| Woods of Ypres | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Black metal,[1] doom metal[2] |
| Years active | 2002–2011 |
| Labels | Krankenhaus, Earache |
| Website | www.woodsofypres.ca |
| Members | |
| David Gold | |
Woods of Ypres were a blackened doom metal band from Ontario, Canada.
Contents |
Woods of Ypres were 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".[3] In 2008 the band was featured on the cover of Unrestrained! Magazine.[4]
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."[5]
All of the band's albums have been released on independent labels.[5]
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 was negated by words from Gold himself.[6] Their next album, Woods 5: You Were The Light, was recorded in August 2010 and will be released in January 2012.[7] Gold stated that it may be just a digital download and not pressed to CD.[8]
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.
On December 21, 2011, David Gold died at age 31, in a car accident near Barrie, Ontario.[9]