Shroud of Bereavement's music is akin to attending a funeral for everyone you have ever loved. The Boston-based group achieves this moribund feeling by incorporating all the right musical elements: cellos, piano, violin, and dual female vocal harmonies layered on top of harsh death vocals, played at the pace of mile-long funeral procession. Musical influences ranging from classical composers such as Mozart and Vivaldi, to classic metal bands like King Diamond and Candlemass, to bands that started the early death/doom movement like My Dying Bride, Anathema, and Theatre Of tragedy; provide a blueprint for the group to create some of the best doom metal this world has ever heard!
Shroud of Bereavement first began as a solo project of frontman Dan Robinson. In 1999, Robinson released the group’s first recording, "The Forever Dance," which saw some European success, and through trading, caught the attention of the extreme music underground.
2001 saw Robinson creating what he would call his "masterpiece," "A Rose for a Dying Muse." The song proved to be a catalyst for Robinson's monster, Shroud of Bereavement. After years of lineup changes, Shroud has now evolved into its ultimate incarnation which led to the band’s self-labeling of its music as "Neo-classical death/doom metal.
"A Maddening Hue" truly made Shroud of Bereavement a leader in the "beauty in darkness" motif becoming ever-more popular in today’s international metal scene. Online and print magazines such as Metal Maniacs, Doom-Metal.com, Metal-Archives, and Metalcentre.com, echo the above sentiment.
In May of 2006, Shroud toured across the U.S. with Keen of the Crow (featuring former members of Morgion), Deathgasm recording artists Loss, and Godless Rising (featuring founding members of Vital Remains). The doom metal-heavy tour was dubbed the Premonitions tour, and laid waste to a path from Georgia to Wisconsin.
Shroud of Bereavement also performed at the Heathen Crusade 2 festival in St. Paul, MN, Where they played with such bands as Bal-Sagoth, Månegarm, Skyforger, Vreid, and many others.
They have begun work on their followup album, "A Beautiful Winter." The album will again feature the full 7-member lineup, alongside session player Andy Happel on violins and cellos.
Releases:
"The Forever Dance" Demo 1999/2000 Self Release
"...Of Ages" 2003 Oak Knoll Productions
"A Maddening Hue" Split release 2005 Oak Knoll Productions
"A Rose For A Dying Muse" MCD 2006 Self Release
"Alone Beside Her" Screaming Ferret/Locomotive 2007
"A Beautiful Winter" TBA
Compilations:
2003 Screaming Ferret Wreckords
2004 Oak Knoll Productions
2006 CM Distro
"Entering The Levitation - A Tribute to Skepticism" Foreshadow Productions 2007
Bio written by Darren Cowan and Shroud of Bereavement
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