Alpine Metal

this might be regarded rather social and geographical than music phenomenon. nevertheless the fact is that this group of mands is connected by strong ties unseen anywhere else in metal world. also the number of gropu thus conjoined is something exceptional. partly intertwined by family ties, partly by old friendships or new acquaintances, regardless of genre and country, some bands from alpine regions of italy, liechtenstein, germany and austria create an eerie, yet very effective and interesting monolite bestowing upon us piece of perfect music from all possible genres.
alex krull of atrocity is to tell the truth the center of alpine metal. except from playing in the mentioned band he produces many albums from alpine region.
his closest family relations are as follows: his wife, liv kristine espenaas used to be vocalist in unfamous theater of tragedy, before their fall. later on she joined leaves' eyes, band constituted of atrocity musicians. her sister, carmen elise espenaes sings in gothic band midnattsol, whose last album was produced by... alex krull of course.
despite dominating role of alex krull most bands are tangibly connected to atrocity drummer, moritz neuner. he played in most bands belonging to alpine metal, just to name a few: darkwell, graveworm, shadowcast, siegfried, abigor. many CDs of the mentioned bands were produced by alex krull. common ties include also mutual remixes, common members, guest appeareances, album production.

some rough list of alpine metal bands (far from complete, for sure):
atrocity, elis, dreams of sanity, darkwell, graveworm, shadowcast, siegfried, abigor, atargatis, leaves' eyes, midnattsol, korovakill, dornenreich

Tych szufladek robi się za dużo, a ta na przykład to już kompletne dziwactwo :/

Szufladka jak szufladka, po prostu jest sobie grupa kolesi, dosyć duża jak na warunki tej sceny wzajemnie się wspierających. O ile sytuacja, gdy kilku kolegów się kręci po 3 zespołach z 1 miasta jest dosyć normalna, ale kiedy sytuacja dotyczy kilkunmastu zespołów z kilku krajów, nad wszystkimi łapę trzyma (w mniejszym lub większym stopniu) jeden człowiek to jest to dosyć wyjątkowy przypadek.

Ale żeby z tego osobny gatunek na tej podstawie robić...

Kto mówi, że gatunek, gatunków w tej grupce jest sporo, od blacku, deathu poprzez doom do gotyku. Taki fenom socjologiczno-organizacyjny.