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Schwarzenburg, Switzerland |
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Black Metal |
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Page online:
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May 10, 2025
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Last update/review:
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May 10, 2025
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Paysage d'Hiver
Released in 2020,
Im Wald may be the debut album of
Paysage d'Hiver, but this is hardly the first recording of this project.
Wintherr the man set this one-person (naturally) black metal project
in motion in 1998, and in the intervening years put down a dozen plus
recordings (demos, really, though most are album length if not longer),
gradually building an underground audience.
Im Wald is massive, over 2 hours in length (and not a rehash/compilation
of earlier works), featuring 9 ten-plus-minute icy, first-wave-influenced
wall-of-sound black metal
slogs alongside several well-placed ambient, forest-y interludes.
Given the song lengths and the relative sameness of the songs (and
the gradual ebbs within each song), it should be monotonous, but somehow
it isn't.
Granted, it may be difficult to listen to this in its entirety in one
sitting unless as background ambience, but the songs are strangely
compelling -- the shrieked vocals would be too much if in the foregound,
but buried in the mix they enhance the primal iciness of the riffs.
The entire affair is quite remarkable, even if the target audience doesn't
extend beyond black metal purists.
Two albums have been released since
Im Wald, and there have been reports
that Wintherr may be moving on to something different, whether that be
with this project or not is unclear.
Current Members
Wintherr (Tobias Möckl)
all instruments
Discography
Im Wald
2020
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- Im Winterwald
- Über den Bäumen
- Schneeglitzern Instrumental
- Alt
- Wurzel
- Stimmen im Wald
- Flug
- Le rêve lucide
- Eulengesang
- Kälteschauer
- Verweilen
- Weiter, immer weiter
- So hallt es wider
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Im Traum
EP
2020
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- Dans le rêve lucide
- Im Kaelteschauer
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Geister
2021
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- Schattä
- Bluet
- Wüetig
- Undä
- Äschä
- Wärzä
- Anders
- Schtampfä
- Gruusig
- Schuurig
- Geischtr
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