The Sins Of Thy Beloved

For years I’ve seen short videos of The Sins of Thy Beloved’s performance in Mexico City, in 2001. It seems, though, the full video was actually posted on YouTube some years ago! The link is below, and remember to download anything you like, because YouTube videos quickly disappear. The Sins of Thy Beloved Live in Mexico City, 2001: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R9s1kSzcr4 Well, this was is 2001, so we know the singer at the time was Hege-Marie Aanby. At first I was thrown off by how she’s out of tune most of the time. But after listening to Pandemonium, I can clearly see she has a very distinct singing style and could be a great singer if she had kept on it. I really enjoyed watching the full concert, and wish it were recorded professionally.

Hey there guys! Does this blog still has viewers? Today I bring you an interview with Pete Johansen by the Class of Sounds blog. It’s a short interview, but they talked about old and new bands and musical projects, Pete’s influence in the bands he played and solo projects. Enjoy! http://classofsounds.com/entrevista-pete-johansen-o-gothic-doom-nao-morreu-mas-se-tornou-um-pouco-chato/

Hello guys.

Something exciting happened, it seems some people are trying to fan-remaster the Perpetual Desolation Live.

First of them,  is an audio-remaster of the whole concert. To me it sounds a little better, but I have no audio equipment to judge it actually. Here it is:

>> Perpetual Desolation Live (Remastered Audio)

Second, now this one got me very excited! It is a video remaster with AI technology of one of the songs, and it is really good!! I’m trying to find the person who did it to see if he has the whole concert. It would be incredible. This is the best quality the Perpetual Desolation Live ever has. Much better than the DVD and obviously than the VHS! Check it out:

>> TSoTB - Partial Insanity (Remastered with AI)

Now, for other news, about Arild and Stig, after leaving Savn, now they each have a gothic metal band in the making.  Stig Johansen, with singer Susanne Dahle have created Morke, as I already said on my last post. They’re making their first album and the last update was 3 months ago with a video of a song that actually sounds very cool! I loved to see him growling, remember, he was the drummer in TSoTB!

>> Morke - Hel

As for Arild, he joined with singer  Nelly Khosrovyan to create the band RAINAREA, and they just made their first video, it sounds good, I really like the electric piano sound.

>> RAINAREA - Climbing the Mountains

Now, Pete Johansen has always been the most prolific of them, and I have already posted news about him here during the last years. Along with his solo albums, the bands he has worked with are too many, so please just check his page on Metal Archives. What I want to talk here is first about Art of Departure, the solo project of Tristania’s drummer Tarald Lie Jr. along with Pete(!) as you can see on this instagram post. They haven’t posted any songs yet, but to me this sounds very promising! Another news, according to this website (in portuguese), the Brazilian band ILUMINATO has announced that their next album (which will be their second) will have Pete violins, in the entire album! Now, as their official website is down, as it appears to be their facebook, there’s no way to tell if this will go forward, but it would be really cool to have a new gotic metal album with Pete in all songs. Here’s one live song from ILUMINATO’s first album. Sounds good!

>> ILUMINATO - Betrayed Soul

Hey! I didn’t know about this! I found it by accident! It says:

“Former member of "The Sins of Thy Beloved" Stig Johansen has started a gothic metal band called "Mørke" with his wife Susanne Dahle Johansen. Focusing mainly on the classic old school and 90s gothic metal style.”

This is Anita Auglend (ex-singer of TSoTB) today. After the band ended in 2002 she married, had a kid and went on to live a happy family life, but never again sang, at least professionally.

BUT, she actually made a guest appearance singing in one song from a norwegian hard rock band, and as it turns out, her voice continues to be astounding. In other words, she keeps being that dark angel.

It’s really just a small part in the chorus. But it really gave me the chills to listen to that sweet voice again. And also made me think, is she thinking of going back to music?! A very exciting thought.

So, a couple of years ago I posted that Stig Johanssen and Anders Thue (former Drums and Keyboard in TSoTB) had former, with Carmen-Elise Espenaes (singer from Midnattssol), a new band, callen Savn, and released an album. 

Later in last year (2016), according to Encyclopaedia Metallum, they left the band, but there are already new members and the band goes on.

Well, that album was the complete oposite from what I expected from them, going way more into the .Liv Kristine pop-ish type of metal, and not the dark, muflled and dramatic sound like in TSoTB.

Here’s the album teaser:

I never come here anymore, except when there are questions to answer. And that is because there is sadly no more to be said about TSoTB. I could keep talking about the other bands but this is about TSoTB, not other bands.

Very very sadly no. TSoTB is dead for good.Anders and Stig joined Carmen Espenaes (singer from Midnattsol) and made a band called Savn though. I don’t think it’s as good, but give it a listen. Pete Johansen played in some other bands and then released a solo album, and I don’t know what the others are doing. I think Anita became a mother and is living a common life.

Hi, I hope you're still here!

SAVN - Debut album teaser

Rhinos - Nowhere else to go

News! Stig and Anders (ex-drummer and ex-keyboardist from TSoTB in case you don't know) have started a band with Carmen Elise Espenaes (singer in Midnattsol AND Liv Kristine's younger sister). It is called SAVN There's no preview yet, but their Facebook says it's Gothic/Folk metal. I'm happy they got back to making music publicly!

Although their facebook/site top image is horrible, if you look at the other photos, they are looking pretty healthy. Specially Anders!

Also, the album will aparently be produced by Alex Krull (producer of Elis and Leave's Eyes).

More news soon I hope!