S.o.M.
ethno-doom
Members
Current lineup:
Petra Moštak ... angel, vocal, bass (2009-)Zoran Pšeničnik ... drums (2006-)
Tomo Sombolac ... guitar, vocal (2005-)
Members of honour:
Dunja Knebl
Nina Romić
Ex members:
(+)Lea
(vocal),
(+)Matija
(bass),
(+)Petar (guitar),
(+)Damjan
(guitar),
(+)Vedrana
(vocal),
(+)Štef (guitar),
Andrej (bass)
About S.o.M.
Ethno-doom band from Zagreb, Croatia. S.o.M. started its work in 2005 as a one-man-band home recording project with the intention to cover songs from Medjimurje (the northern part of Croatia) in a completely new way.The band combines contrasts - putting traditional folk songs in doom environment (extreme branch of heavy metal, known by slow rhythm and dark atmosphere), emphasizing the dramatics with huge dynamic oscillations. That mystical atmosphere and rough singing is contrasted with a pure female vocal symbolizing a candle in the dark, a message that there is always hope and a goal worth pursuing.
S.o.M. wishes to transmit cultural heritage to younger generations who love heavy metal, also to send out a message to older generations that music which is hard and heavy in expression does not have to be destructive in substance.
Nowadays, the basics of their creativity underlies in vocal parts of traditional folk songs from Croatia (mostly from Medjimurje), but political borders have no meaning in artistic work, so they try to pass on the idea of multiculturalism by mixing different styles in the same song.
(C) S.o.M.