

Former members
  • Jon Brignell – bass, double bass
  • Laurence Taylor (Cold Fell) - Vocals

See also
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