Darkane will play in RumEtt at Dunkers Kulturhus (http://www.dunkerskulturhus.se),  Helsingborg, Sweden, Friday december 4th. Support act will be the punk band Slöa Knivar. The event will be held pretty early and Darkane will enter the stage at around 19:30. Entrance fee is 50 SEK. See you there!

www.metalreveiw.com has Darkane’s fourth album Layers of Lies (2005) on their list of the 100 most essential albums of the decade. Darkane is of course very honoured: http://community2.metalreview.com/blogs/editorials/archive/2009/10/02/the-100-most-essential-albums-of-the-decade-vol-iv.aspx

We are continuing to write the new album, and right now we are being pretty productive (for being Darkane).  We hope to record it within the first half of next year.

 
We started out
in snowy Rochester, NY and Detroit, MI before we had our first (out of
two) day off. The crowds reaction has been very positive from day one,
and Darkane gets the feeling that a lot of people has been waiting for
us over here. After the day off in Lousville, KY where we watched some
UFC 94 in the tourbus we headed for Nashville, TN, and then four stops
in Florida. We had our summer clothes ready but it turned out that St.
Petersburg, FL had it’s coldest day in 17 years on the day of our show.
However, we’ve got to see a lot just wandering around the cities we
played and we have enjoyed it all! After Atlanta, GA, Charleston, SC
and Charlotte, NC it’s time to travel up north in the New York area and
then Canada, before heading west.

We also got to
know the cool people in Swallow the Sun from Finland, and the cool
american doom band Daylight Dies who did their last show last night in
Charlotte and will be replaced by Warbringer from now on until the end
of the tour. Good luck in the future!

The shows gets
better and better every night and we feel that we have a very intense
set. Make sure you check us out on this tour as all bands on this bill
are great and giving it all! We also have some cool merch, so bring all
the money you have! =)

See you out there!

Christofer

Hello metal heads!

Demonic Art has finally been released in Europe, and Japan is next up November 5th while North America will have to wait until January 2009. The reactions we’ve gotten so far has been very positive and we feel very proud of this album. Here are two reviews:

http://www.solidrock.gr:80/index.php/lang-en/albumreviews/7-albums/376-darkane-demonic-art

http://www.metalmagazin.com:80/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=554:darkane-demonic-art&catid=27:cds&Itemid=11&lang=en

Shows are coming up as well and we can’t wait to play the new songs live for the first time. First up are three shows in Switzerland next weekend which we are looking forward to alot! If you have the possibility to check any of the shows out you definately should because Darkane is hungry to come out and play some metal for you!

November 6th @ Nouveau Monde in Fribourg, 
November 7th @ White Bar Club in Fully (VS) whitebarclub.com | myspace,
November 8th @ Transilvania in Erstfeld (UR) Metalfest Uri,

Two weeks later we have four shows in Italy which we’re also looking forward to alot! In the meantime listen to the tracks we’ve put up on http://www.myspace.com/darkane and make sure to order your copy of Demonic Art ASAP!

See you out there!

Christofer

Today is not only the anniversary of different horrible events in New York, Chile and Stockholm, but it is also ten years since Darkane played our debut live show. It was played at Fellinis in Uppsala, Sweden on September 11^th 1998.

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We had been to Uppsala (six hours of driving from our hometown Helsingborg) for the last two weeks of August to record our debut album Rusted Angel were we also met Lawrence Mackrory for the first time. We had gotten in contact with Lawrence when producer Daniel Bergstrand recommended him before the recording, and we took a shot that turned out to be a very good one. However, Lawrence made it clear that he wanted us to find another vocalist asap since he wanted to focus on his other bands.

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Anyway, by the end of the recording Lawrence got us a gig at Fellinis which was a very small bar with metal theme evenings every now and then. We drove to Uppsala early on the Saturday morning and got to rehearse together with Lawrence at his rehearsal studio for a couple of hours before the show. This was actually the first time Darkane played together as a complete band. The show went pretty well... nothing special. The only one in the audience who knew our songs was producer Daniel Bergstrand. I think we played all songs from Rusted Angel except for The Chase for Existence which is the song we like the least on that album.

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After the show we had a party at the club and then slept in Lawrence rehearsal studio before driving back to Helsinborg the day after. The show was caught on video camera and the song The rape of Mankind ended up on the bonus material on our upcoming DVD Layers of Live. Speaking of that DVD, you might wonder what happened to it. It is completed and everything but Nuclear Blast didn't want to release it before our next album Demonic Art was released, so we will have to wait until approximately May 2009 before it's released. Too bad, but the most important thing is that it WILL be released some day... and the wait WILL be worth it.

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That's it for this time. Rock the fock on... or something.