Desecrate>>Sad Whisperings>>The Bleeding>>SAD WHISPERINGS - THE NETHERLANDS

Sensitive To Autumn - 1993 - Foundation 2000
The Hermit - 2026 - Vidar

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Members
Vocals
No Class, Mental Distortion>>ALEXANDER VAN LEEUWEN>>No Class, Mental Distortion

Guitar
Nomad, Mental Distortion, Sanguinary>>ALEXANDER VAN LEEUWEN>>Nomad, Mental Distortion, Sanguinary - B.B.P.>>Wicliff Wolda>>Beyond Belief, Bloodphemy - Seizure, Prey>>JURGEN OLDENBURGER>>Prey

Bass
Nomad>>Menno Schrikkema>>Nomad - Mon'strum, Commandant, Expulsion>>AAD VAN STRAALEN

Drum
Cryonic State, Nomad>>Erik Veninga>>Cryonic State, Nomad - Cantara>>CHRIS OLDENBURGER

Keyboard
Menno Schrikkema - Slechtvalk, Azaryahu>>PREMNATH GONESH>>Slechtvalk, Azaryahu




History & Biography
It is odd that band after band changes its name to try to achieve commercial success and escape the clutches of its original sound and fandom only to find less success and revert as soon as possible. Here is another band that was established as a gore metal act under another name before going doom/goth, followed by softening the sound further, only to become Sad Whisperings again. After being called Desecrate for two years, Sad Whisperings was established in 1992.

An industry demo, simply called Sad Whisperings, was issued in 1992. Foundation 2000 signed the band and released the group's debut album, featuring the demo songs, a year later. The group opened for Dying Bride and Anathema in The Netherlands in 2004. Several promotional demos followed and the band became the stoner act The Bleeding in 2004. Sad Whisperings had failed to secure a record deal. Before the changeover, however, the band was fronted by female singers Julia Van Doorn and Annemarie Dijkhuis. That didn't work out and the group bit the dust.

Sad Whisperings returned in 2023. Old Expulsion drummer Marcel Siegers was briefly part of the line-up. The name was the same, but only Alexander Van Leeuwen remained from the old line-up. The Oldenburgers are brothers. Vic Records, which specialised in (non-environmentally friendly) recycling, issued a demos' compilation called Return To Autumn in 2023. Sad Whisperings was booked for Dutch Doom Days XXI in 2023. Strategy Of Tension was a 2025 EP. The band was booked for the Dutch Metalheads Fest in 2025. A new full-length was 2026's The Hermit. The album release show was with Cryptosis. A German show was booked with Benediction, Mercyless and Cirrus Prior.


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