David gold woods of ypres biography templates printable

Band Photo: Woods Of Ypres? That is the staggering number of metal and hard rock musicians who left us this calendar year. It is without question that the year was a cruel one for the metal community, taking from the world some exceptionally talented people whom many had long lives left to live. Most, if not all, of us never knew the likes of Cory Smoot, Gary Moore or Seth Putnam in person but we lived through them vicariously through the legacies left by their music.

When you are a fan of a band for an extended period of time you come to feel as if you know the people behind the drum kits and holding the guitars, they become your friend who's always there to comfort you regardless if you've never spoken to them, shaken their hand or have met face-to-face. When one of them is tragically taken from this earth we can't help but feel sorrow and pain, as if one of our own family members has passed away.

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Unfortunately, the pain is ever more intense when you have had the pleasure to come to know one of these truly gifted individuals. Just three days before Christmas, on December 22, it was reported that David Gold - founder, guitarist and vocalist for Canadian doom band Woods of Ypres - had been killed in a deadly car accident in Barrie, Ontario just a short distance from his hometown of Sault Ste.

The news was not only shocking for all those who knew David but it was also devastating and beyond unbelievable. Gold, who was only 31 years of age, had countless friends, family and fans who were left with an indescribable sense of loss. Not only did the passing of David come at the worst possible time of the year but it happened to someone that had decades of life ahead of him and untold amounts of potential left within to be unleashed.

His band Woods of Ypres, which he founded in with longtime friend Aaron Palmer, were just now starting to receive the recognition from the wider metal community. Having spent eight years in the Canadian underground metal scene, the band had achieved the goal of every indie metal group, to be signed to a premier metal label. This came thanks to its recent signing with British extreme metal label Earache Records, whom Gold was very fond of, in October of The signing to Earache injected new life into the band at a time when rumors of its demise had been building for many months.

Woods of Ypres was David's love and joy and the chance to have more people hear his music meant the world to him. I had the pleasure of getting to know David myself on a personal level through the latter end of