Tim Yatras

{{Short description|Australian musician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2010}} {{Infobox musical artist|  | name = Tim Yatras | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = | alias = Sorrow, Germ | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|07|05}} | birth_place = | origin = Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | genre = Rock, pop, electronic, black metal | occupation = | instrument = Drums, keyboard, guitar, vocals | years_active = 2002–present  | label = | past_member_of = Lord, Dungeon, Nazxul | current_member_of = Austere, Germ | website =  }}

'''Timothy James Yatras''' ({{langx|ru|Тимоти Джеймс Ятрас}}, born 5 July 1984) is an Australian musician, composer and producer, best known as one half of black metal duo Austere, and the creator of the black metal/rock/trance act Germ.

==Biography== Yatras was a member of Lord, and prior to that was also a part of Dungeon from February 2005 until their breakup, and appears on the 2006 release, ''The Final Chapter'', performing drums and backing vocals, and co-writing most of the tracks. He is also a session musician on the studio-based Newcastle band Ilium's albums, ''Vespertilion'', and ''Ageless Decay''. He toured as a member of Nazxul in 2004, and later performed Drums and Keyboards on the band's album, Iconoclast, in 2008. Tim also featured in a string of bands including Battalion, with whom he recorded the CD ''Into Harm's Way''. Yatras also performed drums and backing vocals on Simon Polhill's debut EP, ''Serial''.

Yatras played drums and keyboards and sang backing vocals on the Lord albums ''Ascendence'' and ''Set in Stone'' and receives a writing credit for every song except the intros, and is credited with the lyrics to the track "Same Old Lines". After completing work on the ''Set in Stone'' album, Yatras left Lord following a national tour in June, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=121109|title=Lord Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement|date=June 1, 2009|publisher=Blabbermouth|accessdate=11 May 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606103544/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=121109|archivedate=6 June 2011}}</ref>

Along with childhood friend Desolate of the doom metal act Funeral Mourning, Yatras was one half of the black metal band Austere, performing vocals, drums, keyboards and some guitars. Since the dissolution of Austere, Tim played drums, sang all of the vocals, and also structured and arranged much of the music on the Woods of Desolation album ''Torn Beyond Reason'', as well as being a member of the rock band Grey Waters (which disestablished in February 2012). He also worked composing songs for several J-pop and K-pop labels and producers.

Currently, Yatras is recording and producing bands, composing music for others, and working in audio engineering and post production.

Yatras had a guest vocal spot on the album ''No Morrow Shall Dawn'' by the black metal project Thy Light. The album was released July 20, 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Thy_Light/No_Morrow_Shall_Dawn|title = Thy Light - No Morrow Shall Dawn - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives}}</ref>

On the Blackened Angel collaboration ''Chronicles of Damnation'', Yatras played drums.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackenedangel.net/members/|title = Blackened Angel » Members}}</ref>

==Influences== As his composing influences, Yatras lists Yoshiki, Noel Gallagher, Gorecki, Jean Michel Jarre, Tetsuya Komuro, and Klaus Schulze among others.

== Personal life == Yatras currently lives in Barnaul, Russia.

==Discography== ===Lord=== *''Ascendence'' (2007) (Drums, Backing Vocals) *"Hear No Evil" (2008) (Drums, Backing Vocals) *''Set in Stone'' (2009) (Drums, Keyboards, Backing Vocals)

===Dungeon=== *''The Final Chapter'' (2006) (Drums, Backing Vocals)

===Ilium=== *''Vespertilion'' (2008) (Session Drums) *''Ageless Decay'' (2009) (Session Drums)

===Nazxul=== *''Iconoclast'' (2009) (Drums, Additional Keyboards, Additional Vocals)

===Austere=== *''Withering Illusions and Desolation'' (2007) (Drums, Vocals) *''Only the Wind Remembers'' (2008) (Drums, Vocals) *''Bleak'' (2008) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar) *''To Lay Like Old Ashes'' (2009) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar) *''Corrosion of Hearts'' (2023) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards) *''Beneath the Threshold'' (2024) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards) *''The Stillness of Dissolution'' (2025) (Drums, Vocals, Keyboards)

===Autumn's Dawn=== *''Autumn's Dawn'' (2014) (Vocals, Drums, Guitar) *''Gone'' (2014) (Vocals, Drums, Guitar) *''Smoke Screen Horizon'' (2017) (Vocals, Drums) *''Dying Ember'' (2020) (Vocals, Drums, Keyboards) *''We Lost Our Hope Along the Way'' (2025) (Vocals, Drums, Keyboards)

===Battalion=== *''Into Harm's Way'' (2004) (Drums)

===Simon Polhill=== *"Serial" (2007) (Session Drums, Backing Vocals)

===Woods of Desolation=== *''Torn Beyond Reason'' (2011) (Vocals, Drums) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Woods_of_Desolation/Torn_Beyond_Reason/290674|title = Woods of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason - Guest/session musicians - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives}}</ref>

===Grey Waters=== *''Below the Ever Setting Sun'' (2010) (Vocals, Drums, Keyboards, Orchestration, Programming)

===Germ=== *''Wish'' (2012) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming) *''Loss'' (EP 2012) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming) *''Grief'' (2013) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming) *''Escape'' (2016) (Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Orchestration, Programming)

===Blackened Angel=== *''Chronicles of Damnation'' (2013) (Drums)

===Skyforest=== *''Aftermath'' (2014) (Lead vocals, Drums, Lyrics)

===Coldawn=== *''In The Dawn...'' (2018) (Session Drums, Backing Vocals)

===Vixenta=== *''Polarity'' (2021) (Session Drums) *''Vixenta//Elcrost'' (2021) (Session Drums, Additional Keyboards, Mixing) *''DAWN STAR'' (2023) (Session Drums) *''THE OUBLIETTE'' (2024) (Session Drums)

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