Negura Bunget
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Biography
Negură Bunget formed at the end of 1994, as a duo, with Hupogrammos Disciple on guitars, vocals, and keyboards, and Negru on drums. In 1997, Sol'Faur Spurcatu joined the group on guitar. In a 2004 interview, Negru explained the symbolism of the name:After one demo, one album and one EP, three more full-length albums followed - Măiastru Sfetnic
Maiastru Sfetnic
Măiastru Sfetnic is a concept album released by Negură Bunget in 2000. Not much is known about this album because the band doesn't want to openly talk about it.-Track listing:# "Vremea locului sortit" – 9:01# "În-zvîcnirea apusului" – 9:48...
, 'N Crugu Bradului
'N Crugu Bradului
'N Crugu Bradului is a concept album released by Negură Bunget in 2002 in a digibook format done manually by the members themselves and limited to 3,000 copies worldwide . Each song represents a season...
and OM. The success of Măiastru Sfetnic secured the band a three-album contact with the 'code666 record' label. Now reaching a wider audience, they began their first European tours.
N Crugu Bradului included four songs spanning a total of nearly an hour.
The band described the album as:
In 2006 Negură Bunget released OM. The album has received attention in the extreme music press; for example, it was ranked as the second best album of 2006 by the writers of the British Terrorizer Magazine
Terrorizer Magazine
Terrorizer is an extreme music magazine published by Dark Arts Ltd. in the United Kingdom. It is released every four weeks with thirteen issues a year and features a 'Fear Candy' covermount CD, a twice yearly 'Fear Candy Unsigned' CD, and a double-sided poster.-1993:Terrorizer published its first...
.
In 2009, the band went through some unreconcilable disagreements between the three formers of the band, Hupogrammos, Sol'Faur and drummer Negru. Both Hupogrammos and Sol'Faur left the band, and Negru continues under the name of Negură Bunget with a new line-up.
The bands most recent album, Vîrstele Pămîntului, was also released in a very limited special edition version. This limited version, each handmade to order, consisted of a hand crafted wooden box finished with rope and burned finish containing an undisclosed amount of genuine soil from Transylvania
Transylvania
Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
, a poster, pin and deluxe digipack edition of the CD album itself.
Current line-up
- Dates refer to the times in which they played the respective instruments.
- Negru - drums, percussion ( 1994 - )
- Ageru Pământului - percussions,archaic instruments, vocals (july 2009 - )
- Inia Dinia - keyboards (july 2009 - )
- Gadinet - Bass (july 2009 - )
- Urzit - Guitar (2010 - )
- Fulmineos - Guitar, Vocals (2010- )
Former Members
- Hupogrammos (Dordeduh) - guitars, vocals, bass, keyboards, archaic instruments (1994–2009)
- Sol'Faur (Dordeduh)- guitars (also bass, keyboards, backing vocals) (1997–2009)
Former members since july 2009
- Corb - Vocals, Guitars (july 2009 - august 2010)
- Spin - Guitars (july 2009 - july 2010)
Former Live Members
- Ermit (Ursu) - bass (1999–2007)
- Nǎval (Vapern) - keyboards (1996–2006), bass (2007)
- Arioch - bass (2007- june 2009)
- Ageru Pământului - percution, traditional instr. (2004- june 2009)
- Daniel Dorobanțu - (Thy Veils) - keyboards (1997–1998)
- Andrei Popa - guitar (sep.- dec. 2005)
- Iedera - keyboards (2005–2006)
- Necuratul - (Vokodlok) - percussion (2003)
- Inia Dinia - keyboards (2006- june 2009)
- Aiwazz Vallach - keyboards (1995)
Albums
- Zîrnindu-săZîrnindu-saZîrnindu-să is Negură Bunget's debut album, which was recorded in only 20 hours at Magic Sound Studio in Bucharest. First released in 1996 by the Romanian label Bestial Records , Zîrnindu-să has been re-released three times: first in 1998 on CD by American label Breath of Night Records, in 2003 on...
, 1996 - Măiastru SfetnicMaiastru SfetnicMăiastru Sfetnic is a concept album released by Negură Bunget in 2000. Not much is known about this album because the band doesn't want to openly talk about it.-Track listing:# "Vremea locului sortit" – 9:01# "În-zvîcnirea apusului" – 9:48...
, 2000 - 'N Crugu Bradului'N Crugu Bradului'N Crugu Bradului is a concept album released by Negură Bunget in 2002 in a digibook format done manually by the members themselves and limited to 3,000 copies worldwide . Each song represents a season...
, 2002 - OM, 2006
- Măiestrit, 2010 (re-recording of Măiastru Sfetnic)
- Vîrstele Pamîntului, 2010
- Focul Viu (2011)
EPs
- Sala MolksaSala MolksaSala Molksa is a mini-album released by Negură Bunget in 1998 . At that time it was planned to be released as a 7" by Sombre Records from Germany, but those plans weren't enacted...
, 1998 - Inarborat KosmosInarborat KosmosInarborat Kosmos is an EP released by Negură Bunget in May 2005 in a strictly limited edition of 734 copies by Code666 Records . It was recorded at the band's very own studio...
, 2005 - Poarta De Dincolo, 2011
Related projects/bands
- Negura Magazine / Negura Music: central European ideological magazine, of which Negru is the chief editor.
- Makrothumia: progressiveProgressive metalProgressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
/ doomDoom metalDoom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...
death metalDeath metalDeath metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
band formed in 1994, of which Hupogrammos and Negru were founding members. - Dordeduh band formed in June 2009 by Hupogrammos and Sol Faur.
- Din Brad project of Negru.