The Sorrow is a metalcore band from Vorarlberg - Austria. The band was founded in 2005. Mathias and Andreas Schlegel Mätze Andi Mäser played for years in the band Disconnected, Dominik Dewey Immler and Tobias Schedler Tobi in the hardcore band Distance. Dominik rose at a Disconnected and later Tobi replaced the bass player of the band, so that the current line-up was complete. 2006 The Sorrow got a record deal with Drakkar Records. On 27 July 2007 her debut album Blessings from a Blackened Sky, which was selected by the magazine Metal Hammer as Album of the month August 2007 was published, which a few months earlier the award for "Demo of the Month" preceded. A short time later, on 2 August 2007, the band Open Air festival occurred at Wacken. In the autumn they went with the band DevilDriver tour Europe and then followed in February, the first headlining tour with Misery Speaks and Grantig as support. March 2008 The Sorrow were confirmed as support for the upcoming European tour of Chimaira. More they were represented Festival on 13 June 2008 at the Nova Rock and acted as first band of the day. The second studio album Origin Of The Storm was released on 27 February 2009.. In Austria it has gone in 15th place of the sales charts, in Germany it reached number 56. With the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards 2009, the band won in the category Hard & Heavy. On 29 October 2010 released their self-titled album The Sorrow, on 26 October 2012, the fourth studio album Misery Escape. Her style ranges of metal cores, but also has influences of melodic death metal. Singer and guitarist Mätze mainly used Screaming, but also sings clearly. The music can be best described as a mixture of the band In Flames, Killswitch Engage and Caliban. 2007: Blessings from a Blackened Sky (Drakkar Records) 2009: Origin Of The Storm (Drakkar Records) 2010: The Sorrow (Drakkar Records) 2012: Misery Escape (Napalm Records)
