Artist description Extremely grim, cold, majestic and melancholic Black Metal.

Music Style Black Metal

Musical Influences Ancient archetypes of the collective unconscious.

Similar Artists Dark Throne, Manes, Dodheimsgard, Thorns, Burzum.

Artist History Krohm is a solo project of Numinas(D.Derna), also in Death/Doom band Evoken. Krohm began in 1996 from a desire to bring back the BM style of the early 90's. As the song writing evolved Krohm eventually developed into its own musical entity combining grim melodies with progressive elements and powerful emotions. The first demo "Slayer of Lost Martyrs" was recorded in 1997 but very few copies were made. Some were distributed through Moribund Records and may still be available. The new demo "Crown of the Ancients" has been released including 3 tracks from the first demo. Krohm will always and only be cult black metal, extreme feelings and cold atmospheres. Other affiliated cult bands to support/check out are: Abazagorath, Funebrarum, Pagan Throne, Hierophant, Thine Ancient Kingdom, Mysterium.

Group Members Numinas

Instruments Drums, guitars, keyboard, vocals

Press Reviews EREBUS WEBZINE(fly.to/erebus)review by U. Umtey: "...I am excited about this band because it completely breaks from US black metal tradition, and forges a path on itsown - a new stream, a novel harvest of sounds, an original passageway into a completely personal take on black metalaesthetics...Krohm's music unfolds slowly, with a doomed lethargy, in a pessimistic mood - somehow sullen, private, personal, ornot ready to fully disengage itself and offer insights as readily as more 'obvious' music. These songs nestle downsecurely in your head, razing the shriveled undergrowth and building a world for themselves as they open wide spacesfor the growth of their melodies. They unfold at their own pace. Shreds of melody float down from the sky - or in andout of your notice steadily, they swirl about like new-driven snow, and then disappear only to further coalesce and putthemselves back together later in the course of the songs. A droning, slow-picked electric guitar echoes and stirs theicy water of beautifully isolating patterns of notes or is strummed faster to build misanthropic walls of grim, blackenedsound; the drums are simple, effective, at times almost forgotten in their wild meandering; the keyboards constructmaelstrom layers of ether, mist, and funeral shadow, the air in labyrinths of forgotten passageways; the vocals - trulythe voice of The Lost - float eerily from ear to ear, as if they were rising from a deep well, or from cracks in thesurface of frozen Winter earth - they come from underground, from the soul, from deep within. All of these elementsform a unique landscape of frost and a withered, almost powerless sadness. This is truly a unique listening experience. It is interesting to me to note that Dario, who regularly only plays keyboards for Evoken, is here featured on everyinstrument, and writing, playing, and recording music that is much darker and colder that what his 'main' band usuallyfeatures. It must have been a great experience for him to put this together on his own, to strike out into original territorywithout the fear of censorship, solicitation, or nay-saying that comes with being in a band. It is because of thatindependent search of his, I think, that this music is so important to him, and thus to the rest of us. It is because hetravelled towards this music alone - and created songs that he wanted to write purely for himself - that this materialhas so much power and immediacy. I look forward to hearing more from Krohm in the future. It certainly establishesagain my faith in the fact that there are vital artists here in this country (with something to say) who have legitimate,powerful, and original voices. Recommended"

Location Middletown, CT - USA

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