After fellow founding member Samhain died in 2014, the band officially broke up. The band itself soldiered on for a few more years after the self-titled EP's release, but got put on indefinite hold when life imitated art: founding band member Storm killed himself in 2001. The motivation for creating such dark and morose music came from, in the words of guitarist Ravn Harjar, the desire "to isolate from society and the modern world" because they "felt a lot of anger and hate." More than simply the hatred toward Christianity that was, at bottom, the starting point for all black metal, Strid felt animus toward "everything that had contributed to bring our existence to the present situation with decay in more or less every aspect of the world and culture." It's not a big leap from this kind of feeling to self-hatred and self-destruction.Īnd this was all the music that Strid ever made. Only comprised of two songs-"Nattevandring" and "Det Hviskes Blant Sorte Vinder"-the EP was a melancholic continuation of the sound from End, as you can hear above. The following year, Strid put out a self-titled EP.
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