Search Results - Tristania (band)

Tristania's music is usually classified as Gothic Metal with Death/Doom influences (especially on the early albums), due to its strong ties with the goth metal's history. The band name could be one of these two things
- It could refer to the Tristania flower or;
- 'Trist' means 'Sad' in Romanian and 'Tristania' can be translated 'The land of sadness'

On their first releases the band had a sound based on melodic death metal riffs with dominant eerie keyboard and powerful drums, and choirs. A strong influence in their music is also doom metal, which can be heard in the slow, melancholic riffing. Tristania put a lot of focus around operatic female vocals, haunting choruses and classical instruments such as pipe organ, flutes and violins. There was a bigger focus also on the death vocals of Morten Veland. This combination of death vocals with female operatics and majestic gothic choruses is believed by many fans to have reached its pinnacle on their Beyond The Veil album.

In recent years Tristania stepped back from the bombastic layer-over-layer productions and focused more on balancing the various vocal styles and progressing their sound without losing the overall feeling.