Northwinds

Not to end up being confused using a short-lived American swiftness metal music group, France’s Northwinds traded in doom steel throughout their obscure, three-album profession. To begin with, although they started taking shape as soon as 1987 — without doubt inspired with the rise of Sweden’s all-conquering Candlemass — the group just got around to issuing its initial demos in the mid-‘90s, and documented its debut record, Great God Skillet (formulated with epic-length originals and a fascinating cover of Dark Sabbath’s “A Country wide Acrobat”), through the tiny Dark Widow label in 1998. At the moment, Northwinds contains vocalist/guitarist/bassist Vincent Niclas, keyboardist Marco, drummer/vocalist Sylvain Auvé, and guitarist Sébastian Thurjez, who was simply changed by one David Marcos before 2001’s sophomore Experts of Magic. Sadly, this LP fared no much better than its forerunner, commercially speaking, and delivered the band right into a five-year hibernation, finally snapped by 2006’s Chimeres, which noticed Niclas and Auvé trading their audio with a lot more ambitious progressive rock and roll experiments while encircled by new people Thomas Batside (acoustic guitar), Thomas Boivin (bass), and Emmanuel Peyraud (keyboards).