DinUmbra

Origin DinUmbră was formed in 1998, in Bucharest. The musical direction of this band was at first to combine industrial-metal with psychedelic music, to create, along with other influences, a new style in Romanian rock. Along time, the band compositions started to sound more like gothic-doom. Currently, DinUmbra's style combines a wide range of influences as death, doom and gothic. The lyrics talk about inner states, created worlds of dreams, myths and social ideals. Band In 1998 the band had only two members: Zareh and Sebastian. The two worked on the debut album which was entirely written, recorded and produced by the band. In 2000 the two members wished to play some live shows as they did with their previous band, Walpurgia in 1995 - 1996. New ideas were also to be explored so in order to complete the line-up George Dobre and Mirel Cristea ( ex drummer from Walpurgia) came in. In 2004, a new member was added to the line-up: Anca Constantinescu, the ex-keyboard player for Marsyas. 2006 brought new changes in the line-up. A more simpler approach was taken, the rhythm guitar was abandoned. Zareh quit the band in order to complete his college studies at an university in Estonia. Thus a new singer came to fill in, Fane which managed to quickly integrate into the band. However, soon Zareh came back into the band, this time playing bass due to the departure of George, who could no longer face the demands of the band. Only two shows were played in 2007 with the new line-up, however the 3 songs Ep entitled "Haunted by Snails" was succesfully released. Tensions within grew as Zareh and Anca were not satisfied with the recent developments and decided to leave DinUmbră. Despide these changes, both remained and departed members decided to try to finish the album together. Later on, Fane decided to give up playing shows with the band, restricting his collaboration only for the studio. It took almost one entire year in order to start composing new songs and try to re-form the band by integrating new members. In 2008 only two members remained, Sebastian and Mirel. During this time, the recordings of the already writen songs continued. In february 2009 Alexandru Budan joined the band as vocalist. His low growl type of vocals helped the band attain a new level of heaviness, leading to further developments in terms of genre towards gothic doom and melodic death metal. Cristian Stîlpeanu joined in July 2009 as the second guitarist. In March 2010, Sebastian began writting songs for what would become the "Sântandrei" EP. Ovidiu Cristea (at that time in 9.7 Richter) recorded the bass on all the 3 songs. On the 6th of may 2010 the band played their first show with the new line-up , Andreas Nitu filled in as the live bass player for this show. Eventually the band managed to find a permanent bass player, Sorin Tudor who had his debut opening for brazilian death/trashers, Krow. Once Sorin joined the band, he reccorded the new bass tracks for the songs "A new world" and "Sântandrei" which came on the EP. The bass track for "Wolfsnake" remained the one recorded by Ovidiu. "Sântandrei" was released in late October 2011. The cover art was made by the band in collaboration with the photographer and graphical designer Andrei Cofas (andy.ddt.ro). For this artwork, the band drew inspiration from the belief of the Geto-Dacians. At the end of 2011, Alexandru Budan decided to leave the band. Liviu Ustinescu became the new singer as of January 2012. With the new line-up the band could once again explore more melodic compositions due to the use of clean vocals used by the vocalist. DinUmbră is a doom death metal band from Bucharest (Romania), formed in 1998 by Sebastian Buga and Zareh Ara.