Winter was a New York/Long Island, USA based metal outfit formed in 1988 that only existed until 1991. Line up was: Stephen Flam — guitars, John Alman — vocals/bass and Joe Goncalves on drums.

Musically, Winter delivered a very cold, dark and frustrating atmosphere by playing extremely slow guitar riffs mixed with death grunts and some sparse keyboards.

The band released only a demo tape in 1989 and recorded an album entitled «Into Darkness» in 1990 that was released on tape and CD by a very small label Future Shock Recordings (FSC8000 / FSCD8000). Unfortunately that label went bankrupt. Shortly after that stroke of fate the band disbanded.
Anyway two years later the German label Nuclear Blast re‑released «Into Darkness» (1992; CD/LP/MC NB064) and the demo tape «Eternal Frost» (1994; MCD056).
In 1999 and 2008 both albums were re‑released once more as «Into Darkness/Eternal Frost».

Winter had an aspiration to be the slowest band in the world :)

Winter's «Servants of the Warsmen» video taken from the video compilation «Death is just the Beginning vol.1» (Nuclear blast Records)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvLXTfcL5jg