Also known as AbRAXAS Years active 1993 (1993)–2001 Active until 2001 Members TenHornedBeast | Genres Dark ambient Associated acts Ontario Blue Genre Dark ambient | |
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Past members Stephen PennickChristopher Walton Albums Liber Leviathan, Dreams of Dark Waters, Black Eden Record labels Red Stream Inc., Old Europa Cafe, Aesthetic Death, Elfenblut, Nature & Art Similar Herbst9, Aghast, Coph Nia, Raison d'être, Kammarheit | ||
Endura (sometimes written Endvra) was a dark ambient band that was active during the 1990s. The band had only two members, Stephen Pennick and Christopher Walton. The name of the band comes from the Cathars' practice of ritualistic fasting to speed death.
Pennick and Walton met in early 1993. Walton was "once chased out of France" after showing videos of hardcore violence and pornography at an industrial music festival. He has referred to himself as a misanthrope.
Endura mixes elements of ambient music with tribal rhythms, chants, moans, and sounds effects such as rattling chains and echoes. Their style has been described as "combining synthesizers reminiscent of Tangerine Dream with (un)healthy doses of Aleister Crowley, H.P. Lovecraft, and psychedelic drugs", "absolutely haunting and dark", or simply "Neoclassical". Walton has stated that Pennick has more melodic talent while Walton himself is more conceptual.
Songs
Intra Uterine SabbatDreams of Dark Waters · 1994
The Devils Stars Burn ColdBlack Eden · 1995
The Bull and the East Wind BlowingElder Signs · 1999