Veldt
@Conrad (Barbados)
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Brigdetown, Barbados
Joined Mar 3, 2010
Conrad was born on August 5th 2009. Originally with 3 members, the band was known as 'Tohara Harakati', which was incorrectly translated as "Purgatory Process" in Swahili by the 17yr old founder, Kadeem Ward (Under the pseudonym Veldt Soldaat which means Field Solider in Afrikaans).
Upon the discovery of the inaccurate translation, the band members became uncomfortable with the idea of Swahili being used in song lyrics and wanted something more straight forward and less complicated to work on.
So they decided to form a whole new band, influenced by Bay-Area Thrash and NWOBHM. They were satisfied, but Veldt decided to hold onto 'Tohara' as a side project.
While Reading a folk book, he came across 'Conrad'. The name comes from a mythical Barbadian spirit of an irritable ghost that possesses women and live in their stomachs.
After spending days in the local libraries gathering information on West African history, new ideas arose. Conrad would now carry additional themes such as old Barbadian paranormal events, folk stories, pirates such as Sam Lord, Blackbeard & Stede Bonnet (all are known to have some connection with Barbados), mermaids and the natural environment/country-side.
Currently, demo songs are being recorded. These songs are covers from bands such as Windir & Burzum, the band's primary influences.
Behold the arrival of the island's only Atmospheric Folk Metal band!
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