March 2010
2010 is already 3 months on its way so it is about time to let you all know what’s going on with Officium Triste. We’ve got some bad news and some more exciting news. Let’s start with the bad news. We had to part ways with drummer Ronald Lagerwaard. Ronald simply couldn’t commit to the plans we have concerning Officium Triste’s future. Because of this we had to make a difficult decision as we really appreciated Ronald as a person and as a skilled drummer. As a band we do want to perform live on a regular basis and that simply wasn’t possible due to logistics and personal affairs. We like to thank Ronald for his time in Officium Triste.
In the meantime we have found a replacement. After some serious brainstorming who would be an ideal drummer we decided to ask Niels Jordaan who in the past pounded the drums for the now defunct band In Age And Sadness. Since we shared the stage with In Age And Sadness several times in the past we knew Niels would be a good replacement.Niels gladly accepted our offer and we are currently rehearsing material with Niels.
Next to the news about out change in the line-up we are working very hard on material for our new, 5th, full-length album. Right now we have plenty of ideas for 6 to 7 new songs and it’s coming along nicely. We hope to finish the album before the summer and have it released this fall. This will be our last album under the current contract with Displeased Records.
At this moment we are also negotiating a couple of festival appearances later this year. More news about those performances is expected soon.
In additional news we can tell that Bram and Pim, who are performing as session guitarist and vocalist in Ed Warby’s The 11th Hour, can be seen live on stage with The 11th Hour on the following dates:
March 6th at Turock, ....Essen.., ..Germany.... with Asphyx and Desaster
March 26th at WII, ....Den Bosch.., ..Netherlands.... with Esoteric
April 9th at Doom Shall Rise, ....Göppingen.., ..Germany....
July 31st at Stonehenge, ....Steenwijk.., ..Netherlands....
August 14th at Springstof Festival, ....Kampen.., ..Netherlands....
January 2010
Here's some news for all those interested in Officium Triste.
First of all we had a great time at the Madrid is the Dark Fest in Spain. Truly one of the better shows we've done in a while.
We still have got a couple of cool shows coming up, on the 31st of October we'll support the reunited British band Chorus of Ruin at their reunion-show in Bradford.
As you all might know we recorded a cover of their song “Headstone” back in 1997 which was released on the “Roses on my Grave” EP.
Another great gig will be with our mates from Malta, Forsaken, at Het Kasteel in Alphen aan de Rijn here in Holland on Friday November the 13th.
After this show we'll keep a low profile concerning live appearances for a while, because we really need to work on new material for our next full-length. We want to have that album out in 2010. It's going to be the last one under our current contract with Displeased Records.
Of course any good offers for a gig will be taken into consideration, but our primary goal for the coming months is to write a killer new album.
We have signed a deal with Lugga Music, which is a booking agency from Spain run by former Mourning Beloveth bassist Adrian de Buitléar. Check out their website overhere ( http://www.luggamusic.com )
We would also like to congratulate Adrian with the birth of his son!!
So expect us on the road in 2010. We're already talking to some cool bands who want to go on the road with us guys.
Officium Triste are also part of a new book on heavy metal called “A HEAVY METAL SALUTE TO HEAVY METAL BAND NAME ORIGINS” by Canadian writer Blair Gibson.
It has over 500 bands in it from every genre of heavy metal/hard rock. It has the band names and their origins given by the musicians themselves. You can get this interesting book through the following website:
http:// Stores.lulu.com/ heavymetalsalute
In other news, Bram and Pim have been asked to participate as session musicians in Ed Warby's new doom metal band The 11th Hour ( http://www.myspace.com/11thhourdoom ). Instead of playing drums what Ed usually does in bands like Hail of Bullets and Gorefest, he now has taken up the guitar and lead vocals. Bram will play guitar and Pim will do the grunts when playing live with The 11th Hour. The first show is planned on the 25th of October at the annual Dutch Doom Days at Baroeg in Rotterdam.
Officium Triste show @ the Peppel cancelled!
Due to circurstances at the venue our show for Saturday october 3rd at the Peppel in Zeist is cancelled. We are very sorry for this but they promised us to find a new date for this show.
Officium Triste
Here we are, back from an amazing tour with Evoken and Isole. We have written a little tour report that you can find here.
Also we are really happy to anounce
that we will play the Madrid is the dark fest which will be held at Ritmo Y Compas in Madrid on 11/12 september 2009
Confirmed so far for this fest are:
- Draconian
- Isole
- Officium Triste
- Autumnal
- Process Of Guilt
We are really looking forward to play in Spain again as we had a great time there last year.
Cheerz,
Officium Triste, April 2009
Last weekend we recorded 4 songs for our upcoming 15th anniversary CD. We recorded at the GetRhythm studio where we rehearse as well. Things went really well. Since some news spreaded via our label concerning this CD we' ll give you some more details.
The CD will contain:
-No Hope ( brand new song)
- Divinity (re- recorded version of the song originally on The Pathway)
-My Charcoal Heart (acoustic version featuring our driver/merchandiser Simone on mandolin)
- Love Like Blood (Killing Joke cover)
+ remastered versions of the songs of our split MCD with Cold Mourning from 98 and our first 7" EP Mountains of Depressiveness from 96.
The album is called " Charcoal Hearts -15 Years of Hurt"
Next weekend we will enter Excess studios in Rotterdam to do the mixing and mastering.
And if you' ve got time be sure to check us out saturday night when we perform at 'De Piek' in Vlissingen
Officium Triste, february 19th 2009
First of all we would like to wish you all the best for 2009! Hopefully it will be a wonderful year. As far as Officium Triste is concerned we've got quite a few things going on. April marks our 15th year in the business. We started out in april 1994 so do the math. To coincide with this anniversary a tour with Evoken and Isole is being set up. A couple of shows have already been booked and the others soon will be. Check our tourdates for further info. Since one of the shows on this tour will be at Baroeg in Rotterdam we decided to turn this into our 15th anniversary gig and next to the aforementioned Evoken and Isole both Mournful Congregation and Longing for Dawn will be present as well as they happen to tour Europe around that time as well. So we were stoked to find out we could hook up all these bands together to have a great show and a great party. I bet you all like this line-up right? We've also come to an agreement with our label Displeased Records to come up with a special anniversary release. We're not going to tell you exactly what will be on it but expect a full-length with out of print material, new material, re-recorded material and a cover tune. Of course we'll make sure we have this album and all our (still available) previous releases with us on tour.
Cheers!
Officium Triste, january 5th 2009
Line up change!
Once again we can inform you about a change within Officium Triste's line up. After much thought Martin has decided to quit drumming and start focusing on the synth-parts. As one of the main composers he has always had a big influence on the music and especially the synths. So, from now on he'll be doing the synths and he keeps on writing music. His decision has a lot to do with the fact he's living in Germany and he feels he cannot deliver what is needed for the band when talking about rehearsing and doing live gigs. Therefore, Martin has decided to switch to synths exclusively. This will give the band much more opportunities and we're happy to see Martin in this setting.
We are also very happy to announce that all drum duties will be taken over by Ronald Lagerwaard (ex- Imbolc, Absent Mind, Perpetual Misery) from now on. He has proven to be a great drummer and is very motivated to be part of the tight rhythm section for Officium Triste.
Officium Triste, March 20th 2008
Hello to all,
We are back from our mini-tour in Spain and Portugal and hereby would like
to thank Autumnal for their great companionship, Jose of Doomed Events for
the perfect tour-management and setting up the shows. Of course a big thank
you goes out to all other bands we shared the stage with and all local
promotors for doing a killer job giving us the chance to perform in Spain
and Portugal for the first time. Last but not least all those who attended
the gigs and giving us great feedback. We really appreciate this and we are
more than happy to return to do some more shows in the future.
In additional news we just got word the complete tour of Mourning Beloveth
has been cancelled due to circumstances of personal nature in the Mourning
Beloveth camp. Therefore the show we were supposed to do with them in
Zaandam on the 23rd of March has been cancelled too. Currently the bookers
are trying to reschedule the dates.
Officium Triste, March 5th 2008
Here's our first news message for 2008.
First of all we have recorded the Thergothon cover and shipped it to Solitude Productions in Russia. We're quite pleased how our version turned out. Next to that we will do a short tour in Spain and Portugal in february/march. We have a cool gig coming up with our mates from Mourning Beloveth and we're hooking up with Hollenthon for some shows. Check the dates on our Gigs page.
Hello everyone,
We finally have some news for you guys once again.
First of all, our label Displeased Records has decided to re-release our second album (the first we did for Displeased) ‘The Pathway’. This re-release is remastered and contains 5 bonus-tracks, being: ‘Roses on My Grave’ and ‘Headstone’ (Chorus of Ruin cover) of the sold-out 2001 7” EP ‘Roses on my Grave’; ‘Divinity’ of the ‘Promo 2000’ and two live tracks, ‘Pathway (of Broken Glass)’and ‘Roses on My Grave’, recorded at 013 Tilburg when we supported Candlemass in 2002. The re-release will be out on october 28th!
We were also able to lay our hands on the last available copies of the vinyl version of ‘Ne Vivam’ which was released by Badger Records . We had a couple of copies on black and white vinyl left, but soon we’ll have the other colours available again as well.
We were also able to shoot some pics of the new line-up. So check out the line-up page for a pic. Some more pics can be found on our MySpace page . Pay us a visit there as well.
Last but not least we have decided to make some live recordings from our past available for download the coming weeks. We have du gup some pretty cool live shows and decided to make them abvailable for download through our forum which is hosted bij doom-metal.com. So check out our forum for the live material and join the discussions about us here
Officium Triste October 16th 2007
As you all can see our website has been revamped to coincide with the release of our 4th full-length album ‘Giving Yourself Away’ released by Displeased Records on May 28th.
Of course the album as well as t-shirts, longsleeves and girlies are available soon from the band (see the merchandise page) as well as Displeased’s mailorder.
The album has been received very well so far by the international media. You can read the reviews on Displeased’s blog.
In other news we can tell that Johan has left Officium Triste after 13 years of dedication. Johan has played his last show on May 26th when we presented the new album at Get Rhythm where we also rehearse. Johan came to this decision as he found it had become harder to combine work, personal life and the band. We wish him all the best in the future and Johan will always be part of Officium Triste, no matter what.
Of course we started the search for a replacement, once Johan told us he wanted to quit. Fortunately we found a replacement pretty soon in Bram Bijlhout, who has been active in the band Imbolc, amongst others, where he played guitar and shared the vocal duties. This summer we’ll make sure Bram is ready to hit the stages again as a tight unit.
Officium Triste, June 2007
Thergothon Tribute
We have been contacted by Solitude Productions from Russia to participate in a Thergothon tribute. Of course we said yes.
We will record the track 'Crying Blood and Crimson Snow' of the Stream from the Heavens album. At this moment we know that Evoken will also include a song.
The plan is to release a double disc, with on disc 1 bands from the doom metal spectrum doing covers and the second disc with other (metal) bands.
More info on Thergothon:
http://nikoskorpio.net/thergothon/
http://www.myspace.com/thergothon
http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=2287
Solitude Productions:
http://solitude-prod.com/
http://www.myspace.com/solitudeprod
Here we are with some more news for you about our upcoming album, which will be entitled “Giving Yourself Away”. We have been in the Excess studio from January 1st till 4th were we recorded the drums, synths, bass, rhythm guitars, vocals and some guitar melodies. We are currently recording some more guitar melodies and solos at our own El Pato studio and we’ll start mixing the album on February 23rd, again at Excess studio over here in Rotterdam. The 6 songs we have recorded are called ‘Your Eyes’, ‘My Charcoal Heart’, ‘Signals’, ‘On the Crossroad of Souls’, ‘Inside the Mind’ and ‘Master of your own Demise’. The CD will be around 50 minutes. The release will be in either April or May, depending on the way everything works out.
Also check out our gigs page as some gigs have been cancelled but new ones have been booked, like the Doom Shall Rise Festival in Germany!!
Officium Triste
January 16th 2007
It’s been a while since we’ve updated our website as we’ve been very busy writing new material for the upcoming 4th album. We’ve made quite some progress and we can tell we’ve got 4 songs finished and we’re working on 2 more songs. Hopefully we can start recording before the end of this year. The finished songs are entitled “My Charcoal Heart”, “Signals”, “Your Eyes” and “Master Of Your Own Demise”. We’ll keep you updated.
We also have some new gigs booked. Check out the gigs page for the dates.
Officium Triste
09-10-06
We’ve got a new T-shirt with the Ne Vivam artwork available. See Merchandise page for more info. Furthermore some new dates have been added to the Gigs page.
The re-released version of Ne Vivam has arrived and we're more than pleased with the result. You can order the CD directly from us. Check the merchandise page for more info.
We've also added some new dates. Check the gigs page
Officium Triste
11-08-05
Okay, first of all we'd like to mention that our demo '94 isn't available anymore. The few copies we still had found their way to some people who reacted very quickly. If you're still interested in listening to our first effort you can download the songs from the sample-page.
After the re-release of our '97 debut album "Ne Vivam" on vinyl through Badger Records (http://www.badgerrecords.nl) in 2004. The album will be re-released on CD as well through Serpent's Lair Productions (http://serpentslair.metal4.com) from Russia. This CD will contain a remastered version of the original Teutonic Existence Records release plus an additional bonus track in the form of a re-recorded version of the song "Mountains of Depressiveness" which originally appeared on the '96 sold out 7" EP with the same title. The re-release is expected this summer.
Last but not least. Displeased Records (http://www.displeasedrecords.com) has shown interest in continuing working with Officium Triste. We feel very positive about this offer so we're quite sure you can expect our upcoming album being released through Displeased.
Officium Triste
17-05-05