Tristitia is a

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band formed in

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in 1992.

History

The band was founded by Chilean / Swedish guitarist Luis Beethoven Galvez. His devotion for doom metal and sorrowful melodies brought him to form the band with death/gothic style singer Thomas Karlsson and Harri Juvonen on bass. They recorded their first demo in April ’93 entitled ”Winds of Sacrifice”. In January ’94 they released their second demo ”Reminiscences of the Mourner”. The reception of this demo was even better than ”Winds of Sacrifice” and gave Tristitia a record deal with the French label Holy Records. In march ’95 now with Bruno Nilsson behind the drums, Thomas on vocals and Luis playing all guitars, bass and keyboards, Tristitia released their first CD album ''One with Darkness''. In summer ’96 they recorded their second album ''Crucidiction'' which was released December ’96. Tristitia’s third album ''The Last Grief'' brought the band a new atmospheric dark doom heavy metal singing style with session singer Rickard Bengtsson from the Swedish band Last Tribe and with mixed doom riffs/classical guitar parts Tristitia found a new path beyond the labyrinth of Darkness. In fall 2002 the band was ready for their fourth album and entered Darkside Studios in their hometown Halmstad to record their CD ''Garden of Darkness'' with Death style vocalist Stefan Persson. "Tristitia" is Latin for "sadness." Luis Beethoven Galvez was a Chilean-

musician, who besides Tristitia, was the founder of founder of Darkstone, Gardeniathan and Swordblood. Galvez died on 10 August 2023 in Halmstad, Sweden at 59 years old.

Members

Current lineup

*Luis B. Galvez –

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*Thomas Karlsson –

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

*Wilhelm –

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*Thomas Hedlund –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

Former members

*Harri Juvonen – bass *Adrian Letelier – bass *Bruno Nilsson – drums *Alessio – drums *Rickard Bengtsson – session vocals on ''The Last Grief'' *Stefan Persson – vocals *Daniel Nilssen – session keyboard live

Discography

* ''One with Darkness'' (1995) * ''Crucidiction'' (1997) * ''The Last Grief'' (2000) * ''Garden of Darkness'' (2002) * ''Burial of the Sad'' (2020) * ''Doomystic'' (2022)

Demos

*''Winds of Sacrifice '' (1993) *''Reminiscences of the Mourner'' (1994)

References

External links

Tristitia Official website

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