Tim Yatras

Tim Yatras
Also known as Sorrow, Germ
Born (1984-07-05) July 5, 1984
Origin Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Genres Rock, pop, electronic, black metal
Instruments Drums, keyboard, guitar, vocals
Years active Since 2002
Associated acts Lord, Dungeon, Nazxul, Germ, Grey Waters, Austere, Woods of Desolation, Skyforest

Tim Yatras is an Australian musician, composer and producer, best known as one half of the now defunct black metal duo Austere, and the creator of the black metal/rock/trance act Germ.

Biography

He was also a member of Lord, and prior to that was also a part of Dungeon from February 2005 until their breakup, and appears on the 2006 release, The Final Chapter, performing drums and backing vocals, and co-writing most of the tracks. He is also a session musician on the studio-based Newcastle band Ilium's albums, Vespertilion, and Ageless Decay. He toured as a member of Nazxul in 2004, and later performed Drums and Keyboards on the band's album, Iconoclast, in 2008. Tim also featured in a string of bands including Battalion, with whom he recorded the CD Into Harm's Way. Yatras also performed drums and backing vocals on Simon Polhill's debut EP, Serial.

He played drums and keyboards and sang backing vocals on the Lord albums Ascendence and Set in Stone and receives a writing credit for every song except the intros, and is credited with the lyrics to the track "Same Old Lines". After completing work on the Set in Stone album, Yatras left Lord following a national tour in June, 2009.[1]

Along with childhood friend Desolate of the doom metal act Funeral Mourning, he was one half of the black metal band Austere, performing vocals, drums, keyboards and some guitars. Since the dissolution of Austere, Tim played drums, sang all of the vocals, and also structured and arranged much of the music on the Woods of Desolation album Torn Beyond Reason, as well as being a member of the rock band Grey Waters (which disestablished in February 2012). He also worked composing songs for several J-pop and K-pop labels and producers.

Tim is currently working recording and producing bands, composing music for others, and working in audio engineering and post production.

Yatras had a guest vocal spot on the album No Morrow Shall Dawn by the black metal project Thy Light. The album was released July 20th, 2013.[2]

He played drums on the Blackened Angel collaboration Chronicles of Damnation.[3]

Influences

He lists his composing influences as Yoshiki Hayashi, Noel Gallagher, Gorecki, Jean Michel Jarre, Fall Out Boy and Tetsuya Komuro among others.

Discography

Lord

Dungeon

Ilium

  • Vespertilion (2008) (Session Drums)
  • Ageless Decay (2009) (Session Drums)

Nazxul

  • Iconoclast (2009) (Drums, Additional Keyboards, Additional Vocals)

Austere

  • Withering Illusions and Desolation (2007) (Drums, Vocals)
  • Only the Wind Remembers (2008) (Drums, Vocals)
  • Bleak (2008) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar)
  • To Lay Like Old Ashes (2009) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar)

Battalion

  • Into Harm's Way (2004) (Drums)

Simon Polhill

  • "Serial" (2007) (Session Drums, Backing Vocals)

Woods of Desolation

  • Torn Beyond Reason (2011) (Vocals, Drums, Keyboards)

Grey Waters

  • Below the Ever Setting Sun (2010) (Vocals, Drums, Keyboards, Orchestration, Programming)

Germ

  • Wish (2012) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming)
  • Loss (EP 2012) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming)
  • Grief (2013) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming)
  • Escape (2016) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming)

Blackened Angel

  • Chronicles of Damnation (2013) (Drums)

Skyforest

  • Aftermath (2014) (Lead vocals, Drums, Lyrics)

References

  1. ↑ "Lord Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement". Blabbermouth. June 1, 2009. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  2. ↑ http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Thy_Light/No_Morrow_Shall_Dawn
  3. ↑ http://www.blackenedangel.net/members/
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