Endura (band)

{{Short description|Dark ambient band}}

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| name = Endura

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| alias = AbRAXAS

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| genre = Dark ambient

| years_active = {{Start date|1993}}–2001

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| associated_acts = Ontario Blue, Ten Horned beast, The holy order of Faust

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| current_members =

| past_members = Stephen Pennick
Christopher Walton

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Endura (sometimes written Endvra) was a dark ambient band that was active during the 1990s.{{cite web | url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/endura/252864219 | title=Endura on iTunes | access-date=March 20, 2010}} The band had only two members, Stephen Pennick and Christopher Walton. The name of the band comes from the Cathars' practice of ritualistic fasting to speed death.{{cite web | url=http://www.esoterra.org/endura.htm | title=Interview with Endura | author=Hensley, Chad | work=Esoterra Magazine | accessdate=March 19, 2010 | archive-date=March 18, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318015541/http://www.esoterra.org/endura.htm | url-status=dead }}

Pennick and Walton met in early 1993.{{cite web | url=http://www.rosenoire.org/interviews/endura.php | title=Christopher Walton of Endura | author=Southgate, Troy | work=Synthesis.com | accessdate=March 19, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309222724/http://www.rosenoire.org/interviews/endura.php | archive-date=March 9, 2005 | url-status=dead }} Walton was "once chased out of France" after showing videos of hardcore violence and pornography at an industrial music festival. He has referred to himself as a misanthrope.

Endura mixes elements of ambient music with tribal rhythms, chants, moans, and sounds effects such as rattling chains and echoes. Their style has been described as "combining synthesizers reminiscent of Tangerine Dream with (un)healthy doses of Aleister Crowley, H.P. Lovecraft, and psychedelic drugs", "absolutely haunting and dark",{{cite web | url=http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=1641 | title=Black Eden Review | date=January 1, 2004 | accessdate=March 20, 2010 | work=Sea of Tranquility}} or simply "Neoclassical".{{cite web | url=http://www.ssmt-reviews.com/artist/endura.html | title=Great God Pan Review | author=Chedsey, John | date=June 2000 | accessdate=March 20, 2010 | archive-date=May 18, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518044351/http://www.ssmt-reviews.com/artist/endura.html | url-status=dead }} Walton has stated that Pennick has more melodic talent while Walton himself is more conceptual. After Endura dissolved Walton went on to release music under the names: Ten Horned Beast and the Holy order of Faust. Pennick according to an interview with Heathen Harvest no longer produces music.