Woods of Ypres is a blackened doom metal band from Ontario, Canada.
Woods of Ypres was formed in 2002 by David Gold, Aaron Palmer and Brian McManus. The trio released the first Woods Of Ypres demo, Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat, the same year. In 2003, David Gold moved to Toronto to begin working on a full-length album.
In 2004 the band's first full length album, Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth was released on David Gold's record label, Krankenhaus Records. The third Woods of Ypres album Woods III: Deepest Roots & Darkest Blues was released at the end of 2007. Contrasting the two albums, critic Laura Taylor wrote, "While Pursuit of the Sun verged on metallised Pink Floyd, Woods’s latest unearths more of the band’s black and dark metal inspirations".
In 2008 the band was featured on the cover of Unrestrained! Magazine. The fourth Woods of Ypres album, Woods IV: The Green Album was released in November 2009. Exclaim! called it "the band's most amorphous and powerful creature so far."
All of the band's albums have been released on independent labels.
Woods of Ypres were thought to have broken up in 2010 due to frontman David Gold's move to Kuwait for financial and occupational reasons. However, that has been negated by words from David himself.
Their next album, "Woods 5: You Were The Light", was recorded in August 2010 and will be released in the coming months. Gold has stated that it may be just a digital download and not pressed to CD.
In October 2010, it was announced that Woods of Ypres had signed to Earache Records and that all rumors of the band being split up were false.
Current members
• David Gold – vocals, guitar
• Joel Violette – lead guitar
• Shane Madden - bass
• Evan Madden - drums
Former members
• Bryan Belleau - guitar
• Brian McManus - guitar, vocals
• Aaron Palmer - bass, vocals
• Jessica Rose - keyboards
• Dan Hulse – bass guitar, vocals
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"Woods 4: The Green Album," the latest album from Canadian blackened doom merchants Woods of Ypres, has just been re-issued in Europe and is due to hit North America on Tuesday, March 22nd. Founding member and front man David Gold recently took some time to discuss the writing process for the album. Gold commented:
"A year from the day I arrived back in Canada, July 2009, we were in the studio with a new band, two tours already behind us, and we were recording W4: The Green Album. By the fall and another tour later, we were signed to Earache Records. Now, March 2011, The Green Album gets a worldwide release, less than two years since we started writing it and less than four years since I first said 'fuck it all' and moved to Seoul. What can I say? The plan? It was just so crazy that it worked!
"The Green Album was certainly the only album I knew how to write as it was the only thing still preoccupying what was left of my heart and brain at the time and I'm thankful that something good could come of it all, after all. The 16 songs of the album tell the story through the stages of such a journey that inevitably gets a whole lot worse before it gets any better. What starts with total life-changing devastation ends with the arrival of spring again and the promise of summer. If nothing else at all, at the time, it was enough.
"W4: The Green Album was certainly an inspired creation and has more reason to exist than anything else we'd ever written to date. It wasn't just more music for music's sake, but literally life and death, to me. That album is honest, about something real and based on true events. At nearly 80 minutes of music ranging from gothic doom, post-rock, sludge, prog and forest metal, listen, take what you like and leave the rest.
"These have been a rather painful four years for a lot of people. If you've recently felt your world shift and experienced change against your will, you'll likely relate to W4: The Green Album. Four years later, acceptance is hope for the rest of the journey, for we've found that the journey does continue after all. Grieve the loss of everything you once loved but always keep moving forward. Drag that weight!"
Woods of Ypres also has the following upcoming tour dates:
March 18 - St. John, NB @ SunStar Lounge
March 19 - Halifax, NS @ Coconut Grove
March 20 - Moncton, NB @ The Manhattan Bar
March 21 - Fredericton, NB @ The Capital Complex
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