Hi there,
this is Wolf again reporting about the current progress of DARKSIDE´ s new album. We can finally announce the full list of songs to be enclosed in the album and will also release some details about the lyrical content of the various tracks.
First of all we would like to bring your attention to the fact, that we have updated big parts of our website, the link section is online now as well as a first photogallery for you to check out.
We will add about ten songs in mp3 format to the site next week for your listening and/or downloading pleasure, amongst which their will be two previously unreleased songs and a few demo-versions from previous albums of the band as well as some gimmicks from side-projects of members of Darkside. Furthermore we have updated the impressum, where we have added all contact information for DARKSIDE as well as a possibility to directly subscribe/unsubscribe from our newsletter. If you use that link, you´ll receive a confirmation email where you just have to hit the back button to conferm it. Everything works automatically now, so nobody should have any problem subscribing or unsubscribing.
You can find the downloads following this link: http://www.d-a-r-k-s-i-d-e.com/contacts.htm
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1) Final tracklist for Amber Skeletal Journeys Through The Void
Suite In Pain Major
Gods Of Death
Pillars Of ´Err
The Myth Of Reason
dEVILerY
Amber
Architects Of Modern Atheism
Solitary Confinement
The Burning
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2) Details for the various songs
Suite Of Pain Major
A very short songs of about 3 minutes, starts with a classic death metal theme and builds to a fast, driving track. Lyrically this tune deals with thoughts about pain and suffering
Gods Of Death
Could be the new hymn of the band, haha. Very fast paced, the song comes with a great solo section and a typical DARKSIDE chorus. The lyrics are pretty obvious on this one...
Pillars Of ´Err
A slow, heavy tune in good old school death metal fashion supported by some arabic lyrics in the chorus referring to a pre-islamic topic of magicians and the mystery of the orient
The Myth Of Reason
Very technical, brutal, fast paced track with an athmospheric chorus full of melodies and vocal effects, the lyrics directly connected with the title
dEVILerY
Very fast, brutal death metal song with a technical mid-section and a long solopart. Lyrics dealing with kinda cliche but very ironic
Amber
The titletrack and maybe a big surprise, 80% of the song with acoustic guitars, just a fast chorus in a rather progressive style ala Meshuggah or Pantera, lots of melodies and harmonics flying around, easily the longest track on the album with over 10 minutes, could be a successor to epics like Requiem (from Shadowfields) or Melancholia (from Melancholia Of A Dying World). Thematically about the beauty of Amber, but also a dark retrospective with a kind of autumnal feeling
Architects Of Modern Atheism
Technical death metal tune with a double solo section in the middle of the song, maybe reminds a bit of a bastard between Morbid Angel and Nevermore as far as the moods of the song are concerned. Words talk about the creation of a beliefless society and its consequences
Solitary Confinement
Second dip into the field of oriental music in the chorus here, a mid-tempo groover building its tension towards the end. About the loneliness of a person in a cold, single cell...
The Burning
Haunting, very athmospheric verse section with lots of piano and harmonics by both guitars, erupts into a nearly blackish chorusline to end with melodic death metal rythems. Reminds me a lot of Spiritual Galleries from the Evolution album, eventhough the song is totally different. The topic of the lyrics is rather distanced, a very personal view of ideologies and religion, hard to describe
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Please bear in mind that this is just my personal impression, might sound totally different to anybody else of course, but I thought I´ d give you sort of an idea what we have in store for you.
We are looking forward to get the whole thing finished by March, because we want to take our time also for mixing and finalizing the whole album, as it should mark the return of this band, whose 15th anniversary we will celebrate in the beginning of September with a special concert featuring a few friends and most of the musicians who took part in the bands history until now. We are also planning to record that special evening both on audio as well as on visual media, maybe we can use some of that footage later on.
We are also very happy to announce the cooperation with painter extra-ordinaire Mr. Deather of IN DEED HELL on artwork and cover for our new album. Expect a work of true art !!!
http://www.d-a-r-k-s-i-d-e.com
Other Darkside related news:
CRANIOTOMY
The band of our drummer Lukas and keyboarder Daniel have finished the recordings for their new full-length album Cut a piece for your hunger. The album will be released by Grodhaisn Productions from Czech Republic in spring 2005. Expect nothing but a piece of raw death/grind from slovak butchers !
http://www.craniotomy.szm.sk
DEMOLITION
These austrian thrash mongers featuring Pit and Wolf from Darkside are eagerly planning some tour activities for spring/summer of 2005, more details as soon as we will have the exact dates and venues for all shows. existence, the latest output of Demolition, is receiving good feedback by the press world-wide and the band has already about 6 or 7 songs ready for the next album which is scheduled to be recorded sometimes in late 2005.
http://www.demolition.at
Live dates:
08.04.2005 D-Köln - "Crushing Cologne Festival '05" with Guerilla, and many more...
10.06.2005 A-St. Leonhard am Forst - "Devil Days Festival '05" with Gorerotted, Mystic Circle, My Darkest Hate, Final Breath, Night in Gales, Totenmond, Dark Fortress, Casket Garden and many more... http://www.devildays.at
15.07.2005 A-Spital am Semmering - "Kaltenbach Open Air '05" with Marduk, Carnal Forge, Defleshed, Aborted, Illdisposed, Endstille, Unleashed, Primordial, Master, Fleshless, Noctiferia, Lunar Aurora, Secrets Of The Moon, Thirdmoon, Olemus and many more... http://www.kaltenbach-openair.at
H8
No news by now
CITIZEN X
No news by now
SHADOWKING
No news by now
Best regards on behalf of DARKSIDE
Wolf / Darkside
this is Wolf again reporting about the current progress of DARKSIDE´ s new album. We can finally announce the full list of songs to be enclosed in the album and will also release some details about the lyrical content of the various tracks.
First of all we would like to bring your attention to the fact, that we have updated big parts of our website, the link section is online now as well as a first photogallery for you to check out.
We will add about ten songs in mp3 format to the site next week for your listening and/or downloading pleasure, amongst which their will be two previously unreleased songs and a few demo-versions from previous albums of the band as well as some gimmicks from side-projects of members of Darkside. Furthermore we have updated the impressum, where we have added all contact information for DARKSIDE as well as a possibility to directly subscribe/unsubscribe from our newsletter. If you use that link, you´ll receive a confirmation email where you just have to hit the back button to conferm it. Everything works automatically now, so nobody should have any problem subscribing or unsubscribing.
You can find the downloads following this link: http://www.d-a-r-k-s-i-d-e.com/contacts.htm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1) Final tracklist for Amber Skeletal Journeys Through The Void
Suite In Pain Major
Gods Of Death
Pillars Of ´Err
The Myth Of Reason
dEVILerY
Amber
Architects Of Modern Atheism
Solitary Confinement
The Burning
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2) Details for the various songs
Suite Of Pain Major
A very short songs of about 3 minutes, starts with a classic death metal theme and builds to a fast, driving track. Lyrically this tune deals with thoughts about pain and suffering
Gods Of Death
Could be the new hymn of the band, haha. Very fast paced, the song comes with a great solo section and a typical DARKSIDE chorus. The lyrics are pretty obvious on this one...
Pillars Of ´Err
A slow, heavy tune in good old school death metal fashion supported by some arabic lyrics in the chorus referring to a pre-islamic topic of magicians and the mystery of the orient
The Myth Of Reason
Very technical, brutal, fast paced track with an athmospheric chorus full of melodies and vocal effects, the lyrics directly connected with the title
dEVILerY
Very fast, brutal death metal song with a technical mid-section and a long solopart. Lyrics dealing with kinda cliche but very ironic
Amber
The titletrack and maybe a big surprise, 80% of the song with acoustic guitars, just a fast chorus in a rather progressive style ala Meshuggah or Pantera, lots of melodies and harmonics flying around, easily the longest track on the album with over 10 minutes, could be a successor to epics like Requiem (from Shadowfields) or Melancholia (from Melancholia Of A Dying World). Thematically about the beauty of Amber, but also a dark retrospective with a kind of autumnal feeling
Architects Of Modern Atheism
Technical death metal tune with a double solo section in the middle of the song, maybe reminds a bit of a bastard between Morbid Angel and Nevermore as far as the moods of the song are concerned. Words talk about the creation of a beliefless society and its consequences
Solitary Confinement
Second dip into the field of oriental music in the chorus here, a mid-tempo groover building its tension towards the end. About the loneliness of a person in a cold, single cell...
The Burning
Haunting, very athmospheric verse section with lots of piano and harmonics by both guitars, erupts into a nearly blackish chorusline to end with melodic death metal rythems. Reminds me a lot of Spiritual Galleries from the Evolution album, eventhough the song is totally different. The topic of the lyrics is rather distanced, a very personal view of ideologies and religion, hard to describe
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please bear in mind that this is just my personal impression, might sound totally different to anybody else of course, but I thought I´ d give you sort of an idea what we have in store for you.
We are looking forward to get the whole thing finished by March, because we want to take our time also for mixing and finalizing the whole album, as it should mark the return of this band, whose 15th anniversary we will celebrate in the beginning of September with a special concert featuring a few friends and most of the musicians who took part in the bands history until now. We are also planning to record that special evening both on audio as well as on visual media, maybe we can use some of that footage later on.
We are also very happy to announce the cooperation with painter extra-ordinaire Mr. Deather of IN DEED HELL on artwork and cover for our new album. Expect a work of true art !!!
http://www.d-a-r-k-s-i-d-e.com
Other Darkside related news:
CRANIOTOMY
The band of our drummer Lukas and keyboarder Daniel have finished the recordings for their new full-length album Cut a piece for your hunger. The album will be released by Grodhaisn Productions from Czech Republic in spring 2005. Expect nothing but a piece of raw death/grind from slovak butchers !
http://www.craniotomy.szm.sk
DEMOLITION
These austrian thrash mongers featuring Pit and Wolf from Darkside are eagerly planning some tour activities for spring/summer of 2005, more details as soon as we will have the exact dates and venues for all shows. existence, the latest output of Demolition, is receiving good feedback by the press world-wide and the band has already about 6 or 7 songs ready for the next album which is scheduled to be recorded sometimes in late 2005.
http://www.demolition.at
Live dates:
08.04.2005 D-Köln - "Crushing Cologne Festival '05" with Guerilla, and many more...
10.06.2005 A-St. Leonhard am Forst - "Devil Days Festival '05" with Gorerotted, Mystic Circle, My Darkest Hate, Final Breath, Night in Gales, Totenmond, Dark Fortress, Casket Garden and many more... http://www.devildays.at
15.07.2005 A-Spital am Semmering - "Kaltenbach Open Air '05" with Marduk, Carnal Forge, Defleshed, Aborted, Illdisposed, Endstille, Unleashed, Primordial, Master, Fleshless, Noctiferia, Lunar Aurora, Secrets Of The Moon, Thirdmoon, Olemus and many more... http://www.kaltenbach-openair.at
H8
No news by now
CITIZEN X
No news by now
SHADOWKING
No news by now
Best regards on behalf of DARKSIDE
Wolf / Darkside
