Old Dead Tree

France’s notoriously eclectic (and divisive) the Aged Dead Tree had been founded in 1997 by vocalist/guitarist Manuel Munoz, guitarist Nicolas Chevrollier, bassist Vincent Danhier, and drummer Frédéric Guillemot, with a watch of smashing the conventions of severe steel by infusing it with goth, darkwave, and also dark pop components. However, the group’s pleasure over divulging its music for the very first time via 1999’s The Blossom demonstration was immediately smashed by the next suicide of drummer Guillemot. But this tragic event also offered to operate a vehicle the Old Deceased Tree onward, plus they drafted brand-new drummer Franck Metayer to execute over the 2003 concept record The Nameless Disease, that was motivated by and focused on their dropped friend’s terminal unhappiness, with production responsibilities handled by previous Holy Moses guitarist Andy Classen. There implemented two even more genre-bending albums — 2005’s The Perpetual Movement and 2007’s WATER Areas — that gained the group both vital accolades and vociferous antagonism, nonetheless it was eventually the familiar older motive of developing “musical variations” that ironically drove the Aged Deceased Tree’s bandmembers apart in ’09 2009.