Shattered Hope

There are Multiple artists with this name: 1) Shattered Hope is a greek atmospheric doom/death metal band. They formed during the days of July 2002 in Athens. After many line up changes, they ended to the current one which exists from December 2003. That time they were also working on their own songs. Finally, on May 2005, they released their first demo A View of Grief which includes 6 songs. After that, they gave some concerts for its promotion.

1) Shattered Hope is a greek atmospheric doom/death metal band. They formed during the days of July 2002 in Athens. After many line up changes, they ended to the current one which exists from December 2003. That time they were also working on their own songs. Finally, on May 2005, they released their first demo A View of Grief which includes 6 songs. After that, they gave some concerts for its promotion.

On December 2007 they released a two-song promo simply named Promo 2007 and played lives along with bands such as Saturnus, Mourning Beloveth, Mar De Grises, Ataraxie, Ahab, Inborn Suffering and Mourning Dawn in Greece and abroad. Meanwhile the band was recording its debut album which was finally ready on January 2010 under the name Absence and is consisted of seven mournful stories.

After this release, a co-operation was developed with Lugga Music Productions and Adrian De Buitl?ar. From this time and on, Shattered Hope are promoting Absence and booking gigs, with the aid of Lugga Music, making a start with a support act to the godfathers of doom My Dying Bride on January 2010. A really memorable show.

On July 2010, a remarkable and well-known doom label, Solitude Productions, was interested on Shattered Hope's music. The band had a deal with the label and Absence was released by Solitude Productions on December 2010.

And so the story goes?

2) Shattered Hope was a heavy metal band from The Netherlands. The band was founded in 2002 and aims to produce bombastic, yet straightforward heavy metal. As important is that the band does not shy away from the experiment and therefore is able to create a modern sound in a genre that has been around for decades. Members are drummer Chris Nijboer and bassplayer Olav van Duin, whose job it is to put down a groovy sound as a base for the melodies created by keyboard, guitar and vocals. Guitar players Jord Elgersma and Arjen Booy, and keyboard player Harmen Voortman are responsible for topping of the rhythms with their melodic sounds.

All members were formerly active in the gothic/doom band Hills of Eternity, except Arjen Booy and Olav van Duin. Olav was active in doom-band Covered in Ashes, along Chris and is still active in And It Rains, together with Chris. Harmen Voortman and Jord Elgersma were previously active in respectively Project Eaten Alive (Harmen), Feeble Minded (Jord) and Morbus Gnomorrum (Jord). Jord is currently singer of Total Depravity.

In the spring of 2009 singer Michiel van Schooten of the band Graf joins Shattered Hope. In the summer of 2009 they decide to make their sound heavier and to continue under the name Faces of Cain.