Violet Cold

Violet Cold
OriginBaku, Azerbaijan
Genres
Years active2013–present
MembersEmin Guliyev
Websitevioletcold.com

Violet Cold is an Azerbaijani solo musical project created by composer and multi-instrumentalist Emin Guliyev. Working from Baku, Guliyev had begun releasing music as Violet Cold by 2013.[1][2] The project combines black metal with elements of post-rock, ambient, electronic music and regional folk music.[3] Violet Cold's albums Anomie (2017) and Empire of Love (2021) were included in Stereogum's year-end lists of the best metal albums.[4][2]

History

Guliyev began Violet Cold in 2013 and initially released the project's music independently. The 2015 album Desperate Dreams brought early international attention: Stereogum featured it in its monthly metal column, describing the project as prolific and stylistically broader than its black-metal foundation.[1] The album Magic Night followed in 2016, and Anomie was released in 2017.[3] Stereogum ranked Anomie fifth on its list of the best metal albums of 2017, highlighting its mixture of atmospheric black metal, electronic textures and post-rock.[4]

In 2018, Violet Cold issued the three-part Sommermorgen series, subtitled Innocence, Joy and Nostalgia.[3][5] The project followed it with kOsmik in 2019. The album was self-released and later received physical distribution through the Italian label Avantgarde Music.[6] Kerrang! also selected kOsmik for a 2019 list of underground albums with crossover appeal.[7]

Noir Kid was released in 2020.[3] Violet Cold's 2021 album Empire of Love paired the project's black-metal base with prominent pop and electronic elements. Stereogum ranked the album eighth on its list of the year's ten best metal albums and discussed its rainbow-colored reinterpretation of Azerbaijani national imagery in relation to black metal's conventions.[2] Invisible Oranges also reviewed the album in its May 2021 release roundup.[8]

The project subsequently released Səni Uzaq Kainatlarda Axtarıram in 2022 and Multiverse in 2023.[9][10]

Musical style and reception

Violet Cold is commonly associated with blackgaze and atmospheric black metal. Decibel described Guliyev as moving freely among electronic, post-rock, post-metal, funeral-doom and Middle Eastern folk influences while retaining a black-metal framework.[3] Reviewing kOsmik, Invisible Oranges noted the project's shifts among black metal, post-rock, shoegaze, trance and ambient music.[5] Heavy Blog Is Heavy similarly treated the album as an expansion of post-black metal's stylistic range.[11]

Selected discography

  • Desperate Dreams (2015)
  • Magic Night (2016)
  • Anomie (2017)
  • Sommermorgen: Innocence, Joy and Nostalgia (2018)
  • kOsmik (2019)
  • Noir Kid (2020)
  • Empire of Love (2021)
  • Səni Uzaq Kainatlarda Axtarıram (2022)
  • Multiverse (2023)

References

  1. 1 2 Marshall, Wyatt (30 April 2015). "The Black Market: The Month in Metal – April 2015". Stereogum. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Marshall, Wyatt (9 December 2021). "The 10 Best Metal Albums of 2021". Stereogum. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Bellino, Emily (28 December 2020). "You Should Be Listening to Violet Cold". Decibel. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  4. 1 2 Marshall, Wyatt (12 December 2017). "The Best Metal Albums of 2017". Stereogum. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Violet Cold Goes Completely "kOsmik" on Latest Full-Length". Invisible Oranges. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  6. ↑ Krovatin, Chris (19 June 2019). "6 of the Best Self-Released Extreme Metal Albums of 2019". Kerrang!. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  7. ↑ Krovatin, Chris (24 April 2019). "10 Underground Albums of 2019 That Even Mainstream Fans Need to Know About". Kerrang!. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "May 2021 Release Roundup". Invisible Oranges. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "Violet Cold – Səni Uzaq Kainatlarda Axtarıram". Veil of Sound. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Violet Cold – Multiverse". Veil of Sound. 31 August 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  11. ↑ "Editors' Picks – February 2019". Heavy Blog Is Heavy. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
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