Tim Yatras

Tim Yatras is an Australian musician and composer, best known as one half of the now defunct black metal duo Austere, and the creator of the black metal/rock/trance act Germ.

Biography

He was also a member of Lord, and prior to that was also a part of Dungeon from February 2005 until their breakup, and appears on the 2006 release, The Final Chapter, performing drums and backing vocals, and co-writing most of the tracks. He is also a session musician on the studio-based Newcastle band Ilium's albums, Vespertilion, and Ageless Decay. He toured as a member of Nazxul in 2004, and later performed Drums and Keyboards on the band's album, Iconoclast, in 2008. Tim also featured in a string of bands including Battalion, with whom he recorded the CD Into Harm's Way. Yatras also performed drums and backing vocals on Simon Polhill's debut EP, Serial.

He played drums and keyboards and sang backing vocals on the Lord albums Ascendence and Set in Stone and receives a writing credit for every song except the intros, and is credited with the lyrics to the track "Same Old Lines". After completing work on the Set in Stone album, Yatras left Lord following a national tour in June, 2009.^[1]

Along with childhood friend Desolate of the doom metal act Funeral Mourning, he was one half of the black metal band Austere, performing vocals, drums, keyboards and some guitars. Since the dissolution of Austere, Tim played drums, sang all of the vocals, and also structured and arranged much of the music on the Woods of Desolation album Torn Beyond Reason, as well as being a member of the rock band Grey Waters (which disestablished in February 2012). Tim's latest musical ventures include composing songs for several J-pop and K-pop labels and producers, as well as continuing work on his solo act Germ.

Yatras will be featured to have a guest vocal spot on the album No Morrow Shall Dawn by the black metal project Thy Light. The album is due for release in late 2013.^[2]

He played drums on the Blackened Angel collaboration Chronicles of Damnation.^[3]

Influences

He lists his composing influences as Yoshiki Hayashi, Noel Gallagher, Gorecki, Jean Michel Jarre, Fall Out Boy and Tetsuya Komuro among others.

Discography

Lord

• Ascendence (2007) (Drums, Backing Vocals)
• "Hear No Evil" (2008) (Drums, Backing Vocals)
• Set in Stone (2009) (Drums, Keyboards, Backing Vocals)

Dungeon

• The Final Chapter (2006) (Drums, Backing Vocals)

Ilium

• Vespertilion (2008) (Session Drums)
• Ageless Decay (2009) (Session Drums)

Nazxul

• Iconoclast (2009) (Drums, Additional Keyboards, Additional Vocals)

Austere

• Withering Illusions and Desolation (2007) (Drums, Vocals)
• Only the Wind Remembers (2008) (Drums, Vocals)
• Bleak (2008) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar)
• To Lay Like Old Ashes (2009) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar)

Battalion

• Into Harm's Way (2004) (Drums)

Simon Polhill

• "Serial" (2007) (Session Drums, Backing Vocals)

Woods of Desolation

• Torn Beyond Reason (2011) (Vocals, Drums, Keyboards)

Grey Waters

• Below the Ever Setting Sun (2010) (Vocals, Drums, Keyboards, Orchestration, Programming)

Germ

• Wish (2012) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming)
• Loss (EP 2012) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming)
• Grief (2013) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming)

Blackened Angel

• Chronicles of Damnation (2013) (Drums)

Skyforest

• Aftermath (2014) (Lead vocals, Drums)

References