Officium Triste

Officium Triste is a Doom metal band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They refer to their style often as Rotterdoom. It is largely inspired by bands like My Dying Bride and early Anathema. But th

Officium Triste is a Doom metal band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They refer to their style often as Rotterdoom. It is largely inspired by bands like My Dying Bride and early Anathema. But the last album is more melodic and slower. The vocals are mostly intelligible death grunts but with occasional clean vocals. Their home-venue is de Baroeg in Rotterdam.

The roots of Officium Triste go back to the early 1990s when Martin and Johan decided to form a metal band. The name of this band was Reïncremated. The last line-up of this band decided to quit and reform under a new moniker with a different musical approach; that was in the spring of 1994.