Winter was a fresh York-based doom/loss of life clothing formed in the later ’80s by vocalist/bassist John Alman, guitarist Stephen Flam, and drummer Joe Goncalves, with occasional keyboards contributed by Tony Pinnisi. Therefore inaccessible was the band’s slothfully crusty audio that their 1992 debut record, Into Darkness, had taken two years to discover a label (Nuclear Blast) ready to discharge it, and its own similarly depressing follow-up EP, 1995’s Eternal Frost, would with time end up being the band’s last record. It wouldn’t, nevertheless, be the final the world noticed of Wintertime. In 2011, the renowned metal clothing reuinted to try out the Roadburn Celebration in holland.