Darkwoods My Betrothed

Darkwoods My Betrothed
Origin Kitee, Finland
Genres Black metal, symphonic black metal, viking metal
Years active 1992–1998, 2000-2001
Labels Spinefarm Records
Website Darkwoods My Betrothed on Myspace
Members Spellgoth
Julma
Larha
Magician
Icelord
Past members Hexenmeister
Erno Vuorinen
Ante Mortem
Hallgrim

Darkwoods My Betrothed was a black metal band from Kitee, Finland.[1]

Formed in 1992 as Virgin Cunt, they set out to be the "most blasphemous black metal band in Europe", in a rather tongue-in-cheek sense. After recording a couple demos under this name, the band started to take themselves a lot more seriously and changed their name to Darkwoods My Betrothed. They recorded the demo Dark Aureolis Gathering in 1994, not too different from the band's roots in extreme black metal, but it started to show serious maturity in the song-writing and delivery; not only a traditional black metal shriek, the singers also did a wail-type of scream.

In 1995, Hammerheart Productions released Heirs of the Northstar, their first full-length album, which was a turning for the group. The band started to experiment with a slower-paced and more melodic viking metal sound, and usage of "drunken Viking" style clean vocals mixed with the traditional black metal screams. The lyrics were also quite different from those in the demo days; rather than dark and Satanic rantings, bassist/lyricist Teemu started a powerful fascination with Odinism and the Gods of Valhalla, and anger towards Christianity.

1996 saw the release of Autumn Roars Thunder, this time under the Solistitium label. Though retaining the same anti-Christian and Odinistic rhetoric, the music itself moved away from the melodic viking approach and entered back into a faster, more black metal-oriented direction.

In 1998, the band returned with Witch-Hunts, a conceptual album which eschewed much of the melodic stylings of the previous two albums; the Viking metal sound was replaced with black metal. Due to numerous delays by the record label, it was released roughly one year after it was originally planned.

After the release of "Witch-Hunts", the band split up for a few years until they came back with a new line-up, a compilation album and potential live work. Afterwards, the band split up again with no return.

Discography

Demos

Albums

Band members

Current members
Former members
Session musicians

Trivia

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