The Old Dead Tree
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The Old Dead Tree was a Progressive death metal band from the city of Paris
, France
active between 1997 and 2009.
elements, such as double bass drumming and heavy guitar riffing, and more mellow, progressive
, gothic metal
and doom metal
elements. Singer Manuel Munoz varies between harsh growls and a melodic tenor voice.
Their second album The Perpetual Motion was released in 2005.
Their latest record to date is The Water Fields which was released in September 2007. It received critical acclaim.
A new album was tentatively scheduled to be recorded in Fall 2009, but creative differences caused the band to break up before it could be finished.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
active between 1997 and 2009.
Musical style
Their musical style is a mixture of death metalDeath metal
Death 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....
elements, such as double bass drumming and heavy guitar riffing, and more mellow, progressive
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
, gothic metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...
and doom metal
Doom metal
Doom 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...
elements. Singer Manuel Munoz varies between harsh growls and a melodic tenor voice.
Albums
Their first major album release in 2003 was entitled The Nameless Disease and was inspired by and centered around the suicide of the band's first drummer, Frédéric Guillemot.Their second album The Perpetual Motion was released in 2005.
Their latest record to date is The Water Fields which was released in September 2007. It received critical acclaim.
A new album was tentatively scheduled to be recorded in Fall 2009, but creative differences caused the band to break up before it could be finished.
Final Members
- Manuel MunozManuel MuñozManuel Muñoz is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed in the early 2000s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver and two bronzes .- References :**...
- vocals, guitars (1997–2009) - Gilles Moinet - guitars, backing vocals (2006–2009)
- Vincent Danhier - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(1999–2009) - Raphaël Antheaume - drums (2008–2009)
Former Members
- Frédéric Guillemot - drums (1997–1999)
- Franck Métayer - drums (1999–2004)
- Nicolas Chevrollier - guitars (1997–2006)
- Foued Moukid - drums (2004–2007)
Discography
- 1999: The Blossom (demo)
- 2003: The Nameless Disease (Season of MistSeason of MistSeason of Mist is a record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing...
) - 2005: The Perpetual Motion (Season of Mist)
- 2007: The Water Fields (Season of Mist)