History Music / CellarDarling

* ElementsOfNature: Well, they do have one song called "Water" and another called "Fire, Wind, and Earth"...

* RockTrio: One guy takes care of all guitar work including bass, leaving the latter to a live member during tour. The other guy plays drums. And then TheChick plays hurdy-gurdy (among other instruments) and sings.

* AerithAndBob: Ivo, [[Myth/KingArthur Merlin]], and Anna.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: [[ProgressiveRock Progressive]] Celtic alt-rock.
** ''The Spell'' has DoomMetal vibes a la Music/TheGathering and Music/{{Katatonia}}.

! Cellar Troping

* BungledSuicide: {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''The Spell'' where the maiden tries ''everything'' just to come face to face with Death, in order:
** SelfImmolation: "Burn". Of all the methods to start with, she tries first and foremost to burn this immortality curse out of herself.
** TheManTheyCouldntHang: "Hang". When fire doesn't work, she tries on the noose and chooses the highest tree to hang it from. She remains alive enough to help a bird fly again.
** PerfectPoison: Implied in "Sleep" in the lines ''sweet and [[BitterAlmonds bitter]] substance / unconscious but alive''. Might be an overdose, taking into account the pills in the album artwork for this song.
** TheInsomniac: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Insomnia"]]. Unable to sleep herself to death, she attempts SanitySlippage through staying up instead.
** SnowMeansDeath: "Freeze". Well, immolation didn't work, so why not go up a mountain and suffer hypothermia, right?
** HighDiveEscape: "Fall". Surviving the cold (much to her dismay), she flings herself off the height hoping the impact would kill her.
** SuicideBySea: "Drown". The maiden ends up at sea and tries to drown herself then.
** SlashedThroat: "Love, Part II". After ''all'' of the aforementioned methods didn't work out, she gets out of the water and just lets herself bleed out all over the place. Only then, ''finally'', does Death listen to her plea and take her with him.
* ConceptAlbum: ''The Spell'' is a take on the DeathAndTheMaiden trope where the maiden falls in love with Death, and so Death casts {{Immortality}} on her and she in turn attempts suicide after suicide just to be with him.

* [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes Everything's Louder with Hurdy-Gurdies]]

* FluentInMyNativeTongue: "Hedonia" is in Swiss German.
* FolkMetal: In shades. Anna loves her hurdy-gurdy.

* ArtifactTitle: Turns out ''This Is the Sound'' was only kind of the sound.
* BadassBoast: "Challenge", oh so much.

* SnowMeansDeath: The bridges to "Avalanche" and "Fire, Wind, and Earth". "Freeze", too (more details on the BungledSuicide entry).
* SequelSong: "Love" and "Death" both have a part two.
** "High Above These Crowns" seems to be this for "Under the Oak Tree".
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[TheGrimReaper Death]] responds to a maiden's profession of love by casting a spell to make her immortal, hoping she would learn from feeling the eternal pain of what it's like to be him. Guess how it turns out.

* TitledAfterTheSong: The band was named after Anna's 2013 solo album.

-->''Baptized so forcibly to never wither\\

How would it feel to fade away?''
* WordSaladLyrics: Several from their first album.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 2-7.

* WordSaladLyrics: Several from their first album.

* BungledSuicide: Taken UpToEleven in ''The Spell'' where the maiden tries ''everything'' just to come face to face with Death, in order:

* {{Mondegreen}}: ''This transcendental m&ms...''

* BittersweetEnding: ''The Spell'' ends with Death finally listening to the [[DeathSeeker maiden]] who fell in love with him after so many attempts of taking her own life just to be with him.

** PerfectPoison: Implied in "Sleep" in the lines ''sweet and [[BitterAlmonds bitter]] substance / unconscious but alive''.

** HighDiveEscape: "Fall". Surviving the cold (much to her dismay), she flings herself off a height hoping the impact would kill her.

* CosmicPlaything: The man in "Six Days" seems to be this. The maiden in ''The Spell'' may probably count, too.

* {{Psychopomp}}: The first two songs to ''The Spell'' sees Death himself [[JadedProfessional lament]] about being this for everyone.

* RepriseMedley: "Death, Part II" in shades.

-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeXDYjDV2mw "Insomnia"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLvaHHBJOc "The Spell"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDV_BeAZIUM "Death"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU54MDtzrVU "Drown"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tx51ePKxpM "Freeze"]]

! Loathesome spell, which trope I do covertly...

* ArtifactTitle: Turns out ''This Is the Sound'' was only '''kind of''' the sound.

* BungledSuicide: Taken UpToEleven in ''The Spell'' where the maiden tries almost ''every method humanly possible'' just to come face to face with Death. More details in the DeathSeeker entry.
* ConceptAlbum: ''The Spell'' is a take on the DeathAndTheMaiden trope where the maiden falls in love with Death, and so Death casts {{Immortality}} on her and she in turn attempts suicide after suicide just to be with him.
* CosmicPlaything: The man in "Six Days" seems to be this. The maiden in ''The Spell'' may probably count, too.
* CoverVersion: Did one of Music/{{Queen}}'s "The Prophet Song", Music/TearsForFears' "Mad World", and "The Cold Song" from Henry Purcell's semi-opera ''Myth/KingArthur, or, The British Worthy''.
* DeathAndTheMaiden: ''The Spell'' is entirely a twist on this trope.
* DeathSeeker: The entire concept of ''The Spell'' centers around a maiden who has fallen in love with Death himself [[SpurnedIntoSuicide and thus seeks him every which way]] after Death casts an {{Immortality}} spell on her, in order:

** TheManTheyCouldntHang: "Hang". When fire doesn't work, she tries on the noose and even chooses the highest tree to hang from.
** PassedInTheirSleep: "Sleep". She's so tired from the first two attempts that she then had the idea of invoking this trope.
** TheInsomniac: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Insomnia"]]. DeepSleep was not enough, so she attempts to do the opposite.
** SnowMeansDeath: "Freeze". Well, immolation didn't work, so why not hypothermia, right?
** HighDiveEscape: "Fall". Since hypothermia was a crapshoot, she flings herself. off.
** SuicideBySea: "Drown". The maiden falls into the sea and tries to drown herself then.
** SlashedThroat: "Love, Part II". After ''all'' of the aforementioned methods [[BungledSuicide didn't work out]], she decides to get out of the water and cut her own throat. Only then, ''finally'', does Death listen to her plea and take her with him.

* GrimReaper: "Death" is in the perspective of one. The artwork for ''The Spell'' likes to portray him with an EyelessFace (mask?) of stone.

* LastNoteNightmare: "Sleep".

* SiameseTwinSongs: "Freeze" >> "Fall".
* SnowMeansDeath: The bridges to "Avalanche" and "Fire, Wind, and Earth". "Freeze", too (more details on the DeathSeeker entry).

-->Baptized so forcibly\\
To never wither\\

How would it feel to fade away?

** TheManTheyCouldntHang: "Hang". When that doesn't work, she tries on the noose.
** PassedInTheirSleep: "Sleep". She's so tired of living that she then had the idea of invoking this trope.

** HighDiveEscape: "Fall". Since hypothermia was a crapshoot, she just attempts to fling herself off a height.
** SuicideBySea: "Drown". The maiden falls into the sea and then tries to drown herself then.

* CosmicPlaything: The man in "Six Days" seems to be this.

-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeXDYjDV2mw "Insomnia"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLvaHHBJOc "The Spell"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDV_BeAZIUM "Death"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU54MDtzrVU "Drown"]]

* DeathSeeker: ''The Spell'' plays with this trope on so many levels.

* SnowMeansDeath: The bridges to "Avalanche" and "Fire, Wind, and Earth".

* MelismaticVocals: "The Spell" displays Anna's capacity for this.

-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-5ZkRL-EV0 "Black Moon"]]
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMiBj0yDJg "Avalanche"]]
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHt3qR4gzM "Six Days"]]

-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeXDYjDV2mw "Insomnia"]]
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLvaHHBJOc "The Spell"]]
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDV_BeAZIUM "Death"]]
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU54MDtzrVU "Drown"]]

Dubbing their sound "new wave of folk rock", Cellar Darling pulls back on their old band's heavier sound and channels their energy on storytelling, incorporating ProgressiveRock elements into their music. Their debut ''This Is the Sound'' was released in 2017 to widespread acclaim. ''The Spell'', a concept album, followed two years later.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: "The Spell". Just the introduction seems to like to take the FishEyes trope very literally...

* MinisculeRocking: "Water" lasts below two minutes.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 3-7.

** ''The Spell'' seems to have a [[PostRock post]]-[[DoomMetal doom]] vibe.

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[[caption-width-right:350:L-R: Ivo, Anna, Merlin]]

2016 was a turbulent year for Swiss FolkMetal titans Music/{{Eluveitie}} as the act lost three key members: drummer Merlin Sutter, guitarist Ivo Henzi, and hurdy-gurdist and co-vocalist Anna Murphy, all in one summer. These three musicians then decided to [[StartMyOwn start their own]] band, christening it after Anna's solo album, '''Cellar Darling'''.

* TitledAfterTheSong: The band was named after Anna's 2013 solo album ''Cellar Darling''.

2016 was a turbulent year for Music/{{Eluveitie}} as the act lost three longtime members: Merlin Sutter, Ivo Henzi, and Anna Murphy, all in one summer. The three musicians then decided to [[StartMyOwn start their own]] band, christening it after Anna's 2013 solo album, '''Cellar Darling'''.

Dubbing their sound "new wave of folk rock", Cellar Darling pulls back on their old band's heavier sound and channels their focus on storytelling and incorporating ProgressiveRock elements into their music. Their debut ''This Is the Sound'' was released in 2017 to widespread acclaim. ''The Spell'', a concept album, followed two years later.

* TitledAfterTheSong: The band was named after Anna's solo album ''Cellar Darling''.

* CoverVersion: Did one of Music/{{Queen}}'s "The Prophet Song", Music/TearsForFears' "Mad World", and