How Like a Winter

How Like a Winter is a gothic doom metal band from Italy that was formed in the mid-1990s, although their first recording wasn't until much later. The band's music, which can be described as atmospheric and melancholy, is composed using violins, various classical, acoustic and electric guitars, and features male and female vocalists; the band members all use evocative pseudonyms. Male vocals are both clean and growled, whereas the female duo of Tragedy and Misery are invariably clean. Delicate violins mingle with heavy guitar riffs and are complemented by acoustic guitar solos. The band's music has been likened to that of Paradise Lost, Celestial Season, Novembers Doom, Shape of Despair, and My Dying Bride.[1] Guitarist Mist lists My Dying Bride as a great inspiration, along with Opeth and Katatonia among others.[2]

How Like a Winter
How Like a Winter members (L-R):- Tragedy, Dust, Mist, Agony, Bane, Misery
Background information
OriginCampobasso, Italy
GenresGothic metal
Death/doom
Years active1995 − present
LabelsMartyr Music Group
Websitewww.howlikeawinter.it
MembersDust
Agony
Tragedy
Misery
Bane
Mist

Their first recording was the 2001 demo-CD The Winter's Near. The band subsequently released their full-length album ...Beyond My Grey Wake in 2003. Both CDs were recorded at Temple of Noise studios, Rome, Italy. The release of their debut full-length album was met by very favourable reviews from magazines including Vampire Magazine, Digital Metal and Metal Edge. Martyr Music Group stated "Early in the year (2003) How Like a Winter's debut CD ...Beyond My Grey Wake comes out and the response was simply phenomenal".[3] The band are currently working on new material.

Etymology

The band's name is taken from the first line of William Shakespeare's sonnet XCVII:- "How like a winter hath my absence been".[4]

Members
  • Dust − male vocals, piano, orchestra
  • Agony − violins
  • Tragedy − female vocals[5]
  • Misery − female vocals[6]
  • Bane − bass guitar
  • Mist − classical, acoustic, electric guitars

Discography

References
  1. "Digitalmetal.com review of ...Beyond My Grey Wake". digitalmetal.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2007.
  2. "Interview with Mist". Vampire Magazine.
  3. "Martyr Music Group history". Martyr Music Group.
  4. "Shakespeare's Sonnet XCVII". shakespeares-sonnets.com.
  5. "Encyclopaedia Metallum Profile". Encyclopaedia Metallum.
  6. "Encyclopaedia Metallum Profile". Encyclopaedia Metallum.
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