Hailing from Bradford, West Yorkshire, this band have been homing their unique take on progressive gothic rock for the last decade. Constantly evolving, the band expanded to its current 5-piece line-up in the last couple of years and has since been going from strength to strength. With a proud DIY ethic, the band have self-recorded and released albums “Time and Tide” (2016) and “Raven” (2019) as well as a string of EPs and singles throughout the pandemic, with more exciting releases planned for 2022. Following the post-punk/goth vibes of earlier material, their current sound can best be described as traditional guitar based gothic rock with reflections of prog and 1990s West Yorkshire metal with passionate female vocals - https://dawnofelysium.co.uk

Can't play an instrument. Can't sing. Can't write.

So the natural thing to do is to record songs on the ukulele. Then cry.

Female fronted Kick ass metal band, we play loud hard and sweaty! If you like what you hear then be a good puss and give us a like, share and all that kinda stuff. Debut album out this fall, launch show will be announced shortly - keep up to date with us via songkick or facebook 

Winter Severity Index is a cold wave/synth wave project headed by Simona Ferrucci, singer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist ( voice,guitar, bass guitar, synths and drum machine programming). 
The project was born in 2009 as a traditional female band with drums, bass, synths and guitar. After the decision of two members of the band to leave, WSI continued as a duo with Simona on guitars and with Valentina Fanigliulo , a.k.a. Mushy, on synths. Then in 2013 she started the collaboration with Alessandra Romeo on synths until July 2024, when WSI became a solo project.

The music of Winter Severity Index is marked out by an original mixture of different influences, from synth wave of the Eighties to the guitar shoegaze sound of the Nineties, plus some hint of trip hop and vaporwave. During the years the sound evolved and enriched their features, preserving however a  melancholic dark mood.

From 2011 the project played in more than one hundred venues all over Europe, taking part in important festivals such as the Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig, the Substance Festival in Los Angeles, and performed in important locations for contemporary art, such as MAXXI Museum in Rome and Studio Hrdinů in Prague, in the Národní Galerie. 
WSI shared the stage with great artists of the international cold wave scene from The Chameleons UK, to Lene Lovich, from Tropic of Cancer to Lebanon Hanover and so on, receiving agreements from the international press and web magazines. The project participated also to important radio transmission for RAI in Italy and Radio 3 in Spain.

The third album by Winter Severity Index , called DISGELO, has benn released by Manic Depression/Icy Cold and Blood Rock Records in February 2022.


Discography (partial): 

2010 - Winter Severity Index , EP, self produced, CDr, distributed by AF Music.
2013 - Survival rate, EP, Blood Rock Records, vinyl.
2014 -  Slanting Ray, LP, Blood Rock Records + Manic Depression Records, double vinyl and CD.
2016 - Human Taxonomy, LP, Manic Depression Records, vinyl and CD.
2017 - Katabasis, LP compilation, Manic Depression Records, CD.
2018 - Slanting ray, second press, LP, Blood Rock Records + Manic Depression Records, double  vinyl and CD.
2022-DISGELO,Manic Depression Records, Icy Cold Records, Blood Rock Records, vinyl and CD. 

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